It’s not what I don’t understand - it’s the nonsense that you wrote and you know that!
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Numbers 15:32-36:
- “32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35 And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
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We are in the new covenant now not the old. According to the old covenant scriptures under the civil laws of the nation of Israel, if anyone was found openly and publicly breaking Gods' Sabbath day by working on the Sabbath they were to be put to death. This was to teach Gods' people that the wages of all sin or breaking anyone of Gods' 10 commandments is death without Gods' forgiveness as also shown in the new covenant in
Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord". Therefore
Exodus 31:5 was not talking about doing good on the Sabbath day it was talking about openly doing your own work on the Sabbath day that can be done any other day of the week. What you also fail to understand here is that according to the old covenant scriptures, "the death penalty" was not restricted to only Gods' 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath and openly breaking it but it was a law linked to all of Gods' 10 commandments to teach that if we break Gods' law we are all under sin and death.
The same death penalty was given to anyone who was caught breaking 1st Commandment (
Exodus 20:3),
Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Deuteronomy 17:1-5; 14:6-10;
Exodus 22:20); 2nd Commandment, (
Exodus 20:4)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any idols (
Exodus 20:4;
Deuteronomy 27: 15); 3rd Commandment (
Exodus 20:7),
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain (
Leviticus 24:16); 4th Commandment
Sabbath (
Exodus 20:8-11) see
Exodus 31:14-15; 35:2; 5th commandment (
Exodus 20:12)
honor your father and mother see
Exodus 21:15-17; 6th commandment
thou shalt not kill (
Exodus 20:13) see
Leviticus 24:17;
Numbers 35:31-33; 7th commandment
thou shalt not commit Adultery (
Exodus 20:14) see
Leviticus 20:10;
John 8:3-5; 8th Commandment
thou shall not steal (
Exodus 20:15) but only applied to man stealing or kidnapping (
Exodus 21:16); 9th commandment (
Exodus 20:16)
thou shall not bear false witness see
Deuteronomy 19:15-21 and the 10th commandments
thou shall not covet (
Exodus 20:17) see
Joshua 7:21-25.
This of course all ceased during the time of Christ when Israel was under Roman rule and law and at the death of Christ bringing an end to the old covenant and the bringing in of the new covenant. The death penalty is still in force today because it is written that the wages of sin is death for those that do not repent before the time of judgement is finished (
Romans 6:23;
James 2:8-12) but enforcement of the death penalty does not take place until the second coming (see
Psalms 9:17;
Matthew 5:22,29,30, 10:28, 18:9, 23:15,33;
Mark 9:43,45,47;
Luke 12:5;
2 Thessalonians 1:9;
James 3:6;
Revelation 2:11, 20:6,14, 21:8 etc etc)
The only difference today is that we are in the new covenant now so we no longer put people to open death because we are not in the physical nation of Israel in the flesh or under the old covenant civil laws of Israel. The death penalty for sin is still the same however for those who reject the gift of God's dear son and continue in sin *
Romans 6:23 but Jesus says now that Vengeance is mine and his reward will be with him at the 2nd coming *
Romans 12:19-21;
Revelation 22:12. God's Word does not teach or support the false doctrine of lawlessness (without law) and Gods' 4th commandment in the new covenant is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *
Exodus 20:8-10;
Romans 3:20;
Romans 7:7;
1 John 3:4.
Take care.
