I just came back from a much needed beach vacation and am ready to continue our search through GOD’S Word.
What has GOD told us so we can seriously take HIM at HIS Word? We will continue our review and study of HIS commandments and judgments on disobedience. We started with what it truly means to love GOD.
Now we will be on go on to obeying the other 9 of HIS 10 Commandments. These were written on stone and given to Moses as the formation of the nation of Israel was in its infancy.
Two of these ten commandments comprise the vast majority of the disobedience GOD hates. We will now study obeying HIS Sabbath.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Many teachers contend that the Sabbath was only given to the nation of Israel and therefore, does not pertain to the ‘church’. However, we know that GOD set aside, consecrated, dedicated, and declared the seventh day as holy to HIM. The entire world still today works according to GOD’S seven day week.
Some cultures still refer to ‘Saturday’ as the Sabbath, even though they do not consider it holy. Remember GOD numbered HIS week, but Satan gave each of the days names according to the false gods he introduced to the world.
Exodus 20:8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 20:9 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 20:11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
This is the longest commandment in the Bible. It is also the one commandment that the ‘church’ has declared as no longer valid or required to obey. Where did they get the authority to render GOD’S word invalid? What right do they have to do this? Remember how Daniel warned us of the ‘little horn’ who would change times and and laws. What laws would change? Who is this ‘little horn’?
Daniel 7:24 'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.
7:25 'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
Who actually changed the Sabbath and when?
Did the early church worship and rest on the Sabbath?
Did Paul?
What did Jesus do on the Sabbath?
We will carefully study those questions next time.