Zig, forgive me, but you seem to be intent on claiming that the Sabbath day is anything and everything except what it actually is.
There's not a word in this post that says Jesus is God's Sabbath until the end—where you simply declare that He is.
I don't understand it. I just don't understand it.
When I was a kid my Southern Baptist grandmother would allow no unnecessary work to be done on her large property on Sunday.
Even today, in almost any town in America with a population of a few hundred or more you can walk outside (if you even have to) at some point on a Sunday morning and hear church bells ringing.
Most people with jobs go to work on Monday morning with a different feeling than they have on any other day.
The reason all this happens is because God said: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
He was referring to the weekly cycle He established in Genesis 1 & 2—He even says so.
Now the argument has gone from "Saturday vs. Sunday" to "Let's just ignore it and maybe it'll go away."
Jesus is not our Sabbath day. He is our Lord and Saviour.
And the Sabbath day that He mad for man to meet Him in a focused and devoted way is being called by many an idol instead of "a delight, The holy
day of the Lord honorable," as "The mouth of the Lord has spoken" (Isaiah 58:13).
Hugs
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Hi Barney.
God said to listen to his son. His son is Jesus Christ whom he put in charge of EVERYTHING including the seventh day.
Jesus said that HE is the Lord of the Sabbath and we need to follow him and HE will give us rest.
Jesus doesn't say WHAT DAY we should seek this rest, except he does say that HE is the rest we seek.
Jesus owns the Day.
This day was created for Him to rest in.
He said he was going home to prepare a place for us, so that where he is we may be also.
He also said, Lo, I am with you always.
Jhn 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
And we are invited to enter into the rest he created for those who believe in him.
And when is that?
Why, it is To DAY.
This is not a rest from the physical carnal earthly daily grind at the 7-11 or a rocket scientist.
This is an internal peace. That no matter what happens in the world, we KNOW God is in control.
We have to work to earn money to buy food and housing, of course, nothing in this world is free.
But on the other side of this veil, thats thicker than a brick, I guess, is an internal knowing, a calmness, peace, that the world can not experience because they have no faith.
This is that DAY that God created for himself to rest in. This Day belongs to Jesus.
So when you enter into the Sabbath Day, you are entering into God's presence, because that is where God is.
The Sabbath Day is the Kingdom of God that God told Israel to REMEMBER.
And they should have known by the prophecies of the coming Kingdom that a time of rest was coming.
This is where we enter into the promised land. It's not a physical carnal earthy kind of land, it's more cloudy.
Example: The world is in absolute chaos. There's panic in the air, and mental illness is RAMPANT.
We have all kinds of interesting plates spinning on sticks at the moment and the world is ON FIRE.
It's ok though. It's disturbing and heartbreaking, but I'm not a part of that chaos, I'm not panicking.
I'm not adding to the frenzy and madness happening in the world.
I'm outside of it, looking in.
I understand somethings have to run their course, no matter how crazy, like a flood engulfing the world, or fire falling from heaven may sound. It is what it is.
But my spirit is peaceful, calm, reassured that God has this.
He knows what he's doing.
Now this rest, this peace, from not having to be part of the problem and doing whatever the world says is ok to do. That's not working out very well as we see. I can watch and observe, witness and mourn the catastrophies that are happening.
But I don't feel compelled to join in. I don't fit into the "everybody's doing it" kind of frame the world wants us pictured in.
I was a part of that world once a long time ago. I just don't even have the desire to participate.
Israel was told to seek that day, remember the Sabbath Day, and every seventh day God reminded THEM.
He had to keep reminding them for forty years and still they kept on wandering off to find other gods to lead them.
They worshipped the day that was created for them to rest in, rather then the One that actually created the day to begin with.
Christians don't have a "marker" to remember what day is the Sabbath Day, because everyday we are in God's presence.
The gates are never closed and the light is always on and the candles are always burning and the oil is always flowing.
It's a KNOWING. Not a doing.
Jhn 17:3
And this is life eternal,
that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
I understand the OT says do it that way and the NT says do it this way. That's a hurdle that needs to be jumped. I think they call it a leap of faith. There's a lot of things in the OT that belong in the OT that didn't get carried over to the NT. And a lot of things from the OT went through a transition stage from physical to spiritual observances. Meaning they were fulfilled to the letter.
When Christ came a new day began. All things became new. We are in a reset. But we're wasting this time of Grace.
Before Moses there was no LAW to keep it, because everyone recorded in the OT obviously walked with God who led them from Noah to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob. They were already walking in God's presence while he led them without a written law, but by the words of his mouth.
When Israel was in the wilderness they didn't want to listen to God. Not like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had listened. They had to have it embedded in their memory through fear of not keeping it. It was physical law for a physical world for men with carnal minds.
They already had God in their presence the moment God remembered his people. (Do you think he forgot? )
Exo 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exo 6:5
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
The covenant God made with Abrahm, Isaac and Jacob were verbal agreements. There was no law written in stone to remind them to remember.
God remembered the covenant with Abraham. That covenant still exists today. But the covenant God made with Israel, they broke it. God anulled it. He hung it on the cross. Those days are over and a new day has begun.
Christians covenant is with Jesus Christ not Moses anymore. The Kingdom has a new King. With more enhanced and spiritually applicable commandments.
The Sabbath instead of it being observed for one day of the week is now a way of life.
You take days off from work, that's good your body needs it, your mind needs it. Everybody needs a day to catch up and rest from this crazy madd world we live in. But even though you have to interact with it daily, there is also an inner peace that keeps you seperate from the turmoil the world is in. This is the rest we seek and this is the rest that is promised to us by Jesus Christ.
The Lord of the Sabbath.
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