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| Jim02 Registered user Username: Jim02 Post Number: 1109 Registered: 5-2007 |
No doubt this has also been discussed. Please forgive me for asking yet again. In the 10C , there is a passage that says, GEN 2: 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. J: What jumps at me is the Blessing and making it Holy. It seems to me to be disconnected from the other laws in that it was made Holy. While I try to contrast all this with "we are no longer under the Supervision of the law", I still wonder, Did God unbless the Sabbath day, and make it Not Holy any longer? He did not make it Holy at the giving of the law to the Jews. He made it Holy at the creation. I am having trouble rectifying this with the freedom from law keeping. I am not discounting what is presented by St. Paul's teachings. I am trying to reconcile it. Jim | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 2417 Registered: 5-2007  |
Jim, You ask a very good and important question. The answer to your question should begin by asking another question first: How does anything, or any person for that matter, become holy when only God is holy? In Genesis God doesn't explain why he said what he said. When the Hebrew people came out of slavery in Egypt we then learn that it represented their freedom (rest) from slavery. But not the deeper reason that their freedom from slavery was a metaphor of all mankind’s slavery to sin. And, that this ‘Sabbath’ would bring eternal rest from sin and its consequences. Only until we arrive at the New Testament do we learn that it always pointed to Jesus Christ who in the gospel of John we learn was our Creator. The very same Savior who is the author (Creator) of our salvation. In the book of Hebrews we learn that the Sabbath Day always was intended by God to point to Jesus, the Messiah prophecied in the Old Testament. This is how and why God declared a certain day to be holy. There is much more to be said but this should do for starters. Fearless Phil | ||
| Alison1 Registered user Username: Alison1 Post Number: 70 Registered: 10-2010 |
Jim, have you heard of the idea that Jesus is our Sabbath rest. Hebrews 4:1-10 is all about that. Some extra food for thought. | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 1312 Registered: 12-2007 |
God rested from the 6 days of creation "work" on the 7th day. I don't see where the Bible says He rested or made Holy EVERY seventh day until he gave the commandments to Moses for the Children of Israel. I also do not find anywhere in the Bible that He gave those commandments (including Sabbath) to anyone EXCEPT those who were there with Moses and had been led out of slavery. | ||
| Jim02 Registered user Username: Jim02 Post Number: 1110 Registered: 5-2007 |
Thank You all. I have nothing to add. | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1793 Registered: 7-2007 |
Jim; God blessed THE SEVENTH day, not the 14th and the 21st. And He's still resting from His work of creating. He invites you into His rest (Hebrew 3 & 4), the REST that Israel didn't enter (Hebrews 4:3-6), though Israel KEPT the Sabbath. SDAs haven't entered His REST either because they're striving to help save themselves and not resting in His finished work! | ||
| Johann Registered user Username: Johann Post Number: 6 Registered: 4-2009 |
Hi Jim I agree 100% with Skeeter. | ||
| Darrell Registered user Username: Darrell Post Number: 129 Registered: 10-1999 |
In his commentary on Hebrews chapter 4, Barclay says that the ancient Rabbis taught that in Genesis when God blessed the 7th day, it does not say "the evening and the morning were the 7th day" because God intended for the blessing to continue always, every day. The blessing was only broken by the entrance of sin. The giving of the Sabbath to Israel in Exodus was a mere shadow of that original blessing, as Paul says in Colossians 2;16,17, but now we have the rest that remains, as Hebrews 4 tells us, the real Sabbath that is found only in Christ. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12454 Registered: 12-2003  |
Great point, Darrell! Colleen |
