What Is The Sabbath / Does It Matter? - Part 7

Sabbath of the Jews??

Tons of Christians today say that the Sabbath was made for the Jews. Calling it the “Sabbath of the Jews”. But come on does the Bible say that….no it doesn’t. Scripture does not support this at all. When the Sabbath appears in Scripture it is called “the Sabbath of the Lord your God”. In Isaiah 58 God even calls the Sabbath “my holy day”. In that same passage He also admonishes us to take our feet away “from stepping on my holy day.” How dare someone say that the Sabbath was for the Jews! If the Sabbath really belonged to the Jews, if it was really “their Sabbath”, they should have been the ones to rest on it first. But they didn’t rest on it first. God did!! Then right behind God resting on the seventh day were Adam and Eve, the parents of not only the Jews, but of all mankind. God calls the seventh day “The Sabbath of the Lord your God” because He rested on that day, and that day belongs to Him. God says, “Now I want you to respect my holy day”. “I want you to respect my Sabbath, because I rested every single minute of it. I made it holy. It’s my day, and if you want to enter my rest, you have to enter my rest on my holy day.”

Again so many people that call themselves Christians say, religious groups like the Jews, Seventh Day Adventists, and Seventh Day Baptists, to name a few “keep the seventh day as your Sabbath. I keep the first day, Sunday, as the Sabbath.” But did you know it’s absolutely impossible to keep Sunday as the Sabbath? The reason why is found in Genesis. You can’t keep Sunday as the Sabbath, because Sunday is no the day God rested on. So it’s that simple. If you’re going to enter God’s rest, you have to enter His rest on the day in which He rested on. He never rested on Sunday, therefore, you can’t enter His rest on Sunday. God did not rest on Sunday. He rested the seventh day, and if we want to enter His rest, we have to enter His rest on the day that God rested.

So to sum up these first 7 parts so far in our Sabbath study, now do you understand why God didn’t command Adam and Eve to keep that first Sabbath in the Garden of Eden, and why Genesis doesn’t record as “evening and a morning” on the seventh day. That the first week was God’s week, and that God worked six days and rested on the seventh. That because of that, the seventh day is God’s holy day. It belongs to God. That there also wasn’t any evening and morning on the seventh day because after finishing His work on the sixth day and resting on the seventh, God continued His rest from that time until now. For us humans living on Earth there has been an evening and morning, but not for God, because God is still resting from His work of creation. He has created no more with regard to this world. That God did not command Adam and Eve to keep the Sabbath in the Garden of Eden holy before God made it holy. God had to set that first example, then say to Adam and Eve to do what your father does. The commandment of the Sabbath not only requires resting on the seventh day, but it requires us to work six days first, and at the time of the first Sabbath Adam and Eve had not worked six days yet because they were not created until day six of creation.