What Is The Sabbath / Does It Matter? - Part 8

Part of God’s Overall Plan?

As we just finished looking at the Sabbath of creation we now can see that it’s part of God’s original plan for the human race. It’s not something God gave as an afterthought to the Jews in the wilderness. It was part of God’s original plan, before sin. He gave the week and the Sabbath to Adam and Eve before sin. But some people will say this…..”but the Sabbath really pointed to redemption, it was all about redemption, about Jesus dying on the cross.” The fact is however that celebration of the plan of redemption is a secondary meaning of the Sabbath. It is a very important meaning as I will dive into later during this Sabbath series, but the primary, pre-fall of mankind meaning of the Sabbath is that God gave it as a memorial, a day of rest to look backward…..not forward.

The original purpose of the Sabbath was to look back at the magnificent Creator and the work He had done. God wanted us to remember and consider His generosity and goodness in giving Adam, Eve, and all of their descendents the beautiful gift of life, together with a truly incredible world to live in. So clearly the Sabbath was part of God’s original plan for the human race. It was not an afterthought. The Sabbath points us backward, and also points us forward, to when God is going to break His rest. Once again He is going to create a new heaven and a new earth as the Bible clearly says He will. God is going to create it in six days again and He is going to rest on the seventh day, giving us an example, and then He is going to say, “ Now you work six days and rest on the seventh day, and you come and worship before me, all flesh come worship before me, on the seventh day, in commemoration of the new creation.” How awesome is that going to be!!! The gift of the Sabbath that God has given is truly amazing!!