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Sabbath was for Jews.

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

Yahuwah 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.

Yahuwah honored 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, Yahuwah 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 ekklesia by circumcision.  

The reason why we use Ekklesia and not church when referring to Yahuwah's faithful in WLC content is because the word "church" does not accurately convey the meaning of the original Greek, "Ekklesia." Throughout the New Testament, Ekklesia refers to the Called Out Ones. The word "church," which emphasizes a group, is therefore an erroneous translation and should never have been used. Christians are literally the Called Out Ones. The true followers of Yahushua are indeed the Called Out Ones from the organized denominations and religions of fallen Babylon. When the call to flee Babylon has been heard, none are to again return to Babylonian churches and forms of religion.

Yahuwah created Man; man therefore owes everything to Yahuwah; hence it was the benevolence of the Creator that gave to man six days for his wants. And in setting apart the seventh day, Yahuwah 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 Yahuwah. To observe this day is to render to Yahuwah the things that are his; to appropriate it to ourselves is imply to rob Yahuwah.