Exo 16:29 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.
NLT: They must realize that the Sabbath is the LORD’s gift to you. That is why he gives you a two-day supply on the sixth day, so there will be enough for two days. On the Sabbath day you must each stay in your place. Do not go out to pick up food on the seventh day.”
Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
The Sabbath was made for man.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
The TEST:
Deu 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deu 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Mat 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Mat 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Mat 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
I find it interesting that the Sabbath and bread have a connection.
God created the seventh day for man. And proved him in it. To see if they would listen to God instead of their bellies.
For 6 days or 6000 years we have listened to prophets and priests and ministers tell us what God said.
But on the 7th day, or 7000 year. God came and spoke to us face to face in the form of a man, Jesus.
Jesus is the gift, he is the Sabbath or place of rest, he is the bread.
So many times Jesus told us,
Come all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
That rest is IN Him. He is our Sabbath.
And God rested in it. God was in Jesus reconciling the world unto himself.
I am the bread of Life... not like the manna Moses gave you in the wilderness...
Moses told us what God said, But Jesus spoke to us, face to face.
They had Moses law for 6000 years. We have God's law for eternity.
The seventh day Sabbath in the OT is a snapshot or picture of what the eternal place of rest is.
And many still keep it as a memorial or a remembrance of what God gave to us. His Son, His resting place.
Many keep everyday because God is not limited to a Day.
40 years in the wilderness and 40 days in the wilderness.
Jesus represents ALL of Israel.
He came unto his own but his own received him not.
They entered not in because of unbelief.
Jesus is the door. No man comes to the Father but through Him.
He opened himself up to all who would believe and be reckoned as Abraham's seed.
Abraham was God's friend.
I call you no more servants, but friends.
The Sabbath is Holy, Sanctified, set apart from the world.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Jhn 10:36 Say ye of him, whom
the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
I often wondered where John the Baptist received instructions to baptise the people. I think I found it:
Exo 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people,
and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Mat 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Mat 21:26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people;
for all hold John as a prophet.
1Pe 3:21 The like figure whereunto
even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you:
but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
The Sabbath is a place those that are sanctified enter into.
This place is IN The Lord.
Jhn 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
God never changed the Sabbath Day. It has always been the same since the foundation of the world.
Jhn 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed
do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
The same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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