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THE SABBATH
Gen_2:2-3 God Himself sanctified the seventh day
Gen_49:15 God's rest is good
Exo_12:15-16
Exo_16:4 God uses the Sabbath to prove His people's obedience.
Exo_16:19
Exo_16:26-28 Deu_4:4-6 The Sabbath was God's commandment NOT Moses'
Exo_16:29
Exo_20:8 REMEMBER the Sabbath
Exo_20:10 No work was to be performed
Exo_23:12 Animals as well as strangers were to observe the Sabbath so that they might be refreshed
Exo_31:17 Psa_60:4 Eze_20:20 It is a sign between God and His people
Exo_31:12-13 The Sabbath is a SIGN or divine signature of our allegiance to the Almighty God
Exo_34:21 We are to work six days and rest one
Exo_35:2 Violation of the Sabbath was punishable by death
Lev_23:3 A holy gathering is called for on the Sabbath
Lev_23:32 From evening to evening
Lev_25:4-7 Even the land is to rest every seventh year
Num_15:32-36 A man stoned to death for gathering sticks upon the Sabbath
Num_28:9-10 The priest & Levites were exempt because they had specific work to do for the Lord on the Sabbath
Num_28:25 Sacred assemblies were to be held on this day
Deu_4:2 Rev_22:18-19 We are not to add or subtract from the commandments of the LORD
Deu_5:12-15 Our Children, servants as wel as animals are to keep the Sabbath
Psa_89:34 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
Jam_1:17 "...the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Psa_92:1 The Sabbath Psalm
Psa_112:1
Psa_127:2 God knows his beloved children need rest
Ecc_12:13 Fear God and Keep His Commandments- Man's Whole Duty
Isa_28:12
Isa_56:1-7, Isa_28:12, Mar_2:27 Blessed are those who keep the Sabbath holy
Isa_58:13-14 We are to consider the Sabbath a delight
Isa_66:22-23 The Sabbath is to be also observed in the world to come
Jer_17:21-27 Observe the Sabbath and be blessed, disobey it and be judged accordingly
Lam_2:6 The Lord has caused the feasts and Sabbaths to not be remembered as a punishment for Israel's sins (now He is restoring these blessings.)
Eze_20:12-24 " " It sanctifies and sets us apart from the world.
Eze_20:20-21 The Sabbath is a sign of our relationship with God
Eze_22:26
Eze_44:24 We are commanded to hallow God's Sabbaths in the future Kingdom Age
Eze_46:1-3 The sacred east gate was to be openend on this day and the prince to enter by it
Eze_20:23-24 Pollution of the sabbath brought about the Assyrian captivity of the House of Israel..
Neh_13:15-22 " " "
Babylonian captivity of the House of Judah.
Neh_10:28-31 The Israelites pledged themselves under a curse and a sacred oath to follow God's laws including the Sabbath
Neh_13:15-20 The gates were shut till the Sabbath was over
Amo_8:4-5 The greedy can't wait for the end of the Sabbath restrictions
Dan_7:25 The Anti-Christ seeks to change the religious laws and festivals
Dan_7:25 It is God's enemies that seek to alter His sacred Law and times (festivals & Sabbaths)
2Ma 15:2 ... give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above all other days.
Mat_11:28 Jesus promised to give us rest.
Mar_6:2 ,Luk_4:16, Luk_13:10 Jesus kept the Sabbath
Mat_5:17-19 Break Commandments ---called least, practice Commandments --- called great in the Kingdom.
Mat_7:24 Jesus tells us to hear the word and DO IT.
Mat_11:28-30 Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat_12:5 The priests were permitted to "profane the sabbath" by their priestly duties.Num_28:9-10 Joh_7:22-23
Consider the other things Our Lord did, which "broke" the Law? For example, it was unlawful for the
Jew to touch any leper. But the Scripture is very explicit that Jesus first touched them, and then they were healed.
Mat_12:8 Mar_2:28 Luk_6:5 Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath
Mat_12:46-50 Those that do the will of God are considered members of Christ's family
Mat_19:17 (KJS) And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life,
keep the commandments.
Mat_24:20-21 "Pray that your flight be not...on the Sabbath day" 47 years later Christ knew that the Sabbath would still be relevant to His followers.
Mat_28:1 Matthew acknowledges the Sabbath to be ended with (and different from) the "first day of the week"
Mat_12:8, Mar_2:28, Luk_6:5 Jesus is "The Lord of the Sabbath".
Mat_12:11-12, Mar_3:4 Jesus approves of certain good deeds to be done on the sabbath. Be a Good Samaritan
Mar_2:27 The Sabbath was made for man. . .
Mar_3:1-5 It is permitted to work good deeds or occupations in healing, (or preparations for warfare)
Mar_6:2 (KJS) And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue
Mar_6:31 Jesus commanded his disciples to rest
Luk_4:16 (KJS) 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.
Luk_4:31 (KJS) And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luk_11:28 Blessed are those that hear the Word of God and keep it.
Luk_23:54-56 Jesus' disciples faithfully observed the Sabbath after His death
Joh_14:21 (KJS) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it
is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Joh_15:10 (KJS) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Act_1:12 Travel was limited on the Sabbath day
Act_13:14
Act_13:27 The scriptures are to be read every sabbath day.
Act_13:42-44
Act_15:21
Act_16:13
Act_17:2 Paul regularly taught the word of God on the sabbath, it was his manner or custom
Act_18:4
Act_18:20-21 Act_20:16 Paul also observed feast days as well as the Sabbath.
Act_21:17-24 Paul kept the Law of God
Act_22:12 Ananias, the disciple who healed Saul/Paul's blindness was "a devout man according to the law" blameless among the Jews.
Act_25:8 Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Mat_12:8 Joh_1:1-3 Jesus is the Lord of the Creation and of the Sabbath which commemorates that wondrous Creation
Joh_7:17
Joh_15:10
Luk_23:56 Christ's disciples rested on the Sabbath day after Christ's death.
Rom_7:12 The law is holy, just & good.
Rom_14:22, Joh_13:17, Rom_8:1 Don't condemn yourself for your occasional lapses, quickly repent & rejoice in the Lord.
1Ti_1:8 The law is good, if a man use it lawfully
1Co_5:6-8 Paul exhorts a Gentile Church to observe traditional feast days. Let us likewise keep the feast
1Co_7:19 Keeping the commandments of God is of paramount importance
1Co_11:1 Follow Christ's example
Heb_3:7-19 to Heb_4:1-11 An entire chapter in the New Testament Book of Hebrews deals with the Sabbath
Heb_4:8-11
Heb_4:9-10 There remaineth a REST for the people of God. REST = G4520 Sabbatismos
Heb_9:9-10, Heb_10:1 What was done away with the New Covenant was the repetitive meat & drink offerings and sacrifices, washings, carnal commandments
Mal_3:6 "For I [am] the LORD, I change not; ..."
Psa_89:34 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
Jam_1:17 "...the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Jam_1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, DECEIVING YOUR OWN
SELVES. (KJV emphasis added)
Jam_2:17-26 Faith without accompanied works is DEAD
1Jo_3:22 (KJS) And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1Jo_5:3 (KJS) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rev_11:19 The Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments is still revered in the temple of God.
Rev_12:17 The remnant will keep the commandments of God
Rev_14:12 (KJS) Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they
that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Rev_22:14 (KJS) Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they
may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city.
Deu_4:2 Rev_22:18-19 We are not to add or subtract from the commandments of the LORD