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After 6 days of creation, God has rested in the 7th day, and established the rest in that day for humans, as monument of creation. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.(Genesis 2:2,3)
God have rested in Sabbath, not because He needed to rest. It is not inherent to God to overstrain and to be exhausted. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.(Isaiah 40:28)
The verb to rest, means to stop the matters for some time. God has acted like this because He wanted to give the humans an opportunity to have rest. God has blessed the Sabbath and that day became a day of Gods goodwill and the source of blessings.
When God blessed the Sabbath, He made it Holy, and separated, for the humans could enrich through the contact with God.
Besides the fact that God has made the 7th day as a special day from the creation, He also putted it in command in the Ten Commandments, which had given in the Sinai Mountain. That command is the forth in the Ten Commandments and it sounds: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.(Exodus 20:8-11)
All of the Ten Commandments are obligated and we cant disregard even the one of them. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.(James 2:10)
But God, had foreseen the will of the satan to distort the commandment about the Sabbath, so He had warned the humans not to forget its importance.
Keeping the Sabbath as the monument of the creation makes it an antidote for idolatry. That day reminds us that only the real God had created the sky and the earth, contradicting Him to the false gods.
God has called the Sabbath: Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.(Ezekiel 20:12)
Jesus Christ, when He made His service on the earth, gave us an example of keeping the Sabbath. By His life He has shown us how the Lord wants from us to keep that command. In Luke we can see: He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom (Luke 4:16)
His participation in Sabbaths divine service proved that He had counted the Sabbath a day of special worship.
His disciples have also related to the Sabbath as the day with a special respect. Even when Jesus died, they had stopped all the preparation in the burial of the body, and remained in peace until the first day of the week. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.(Luke 23:56), On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. (Luke 24:1)
Undoubtedly, the Sabbath had played the most important role in worshiping God as a Creator and the Redeemer, and thats why that command became the first target of the satan. With his will to humiliate God as a creator, he started very good planned war against God and his followers, to destroy that holy statement.
His plan was not in destroying Gods commands, but he decided to tricky distort that commands, so that hell redirect the humans to violate at least one of the divine commands. Which in the end will become his base of accusing the humans in inappropriate observance of the laws of God.
Nowhere in the bible we can see, that the command of keeping the 7th day as a worship day to the Lord, has changed. That command was given in the paradise, and continued in the Sinai Mountain, and continues to remain even in our days. The holy bible insists on the holy keeping of the seventh day.
In your opinion, what is the real worship day, the sabbath or the sunday?
God have rested in Sabbath, not because He needed to rest. It is not inherent to God to overstrain and to be exhausted. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.(Isaiah 40:28)
The verb to rest, means to stop the matters for some time. God has acted like this because He wanted to give the humans an opportunity to have rest. God has blessed the Sabbath and that day became a day of Gods goodwill and the source of blessings.
When God blessed the Sabbath, He made it Holy, and separated, for the humans could enrich through the contact with God.
Besides the fact that God has made the 7th day as a special day from the creation, He also putted it in command in the Ten Commandments, which had given in the Sinai Mountain. That command is the forth in the Ten Commandments and it sounds: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.(Exodus 20:8-11)
All of the Ten Commandments are obligated and we cant disregard even the one of them. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.(James 2:10)
But God, had foreseen the will of the satan to distort the commandment about the Sabbath, so He had warned the humans not to forget its importance.
Keeping the Sabbath as the monument of the creation makes it an antidote for idolatry. That day reminds us that only the real God had created the sky and the earth, contradicting Him to the false gods.
God has called the Sabbath: Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.(Ezekiel 20:12)
Jesus Christ, when He made His service on the earth, gave us an example of keeping the Sabbath. By His life He has shown us how the Lord wants from us to keep that command. In Luke we can see: He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom (Luke 4:16)
His participation in Sabbaths divine service proved that He had counted the Sabbath a day of special worship.
His disciples have also related to the Sabbath as the day with a special respect. Even when Jesus died, they had stopped all the preparation in the burial of the body, and remained in peace until the first day of the week. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.(Luke 23:56), On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. (Luke 24:1)
Undoubtedly, the Sabbath had played the most important role in worshiping God as a Creator and the Redeemer, and thats why that command became the first target of the satan. With his will to humiliate God as a creator, he started very good planned war against God and his followers, to destroy that holy statement.
His plan was not in destroying Gods commands, but he decided to tricky distort that commands, so that hell redirect the humans to violate at least one of the divine commands. Which in the end will become his base of accusing the humans in inappropriate observance of the laws of God.
Nowhere in the bible we can see, that the command of keeping the 7th day as a worship day to the Lord, has changed. That command was given in the paradise, and continued in the Sinai Mountain, and continues to remain even in our days. The holy bible insists on the holy keeping of the seventh day.
In your opinion, what is the real worship day, the sabbath or the sunday?