And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Exodus 31:12-13
One of the great questions and debates that still goes on today, is what was the purpose of The Sabbath? God makes it clear here, “The Sabbath was a sign between You and Me” So think about it, God is trying to establish his people, The Israelites, that are set apart from the rest of the pagan nations.
How will people know the Israelites are followers of the One true living God Yahweh, because the Sabbath was a sign they were the Israelites. When your in a covenant, there has to be a sign or symbol that your committed to it. For example, the covenant of marriage, we wear a wedding ring to show a sign of the covenant of Marriage. The wedding ring doesnt actually make you married, but its a sign between husband and wife
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Exodus 31:14-15
The word Holy in the Bible means “Set Apart” The Sabbath is setting the Israelites apart from the other pagan nations. Notice God references Creation into the Sabbath, 6 days your work and the 7th day rest. The same is when God created the world, 6 days of creation and the 7th day God rested. The word Sabbath means Rest
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. Exodus 31:16-17
Again scripture says “Its a sign between God and the Israelites” The sign of the Old Covenant was the Sabbath. As I said, every covenant has a sign, Jesus instituted a sign of the New Covenant.
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15 (NKJV)
So what is the sign of the New Covenant? Its Jesus Christ, Jesus is the Sabbath, which I talked about in my previous posts. But Jesus is our sign, Communion (the blood and body of Christ) Baptism (The death and resurrection of Christ) These are all sacraments to remember the sign of the New Covenant Jesus
The Sabbath was a foreshadow of Christ , Gods eternal Rest can only be found in Christ alone Amen!
Unashamed of Jesus 
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> Unashamed of Jesus posted: ” And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak > thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall > keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that > ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Exo” >
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Exodus 31:14 ) states :’God spoke to Moses, ‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is
holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any
work on that day must be
cut off from their people.’
The verse is propounded
nicely in this article.
These consistent verses
highlight The Sabbath day_:
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(Deuteronomy 5 :14,15) says:
God said to Moses,” The seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox,nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man
servant & thy maidservant
may rest as well as thou. the LORD thy God commanded
thee to keep the sabbath day.”
‘‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh
day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly.You
are not to do any work; wher ever you live, it is a sabbath
to the Lord. ‘(Leviticus 23:3 )
(Genesis 2 : 2_3) says :’ God Himself ended His work & rested on the seventh day
He blessed the seventh day,
& sanctified it.’
The Old Covenant was a
strict rule. This is seen in
(Numbers 15:32-36):’ On one occasion a man was arrested, incarcerated & later stoned to death because he picked up some sticks on the sabbath
day. ‘
The New Covenant is not so. The reason is : ‘The Son of
man is Himself Lord of the Sabbath.’
This is stated in,
( Mark 2 : 27- 28) :’Jesus said unto Pharisees ,”The sabbath was made for man, & not man for the sabbath:Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of
the sabbath.”
About Jesus, God said, “I will make Him [Christ] My first
-born, higher than the kings
of the earth”.(Psalm 89 : 27)
And,
(Matthew 11 : 27) states :
‘All things of The Father are delivered unto Jesus .’
‘All authority in heaven & on earth has been also given to Jesus .’ (Matthew 28:18 )
Even, the authority to lay
down His life & authority to
take it up again.’ (John 10:18)
Jesus kept the importance of
holiness of the Sabbath day _:
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This is seen in,(Matt. 24: 20):
‘He said, to the disciples:
“Pray ye that your flight be
not in the winter, neither on
the sabbath day.”
Though the commandment about Sabbath is the fourth,
of the ten commandments,
A lawyer asked Jesus, “
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart; with all
thy soul & with all thy mind.
This is the first & great commandment & the second
is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law & the
prophets.’ ( Matt. 22 : 36 -40 )
But, Jesus did good works
on Sabbath day, such as :
1) Healing a man having withered hand.
( Matt12 :1-13) states :’At
that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn
& his disciples were an
hungred & began to pluck
in the ears of corn to eat.
When the Pharisees saw it,
they said unto him, Behold,
thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.”But he said unto them,” Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred & they that were with him; How he entered into the house of God & did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat ,neither
for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Or
have ye not read in the law,
how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath & are blameless? But I say unto you, That in this place is one
greater than the temple.lf ye had known what this meaneth,
I will have mercy & not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.For
the Son of man is Lord even
of the sabbath day. Later, He went into their synagogue:
& behold, there was a man which had his hand withered.
& they asked him, saying,
Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? Jesus said
unto them, “What man shall there be among you, that
shall have one sheep & if it
fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it
& lift it out ? How much then
is a man better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to do
well on the sabbath days.”
Then saith he to the man, ” Stretch forth thine hand” &
he stretched it forth & it was restored whole, like as the other. ‘
2) He healed a woman who
had a spirit of infirmity for
eighteen years.
(Luke 13:11-12)
3) He healed a man born
blind on the Sabbath.
(John 9:1,14)
4) He healed a man at the
pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath, (John 5: 5,8)
Thus ,
CHRIST IS A FULFILLMENT
& THE SIGN OF THE OLD COVENANT OF THE SABBATH
; BETWEEN GOD & US FOR EVER.
(Romans 10:4) says:‘ For
Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone who believes.’ And,
(Collossians 2 : 16) says :
‘Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon
or of the sabbath days.’
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