Good morning
@Randy Kluth and
@Hobie
Randy.... you say... "
"We all know that in the OT the Sabbath Day was set aside as a respected day of the week. And so, weekly cycles became important in Jewish culture. We do not need a boatload of verses to prove this. It is an established and well-known part of Jewish Law."
But you neglect to post the reason this was done....
Gen 2:1-3
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all
their hosts.
2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
AND
The ten commandments #4...
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
But most fail to acknowledge that the Fri 6PM to Sat 6PM Sabbath came about at the end of God's creation of all things... and was reaffirmed, in stone, when Moses was on Mt. Sinai... and are recorded not just in Exodus 20 but also Deuteronomy 5
Where the 4th commandment there reads
12 ‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God;
in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who [
k]stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
With the addition over the Exodus account of
"You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day."
People fail to remember that the original 10 were given to God's chosen... at a time when we... those grafted in... were not known about.
Jesus came and said.... he did not come to replace the law, but to fulfill the law. (Matthew 5:17)
Jesus also said in Matthew 15:24 ... But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
HE DID NOT COME FOR you, me, or the POPE... (Sorry Frankie) It was not until that we were grafted into the tree and the potential of born again/salvation was extended to us.
Romans 11: 11... I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation
has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous
12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!
13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will
their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the first piece
of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
That is precisely why I feel that when Jesus was crucified and was found out of the tomb on a Sunday morning, after AFTER the end of a Sabbath... that it is not only appropriate but imperative for us to embrace the "Son of God" which we know as God the Son....
17 But if some of the branches were broken off,
and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,
18 do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant,
remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root
supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20
Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural
branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
He, Christ Jesus, is the one who made it possible for US to have an eternity in heaven....
He is the one who said in John 14: 13-14
13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Just like God's original chosen were commanded to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy... And that is from Friday night to Saturday night (approx 6PM each) .... not Saturday as some would claim. {It was they who were commanded that.... and we as being grafted in will not be considered equal to them)
It is of equal importance...
IF NOT MORE SO ... that we who were grafted into the tree with God's chosen
worship Christ Jesus on the day we found his tomb to be empty, and prophecy was fulfilled, to worship Him who has made our salvation possible.... on the day that began the surity of our slavation.
As we are told in
1 Peter 1:3-4
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy chas caused us to be born again to da living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
It is by the resurrection of Christ Jesus that we have hope.
According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you…
Being forgiven of sin and justified before God gives Christians tremendous hope. Christians are changed from being an enemy of God bound for hell, to a forgiven child of God with an eternal inheritance in heaven that can never be taken away. What can be better news than that?
We owe HIM our devotion and certainly a day unto itself for praise.
If you, or any feel so strongly about the Sabbath of Genesis and Exodus... by all means continue... but you should also consider extending you worship by one day in honor of what was done for you that came to an end on a Sunday over 2000 years ago.
