The seventh day Sabbath of Eloheem
“Thirty-five reasons Why I keep the Sabbath”
1. I keep the Bible Sabbath because God Himself kept the Bible Sabbath.
God made a sufficient proof of His regard for the true Sabbath by resting the very first seventh day that ever came to this earth.
Since:
God rested on the seventh day. Gen. 2:2. God rested on the seventh day. Ex. 31:17. God rested the seventh day. Ex. 20:11. God did rest the seventh day. Heb. 4:4.
Whereas:
The seventh day is the Sabbath. Ex. 20:10.
The seventh day is the Sabbath. Lev. 23:3.
The seventh day is the Sabbath. Deut. 5:14.
The seventh (day) is the Sabbath. Ex. 31:15.
The seventh, which is the Sabbath. Ex. 16:26.
Therefore:
It is as plain as day the Bible teaches that God himself kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
My first reason for keeping the Bible Sabbath is sufficient in itself to settle the whole question now and forevermore, God Himself kept the seventh-day Sabbath. That is conclusive evidence to substantiate and vindicate my keeping, your keeping, or any one else’s keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath; for who could be wrong or even be accused of doing wrong when he follows the example of God Himself in keeping the very Sabbath day which God kept.
2. Because God instituted it at creation for man to keep.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God BLESSED the seventh day, and SANCTIFIED it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Gen. 2:1-3.
“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.” Ex. 20:11.
God BLESSED the seventh day. Gen.2:1-3.
The Lord BLESSED the Sabbath day. Ex. 20:11.
God SANCTIFIED the seventh day. Gen. 2:1-3.
The Lord HALLOWED the Sabbath day. Ex.20:11
Please notice that God BLESSED and SANCTIFIED the seventh-day Sabbath at the end of creation. The blessing and sanctification show it was instituted at that time for man to keep.
“God BLESSED the seventh day.”Gen.2:1-3. God has said:
“I change not” (Mal.3:6.), and in Him there “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17. Consequently when God BLESSES anything, the blessing cannot be “REVERESED” (Num. 23:20), because when God BLESSED anything, it “shall be BLESSED FOREVER.” 1Chron. 17:27.
“God SANCTIFIED the seventh day.” Gen. 2:1-3; Ex. 20:8
11. According to Webster’s dictionary “sanctify” means “to set apart to holy use.” The Bible states: “God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: BECAUSE that in it He HAD rested” (showing the day had already past before He blessed and sanctified it;) therefore He blessed and sanctified the seventh days then future, answering to the seventh day which had just past on which He HAD rested.
The above evidence clearly demonstrates the fact that God Himself has attached the utmost importance to the seventh-day Sabbath by His personal blessing and sanctification, thereby definitely fixing the seventh day for all time as the only and true Sabbath.
God is the giver of rest, for He says to all, “Come unto me … and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:28; Ex. 33:14. God knows which is the right day on which to rest, and He has given man the seventh-day Sabbath as a day of rest:
“The seventh day thou shalt rest.” Ex. 23:12.
“The seventh day thou shalt rest.” Ex.34:21.
“The seventh [day] is the Sabbath of rest.” Ex. 31:15.
“The seventh day is the Sabbath of rest.” Lev.23:3. God appointed the seventh day as a Sabbath to be the day of rest from secular work, because that in it He Himself had rested, not from weariness or fatigue Isa. 40:28. But He rested on that day as an example for all humanity. God’s rest on the seventh day is the reason that man should do as God had done. Notice the following texts which prove that God rested on the seventh day:
God rested on the seventh day. Gen. 2:2. God rested on the seventh day. Ex. 31:17. God rested the seventh day. Ex. 20:11. God did rest the seventh day. Heb. 4:4.
No wonder in the New Testament after the cross the followers of Christ “RESTED the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” Luke. 23:56. No wonder the book of Hebrews in the New Testament positively states “There remaineth therefore a REST (keeping the Sabbath) to the people of God…. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” Heb. 4:9, 11.
So we can see that the seventh-day Sabbath is not manmade but God-made. It is not only the oldest institution but also the first institution which God gave to man, it being older and as significant as the marriage institution. Since the setting apart of the seventh day as the Sabbath day was coincident with the ORIGIN of man, the observance of that seventh day as the Sabbath is to be coexistent and coextensive with the DURATION of man.
3. Because the Sabbath was made for man (mankind). Jesus said: “The Sabbath was made for man,” Mark 2:27. Man in this text means human being, mankind.” (Cf. Webster) Matt.4:4; John 1:9.
The Bible does NOT say: “The Sabbath was made for the JEWS.” But it does say: “The Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. It also says: The woman was made for the man. 1Cor.11:9.
How could the Sabbath be made for the Jew only when it was instituted at Creation (Gen. 2:1-3; Ex. 20:8-11) 2,500 years before a Jew existed? This was after the time of Judah, because a Jew is “a descendant of Judah,” according to Young’s Concordance.
By Robert Franklin Correla