Where was the Sabbath Abolished?

[Ziggy]

The Bible has both Old and New Covenants.
Was this put together under one cover to cause division?
Or was it put together as a whole picture of the journey of God's relationship with man?

There are Jewish bibles which don't have the New Testament attached.
Ther are Christian bibles that don't have the Old Testament attached.

It's like having the Constitution without the Bill of Rights.

The New Testament is taught from the Old.
The Old is foundation of Man.
The New is the Foundation of Christ.

The first is the obligation to the government of Man.
The second is the obligation to the government of God.

The Constitution is the foundation of the laws of the country under Man.
The Bill of Rights is the foundation of our Freedoms under God.

Mat 13:52
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Who scribed the scriptures, both Old and New?
Who's word is it?

What would happen if we removed the Constitution and said it's dead, it's not relevant for today (they are trying to do that by the way)
And simply keep the Bill of rights?

Would we still have a country? Who would run it? By who's standards?

Difference Between Constitution and Bill of Rights​

A constitution is a document that establishes the basic structure and functions of a government, while a bill of rights is a section of a constitution that protects the rights and freedoms of its citizens.

The Old Testament is the basic structure and functions of a church.
The structure of the government Head is God, Spokesman or President is Moses, Priesthood is Aaron, the people are the clergy or the congregation.
We see this same structure in most churches in the world.
The Structure of the Church Head is Christ, Spokesman is the Bishop or the Pastor, Priesthood belongs to Christ. And the people are the learners and the helpers in the church.
The Constitution or the basic structure of both the Old and New Testaments remain the same. But the positions of authority have changed.
The basic structure of the family follows suit. The Head of the man is Christ, the head of the family is the man, the instruction giver is the woman, and the children obey their parents.

The New Testament is like the Bill of Rights that is added to the Constitution.
It teaches us our rights and freedoms under the Constitution or the basic Structure of the church.
These rights can be found in the Constitution or the Old Testament. But what's missing is the Freedom.
The Freedoms are found in the New Testament.

Under the Old Testament the Rights of the people are given by the Law and by Moses.
Under the New Testament the Rights and Freedoms are given by The Spirit of God and by Christ.

There would be no Bill of rights without the Constitution. There would be no New Testament without the Old Testament.
Our Country, The United States of America is built on the structure of the Government according to God.
We are a Christian Nation.
No matter who tells you different. The basic structure is the proof.

Hugs

 

[Scott Downey]

And how does He speak to us if not through His Word, and not just a few verses that we pick and choose, but the whole Word, New as well as Old Testament, and as it says 'precept upon precept; line upon line,'

How did that work out for them though?
They did not keep the law of God. And they would not hear.
So the entire OC just does not work as they broke it.
Which is why we have the NC from God now thankfully.
OC was line upon line, precept upon precept, but it failed as they broke covenant with God.
NC with God is of the spirit of the law not the letter of the law.
One is bondage and one is freedom


Isaiah 28
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 28
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.

 

[Scott Downey]

Colossians 2 is where the sabbath REQUIREMENT was abolished by Christ, it says He wiped it out, like an erasure

Not Legalism but Christ​

11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body [h]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the [i]handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a [j]festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

 

[Scott Downey]

Anyone who judges me over not resting and worshipping on the Sabbath is out of touch with Christ and God, as today we live in the NC, the OC He obsoleted and it has passed away.

Got to be real careful when judging others. When Paul writes do not let others judge you about sabbath here, he means ignore what they say if they require sabbath worshipping. Do not submit to their teaching or believe it.

Hebrews 8

A New Covenant​

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [b]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

 

[Ziggy]

And how does He speak to us if not through His Word, and not just a few verses that we pick and choose, but the whole Word, New as well as Old Testament, and as it says 'precept upon precept; line upon line,'

So this is kind of off topic a little.

My dad got sick back in April, He told his girlfriend he was coming to live with me. She was turning 80 and he was worried he would be too much a burden on her. So she got hmmm defensive and angry, accused him of not wanting to be with her anymore.
Since April not one phone call, not one visit, until yesterday.

She called to say the insurance company wanted to talk to dad and they had called her looking for him.
I told her he had been in the hospital and was now in rehab and hopefully will be home in another couple weeks.
The conversation was intense. She couldn't understand why he would leave her after almost 30 years.
I explained that he didn't leave because he didn't love her, he left because he was worried that he would be too much a burden on her.
They also were having tensions in their own relationship. She hated me and I don't know what for. I believe it was jealousy. And no matter how polite I was, the more nastier she would be. She would ignore me to my face, and roll her eyes when I talked. She would talk to my dad about me how I should be working and not just sitting around the house. If she could do her craft fairs and sewing, I should be able to too.
So Every now and then Dad would push the issue with me about finding a job. He' knows I'm disabled. I cant walk well. I cant stand long, and I can't sit long. My body is messed up. And I am on disability and I pay my own bills like the internet, telephone, car stuff, and my pets.
He pays for the heat and the electric, the taxes and the lawncare. I am living in his house. I asked to change the name on the bills and I could get help from the state and pay for them myself. He said no.
Anywhooooo...

At the end of the call yesterday, we were both in tears. I told her she was welcome anytime and that I loved her even if she hated me and I don't care. I told her if she ever needed me I was just a phone call away. When we had hung up I agreed to keep her informed of dad's progress.

I will never change her feelings towards me. But I know Jesus' spirit and his words were working through me.
Because there is no way that I could of abided in that conversation calmly and peacably without him.

So we don't always just hear him through the written words in the bible. He speaks to our hearts. Gives us words to say.
And tries to find peace in all things.

I believe this is the word of God written in my heart.

Just sharing
Much Love!
Hugs

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

Bottom line, the Ten Commandments are featured in the Law of Moses and remain an aspect of the MT. Sinai covenant. Jesus' commandments go above and beyond Moses. As a Gentile I am not obligated to keep Moses, but as a Gentile, I am obligated to follow my Lord and keep his teachings.

That's a good summary. The SDAs will never give up their 7th day sabbath though and they think they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Now, there is a new house, the Body of Jesus Christ! Under the New Covenant that the Lord said would come forth, we see Jesus Christ as the High Priest. The old covenant with it’s laws and regulations have been taken away because thru Jesus Christ a new and better covenant has come in to place.

Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.

Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Some adherents to keeping Saturday sabbath frequently ask “where did the Lord take Saturday sabbatrh way?”
The answer can be found in Hebrews 10:9 and in Hebrews 7:12.

In the New Testament, many mentions of “the law” is actually referring to Law of Christ (aka the Law of Liberty) and is not talking about the old testament law. Christians are NOT called to keep or live under the old testament law, but we ARE called to live under the Law of Christ.

Ultimately this means we are called to abide In Christ which is living after the Spirit and not after the flesh, or to be spiritually minded and not carnally minded (see Romans 8). As we see in Romans 8, to be spiritually minded is life and peace but to be carnally minded is death which is separation from the Lord.

Galatians 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

James 2:12
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
*Free as in no longer being a slave to sin, as in stop doing sinful things!

2 Peter 1:4-10
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. (*Notice what Paul said about his own body in 1 Corinthians 9:27)

Colossians 3:6-10
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Those that do not put on the New Man and quit walking after the flesh, the wrath of God comes upon them for their disobedience because God is NOT mocked, if we sow to the flesh we shall of the flesh reap corruption (Gal 6:7,8)

2 Thessalonians 1:7-9
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Things end very badly for those that do not obey the gospel.

Romans 11:19-25
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

Anyone who judges me over not resting and worshipping on the Sabbath is out of touch with Christ and God, as today we live in the NC, the OC He obsoleted and it has passed away.

Got to be real careful when judging others. When Paul writes do not let others judge you about sabbath here, he means ignore what they say if they require sabbath worshipping. Do not submit to their teaching or believe it.

Yeah man, the sabbatarians got you on their hit list man!

Those folks believe the entire Body of Christ is in error... except them!

 

[Hobie]

How did that work out for them though?
They did not keep the law of God. And they would not hear.
So the entire OC just does not work as they broke it.
Which is why we have the NC from God now thankfully.
OC was line upon line, precept upon precept, but it failed as they broke covenant with God.
NC with God is of the spirit of the law not the letter of the law.
One is bondage and one is freedom


Isaiah 28
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 28
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.

We see they are the same in both the NT and OT...
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Hebrews 10:16
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

 

[BlessedPeace]

If the Sabbath was abolished, there would be many verses and much text to show it, yet there is none. The apostles would have had many discussions and the councils at Jerusalem would have written at least one with a determination of it being abolished and yet there is nothing. Paul exhorts in Corinthians that Circumcision is nothing in comparison to the Ten Commandments.

1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Since there are more than forty verses and up to ten verses at a time clearly stating that Circumcision of the flesh is a yoke of bondage and abolished, how many scriptures would you expect stating the Sabbath was abolished or changed to Sunday? Perhaps seventy or more? The fact is there is not even one verse that says, 'The Sabbath is abolished' or is now Sunday.

Acts 15:1-19 The Council at Jerusalem​

1 Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad. 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”
6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me. 14 Simon[a] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16 “‘After this I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’[b]—
18 things known from long ago.[c]
19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

The Ten Commandments are the only thing that God personally spoke and then personally etched His Law into stone tablets with His own finger. Yet there is not one clear scripture or commandment from Christ or even a direction from a apostle or as you can see from the Jerusalem Council to abolish the Sabbath anywhere in scripture, just a couple of erroneous assumptions. One of God's Commandments supposedly changes or is abolished and we do not have even one clear verse. Why not? The answer is simple. It was never abolished or changed to Sunday by the authority of God so no such scripture exists..

Great question.

Another way to word it,if I might be so bold, is, when did God take back that what he made for man?

 

[Ziggy]

You see in the OC that God made a covenant with Abraham concerning circumcision in the flesh.
And then you see God giving a heart of flesh and the circumcision without hands.
Was there a miscommunication there?

how to reconcile...

hugs

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

You see in the OC that God made a covenant with Abraham concerning circumcision in the flesh.
And then you see God giving a heart of flesh and the circumcision without hands.
Was there a miscommunication there?

how to reconcile...

The was the fore shadow of the circumcision of the heart we see in the New Covenant.

And those in the New Covenant that get born again and circumcised of heart who backslide returning back to their sin.... are sadly no longer circumcised of heart because they have taken the new man off.... and have put the old man back on.

 

[Ziggy]

The was the fore shadow of the circumcision of the heart we see in the New Covenant.

And those in the New Covenant that get born again and circumcised of heart who backslide returning back to their sin.... are sadly no longer circumcised of heart because they have taken the new man off.... and have put the old man back on.

So, I'm a female...
Other than for sanitary reasons, I don't see the purpose of physical circumsion.
And I don't really want to get into the details.
I was just wondering if Abraham misunderstood the instructions.

Gen 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

Deu 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Deu 30:6
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Jer 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jhn 7:22
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Act 21:21
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

Rom 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

God said this same thing in Deuternomy 10:16 and 30:6 that's why I'm asking.

Hugs

 

[Logikos]

Where was the Sabbath Abolished?​

Terrific question that is without a simple single sentence answer.

God cut off Israel, along with their kingdom program of law, in response to the stoning of Stephen, which was Israel's leaders officially rejecting their risen King, and the conversion of Paul (Saul at the time) on the Damascus Road (Acts 9).

One might be tempted to go the simplistic route and declare that this is where Sabbath observance ended but that wouldn't be quite correct. First of all, Paul did not receive the full length and breadth of what he repeatedly referred to as his gospel all at once and so there isn't a super-stark line of demarcation implicit in the cutting off of Israel.

Secondly, the callings of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29) and so all of those who had already come to Christ under Israel's Kingdom gospel would remain in covenant with God under that gospel until their natural death. Thus, for these believers, the law was still in place and in force, the only modification being the ceremonial aspects of the law which were only ever symbolic of Christ who was the substance (Hebrews 1-13), which is why believers like James and his followers were "zealous for the law" (Acts 21:20), and which also explains why the Twelve agreed to suspend their evangelical efforts and remain in Jerusalem and minister to "the circumcision" while Paul went to the rest of the world (Galatians 2). And so, once again, there was a transition period. There were two bodies of believers, one saved by faith in God through obedience to Moses and law and those saved under Paul's gospel by grace through faith alone apart from works (Romans 4:5).

So, there would have been valid Sabbath observance happening so long as believers from the previous dispensation were alive, which would have been at least until the apostle John died which was likely sometime after AD 98.

 

[BlessedPeace]

Where was the Sabbath Abolished?​

Golgotha. It was abolished ON the Cross AT Golgotha.

No,it wasn't.

 

[Scott Downey]

A New Covenant​

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [b]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
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v10, God puts His laws in their mind and writes them on their hearts. There is no mention of previously written commandments in this new covenant.
God does the writing according to the Laws He wants people to follow, but men add on their own laws and doctrines of men for the NC just like they always have.

The fact that saved believers do not all agree proves God did not put that 'sabbath keeping requirement' onto His people's minds and heart. However SDA teaches only they are saved alive, the others get to suffer wrath because they are receiving the mark of the beast not being sabbath day keepers. SDA denies the salvation of other people if others are not SDA like themselves. Likely some SDA don't know their own church history and doctrine, or if they do try to hide it. And they will fight tooth and nail for their doctrine.

Mark of the Beast

Bible Truth Versus SDA Doctrine - Mark of the Beast

nonsda.org

Link provided by mailmandan thanks.

 

[Hobie]

The Bible has both Old and New Covenants.
Was this put together under one cover to cause division?
Or was it put together as a whole picture of the journey of God's relationship with man?

There are Jewish bibles which don't have the New Testament attached.
Ther are Christian bibles that don't have the Old Testament attached.

It's like having the Constitution without the Bill of Rights.

The New Testament is taught from the Old.
The Old is foundation of Man.
The New is the Foundation of Christ.

The first is the obligation to the government of Man.
The second is the obligation to the government of God.

The Constitution is the foundation of the laws of the country under Man.
The Bill of Rights is the foundation of our Freedoms under God.

Mat 13:52
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Who scribed the scriptures, both Old and New?
Who's word is it?

What would happen if we removed the Constitution and said it's dead, it's not relevant for today (they are trying to do that by the way)
And simply keep the Bill of rights?

Would we still have a country? Who would run it? By who's standards?

Difference Between Constitution and Bill of Rights​

A constitution is a document that establishes the basic structure and functions of a government, while a bill of rights is a section of a constitution that protects the rights and freedoms of its citizens.

The Old Testament is the basic structure and functions of a church.
The structure of the government Head is God, Spokesman or President is Moses, Priesthood is Aaron, the people are the clergy or the congregation.
We see this same structure in most churches in the world.
The Structure of the Church Head is Christ, Spokesman is the Bishop or the Pastor, Priesthood belongs to Christ. And the people are the learners and the helpers in the church.
The Constitution or the basic structure of both the Old and New Testaments remain the same. But the positions of authority have changed.
The basic structure of the family follows suit. The Head of the man is Christ, the head of the family is the man, the instruction giver is the woman, and the children obey their parents.

The New Testament is like the Bill of Rights that is added to the Constitution.
It teaches us our rights and freedoms under the Constitution or the basic Structure of the church.
These rights can be found in the Constitution or the Old Testament. But what's missing is the Freedom.
The Freedoms are found in the New Testament.

Under the Old Testament the Rights of the people are given by the Law and by Moses.
Under the New Testament the Rights and Freedoms are given by The Spirit of God and by Christ.

There would be no Bill of rights without the Constitution. There would be no New Testament without the Old Testament.
Our Country, The United States of America is built on the structure of the Government according to God.
We are a Christian Nation.
No matter who tells you different. The basic structure is the proof.

Hugs

Paul lays it out in Hebrews if we just open our eyes and see...
Hebrews 4:9 YLT
3 for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,
4 for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'
5 and in this [place] again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'
6 since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
7 again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'
8 for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;
9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Opps! Looks like Jesus did NOT include Saturday sabbath in His explanation of the Law of Christ... Jesus is clearly NOT teaching the Law of Moses which is where Saturday sabbath is found . . . this is over and above the OT Law and represents how things work under the New Covenant.

Matthew 22:36-40
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

The story of Moses and the Ten Commandments can be found in Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21


Sabbath Commandment is only to the children of Israel

Exodus 31:13
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations

Exodus 16:27-30
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
So the people rested on the seventh day.

Leviticus 23:2,3
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

In Romans 11:11-24 we see the Lord has provided for the gentiles to be grafted in.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

Terrific question that is without a simple single sentence answer.

A very short answer is actually available...

Hebrews 10:9
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
(God said He would make a New Covenant - see Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Hebrews 8:6
But now hath Jesus obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

And with the changing of the priesthood, God’s Word tells us there is also a change of the law.

Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

 

[Ziggy]

I can't find Saturday or Sunday in the bible.
Or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday either.

When did the naming of days begin?

Day Name Origins​

If each day of the week was named after a planet, there’d be eight days of the week (sorry, Pluto, no day for you). But that’s not the case.
Instead, the days of the week are named after the five planets recognized in Hellenistic astrology, which are named after Roman gods (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), plus the sun and the moon.
So where do Venus and Mars fall into the days of the week? The answer lies in interpretatio germanica — a practice in the first century A.D. in which the Germanic and Norse peoples aligned their mythologies to the gods of the rapidly spreading Roman Empire.
As the Germanic language began to influence the English language, the English days of the week reflected the Germanic gods. However, in Romance languages, such as Spanish, Italian and French, the days of the week pay homage to Roman gods.

"Sunday": Sun + Day​

The word Sunday doesn’t sound too complicated. There’s a sun, there’s a day, that’s a wrap.
But the full story is more complex than a simple compound word. Sunday comes from the Latin dies Solis after the Roman sun god Sol. It became sunnandæg in Old English, sunnenday in Middle English, and eventually, Sunday.
All that makes sense until you translate Sunday into a Romance language, where the English Sunday becomes the Spanish domingo, the Italian domenica and the French dimanche. Why the change? Sunday is known as “Lord’s day” (dies Dominicus) in these Latin-based languages.

"Monday": The Moon's Day​

What does the word mon look like to you? If you said moon, you’re right.
While the Latin word for moon is luna (and Monday is dies lunae), the name Monday comes from “Moon’s day” after the Norse moon god Máni.
It’s derived from the Old English Mōnandæg, later Monenday. Maybe that’s why it’s so tempting to stay in bed on Monday morning — you need more time to celebrate the moon.

"Tuesday": Day of War​

Tuesday isn’t typically known as the most aggressive day of the week, but it’s named for one of the most aggressive mythological figures.
It comes from the Norse god Tiw, god of combat (his Roman equivalent is Mars). “Tiw’s day” was Tiwesdæg in Old English and Tewesday in Middle English.
The Romans stuck with Mars in the Latin dies Martis, which is why Tuesday is martes in Spanish, martedì in Italian and mardi in French.

"Wednesday": Day of Speed​

Another language split between English and Latin happens on good old hump day.
The name Wednesday comes from the Old English Wōdnesdæg after the Germanic god of speed, Woden (also called Odin) and “Woden’s day.”
It became Wednesdei in Middle English and eventually Wednesday in the 13th century A.D. But because the Roman equivalent of Woden was Mercury, the Latin name for Wednesday is dies Mercurii (miércoles in Spanish, mercoledì in Italian, mercredi in French).

"Thursday": Day of Thunder​

Can you guess which Norse god is the namesake of Thursday? If you’re up on your mythology (or you’re a Marvel fan), you know that the god of thunder, Thor, appears in this day of the week (“Thor’s Day”).
The old English þunresdæg became Thuresday in Middle English, but remained Iovis Dies (from the Latin spelling of Jupiter, Iuppiter) in Rome. Thursday looks and sounds a lot more like Jupiter in Spanish (jueves), Italian (giovedì) and French (Jeudi).

"Friday": Day of Love​

If you wake up full of happiness and love on Friday, it’s not just because your work week is over in approximately 9.5 hours.
Friday is “Frigg’s day” for the Germanic love goddess (known as Freya in Norse mythology). Originally frīġedæġ in Old English, your favorite day of the week is dies Veneris in Latin, celebrating Frigg’s Roman equivalent, Venus. That’s why Friday is viernes in Spanish, venerdì in Italian and vendredi in French.

"Saturday": Saturn's Day​

For anyone keeping track, there’s likely no mystery surrounding Saturday — it sounds exactly like the only planet left in the Hellenistic system.
The last day of the week is named for the Roman god Saturn and is the only day without another god equivalent, as the Germanic and Norse cultures didn’t have a god assigned to this day.
“Saturn’s day” was Sæturnesdæg in Old English and dies saturni in Latin. However, Romance languages refer to the Latin word for sabbath (sabbatum) rather than Saturn; Saturday is sábado in Spanish, sabato in Italian, and samedi in French.

How the Days of the Week Got Their Names

How did the names of the days of the week originate? Learn more about the history of weekdays and weekends and how they've evolved through language.

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Jer 8:1
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jer 8:2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jer 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

We already live in the Babylonian system since the first day of the new age. Oh yeah that would be Sunday. The day of the Sun, not Son.

To Day if you will hear his voice....
hugs

 

[Scott Downey]

Paul lays it out in Hebrews if we just open our eyes and see...
Hebrews 4:9 YLT
3 for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,
4 for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'
5 and in this [place] again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;'
6 since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
7 again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'
8 for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;
9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

Are you implying that when it says "for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe," that those who do not keep the Saturday sabbath are not believers?

NKJV reads much clearer
Hebrews 3
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ”
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”

6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, 7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if [b]Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

HOWEVER it is speaking of another day, not the 7th day of the week.
And that DAY is TODAY, as in every DAY is a 'sabbath rest' for we who have BELIEVED DO ENTER that REST. Many versions do not include 'sabbath rest' as it is not speaking of the 7th day as that is just once a week resting because of what v3, v4, and v10 says.

the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
“And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;