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Sabbath day is the first holiday on earth. And God the creator of all creations declared the Sabbath day to be free from work. The observance of Sabbath day had become a controversial issue across the world.
I became interested in the significance of Sabbath day when the doctor told me that my terrible body weakness was as a result of inadequate rest. The little findings I did showed that the people who rest on the Sabbath day had less occurrence of body ailment when compared to people that don’t rest.
What Day is the Sabbath?
God created seven days, and He made the seventh day for a special purpose to rest. Sabbath day means the day you rest from labor. Genesis chapter 2 verses 1 to 3 says: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”
If you study the history of creation, then you will agree with me that work had been a similar action for the first six days. But the seventh day is a unique Sabbath day.
It’s all about rest!!
The LORD expected us to follow His model on how to spend the seven days. We should work for six days and rest on the seventh day.
I had read about a lot of argument about the issue of Sabbath day. But no one had disputed the seventh day to be Saturday.
Some theologians complicated the Sabbath day by differentiating Saturday as the Jewish Sabbath and Sunday as Christian Sabbath. There is no scriptural reference to support this discrimination. The LORD ordained the seventh day as Sabbath from the beginning of the world.
Is Sabbath Day a Jewish Law?
Sabbath day had never been a Jewish law. It was only emphasized during the presentation of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites. The motive of God for creating the seventh day is for us to rest from all our six working days.
God reminded the Israelites in Exodus chapter 20 verses 8 to 11: “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, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or 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.”
The phrase “Remember the Sabbath day…” in the above Bible passage shows that the Sabbath day had been in existence since the beginning of creation.
God chose to write the Sabbath in the Ten Commandments, so that the Israelites could always remember to enjoy the rest. He made it clear in the book of Isaiah that Sabbath should be acknowledged by the Gentiles as well.
Isaiah chapter 56 verse 6 and 7 says: “Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants-Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant- Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer…”
Thus, your rest on the Sabbath day has nothing to do with the Jewish law. The LORD blessed the Sabbath day for you to rest. He wants you to rest “… Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work”… (Genesis 2:3)
Don’t be deceived by those who want you to work for seven days. It is against the six days stipulated by God in the beginning of the creation.
Jesus had never asked us to quit rest on the seventh day, when He said that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. The context of His statement was meant to correct the selfish Pharisees who
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Sabbath day is the first holiday on earth. And God the creator of all creations declared the Sabbath day to be free from work. The observance of Sabbath day had become a controversial issue across the world.
I became interested in the significance of Sabbath day when the doctor told me that my terrible body weakness was as a result of inadequate rest. The little findings I did showed that the people who rest on the Sabbath day had less occurrence of body ailment when compared to people that don’t rest.
What Day is the Sabbath?
God created seven days, and He made the seventh day for a special purpose to rest. Sabbath day means the day you rest from labor. Genesis chapter 2 verses 1 to 3 says: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”
If you study the history of creation, then you will agree with me that work had been a similar action for the first six days. But the seventh day is a unique Sabbath day.
It’s all about rest!!
The LORD expected us to follow His model on how to spend the seven days. We should work for six days and rest on the seventh day.
I had read about a lot of argument about the issue of Sabbath day. But no one had disputed the seventh day to be Saturday.
Some theologians complicated the Sabbath day by differentiating Saturday as the Jewish Sabbath and Sunday as Christian Sabbath. There is no scriptural reference to support this discrimination. The LORD ordained the seventh day as Sabbath from the beginning of the world.
Is Sabbath Day a Jewish Law?
Sabbath day had never been a Jewish law. It was only emphasized during the presentation of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites. The motive of God for creating the seventh day is for us to rest from all our six working days.
God reminded the Israelites in Exodus chapter 20 verses 8 to 11: “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, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or 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.”
The phrase “Remember the Sabbath day…” in the above Bible passage shows that the Sabbath day had been in existence since the beginning of creation.
God chose to write the Sabbath in the Ten Commandments, so that the Israelites could always remember to enjoy the rest. He made it clear in the book of Isaiah that Sabbath should be acknowledged by the Gentiles as well.
Isaiah chapter 56 verse 6 and 7 says: “Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants-Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant- Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer…”
Thus, your rest on the Sabbath day has nothing to do with the Jewish law. The LORD blessed the Sabbath day for you to rest. He wants you to rest “… Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work”… (Genesis 2:3)
Don’t be deceived by those who want you to work for seven days. It is against the six days stipulated by God in the beginning of the creation.
Jesus had never asked us to quit rest on the seventh day, when He said that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. The context of His statement was meant to correct the selfish Pharisees who