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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie This exegesis cannot hold, because if the NPW is correct then there is nothing to stop Jeroboam from appointing rival holy days in addition to what God has prescribe just as long as those holy days are not forbidden. | But what is going on with Jeroboam? He is not appointing rival holy days in addition to what God has prescribed rather he is appointing a rival day to the exclusion of true worship upon which days YHWH is to be worshipped by means of golden calves (direct transgression of 2nd Commandment). Jeroboam is not using a NPW, he is not saying to himself, "I can do whatever YHWH has not commanded" but rather "I know what YHWH has commanded but I will do this instead". YHWH commands the feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month. Jeroboam breaks that command. YHWH commands his worship to take place at Jerusalem. Jeroboam breaks that command.
It is not that Jeroboam has invented a new feast, the feast is the feast of tabernacles. The problem is that Jeroboam has changed the day in which that is to be kept and the location where it is to be kept. When we look in detail at Jeroboam's worship it is wholly against the worship that YHWH expressly commanded.
Jeroboam's day, not that prescribed by YHWH.
Jeroboam's location, not that prescribed by YHWH.
Jeroboam's priesthood, not that prescribed by YHWH.
Jeroboam's sacrifices to Golden Calves, expressly forbidden by YHWH.
The worship prescribed by Jeroboam is wholly set in opposition to the true worship of YHWH. It is not that Jeroboam has invented a new feast, the feast is the feast of tabernacles. The problem is that Jeroboam has changed the day in which that feast is to be kept as well as the location where it is to be kept, hence he has gone against the explicit command of YHWH. |
You do not seem to realize that as soon as you add to what God commands in worship you automatically detract from what He has commanded. Hence, people will say "yes God has told us to sing psalms, but since we are not forbidden to sing hymns we can do that instead." Moreover, since he was not expressly forbidden from changing the location, then he was perfectly justified in doing so if one accepts this liturgical antinomian hermenutic. Yes, the people were told to worship in the place that God appointed, but since they were not explicitly forbidden from going elsewhere, then, according to the NPW, they could. Jeroboam could easily have reasoned that since there was nothing forbidding him from appointing Dan and Beersheba as holy places, then he was entitled to move the feast to those locations.
Enough of this double-talk; the Scriptures explicitly tell us that the whole Jeroboam style of worship was wrong because he had invented it:
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| Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense. 1 Kings 12:32-33
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The main thrust of this passage is that Jeroboam took it upon himself to ordain things in the worship of God without authorization from God. Those who think they have the ability to invent holy days and sacred seasons fall into the same category. Their worship is something which they have devised from their own heart, it is not what God has sovereignly commanded. It is the height of arrogance to think that we can invent rites, ceremonies and festivals which are pleasing to God when He has not authorized them.