Sabbath was for Jews

In Genesis 2:2, “God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” There was no Jew at this point. The Jews came 2500 years later. 

God could have accomplished creation with one word but he chose to employ six days to give us the Sabbath.

“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27. The following grammatical rule is worthy of notice: a noun without an adjective is invariably taken in its broadest extension. Man is used without restriction; hence all mankind is included here.

It is customary to speak against the Sabbath and the law as being Jewish, because they were given to Israel. The Hebrews were honored by being thus entrusted with the Sabbath and the law, not the Sabbath and the law and the Creator rendered Jewish by this connection. Neither the Sabbath, nor the law, nor the great Lawgiver, by their connection with the Hebrews, became Jewish.

God honor the Sabbath by writing the commandments with His own hand twice; more so the Sabbath stands in advance of the other nine commandments because it is established by the EXAMPLE of the Lawgiver Himself. For after 6 working days of Creation, God rested on the Sabbath. Likewise we will keep the Sabbath in heaven. (Isaiah 66:23, 24).

The fourth commandment itself proves that the Sabbath was made for all mankind, and for those creatures that share the labors of man. The stranger and the foreigner also must keep it. But the same persons could not partake of the Passover until they were made members of the Hebrew church by circumcision. 

God created Man; man therefore owns everything to God; hence it was the benevolence of the Creator that gave to man six days for his wants. And in setting apart the seventh day, God was reserving unto himself one of the seven days, when he could rightly claim all as his. 

The fourth commandment therefore does not require man to give something of his own to God. To observe this day is to render to God the things that are his; to appropriate it to ourselves is imply to rob God.

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sabbath
written by petra ojinnaka, December 30, 2009

what day of the week is sabbath?

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The true Sabbath is Jesus, not the day anymore.
written by hermic jones diao, June 08, 2009

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS; Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the SABBATH days: Which are a SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; but the body is of Christ" (Col. 2:14, 16-17). Before, it is a must to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. But by this Scripture passages, it says that the Sabbath day is a shadow of things to come. It was already nailed on the cross because the true Sabbath has finally come, and that's the Lord Jesus. He is the Lord of the Sabbath and he will be the one who will give us rest. Jeus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:2. We'll fully experienced the Sabbath or rest in the future kingdom of God (Hebrews 4, in which we desire to enter His rest). When we're going to look on the Lord Jesus, it seems like in this life, we're going to have a rest (Sabbath) everyday. Remember, "for ye are not under the law, but under grace" (Romans 6:14). The law is not to be abolished even upon these days, but we can't perfect it. That would just reveal that we are sinners and needs a Savior. And that's the Lord Jesus, the one who was just able to perfect the law. We're going to look on the one who perfected the law, and in Him, we'll be made like Him and be perfect in the future kingdom of God. Did you get the idea?

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