The seventh day Sabbath of Eloheem
“Thirty-five reasons Why I keep the Sabbath”
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.
Notice the Sabbath commandment itself: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. . .the seventh day is the Sabbath of the lord thy God [not Jew]; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor THY STRANGER that is within thy gates.” Ex. 20:8-10. Please tell us to whom THY STRANGER refers if it does not refers to some one who is not a Jew. God has taken the most scrupulous precautions against such an idea by writing into the fourth commandment the term THY STRANGER, who is not a Jew. Cf. Ex12:49; Num.15:16,29; Isa. 56:6-8.
Those who contend that the Sabbath was made ONLY for the Jew will, by the force of their own consistency, have to admit the woman was also made ONLY for the Jew and the Jew is the only man who can have a wife, because the woman was made for the same MAN for whom the Sabbath was made. The Sabbath was given about the same time marriage was given, and it applies to all man the same as marriage applies. So we can see plainly that the Sabbath is no more exclusively for the Jew than is the marriage institution. The Sabbath is not man-made but God-made, and it was made for all men in all the world for all time.
4. Because God commanded man to keep the Sabbath.
Notice how many times the Bible repeats God’s command for man to keep the Sabbath: “Remember the Sabbath day, to KEEP it holy.” Ex. 20:8.
“Verily my Sabbath ye shall KEEP.” Ex. 31:13.
“Ye shall KEEP my Sabbath.” Lev. 19:30.
“Ye shall KEEP my Sabbath.” Lev.26:2.
“KEEP the Sabbath day.” Deut. 5:12
“KEEP my Sabbath.” Lev. 19:3.
What stronger language could be used? The Sabbath which most men are forgetting, that very Sabbath, God says to “Remember.”
God knew that man would forget His Sabbath. No wonder the fourth commandment, which deals with the Sabbath, is the only one of all God’s holy Ten Commandments which begins with “REMEMBER”
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, 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.” Ex.20:8-10.
5. Because God commands man to keep not A day but THE SEVENTH DAY.
God does not say in His commandment that man is to keep A seventh day, or any seventh day, or YOUR seventh day. Nor did God say to keep the day of Christ’s birth. Or the day of Christ’s death, or the day of Christ’s resurrection. The ONLY weekly day which God or the Bible definitely and distinctly COMMANDED should be kept is “THE SEVENTH DAY which IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD.” Ex. 20:10. How grandly simple the Bible makes this in the following texts:
“THE SEVENTH DAY God ended his work. Gen. 2:1-3.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God rested. Gen. 2:1-3.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God blessed. Gen. 2:1-3.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God sanctified. Gen. 2:1-3.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God had rested. Gen. 2:1-3.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God told us to remember. Ex. 20:8.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God made the Sabbath day. Ex. 20:8.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God made holy. Ex. 20:8; Isa. 58:13.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God told us to refrain from work. Ex.20:10.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God made His Sabbath. Ex. 20:10
“THE SEVENTH DAY God rested. Ex. 20:11.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God blessed. Ex. 20:11.
“THE SEVENTH DAY God hallowed. Ex. 20:11.
As there is only one day of American Independence, only one right day to celebrate the fourth of July, so THE SEVENTH DAY is the ONLY RIGHT SABBATH DAY for man to keep.
Therefore every seventh day Sabbath should be underscored with red because it is God’s red-letter day of week— “Day of all week the best!”
By Robert Franklin Correla