One question just popped out when reading your response which made me look up Rev. 14. You said: What is more John quotes from the Sabbath Commandment in Rev 14. No he doesn't. What translation are you using, or what verse do you see John "quoting" the 4th Commandment? I just don't see it.
There is unique language in the TEN commandments - that is quoted in other parts of the Bible and easy to see.
For example the 5th commandment says
"12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you."
It is quoted in Ephesians 6:2 - but not in its entirety.
"2 Honor your father and mother (which is the
first commandment with a promise), --
As we already saw - the "FIRST" commandment with a promise is a specific reference to the "UNIT of LAW" - the TEN commandments - which is the only context in which the 5th commandment is the "FIRST commandment WITH a promise".
But another point is that the quote of it in Eph 6:2 is only quoting part of that commandment - and "yet" it is a quote of it.
So also in Exodus 20 we have - this unique language as part of the Bible Sabbath Commandment
11 For in six days
the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
Rev 14
7 and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship
Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.”
Acts 14:15
15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living
God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
Acts 4:24
24 And when they heard
this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You
who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
And this even includes the Sabbath as found in Genesis 2:1-3
Heb 4
4 For He has said somewhere concerning
the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
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As we all know by now - there is nothing like that sort of quote at all for the command to 'Not take God's name in vain' - to be found in all of the NT - and yet we obviously know that rebellion against that commandment is "sin".
notice what Christ said about this idea of trying to edit/sidestep/downsize one of God's Ten Commandments.
Mark 7:6-13
6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
7 ‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
8 Neglecting
the commandment of God, you hold to the
tradition of men.”
9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at
setting aside the commandment of God in order to
keep your tradition. 10 For
Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’; 11
but you say, ‘If a man says to
his father or
his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given
to God),’ 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for
his father or
his mother; 13
thus invalidating
the word of God by
your tradition which
you have handed down; and
you do many things such as that.”
