What About The Sabbath

The Reason For My Faith ^ | 3/3/24 | Chuck Ness

[OneVike]

Throughout His ministry, Jesus never once broke the fourth commandment which required that all Jews observe the Sabbath. He was after all Jew. However, He did give us a clue that a change to the Sabbath was coming. To make my point, you must first understand that the original manuscripts of the Scriptures were not divided into verses and chapters.

The Old Testament manuscripts were written by scribes for the religious leaders to study. The New Testament manuscripts were letters originally written to be dispersed amongst the believers to read. They were like the letters you receive today. Just a document written in sentences and paragraphs with no verse or chapter numbers.

So you really had to know the transcripts well in order find any information you needed. Finally in the mid 16th century a Frenchman named, Robert Estienne (better known as Robertus Stephanus), would divide the Scriptures into chapters and verses. So today we can find passages by memorizing chapters and verses.

Now I must say, that while I do believe every Word of the Bible is the inspired Word of God, I do not believe that Stephanus's choices of where he decided to split some sentences up into different verses or chapters were inspired. I say so, because there are many instances in the Scriptures where a reader can be distracted or even misled as to what the passage is conveying.

Case in point is chapters 11 and 12 of Matthew's Gospel. I personally believe that he made a mistake by ending Matthew chapter 11 at verse 30. It's my belief that chapter 11 should have had 8 more verses for a total of 38. Thus it would end after the following statement by Jesus,

“For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
(Matthew 12:8)

The following information is quite valuable in the apologetical debate on why so many are mistaken in their belief that Christians should observe Saturday as the Sabbath. Continuing on Jesus' statement in Matthew 12:8, I take you back to the end of Matthew chapter 11. Jesus had just finished telling the crowd that no one born of a woman is greater than John the Baptist, when He started telling everyone to come to Him for rest.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
(Matthew 11:28-30)

By speaking about the concept of rest, the audience He is speaking to would automatically think of the Sabbath rest which God gave them. They were first told about this gift when Moses presented the Ten Commandments God handed to Him for the people to follow. As Moses read the tablets, he said,

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
(Exodus 20:8-11)

By the time Jesus started His ministry, the Israelites had been observing the Sabbath for almost 1480 years. They understood that it was a day of rest, even for the animals. A day they were to be free from the labors of life that kept them from communing with God. So, when Jesus starts talking about rest at the end of chapter 11, he continues his thought process on through to verse 8 of chapter 12. So when He calls them to come to Him for rest, and then claims He is the Lord of the Sabbath, it goes without saying that this is all one thought process and thus chapter 11 should have ended at verse 38, with chapter 12 actually beginning at verse 9 where Matthew wrote,

Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue.
(Matthew 12:9)

The next 20 verses do continue the matter of a rest, but not until Jesus moved to another site. Thus it then makes sense to split the chapter after Jesus made His statement about Him being the Lord of the Sabbath, and after he had arrived at a different location.

This is important, because when Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled all the requirements of the Law, including the one that calls for us to obey the Sabbath, since as He stated, He is our Sabbath. Just as we are not bound by going through a High Priest by offering a sacrifice, we too do not need to follow the Jewish Law. We can reach God through Christ, on any day at anytime we so desire. Without going through the commandments of the law which Christ abolished.

After 1480 years, the Jews showed they could not follow the Law, and with Christ fulfilling it and the ceremonial ones, we are free from it. So with Jesus, being the Lord of the Sabbath, we are free to chose any day, and anytime to gather for communion and celebration of Him with no more legalistic requirements to follow the old obsolete law.

Any Christian following any portion of the Law, is doing what Paul preached against when he chastised the Judaizers who tried to put the Christians back into bondage to the Law. This is one of the things he wrote to the Colossians about when he said,

Let no one judge you in food or in drink,
or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths
(Colossians 2:16)

Paul also wrote that, if you observe any part of the Old Law, then you must follow it all. Does anyone truly want to be bound by the full weight of a law that God's own people could never follow? The answer is a resounding NO. Praise God, because we are free to worship HIM anywhere, on any day, at anytime by going through the One who fulfilled and abolished the law. Thus setting us free from a Law we could never dream of keeping.

The flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
(Galatians 5:17:18)

Thus if you are not under the law, you are not under any obligations to any of the ceremonial requirements either. Nor are you bound by the Jewish Sabbath as I pointed out above from Paul's letter to the Colossians. Anyone who feels obligated to an abolished symbolism of the Old Law is keeping themselves from truly enjoying all the freedom God offers us through His Son's death and Resurrection.

I now offer two more pieces of evidence. One comes from the mouth of our LORD Jesus Himself, when the rich young ruler asked, "what must i do to have eternal life?" Jesus replied to him;

You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,' 'Honor your father and your mother and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
(Matthew 19:18-19)

The second one comes from Paul's letter to the Jewish Christians in Rome, we learn, not from what he wrote, but rather what he did not write when he listed the commandments we should obey. Mind you, Paul was once a Pharisee of Pharisees, a man who persecuted Jewish converts to Christianity for violating the commandments. So, let us look at what Paul left out when he wrote about the commandments we are to obey in his letter to the Romans.

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," "YOU SHALL NOT MURDER," "YOU SHALL NOT STEAL," "YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS," "YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
(Romans 13:8-11)

It should be enough to read what Jesus said on this matter, but we also see Paul then teach that which our LORD HIMSELF said. So I ask you, what is NOT included in this list of commandments from Jesus and then Paul about which commandments we should obey to have eternal life? It is the Sabbath. If Paul himself is not obeying the Sabbath, than why would any born again Christian want to follow a regulation from a law that is obsolete? Obsolete, because Jesus fulfilled the letter of the law and became our Sabbath rest.

So many fail to understand that as a Jew, Jesus had to fulfill both the legal laws and ceremonial laws in order to abolish them, because all the high priests and all the blood they spilled never satisfied the law completely so it was never fulfilled. Yet the nano second he died, the curtain separating the inner and outer room was torn by GOD from top to bottom. Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the Law. Thus the new dispensation began that set us free from the law written on stone and the ceremonial regulations. Today we are justified, "Just As If We Have Not Sinned." We are cleansed by HIS blood and freed by the atoning work on the Cross.

Thank GOD we are free, free at last. Free from observing anything the old law said we had to do. Thus our Sabbath in now in Jesus, Who allows us to come straight through HIM as our mediator to GOD. Jesus is our traveling Tabernacle who resides in us, and thus our Sabbath it eternal. Eternal in that everyday is a Sabbath for us, and at any moment we can worship HIM, because we now worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth.

Yet there is more, because when we read what the author of Hebrews wrote, which most scholars agree was an epistle specifically written to the Jewish believers who were still struggling with the confines of the Mosaic law.

In that He say,  "A NEW COVENANT, He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 
(Hebrews 8:13)

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
(Hebrews 4:9-11)

Finally, I share with you what was in the letter from the first council ever held by the elders of the church when the question arose about whether or not Gentile believers should be circumcised. In the letter they pointed out what they should follow, and keeping the Sabbath was NOT among the things they were instructed to follow. Anyone who claims the Sabbath must be kept by Christians, I would suggest you take it up with Peter and James who oversaw the council meeting on what rules the Gentile believers should follow.

Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren. They wrote this letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings. Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law"—to whom we gave no such commandment— it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
(Acts 15:27-29)

Praise God we are free from the bondage of a system that not only whitewashed our sin until a new animal was slain for it's blood to be spilled and sprinkled upon the mercy seat inside the inner room behind a curtain, but also held us hostage to worshipping together only on the sabbath. Once that curtain in the inner room was torn from top to bottom by GOD HIMSELF, we were set free to now enter into the presence of our LORD through our LORD, and commune with our LORD at any time on any day. Thank you JESUS!

[delchiante]

I prefer the bible as my source,one smooth stone is all this takes.

Ezekiel 46:1
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east shall be shut for the six working days; but it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

Gate shut- the 6 working days
Gate open- Day of the New Moon
Gate open- Sabbath

6 work days
1 New Moon Day
1 Sabbath
= 8 days

I doubt the Jews know why He separates His New MoonDay from His 6 work days or Sabbath.

That’s the instructions He gave the prophet Ezekiel.

Maybe they’ll figure it out if they build a temple..
Or just try to open a gate or door on one of the Pope’s work days when it’s really the New Moon Day..

Amazingly, the Sovereign notes 6 work days.

Let there be Light was the start of the first day..

What about Genesis 1:1,the Beginning? When Heavens and Earth were created?

Darn if the Jews today are the last people I’d ask.
Right before them, would be Christianity as the last people I’d ask.

I prefer to find my answers in His Word and in His creation.

The New Moon Day is set apart from His 6 work days, according to scripture.

And interrupts Satan’s 7 false days every month..

Satan’s 7 days arent the Father’s 7 days.

That can be know thanks to a day the Father has that Babylon doesn’t:

Day of the New Moon
A day that commemorates Genesis 1:1, And John 1:1, and maybe even John 1:14..

If I was the Pope, I wouldn’t want that known.
That the kind of thing that brings down religions and their doctrines of demons

Can’t wait

[Philsworld]

Ezekiel 46:1
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east shall be shut for the six working days; but it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

Gate shut- the 6 working days
Gate open- Day of the New Moon
Gate open- Sabbath

6 work days
1 New Moon Day
1 Sabbath
= 8 days

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No.

7 day week, as has always been from creation.

Gate open 1 day of those 7 (the Sabbath) AND ALSO on the day of the new moon, whichever day of the 7 day creation week that falls on.

7 day creation week
30 days to a month
360 days to a year

360 days x 3.5 = 1260 prophetic years (times time and half a time, etc...)

It has ONLY been a 7 day week since creation. That’s it.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Thanks for the ping MM!

Bipoloar Bob is a works based religionist who thinks he can sneak into the Heavenly Realm by skipping Belief, Grace, and a Sincere Heart after the Lord with “works” - in particular just one commandment (Sabbath Keeping). Nevermind the murderous thoughts or false witness his cult has for those who do not believe as they do.

The Book of Ephesians, Romans, and Colossians strangles their works-based theology.

I find they have far more in common with Roman Catholicism and Mormonism than any Bible believing branch of Christianity.

I try not to expel energy on these types - they just will never get it. You know why.

[Philsworld]

——>”Bipoloar Bob is a works based religionist who thinks he can sneak into the Heavenly Realm by skipping Belief, Grace, and a Sincere Heart after the Lord with “works” - in particular just one commandment (Sabbath Keeping).”

——>I try not to expel energy on these types - they just will never get it. You know why.

Bob, here’s what they don’t get: Grace (faith/belief/sincere heart) THEN obedience to God, keeping His commandments/law out of love for what He did on the cross for us.

Changing the Sabbath commandment (saying it is null and void, etc...), which is God’s eternal/perpetual covenant with His people, then and now, is an abomination, and will certainly bring “desolation”.

The Everlasting / Perpetual Covenant

Psa 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psa 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever [H5769 - ‘owlam]: holy and reverend is his name.

Deu 4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
Deu 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Psa 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psa 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Exo 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual [H5769 - ‘owlam] covenant.
Exo 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever [H5769 - ‘owlam]: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Isa 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isa 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

The everlasting or perpetual covenant of Isaiah 24:5 is identified in Exodus 31:16 as the Sabbath commandment of God’s law. Changing that commandment so as to break it, brings desolation according to Isaiah 24:6.

https://www.biblelightinfo.com/abomination-of-desolation.htm

[Roman_War_Criminal]

When you minimize Christ, His Sacrifice & Words - and put your "deeds" over them, you get a condemned Pharisee and Works-Based Hellbound Religionist.

Don't take the Mark Phil or Bob!

[Philsworld]

Revelation 14:12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Does this sound “works-based”?

Those who claim God’s grace AND THEN refuse to keep His commandments/laws, will not be in heaven.

Why don’t they get it?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Your baseline is off again.

Who is the audience?
Who is being addressed?

What did Jesus say were the TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS?

You SDA’s have an idol problem with one commandment while ignoring the rest and showing no fruit of the spirit.

You guys are tares.

[Philsworld]

——>Don’t take the Mark Phil or Bob!

Why would I? I already keep the Sabbath.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The new economy coming down the pipe will ensure everybody takes The Mark.

Don’t take it! Or you are a traitor to Christ.

[Philsworld]

You literally have no idea what you are talking about.

https://www.the-ten-commandments.org/whatarethetwogreatestcommandments.html

What are the Two Greatest Commandments?
In Matthew 22:36-40 we find a lawyer trying to trap Jesus into saying which is the greatest of the Ten Commandments. Jesus of course outsmarts the lawyer by summing up the Ten Commandments in two by quoting the Old Testament.

Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great Commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. 40 On these two commandments hang ALL the law and the prophets.”Two greatest commandments given by Jesus in Matthew 22:36-40

Note carefully that Jesus said “all the law hang on these two.” And all as Jesus clarified means every bit of what God wrote and nothing less. Below you will find the two Old Testament verses that Jesus quoted from and the first verse is “right after” the second reading of the law. So did all the law hang on these two in the Old Testament? There can be absolutely no doubt and especially since Deuteronomy 6:5 is right after the second reading of the Ten Commandments. And since loving God with all your heart covers the first four laws God personally spoke and wrote, then this includes the fourth which no one can argue as the Sabbath Commandment had just been read. Did you get that? The fourth being the Sabbath is a law of love also because Deuteronomy 6:5 says that loving God with all your heart, soul and might is to keep each and every one of the Ten Commandments that had just been read 17 verses earlier. Love of course is eternal and and just one more reason why all Ten Commandments are also eternal.

Deuteronomy 6:5 “And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”
Leviticus 19:18 “You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the LORD.”
So what does this all prove? ALL the law which includes the Sabbath hung on these two Commandments in the Old Testament which no one can dispute, and while Jesus quotes from the Old Testament, He still says ALL the law hang on these two greatest Commandments. So what has changed? Absolutely nothing! Everything God wrote in stone remains totally unchanged just as Jesus promised in Matthew 5:17-19.

Paul also shows that these two Commandments are just a means of summing up the law in the following verses. Romans 13:9-10 “For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other Commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this SAYING, namely, You shall love your neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”

If you love God with all your heart which is the greatest Commandment, you will be obeying all Ten but especially the first four as shown by Deuteronomy 6:5 which is right after the Ten Commandments are quoted. And if you love your neighbour as yourself, you will be obeying the last six. Therefore love is fulfilling the law and if you love God with all your heart and your neighbour as yourself, then you will be obeying all Ten Commandments. Read what is the greatest Commandment for a more detailed document on this topic.

[Philsworld]

Again, why would I? I already keep God’s 7th-day-Sabbath. And no matter what law is passed forbidding me to buy or sell because I keep it, I will still keep it. Those who don’t will received the Mark of the Beast. I’m not worried in the least. However, you should.

[delchiante]

Here are the 4 Sabbath Days that follow His 6th work days in each of His 4 equal weeks..

The 8th,15th,22nd,29th..

Feel free to see if any of those are listed in the scriptures as days that have no servile work allowed, particularly in the 1st and 7th months..

His 4 6th day work days each month are His 7th,14th,21st,28th days.

See an older version of Genesis 2:2 and note the mention of a 7th day when He finished His work, and then rested on the 7th Day from all His work.

The Father has two 7th days.
The 7th day of His months, which is always His 6th work day.
And His 7th Day Sabbath, which is always after 6 work days, not 2 or 3 or 4 or any other combo Talmudist have to twist themselves into a knot not to offend their Popes Saturn Day..

Also take note of the Law and the Passover Lamb, and the Passover Lambs death on the 14th Day, which according to scripture, is always the 6th and final work day of week 2 in every of His months.

The Passover Lamb finished His work on the 14th.
Laid in the tomb on the weekly Sabbath,and that Sabbath also is a high annual Sabbath.

And raisedthe 3rd day from the 14th, or 16th, which is the Feast of First Fruits and the 1st work day of His 3rd work week..

If one wants to test the 16th as the 1st work day of his 3rd work week, simply follow Israel’s wilderness journey to Exodus 16, when Manna from heaven began to fall on the 16th, and fell for 6 days- or the 16th,17th,18th,19th,20th,21st..
And no manna on the 22nd day of His 2nd month.

Because it was, and is His Sabbath.
Six days shall you labor.
The 7th Day is the Sabbath.

Not work 2 days, then a new moon, then another 3 work days.

That’s Babylonian Talmudic Roman Beast hogwash..

[Philsworld]

Again, Gate open 1 day of those 7 (the Sabbath) AND ALSO on the day of the new moon, whichever day of the 7 day creation week that falls on.

7 day creation week at creation, and the same today.

Weeks, months, years.

[Philsworld]

Day 1-6 work (call them S, M, T, W, T, F if you want). Gate closed.

Day 7 is the 7th-day-Sabbath. No work. Gate open

Whatever day of the 7 day week the new moon falls on, could be the 7th-day-Sabbath, Gate open.

[delchiante]

Again, the Scriptures say one should work 6 days, and the 7th Day

New moon day equates to the new month beginning..

Whatever Babylonian day it lands on, the first Sabbath of that month will be exactly on the 8th day, which will mean it the New Moon lands on a false God Tiwsday, then His 7th Day Sabbath’s will land on false God Tiwsdays for the next 4 weeks.

The New Moon will never be found with your Pope’s calendar.

Neither will His 6 work days or His 7th Day Sabbath’s..

Thankfully we have the Word Made Flesh to teach us how to tell time.

Friday,Saturday,Sunday is a false first importance of the gospel, leading to a false Christ.

Hardest hit?

False goddess frigg day keepers
False God saturn day keepers
False God sun day keepers

[Philsworld]

The new moon landed on one of seven days of the week. It’s always been a seven day week since creation. Always has, always will.

[delchiante]

Passover,Unleavened Bread,First Fruits
6th Day, Sabbath,1st Day
14th,15th,16th..

Something that comes to pass every month that isn’t ordained by your Pope Gregory calendar..

The Pope and Beast sell another 3 days and another Jesus than Paul and the scriptures.

Buy the Truth.
Or not.

You’ve got a lot riding on the Pope.

Good luck with that..

[Fuzz]

Actually that’s not true.

It hasn’t changed much since humans first started to keep track, but it was not always so.

[Philsworld]

——>It hasn’t changed much since humans first started to keep track, but it was not always so.

Yes it has. The seven day week and 30 day month cycles were established at creation. I would invite you to read the account of the flood in Gen 7 and 8. That’s about 1500 years after the flood. Note the specific timeframes mentioned. There has been no change from creation to now.

[Fuzz]

Okies.

I’m referring to a longer timeframe. The billions of years the planet existed before humans evolved and started to track such things.