What do the scriptures say about Sabbath and Sunday in the Bible?

What do the scriptures say about Sabbath and Sunday in the Bible?


Did the Creator bless the Sabbath? Yes! Genesis 2:3. Did He bless Sunday? No!

Did He hallow the Sabbath? Yes! Exodus 20:11. Did He allow Sunday? No!

Did He command the keeping of Sabbath? Yes! Exodus 20:8-11. Did He command the keeping of Sunday? No!

Did He rest on the Sabbath? Yes! Exodus 20:11. Did He rest on Sunday? No!

Did He call the Sabbath His Holy Day? Yes! Isaiah 58:13. Did He call Sunday His Holy Day? No!

Does He offer great reward to you for keeping holy the Sabbath? Yes! Isaiah 58:13-14. Does He offer great reward for keeping holy Sunday? No!

Will the Sabbath be kept in the New Earth? Yes! Isaiah 66:23. Will Sunday be kept in the New Earth? No!

Should the saints pray about the Sabbath? Yes! Matthew 24:20. Should the saints pray about Sunday? No!

Did holy women keep the Sabbath according to the Commandments? Yes! Luke 23:56. Did holy women keep Sunday according to any Commandment? No!

Was it the Saviour's custom to keep the Sabbath? Yes! Luke 4:16. Was it the Saviour's custom to keep Sunday? No!

Was it Paul's “manner” to worship on Sabbath? Yes! Acts 17:2. Was it Paul's “manner” to worship on Sunday? No!

Were people punished by God for Sabbath breaking? Yes! Jeremiah 17:27. Were people punished by God for Sunday breaking? No!

Will some little horn power think to change Divine time? Yes! Daniel 7:25. Will the Almighty ever change? No! Malachi 3:6.

Are those who keep the Commandments of the Almighty blessed? Yes! Revelation 22:14. Are those who keep the traditions of men blessed? No! Matthew 15:3.

Do scriptures say that the Law would NOT be abolished or changed by Messiah? Yes! Matthew 5:17-18. Do they say that Messiah would abolish or change His laws? No!

Are there six working days? Yes! Ezekiel 46:1. Is the Sabbath one of these working days? No! Exodus 20:8-11.

Did Paul make tents on the six working days? Yes! Acts 18:3. Did Paul make tents on the Sabbath? No! Acts 18:4.

Is the Sabbath a sign of our sanctification? Yes! Ezekiel 20:12. Is Sunday a sign of our sanctification? No!

Does scripture say that the Saviour is the Ruler, Master and Owner of the Sabbath? Yes! Mark 2:28. Do they say that the Saviour is the Ruler or Master or Sunday? No!

Is teaching for doctrines the commandments of men vain worship? Yes! Matthew 15:9. Is teaching for doctrines the Commandments of the Almighty vain worship? No! Matthew 19:17.

Are we not under the Law, but under Grace? Yes! Romans 6:14. Does Grace allow us to transgress the Law? No! Romans 6:15, 3:20.

Does Faith establish the Law? Yes! Romans 3:31. Does Faith annul the Law? No!

Did Jesus say that we should teach others to observe the Law? Yes! Matthew 5:19. Did He say that we should teach others to break the Law? No!

Saturday is still named 'Sabbath' in the Greek language (Sabato) as well as in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and in over 100 languages of the world. In Italy it is called Sabbato, in Spain Sabado, in Portugal Sabbado, in Russia Subbota and Poland Sobota. All of these names mean “Sabbath” or “rest day” in their various languages. This proves that when these languages originated at Babel in Genesis 11, Saturday was recognized as the Sabbath day and was incorporated into the very name of the day. Except for languages that have adopted the pagan names for the days of the week, the Seventh day is still called the Sabbath as the Lord named it at creation.

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While i know and understand that saturday is indeed the sabbath i have a question about these scriptures:
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Collosians 2:16 - 17

16 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:

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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Also these in Collosians 2:

8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

14Blotting 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;

15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

16Let 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:

17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

21(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

22Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Sister Wiltz,

I'm glad you asked those questions. I waited a couple of days for YHWH to give me the correct answer for you. This afternoon I believe He has given me these words for you.

We find in the book of Romans:

Romans 3:

1 "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."

So, I'm sure you know that the Bible was given by God/YHWH, and written down for his the Hebrew people, in Hebrew.

The relationship YHWH had with Israel and Judah was via the "First Covenant", which He made with them jointly on Mt Sinai.

The terms of the covenant are the same as our "contracts" today.

That First Covenant was made up of the "10 Commandments" and other laws which YHWH gave His people to teach them how to love Him and to love their fellow man.

Jeremiah tells us that there will be a "New Covenant" with the same recipients as with the "First Covenant". It will also be with the "House of Israel" and the "House of Judah." Note nowhere anywhere in the Bible does YHWH indicate that He will make a "New Covenant" with the Gentiles.

The Gentiles come into covenant with YHWH through His Son, by being "grafted in" to either of the Houses of Israel of Judah.

The terms of the covenant are that His people will "Keep His Commandments", which they agreed to do but failed miserably as we are told in the book of Hebrews. He found "fault with 'them'", not "it" as some try to allege there was a problem with the covenant.

The covenant if you will refer to Jer. 31:33, is made up of the "TORAH"
# H8451 written in the hearts of the Believers.

Now in Heb. 8, Jer. 31, is repeated, that a covenant will be made with Israel and Judah. Still no indication that a covenant will be made with the Gentiles. The same laws, that composed the "First Covenant", will compose the "New Covenant" the difference primarily being is that the covenant will no longer be on stone, but in the hearts of the Believers, and that the sacrifice for sin has been accomplished.

So knowing the basis of the covenant, we have an outline to work from, to interpret other Biblical texts regarding what are requirements are toward our Creator today.

Messiah did not die to do away with the "Law" since that is what is to be written in the hearts of the believers. He said that he did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill. Gentiles don't understand what that means as it is a Hebrew idiom.

If you would also refer to Is. 2 & Micah 4, where we read that the "Law/Torah H8451" will go out from Zion, during the kingdom of YHWH on earth. This is the SAME law of the First Covenant.

We read in Revelation that the saints "keep the commandments of YHWH" twice in Revelation and in
Rev. 22:14 - that those who "Keep His commandments" have a right to the tree of life, and to enter the gates of the city.

Throughout the NT the writers uphold, "keeping the commandments" which you will find if you do a search on "commandments". Paul in 1 Cor. 7 even states, "keeping the commandments (is what counts.)

There also as you know are several texts which appear to undermine keeping the commandments of YHWH, but we know that YHWH does not contradict Himself, and the terms of the New Covenant are plain, so we must see if an alternate translation of any questionable texts are possible.

So let me give you this scenario, regarding a modern day contract:

Let's say I had bought some land and was making payments on it, but something came up, and I had to quickly and permanently move out of town. You are my friend and I want to let you have the land. So come to your house, tell you where the land and verbally I give it to you and say it's yours, just make the payments on it, and you can even begin building a house on it, then without any further details I leave and drive away, and you have no way of getting in touch with me.

Now your connundrum is that you have the land, that is legally under contract to the land owner, you don't know who it is so that you can pay, you don't know how much the payments are, and you don't know what the building restrictions are to even begin to build.

Without the ORIGINAL TERMS of the CONTRACT your hands are tied, you are in the dark, you don't have a clue as to what to do. You would have to contact me to get the needed information so that you could keep the terms of the covenant.

That is the just of the problem with the Christian interpretation of the
"New Covenant". They have not done as Rom. 3 indicates, to inquire of Israel, to find out the terms of the
"First Covenant" and the "New Covenant".

The First Covenant was not made with Gentiles nor will be the second covenant, and Christians don't understand the terms of the covenants. Christians have literally taken a "shopping cart" and decided which of YHWH's commandments they wanted to keep, and addeded things that YHWH said not to add. They added non-Biblical celebrations w/pagan roots - Christmas and Easter, but rejected other commandments of YHWH. This they aught not to have done, but they never consulted the original contract holder....

The Sabbath is an integral part of both covenants. We see our Messiah keeping it, His Apostles kept it, and YHWH calls it 'His Holy Day" in Is. 58:13 (therefore it is not a Jewish Day, or a "Jewish Sabbath" terms which you never find in the Bible), and the Sabbath has been kept since Messiah's day throughout the centuries, and the Sabbath will be kept in the kingdom reign according to Is. 66:23. Never did our Messiah or His disciples break the Sabbath and substitute another day for it. As a matter of fact, ALL DENOMINATIONS, admit that they are keeping Sunday, as a relic of the Roman Catholic church from which they all came, and not from any command to keep Sunday as a day of corporate worship, as it is never designated such in the Bible.

Therefore, by laying that foundation, how can a few questionable texts undermine a foundations commandment in the Covenants of YHWH?

The texts that you presented I will cover in my next post.
Well the scriptures is given under the inspiration of god so it stands to say just what it says. I repeat

Collosians 2:16 - 17

16 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:

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The old covenant was a shadow of things to come. There is a new covenant and it did include the gentiles.

Jesus Christ fulfilled the old covenant. Once something is fulfilled its finished.

Now like I said saturdays is the sabbath but we can worship on anyday now because Jesus Christ is Lord of the sabbath.

Collosians 2:16 was written for a reason and it is my understanding that the epistles were written to the saints to set things in order. So it looks like they were trying to make people obey the sabbath for this correction to come forth.
Greetings In the Mighty Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
May the Peace and Blessing of the Father shower you and the Spirit continue to illuminate your path.

I read through the discussion, and decided to chime in. After researching this topic extensively, I want to first draw our attention to Genesis 1:1-31-2:1-3. Firstly, Let us understand that NO TIME EXISTED during the Creation(6 days). For Almighty God isn't governed by TIME nor SPACE. The days of the week are an innovation of Man to coincide with the signs of heaven(Genesis 1:14), in other words the days of the week were instituted to align MAN'S Time with the PROPHETIC TIMETABLE. What governs and constitutes a day of MAN is the rotational spin of the earth on it's axis. We see ANOTHER KIND OF DAY IN VERSE 5 of Genesis 1, before the creation of the Sun or Moon. So what constitutes a DAY or NIGHT for MAN wasn't the gauge that Almighty God was using to gauge a DAY of Creation.
In fact the word Day as used in Genesis 1:5 is "yom" and it literally means AGE. This same word is used again in Genesis Chapter 2:2 for the 7th day. At this time, because Adam was created to LIVE FOREVER, how could he be governed by time either? He was governed by God's time, Eternity.
After sin, man could die physically, which in turn produced time, and the PROPHETIC REASONING BEHIND THE 4th DAY CREATION was officially in effect, Man would be governed by DIMENSIONAL TIME, the rotation and the orbit of the Earth.
There were no days of the week, when God blessed the Sabbath, so we can't be dogmatic concerning the Sabbath Day, as far where it is on MAN'S CALENDAR.
The Judaic community indeed created a calendar, but it is LUNAR/Solar, not like our present day calendar.
The Jewish calendar - including the Hebrew months and the Jewish calendrical system of calculating dates - traces its origins to the Babylonian calendar. Regarding Jewish calendar month names, with some rare exceptions, the Hebrew Bible does not mention any months by name; instead it mentions the month by number which is the reason for the "Month Number" column. The months of Cheshvan and Kislev are determined by calculations that depend on which day of the week that the first day of the month of Tishri (or Tishrei) would occur in the following year and on what time of day when the full moon would occur in the month of Tishri in the following year.
The Hebrews needed an understanding of astronomy in order to fix the dates of the festivals. The biblical commandment in the Hebrew Bible to "Keep the month of Aviv" or "Keep the month of Abib" (Devarim or Deuteronomy 16:1) made it necessary to know the position of the sun. In addition, the biblical commandment to "Also observe the moon and sanctify it" (Shemot or Exodus 12:1-2), also made it necessary to know the phases of the moon, hence the need for a lunisolar calendar.
Before the establishment of a Jewish calendar, the identification and designation of Rosh Hodesh ("new moon" in Hebrew) for a given month was critical in fixing the dates for Jewish festivals for that month. The Jewish high court in Judea, known as the Sanhedrin, based in Jerusalem during Temple times, retained its centralized and exclusive authority for fixing the date of Rosh Hodesh as well as for adding an extra month when it deemed necessary, based on the condition of crops at the end of the 12th month. The Sanhedrin based its authority on the fact that if it didn't have the exclusive authority to fix new moon dates, then different Jewish communities would potentially celebrate festivals on different days.
The Jewish day in the Jewish calendar begins at sundown and ends at nightfall on the following day. By extension, the Jewish Sabbath begins at sunset on Friday and ends with the appearance of three stars of the second magnitude on Saturday evening, which is estimated to occur when the sun is seven degrees below the horizon. This rule of seeing three stars also applies to all holy days, and the Talmud bases its support of this rule on the biblical Creation story where at the end of each day, the Hebrew Bible states: "And it was evening and it was morning", in that order (Examples are: Bereshit or Genesis 1:5, 1:8, and 1:13). An exception to this rule is found in rabbinic law, where it states that one can usher in the holy day before the onset of sundown since one can always "add from the secular to the holy" (the secular in this case being a non-holy day).
All of this is to point out that we are not Judaic, neither is the Old covenant that they observe applicable to us. The Grace of God gave Christ the authority to make this statement: That the Sabbath was made for Man, meaning we are not slaves to a day, or a month, or cycle, we have liberty in Christ to MAKE OUR LIFE A SABBATH. Worship is a Way of Life, a Culture, a Mentality and personality, it's EVERYDAY. Nowhere in the Word of God does it give a DAY as to when the Sabbath was, it said God rested on the 7th Day, not God rested on Saturday or Sunday. Jesus said where two or three are gathered IN HIS NAME, He will be there in the midst, it doesn't matter what day it is...I humbly submit my view and research.
In His Grip,
Minister John L. Hairston

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