​Sabbath is any day you can opt to rest

Elohim wrote the great, unchanging law of the ages Upon tables of stone. Every word was serious and meaningful. Not one line was ambiguous or mysterious. Everybody, believers and pagans, educated and uneducated, have no problem understanding the simple, clear words of the Ten Commandments. Elohim meant what He said and said what He meant.

Most of the ten commands begin with the same words: “You shall not,” but right in the heart of the law, we find the fourth commandment introduced with the word “Remember.” Why is this one different? Elohim was commanding His people to call something to memory that existed but had been forgotten. Genesis describes the origin of the Sabbath in these words: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day Elohim ended His work which He had done. … Then Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” (Genesis 2:1–3).

Which day did Elohim bless and sanctify? The seventh day. How was it to be kept holy? By resting. Could any of the other six days be kept holy? No. Why? Because Elohim commanded work on those days, not rest. Does Elohim’s blessing make a difference? Of course. This is why parents pray for Elohim to bless their children. They believe it makes a difference. The seventh day is different from all the other six days because it carries Elohim’s blessing.

The seventh day is similar to celebrating the birthday of the world, a memorial of a mighty act. The Sabbath memorial could never truly be changed because it points back to an established event in history. In the United States, for instance, July 4 is Independence Day. Can it be changed? No. Because the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. To change Independence Day, or to change the Sabbath day. We can call another day Independence Day, and we can call another day the Sabbath, but that does not make it so.

Did Elohim ever give man the privilege of choosing his own day of rest? He did not. In fact, Elohim confirmed in the Bible that the Sabbath was settled and sealed by His own divine selection and should not be tampered with. Read Exodus 16 concerning the giving of manna. For 40 years Elohim worked three miracles every week to show Israel which day was holy:

(1) He rained manna from heaven for His people to eat.

(2) It did not fall on the seventh day.

(3) Although it spoiled if kept overnight, it remained sweet and fresh when kept over the seventh day.

“Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, ‘How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?” (Exodus 16:27, 28).

Perhaps these people had the same idea as many modern-day Christians and thought another day could be kept just as well as the seventh day. Maybe they were planning to observe the first day of the week, or some other day that was more convenient to them. What happened? Elohim immediately and clearly declared that they were breaking His law. Would Elohim say the same thing today? Yes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). “I am the Lord, I do not change” (Malachi 3:6).

Elohim made it very clear that, whatever their selfish justification for it, those who went out to work on the Sabbath were guilty of breaking His law. James explained that it is a sin to break even one of the Ten Commandments: “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘Do not murder.’ Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law" (James 2:10, 11).

Can’t we keep holy any day of the week? By this argument Satan is preparing the world to accept a substitute for the Sabbath that Elohim clearly commanded.

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60 Facts About The Sabbath and 40 About Sunday

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WHY keep the Sabbath day? What is the object of the Sabbath? Who made it? When was it made, and for whom? Which day is the true Sabbath? Many keep the first day of the week, or Sunday. What Bible authority have they for this? Some keep the seventh day, or Saturday. What Scripture have they for that? Here are the facts about both days, as plainly stated in the Word of Elohim:

After working the first six days of the week in creating this earth, the great Elohim rested on the seventh day. (Genesis 2:1.3.)

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This stamped that day as Elohim's rest day, or Sabbath day, as Sabbath day means rest day. To illustrate: When a person is born on a certain day, that day thus becomes his birthday. So when Elohim rested upon the seventh day, that day became His rest, or Sabbath, day.

Therefore the seventh day must always be Elohim's Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day on which you were born to one on which you were not born? No. Neither can you change Elohim's rest day to a day on which He did not rest. Hence the seventh day is still Elohim's Sabbath day.

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• The Creator blessed the seventh day. (Genesis 2:3.)

• He sanctified the seventh day. (Exodus 20:11.)

• He made it the Sabbath day in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 2:1-3.)

• Sabbath was made before the fall of mankind; hence it is not a type; for types were not introduced till after the fall.

• Yahshua says Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27), that is, for the race, as the word man is here unlimited; hence, for the Gentile as well as for the Jew.

• Sabbath is a memorial of creation. (Exodus 20:11; 31:17.) Every time we rest upon the seventh day, as Elohim did at creation, we commemorate that grand event.

• Sabbath was given to Adam, the head of the human race. (Mark 2:27; Genesis 2:1-3.)

• Hence through him, as our representative, to all nations. (Acts 17:26.)

• Sabbath is not a Jewish institution, for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.

• The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath , but always "the Sabbath of the Lord thy Elohim." Men should be cautious how they stigmatize Elohim's holy rest day.

• Evident reference is made to the Sabbath and the seven-day week all, through the patriarchal age. (Genesis 2:l-3; 8:10,12; 29:27,28.etc.)

• Sabbath was a part of Elohim's law before Sinai. (Exodus 16:4, 27-29.)

• Then Elohim placed the Sabbath in the heart of His moral law. (Exodus 20:1-17.) Why did He place the Sabbath there if it was not like the other nine precepts, which all admit to be immutable?

• The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living Elohim. (Deuteronomy 4:12,13.)

• Then He wrote the commandment including the Sabbath with His own finger. (Exodus 31:18.)

• He engraved the Sabbath in the enduring stone, indicating its imperishable nature. (Deuteronomy 5:22.)

• Sabbath was sacredly preserved in the ark in the holy of holies. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5.)

• Elohim forbade work upon the Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. (Exodus 34:21.)

• Elohim destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. (Ezekiel 20:12, 13.)

• Sabbath is the sign of the true Elohim, by which we are to know Him from false gods. (Ezekiel 20:20.)

• Elohim promised that Jerusalem should stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath. (Jeremiah 17:24, 25.)

• He sent them into the Babylonish captivity for breaking the Sabbath. (Nehemiah 13:18.)

• He destroyed Jerusalem for Sabbaths' violation. (Jeremiah 17:27.)

• Elohim has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who will keep the Sabbath. (Isaiah 56:6, 7.)

• This is in the prophecy, which refers wholly to the Messianic dispensation. (See Isaiah 56.)

• Elohim has promised to bless all who keep the Sabbath. (Isaiah 56:2.)

• The Lord requires us to call the Sabbath "honourable". (Isaiah 58:13.) Beware, ye who take delight in calling the Sabbath the, “old Jewish Sabbath,” “a yoke of bondage,” etc.

• After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down "many generations,” it is to be restored in the last days. (Isaiah 58:12,13.)

• All the holy prophets kept the seventh day Sabbath.

• When the Son of Elohim came, He kept the seventh day Sabbath all His life. (Luke 4:16; John 15:10.) Thus He followed His Father's example at creation. Shall we not be safe in following the example of both the Father and the Son?

• The seventh day Sabbath is the Lord's Day. (See Revelation 1:10; Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10.)

• Yahshua was Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28), that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her (1 Peter 3:6.)

• He vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man's good. (Mark 2:23-28.)

• Instead of abolishing the Sabbath , He carefully taught how it should be observed. (Matthew 12:1-13.)

• He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was “lawful” (Matthew 12:12.)

• He instructed His apostles that the Sabbath should be prayerfully regarded forty years after His resurrection. (Matthew 24:20.)

• The pious women who had been with Yahshua carefully kept the seventh day after His death. (Luke 23:56.)

• Thirty years after Messiah's resurrection, the Holy Spirit' expressly calls it "the Sabbath day,"(Acts 13:14.)

• Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, called it the "Sabbath day" in A.D. 45. (Acts 13:27.) Did not Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it ceased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Messiah?

• Luke, the inspired Messianic historian, writing as late as A.D. 62, calls it the "Sabbath day." (Acts 13:44.)

• The Gentile converts called it the Sabbath. (Acts 13:42.)

• In the great Messianic council, A.D. 49, in the presence of the apostles and thousands of disciples, James calls it the "Sabbath day." (Acts 15:21)

• It was customary to hold prayer meetings upon Sabbath day. (Acts 16:13.)

• Paul read the Scriptures in public meetings on Sabbath day. (Acts 17:2, 3.)

• It was his custom to preach upon Sabbath day. (Acts 17:2,3.)

• The Book of Acts alone gives a record of his holding eighty-four meetings upon the Sabbath day. (See Acts 13:14, 44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4. 11.)

• There was never any dispute between the Messianics and the Jews about the Sabbath day. This is proof that the Messianics still observed the same day that the Jews did.

• In all their accusations against Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why did they not, if he did not keep it?

• But Paul himself expressly declared that he had kept the law. “Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all." Acts 25:8. How could this be true if he had not kept the Sabbath?

• The Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament fifty-nine times, and always with respect, bearing the same title it had in the Old Testament, “the Sabbath day.”

• Not a word is said anywhere in the New Testament about the Sabbath's being abolished, done away, changed, or anything of the kind.

• Elohim has never given permission to any man to work upon it. Reader, by what authority do you use - the seventh day for common labor?

• No Messianic of the New Testament, either before or after the resurrection, ever did ordinary work upon the seventh day Sabbath. Find one case of that kind, and we will yield the question. Why should modern Christians do differently from Messianics of the Bible?

• There is no record that Elohim has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh daySabbath.

• As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the restitution. (Isaiah 66:22, 23.)

• The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of Elohim, as it came from His own mouth, and was written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. (See Exodus 20.) When Yahshua began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.” Matthew 5:17

• Yahshua severely condemned the Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love Elohim, while at the same time they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. The keeping of Sunday is only a tradition of men.

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• 40 Bible Facts Concerning the First Day of the Week

 

• The very first thing recorded In the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. (Genesis l: l-5.) The Creator Himself did this. If Elohim made the earth on Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?

• Elohim commands men to work upon the first day of the week. (Exodus 20.8-11.) Is it wrong to obey Elohim?

• None of the patriarchs ever kept it.

• None of the holy prophets ever kept it.

• By the express command of-Elohim, His holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for 4,000 years, at least.

• Elohim Himself calls it a "working" day. (Ezekiel 46:1.)

• Elohim did not rest upon it.

• He never blessed it.

• Messiah did not rest upon it.

• Yahshua was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence He did many a hard day’s work on Sunday.

• The apostles worked upon it during the same time.

• The apostles never rested upon it.

• Messiah never blessed it.

• It has never been blessed by any divine authority.

• It has never been sanctified.

• No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it, hence it is no transgression to work upon it. “Where no law is, there is no transgression.” Romans 4:15 (See also 1 John 3:4.)

• The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it.

• No penalty is provided for its violation.

• No blessing is promised for its observance.

• No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?

• It is never called the Messianic Sabbath.

• It is never called the Sabbath day at all.

• It is never called the Lord’s day.

• It is never called even a rest day.

• No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?

• It is simply called “first day of the week.”

• Yahshua never-mentioned it in any way, never took its name upon His lips, so far as the record shows.

• The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible at all.

• Neither Elohim, Messiah, nor inspired men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.

• The first day of the week is mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2.)

• Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.

• Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on that day. (1Corinthians 16:2.)

• In all the New Testament we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this was a night meeting. (Acts 20:5-12.)

• There is not intimation that they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.

• It was not their custom to meet on that day.

• There was no requirement to break bread on that day.

• We have an account of only one instance in which it was done. (Acts 20:7.)

• That was done in the night-after midnight. (Verses 7-11.) Yahshua celebrated it on Thursday evening (Luke 22), and the disciples sometimes did it every day (Acts 2:42-46.)

• The Bible nowhere says that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Messiah. This is a tradition of men, which contradicts the law of Elohim. (Matthew 15:1-9.) Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Yahshua. (Romans 6:3-5.)

• Finally, the New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the Sabbath day or any sacredness for the first day.