You know my point of view on "ceremonial laws" being shadows of God's laws.
I am not aware of your view of the shadows.
It seems you are preaching the law as to the letter. . it kills. A little salt mixed with grace can heal. But that salt or power to rebuke is not of us.
The apostles are considered as nothing. God must cause growth or rebuke. Paul cannot turn other believers into a pillar of salt.
I believe, when the Lord circumcises our hearts and we are born in the spirit,
we are given seventy weeks to cleanse ourselves.
Dan 9:27
You are making up the idea of we have 70 weeks to do what he does from the beginning. We receive the end the salvation of our soul from the start.
For me it was a sign that we should keep His words of everlasting life.
And if you fail to keep it perfectly than what? Do despite to His grace?
I believe all God's words are true and to be kept even today.
By kept do you mean guarded with all our new, born-again soul and heart? Or kept without error?
I sought a sign from Jesus too, and the only sign He gave me was Jonah.
You sought? Christ forbids the seeking after signs. Signs follow after one believes.
And what in your own words did the sign say. Keep all the commands or die?
Jonah wanted to die for a reason. It did not seem to bother him whether or not he did despite to the grace of God. God dragged him all the way to show he is not served by human hands of those who falsely boast they keep the law and have no need for mercy.
Jonah 4:1-4King James Version But it
displeased Jonah
exceedingly, and he was
very angry .And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for
I knew that thou art a
gracious God, and
merciful,
slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and repentest thee of the evil Therefore now, O Lord,
take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is
better for me to
die than to
live. Then said the
Lord,
Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and
wished in himself to die, and said, It is
better for me to
die than to
live. And
God said to Jonah,
Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said,
I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Jonah murmured all the way. Jesus empowered by the Father did it with delight. which one will you follow angry Jonah (
I knew that thou art a
gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness) . . Or comforted Jesus?
Philippians 2:13 For
it is God which
worketh in you
both to
will and
to do of
his good pleasure. Do all things
without murmurings and disputings: