Is it important to keep the Sabbath?

[pompadour]

All the Priests, Rabbis, and Pastors work on Saturday and Sunday

 

[DJT_47]

What does the Bible show us? It shows that it certainly is. In God's final warning messages to the world we find a call to worship the Creator.
Revelation 14:6-7
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

The call to worship in Revelation 14:7 brings us back to the Sabbath Commandment which God set aside specifically for holy purposes:
Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Throughout the scriptures we can see an emphasis on the recognition of the Creator.
Revelation 4:11
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Nehemiah 9:6
Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Psalm 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 96:4-5
4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 121:1-2
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

Acts 4:24
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

By keeping the Sabbath holy, as He commanded us, we show our love for Him and give recognition of His authority in our life.
1 John 5:1-3
1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Now some people say it doesn't matter what day we worship and God doesn't care, but He does.
Isaiah 58:14
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

And Christ Himself set for us the example...
Luke 4:16
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

The sabbath was part of the covenant made by God with the Jews, not us.
A covenant is an agreement between 2 parties. To keep the sabbath is not restated in the new testament as a requirement to be kept by Christians. The day of worship for the Christian is the 1st day of the week as various scriptures teach; that's when the deciples came together to break bread,
/partake of the Lord's supper, and engage in worship.

 

[Grailhunter]

Christ and the Apostles observed the Mosaic Law during Christ’s ministry but after the resurrection there is no requirement to observe any Old Covenant Laws or Commandments. Christians observe the Lord’s Day on Sunday. The council in Jerusalem that Paul attended did not include the requirement to observe the Jewish Saturday Sabbath….Paul said, Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. Colossians 2:16. Early Christian writings confirm that Christians were to observe the Lord’s Day and denounced any attempt for people to observe the Jewish Saturday Sabbath.

This is pretty simple stuff....

 

[Hobie]

Well that is the point. It all a matter of reference from the first day of creation. The Hebrew names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week until you get to the Sabbath- Shabbat. The week begins with Day 1 creation….( Sunday - Yom rishon) and ends with Shabbat (Saturday -Yom ha-. The day the Lord rested.

As far as a academic explanation of it in the scriptures….not there.

Saturday is the 7th day by Hebrew reckoning. None of our names for the days of the week are in the scriptures.

Again
The Hebrew names of the days of the week are numerical: Sunday - Yom rishon- "first day", Monday -Yom shani- "second day", Tuesday -Yom shlishi- "third day", Wednesday -Yom reveci- "fourth day", Thursday -Yom khamshi- "fifth day", Friday -Yom shishi- "sixth day" and cErev shabbat -"eve of Sabbath", Saturday -Yom ha- ...

As the weekly cycle and the Sabbath began at Creation, that makes sense..

 

[rockytopva]

All who are justified by the law are debtors to keep the whole law...

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. - Galatians 5

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. - James 2:10

 

[rockytopva]

And... So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the new moon festival OR THE SABBATH. All such things are only a shadow of things of the future; the reality is Christ. - Colossians 2:16

 

[mailmandan]

Sabbath keeping with all it's rules and regulations, was part of a covenant with Israel (Exodus 16:23, 29; 31:12-18; 35:1-3; Leviticus 19:30; 23:2-3, 32; Numbers 15:32-36; 28:1-10; 29:39-40; I Chronicles. 23:30-31; II Chronicles 31:2-4; Isaiah 1:13; Amos 8:5; Nehemiah 10:31) that is not binding on Christians under the new covenant. (Colossians 2:16-17)

 

[gpresdo]

All the Priests, Rabbis, and Pastors work on Saturday and Sunday

So do doctors, nurses, fireman, police, et al. Which clearly suggest each of us has a designated sabbath day...each week. A time God wants set aside to honor His presence.....as we otherwise rest.

 

[GerhardEbersoehn]

All who are justified by the law are debtors to keep the whole law...

And what do you think are all who are judged by the law? Just? Or debtors, to keep the whole law? All are judged by the Law and all are debtors to all the Law and stay debtors throughout hell-time for all… UNLESS you are a LOST soul shown mercy by God through the grace of Jesus Christ.

O, all the theological geniuses. . .