Well understood and observed, The Sabbath [1] of the seventh day (Saturday) is a precious gift from God. Millions of Christians in my denominational community experience it. In creation, “Did God bless the seventh day and sanctify him?(Genesis 2. 3), the commandment of the Sabbath resounds: “The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it” (Exodus 20:11).
The Sabbath is also the sign chosen by God for creation and redemption: “That ye may know that I am the Lord, that I sanctify you?(Exodus 31. 13); thus, understood and correctly observed, Saturday remains a perpetual antidote to both the theory of naturalistic evolution and legalism. Finally, the Sabbath is the day god has designated for rest and worship, the Sabbath of solemn rest, the holy convocation?(Leviticus 23. 3). The scriptures never attribute any of these sacred statements, and give no meaning, to any other day of the week other than the Sabbath of the seventh day.
- The New Testament confirms the Ten Commandments.
- Including the Sabbath of the Seventh Day.
- As God’s will for his people.
- References and allusions to the Ten Commandments abound in Jesus’ ministry and in the rest of the New Testament (for example.
- Matthew 5.
- 17-19; Mark 2.
- 27-28; 7.
- 9-13; 10.
- 17-22; Luke 23.
- 56; Romans 2.
- 21-22; 7.
- 7; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11; Ephesians 6.
- 1-3; Hebrews 4.
- 4; James 2.
- 10-12).
- The custom? That Jesus and the Apostles would observe the Sabbath in the way that would be expected of those who believed in their universality and permanence (Luke 4:16; Acts 17.
- 2) Jesus fulfilled the law by giving deeper meaning to the commandments.
- Without destroying their original application (Matthew 5:17-20; 11.
- 28-12.
- 8).
- The book of Revelation is imbued with direct and indirect allusions to at least seven of the Ten Commandments.
- Including the commandment of the Sabbath.
- Lord? (Revelation 1.
- 10).
Saturday is the designation of scripture for the Sabbath of the seventh day:?The Sabbath of the Lord your God? (Exodus 20. 10); my Saturdays?(Leviticus 19. 3); Is my holy day the Holy Day of the Lord?(Isaiah 58. 13); the day Jesus said to himself?Sir? (Luke 6. 5). If God had given these designations on Sunday or any other day, this would not be cited as evidence of his holiness and his exclusive claim to be the “day of the Lord”. The allusion, in Revelation 11:19, to the deliverance of the Ten Commandments in Sinai suggests that subsequent references to the “commandments of God,” to which God’s people on the last day obey with love for faith in Jesus, include the Ten Commandments (12. 17; 14. 12). The eschatological call to worship – the one who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and the sources of water?(14. 7) borrows the language directly from the commandment of the Sabbath. I find the biblical evidence clear and convincing that the Ten Commandments, including the Sabbath on the seventh day, are permanent and universal.
The New Testament never changes the commandment of the Sabbath. The eight references to the first day? In the Gospels, they refer exclusively to the same day jesus was resurrected and appeared to believers to assure them that he was alive, or the following Sunday, when he seemed to convince the doubtful Thomas. Interpreters who advocate Sunday holiness, based on the reference to Acts 20. 7, when they break bread on the first day, should ignore that the first believers “broke bread?”daily (2. 46; 27. 35). Renowned scholars of various Protestant traditions (references are quoted in my essay in Saturday Perspectives: Four Views):
The Judaists would certainly have resisted any attempt to change the Sabbath of the decalogue more intensely than they fought against the revelation of the Holy Ghost that circumcision, which was not an ordinance of creation or one of the Ten Commandments, had no meaning. New Testament (Acts 15). But there is no sign of such controversy about the Sabbath in Acts or the rest of the New Testament. Quite the opposite: circumcision is nothing in itself; Incirction is nothing either, but what is worth keeping God’s ordinances?(1 Corinthians 7. 19).
Dispensationists argue that the Sabbath was reserved exclusively for Israel and was approved by the old covenant; if so, the same would be true of the other nine commandments of the Decalogue, but, though in fact God chose the Sabbath as a sign of the covenant between him and him?People of Israel? (Exodus 31. 17), did he also establish the new covenant exclusively with “the house of Israel”, the spiritual descendants of Abraham, all who are of faith?(Hebrews 8: 8, 10; Galatians 3, 3, 29; see Isaiah 56). Since the new covenant and the Sabbath, the sign of God’s covenant, were given to Israel, if the Sabbath applied exclusively to Israel, so would the new covenant. However, like the new alliance specifically signed with the “House of Israel” does it apply to all who are of faith?(Galatians 3. 7), also on the Sabbath, the sign of God between him and Israel, in the same way, applies, universally and permanently, to all who “are of faith”.
Hebrews 4. 9 explicitly states: “Therefore, there is rest [in Greek, Sabbaths] for God’s people. “Do you denote Sabbath observance or celebration?(A. T. Lincoln, From Sabbath to the Lord’s Day, p. 213 [N. T. : Published in Portuguese by Editora Cultura Cristo under the title Do Shabbath for the Lord’s Day]). Never in the scriptures does the word Sabbaths or its like-like verb Sabbath – refer to Sunday or a nebula spiritual experience. What do God’s people have left?in Hebrews 4. 9, it is the Sabbath instituted in creation, as only four verses were explicitly said before (Hebrews 4. 4, quoting Genesis 2. 2): “And God rested on the seventh day of all the works he had done. “.
In fact, Ephesians 5 and Hebrews 4 treat marriage and the Sabbath of the seventh day in the same way, the two ordinances of creation, in:
The Sabbath of the seventh day is inextricably linked to Jesus. Jesus, the architect of creation (John 1:1-3), rested on the seventh day to celebrate his finished work (Genesis 2. 2) and, as the author and permanence of the faith?(Hebrews 12. 2), rested in the tomb on the Sabbath between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, in the consumption of his mortal ministry of redemption (Luke 23. 52-24. 2). Like the Spiritual Rock that accompanied Israel on his travels (1 Corinthians 10. 4), Jesus announced the Ten Commandments to his people (Deuteronomy 4:12-13), carved them into the stone with his finger (Exodus 31. 18) and wrote them in the heart of his people through his Spirit, fulfilling the promise of his new covenant (Deuteronomy 30. 6, 11-14; Psalm 40. 8).
So could Jesus correctly claim that he is the only legitimate Lord, even on the Sabbath?(Mark 2. 28, NVI). On the same occasion, he declared, “Was The Sabbath established [in Greek, egeneto] because of the man [anthropos]?(Mark 2. 27). Egenetus (literally,” did it ever exist?”) It happens twenty times in the history of creation. in Genesis 1 and three times in John 1. 3, who reveals Jesus as the only one for whom all things were?Anthropos is the generic Greek term for humanity. Thus, Jesus affirmed the creative origin and universality of the Sabbath of which he is Lord.
Just as Jesus is the center of our sabbath worship today, so will the new country. In “New Heavens and [in] a New Land [?] From one new moon to another [it would be better to translate” From month to month”; for academic references, see Perspectives on saturday: four views] and from One Saturday to another, will all mankind come to prostrate before me, said the Lord?(Isaiah 66:22-23, emphasis added). a? New heavens and new earth?Isaiah 65-66 echoes Genesis 1-2, visualizing God’s restoration of the earth to edenic conditions. In Eden and the New Land:
So the observance of the Sabbath of the seventh day remains [?] For God’s people?(Hebrews 4. 9), universally and permanently, as the sign of the covenant and God with his church, proving that he is our Creator, our true rest and our Redeemer?so that you know that I am the Lord, that I sanctify you?(Exodus 31,13). I invite you to experience the Sabbath of the seventh day for yourself and see if the variety of meanings that God attributes to you, as well as the blessings of communion with God that he offers in your observance, will not enrich your life or deepen your journey. Jesus, your Creator, Redeemer and Lord.
[1] NE: Salu is the Portuguese transliteration of the Hebrew term. Some texts use Saturday or Saturday. We chose Saturday because it is a Portuguese term and different from the day of the week. However, it should not be confused with Queen. Sabá of 1 Kings 10: 4.
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This article is part of the series “Sabbath: The Tireless Debate”, in which articles will be published defending different positions so that our reader has a more complete understanding of the topic, so the publication of a specific position does not indicate the official position of that department See the list of articles on the subject:
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