The Sabbath COMMANDS were ONLY for Israel! NOBODY else.
Galatians 3:10 (NKJV)
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
In Deuteronomy 27, where the curses are found, the twenty-sixth verse of which is quoted in Galatians 3:10,
only the moral law is referred to. But while it is doubtless true that the ceremonial law was included in the “book of the law,” I have yet to find Scripture proof for the statement that there was any curse pronounced for non-performance of the ceremonial law as an independent law. I will try to make clear what I mean.
There can be no moral obligation to perform anything not required by the moral law. That is simply another way of saying that sin is the transgression of the law. Now, if at any time sin can be imputed for the performance or nonperformance of any act not forbidden or enjoined in the moral law, then it necessarily follows that the moral law is not a perfect rule of action. But the moral law is a perfect law. It embodies all righteousness, even the righteousness of God, and nothing more can be required of any man than perfect obedience to it. That law is so broad that it covers every act and every thought, so that it is utterly impossible for a person to conceive of a sin which is not forbidden by the moral law.
That the curse of the law is death, I am sure you would agree. That being the case, I will offer a few points, now follow carefully...
1. The curse of the law is what Christ bore for us. See Galatians 3:13.
2. This curse consisted in being hanged on a tree. See last part of same verse.
3. This being hanged on a tree was the crucifixion of Christ, for at no other time was He ever hanged on a tree; and Peter said to the wicked Jews: “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.” Acts 5:30.
Therefore death is the curse which Christ bore for us; but death is the wages of sin, and sin is the violation of the moral law. Therefore Christ bore the curse of the moral law for us. There is no other law that has any curse attached to it.
Now you astutely pointed out that death is the wages of disobedience to the Sabbath Commandment. You have yourself therefore proved that the Sabbath Commandment is an integral part of the moral law, a law which was never only for Israel, but was known to the ancients from before the time of Noah, even in Eden, for what Christian is there who wouldn't teach that sin was the catalyst for the fall?
The moral laws of God are universal. The claim that the Sabbath was ceremonial or of a nature that it could be discarded at a whim or by the say-so of the church, is to wrench the Commandment from the tables of stone, something no person would dare to do with any of the other nine.
