בושאהמשהוהי
Baruch Hashem Adonai
בושאהמשהוהי
The Sabbath
In the
beginning God (
)
created the heaven and the earth,... on the seventh
day God rested from all his work which God created and
made. Genesis
2:2-3. The
SABBATH's sanctity is grounded in the rest that was taken by the living God. The
SABBATH is first a day of rest, and a day to make God our primary focus.
What do the
scriptures say about 's day?
(Picture: Red Sea crossing
point)
As
Israel travelled ; prior to their arrival
at Sinai (and receiving the law on tablets of stone); we read in Exodus 16:2
" hath said , tomorrow is the rest of the holy SABBATH unto
.
In verse 28 And
said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments
and my laws? \s
commandments had been violated and refused for many generations, not just for a
few days prior ,or he would not have been able to make this
statement.
God had called his (peculiar) people apart, (For
thou art an holy people unto
thy God, and hath chosen thee to
be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the
earth.Deuturonomy14:2) and
now back to their land; and the first priority of all the commandments was the
keeping of the SABBATH. Again in Exodus 16:29
"See, for that hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the
sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day".
This happened before the Commandments were issued at Sinai. Some may think that
any day will satisfy God, but left no doubt about the day he wanted
observed, he told and showed Israel exactly which day was the Sabbath. For 40
years (over 2000 weeks) a double portion of manna fell on the sixth day, and no
manna fell on the Sabbath, until Israel entered the promised land (Exodus 16:35,
Joshua 5:12).
thy God :"
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore blessed
the sabbath 
Exodus 31:12
And spake unto Moses, saying,
[13] Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye
shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;
that ye may know that I am that doth sanctify you.
[14] Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
[15] Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy
to : whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put
to death.
[16] Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
[17] It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six
days made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.
[18] And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him
upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with
the finger of God."
"Moreover
also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might
know that I am that sanctify them."Ezekiel
20:12
" And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that
ye may know that I am your God." Ezekiel
20:20
Scripture never once tells of
God erasing or retracting his commandments.
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