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Diego beat me to it. Yes, the entire Hebrew Nation was submerged in the Red Sea. That was their Baptism. It is also very important to note that they continued to sin after that immersion and continued to be saved. I'm not an Eternal Security subscriber because there did come a point where God was going to take them all out, too.

TC, I am eagerly waiting your response to my "sola scripture" exposition on the Sabbath. Can you please prove to us once and for all which scripture repeals the Sabbath or moves it to the first day of the week?

Another theme that recurrs in your postings is:

Once the temple was destroyed the 7th day Sabbath lost it significance in and around Judea. Of course the church was already following the lead of the apostles by meeting and worshipping on the first day of the week.

I recall you referencing that the Temple was destroyed in AD 70, so then x, y, z...

I would like you to consider the following verses:

Mat 27:40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

Mar 14:58 "We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Mat 27:51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook; and the rocks were split,

Most theologians regard the death of Christ and His Resurrection as the point in time when animal sacrifices came to a halt. Yes, the Romans destroying the temple was prophesied, but it was already obsolete at the time.

It is clear that the NT authors kept the Sabbath as well as other feast days after Christ. Were they sinning? Did the Holy Spirit smite them as it did Aaron's two sons with the incense?

Furthermore, this is Diego's forte, but I am going to kick it off, the article you posted says definitively that Jesus was resurrected on Sunday. I would love to see the scripture that says that, too. It seems to me that 3 of the gospels report the resurrection to have been late on the Sabbath, and the third uses a pretty tough verb conjugation to say definitively that it was on Sunday. The general rule of thumb is that when the Bible seems to contradict itself, one ought to lean on the volume of evidence.

I apologize if anyone has already responded on this theme. I actually had to go to work today (gasp) and have been away from the thread.

Thanks for all the comments, etc, but this still does not answer my question. The original comments to whioch I was responding was posted by XeniaSt from an article on the mikvah. The quote from the article stated:

Before the revelation at Sinai, all Jews were commanded to immerse themselves in preparation for coming face to face with G-d.

I took this to mean the actual account metioned Exo. 19 when the children of Israel met with God at Mt. Sinai. In that account Israel was commanded to wash their clothing in preparation, but it says nothing abnout them being commanded to "immerse" themselves in a mikvah-like appliance.

What I suspect is that this statement some from some oral tradition of the Jews.

Diego beat me to it. Yes, the entire Hebrew Nation was submerged in the Red Sea. That was their Baptism.

Actually, they were not "submerged". In fact they never got wet.

The account y'all have mentioned in 1 Cor. 10 was not an actual credobaptist baptism by immersion, but was merely a symbolic baptism since the children of Israel never got wet. They actually just "all passed through the sea." Would an immersionist today accept a baptism where the person just walks between two bodies of water but never gets wet?

In my estimation this could not have been the event that was mentioned in the quote from XeniaSt.

But thanks for playing.

It is clear that the NT authors kept the Sabbath as well as other feast days after Christ.

It is not clear at all. I do not agree with that presupposition.

There are certainly instances of accounts with the apostles entered the Jewish temple and various synagogues on the Jewish sabbath in order to testify about Christ. In fact this was Paul custom when coming into a new place where there were Jews. I take this to be in keeping with Paul statement, "and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;" (1 Cor. 9:20)

Just as Paul was confortable sitting and eating with gentiles, he could also enter into the temple and participate in their customs for the purpose of bringing his fellow Jews to Christ.

"And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures," (Acts 17:2)

"And [Paul] reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks." (Acts 18:4)

That is the last mention of the "sabbath" in the NT.

But the undeniable fact is that there is no record of the church, the universal body of Christ made up of both Jews and gentiles, worshipping on either the Jewish sabbath or on the annual feast days of the Jews.

None, nada, zero.

The general assembly meeting in Jerusalem in Acts 15 never commanded the gentile followers of Christ to observe the seventh day sabbath or feast days of the Jews.

In none of the enumerations of the law in the NT do we find any regard for keeping the Jewish sabbath or their feast days.

There are accounts, such as Act 20:7, where the church is found gathered under the apostles for teaching and worship on the first day of the week. Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week. He met with His disciples on the first day of the week. He poured out His Spirit on the church on the first day of the week.

Whether you buy it or not, the real fact is that there is a wealth of information in the NT pointing away from the seventh day and pointing towards the first day. This certainly is in keeping with the substance and character of the new covenant that replaced the dacaying and fading old covenant expressed in types and shadows.