He created the day .... blessed it and sanctified it (made it HOLY) ... set it apart ... just as we are being sanctified (being made Holy) set apart .... so the day He created is set apart ... set apart from what?
You didn't ponder whether this is of relevance in the New Covenant, and if yes, how this relevance looks like.
4. It was made before the fall; hence it is not a type; for types were not introduced till after the fall.
This seems to be an
ad hoc argument without any scriptural base.
5. Jesus says it was made for man (
Mark 2:27), that is, for the race, as the word man is here unlimited; hence, for the Gentile as well as for the Jew.
"For man" means that the Sabbath is no value in itself, but something given to man as a help. Therefore we should not follow blind rules, and according to Rom 14:5 this include we should not folllow rules that automatically make some days important for
every believer.
7. It was given to Adam, the head of the human race. (
Mark 2:27;
Genesis 2:1-3.)
This is not said in the verses you linked to. This argument is a blatant fake.
9. It is' not a Jewish institution, for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.
The Sabbath rest was made in the creation, but the command to keep the Sabbath was made known to the people of Israel (Neh 9:14) just prior to the 10 commandments (Ex 16:22-30). It is deception to use this revelation as an argument (your point 12) that the Sabbath was known before the Exodus.
10. The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath, but always "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Men should be cautious how they stigmatize God's holy rest day.
This argument is a crafty diversion from the fast that the Sabbath is a sign between Israel and God (Ex 31:13).
11. Evident reference is made to the Sabbath and the seven-day week all, through the patriarchal age. (Genesis 2:l-3; 8:10,12; 29:27,28.etc.)
Gen 2:1-3 does not mention a command, Gen 8:10 shows Noah not to rest, but to do several things every 7 days, Gen 29:27f is about a feast that lasted 7 days ...
A month is about 29.53059 days (or about 1447/49 days) in average, 29 or 30 days in a quite irregular sequence. If you celebrate the 29th and 30th (it there is a 30th day) as a "new moon feast", 7 days are just a quarter of the remaining 28 days, a quarter of a "net month", so to speak. So a 7-day period is a convenient period for reckoning time. That has nothing to do with a regularly 7-dayx period, since the first of seven days was always the 1st. 8th, 15th 23th (and 29th day as the start of the "rest of month", or new moon festival).
13. Then God placed it in the heart of His moral law. (
Exodus 20:1-17.)
"Heart" implies importance, but the most imoportant commands (the
true heart of the moral law) is defined by Jesus in a quite different manner, Mt 22:34-40). Calling the 10 commandments the heart of moral law is deviation from the teaching of Jesus.
17. It was sacredly preserved in the ark in the holy of holies. (
Deuteronomy 10:1-5.)
The law was there as a witness against Israel (Deut 31:25-29). Does not look like an argument we should keep what the jews couldn't keep (Acts 15:10).
20. It is the sign of the true God, by which we are to know Him from false gods. (
Ezekiel 20:20.)
The "we" in this verse is the people of Israel. Am I a Jew? No, I am "Gentile believer" (Acts 15:23).
God has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who will keep it. (
Isaiah 56:6,
7.)
This was in the times of the Old Covenant. The first verse of the chapter speaks of the justice of God who will call all enemies to Jerusalem to eat the dead bodies there (V.9ff), but promises that the non-Jews (including castrates that could not be circumcised) could be saved from that.
The Lord requires us to call it "honourable". (
Isaiah 58:13.) Beware, ye who take delight in calling it the. “old Jewish Sabbath,” “a yoke of bondage,” etc.
The term you warn against s from Peter, who applied it to the law, which is not only "honorable", but even
holy. And remember, it is Peter who was given the promise that his decisions will be in accordance to what has been bound or loosened in heaven. No one, no pope, no prophetess or whatsoever has the right to set himself into the seat of Peter and overturn what he said. And then ponder why the Sabbath is not mentioned in Acts 15 ...
30. When the Son of God came, He kept the seventh day all His life
... by doing works on Sabbaths, e.g. the work he mentioned in Jn 7:21 (namely the healing of the lame man in Jn 5.
Can we say we follow Jesus if we deny the right to do works on a Sabbath?
31. The seventh day is the Lord's Day. (See
Revelation 1:10;
Mark 2:28;
Isaiah 58:13;
Exodus 20:10.)
You mix two different terms, the term in Rev 1:10 is the traditional name for the
Sunday, the day when (after the Sabbath had gone) the Christians assembled (which sometimes implied they trangressed the rules how far one was allowed to go on a Sabbath).
32. Jesus was/is Lord of the Sabbath (
Mark 2:28), that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her (
1 Peter 3:6.)
Interesting, how you twist that verse. "Lord of the Sabbath" was used as an explanation of a work Jesus did on a Sabbath. Unless you understand "love and protect" in the sense "allow to work for God" you argue contrary to what Jesus meant.
35. He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was “lawful” (
Matthew 12:12.) ... (ie it is lawful to do good.
So if we can do good, we have no right to rest on a Sabbath.
38. Thirty years after Christ's resurrection, the Holy Spirit' expressly calls it "the Sabbath day,"(
Acts 13:14.)
No, it is not the day of Jesus' resurrection that is called Sabbath there,. It is the day when there is a Jewish service. You seem to be advocating about people who call the Sunday "Sabbath", this is not my position, so why you post such things to me?
43. It was customary to hold prayer meetings upon that day. (
Acts 16:13.)
The prayer meetings you mention are the substitute for a synagogue service. There was no such service in Philippi, for there was no synagogue in that pagan
colony, there were not even 10 Jewish men who could conduct such a service, hence the substitute prayer meeting was the only place where Paul could practice his "Gospel is for Jews first" principle.
47. There was never any dispute between the Christians and the Jews about the Sabbath day. This is proof that the Christians still observed the same day that the Jews did.
There certainly have been some dispute, for Paul warns about keeping the Sabbaths.
48. In all their accusations against Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why did they not, if he did not keep it?
Because Paul observed the Torah to win the ones under the Torah, and lived without Thorah to win the ones without Torah (1.Co 9,19-23). The accusation that he taught apostasy from the Law of Mose (Acts 21:21) certainly included o teach not to keep the Sabbath.
50. The Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament fifty-nine times, and always with respect, bearing the same title it had in the Old Testament, “the Sabbath day.”
No, the Sabbath is also mentioned without such article, as in Col 2:16-17. And can you show me the respect you discovered in that verse?
51. Not a word is said anywhere in the New Testament about the Sabbath's being abolished, done away, changed, or anything of the kind.
But what about the statement that
no day can be made a rule to be observed by every believer? If you hold that day separate, it is ok, if you don't regard it special, it is ok. Everyone should do according his own conviction (Rom 14:5).
52. God has never given permission to any man to work upon it. Reader, by what authority do you use - the seventh day for common labor?
Well, Jesus cited a permission just to do that: My father is working, so do I. Is a permission by Jesus Himself nothing in your eyes?
55. As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the restitution. (
Isaiah 66:22,
23.)
Hm, there is no evidence the Sabbath was kept before the Exodus, hence you cannot just state it was kept before the fall.
And did you not notice that the verse you quoted also mentioned the New Moon feast. Do you keep it? If not, why is Is 66:23 no argument that one should keep New Moon feast (or Sabbath)?
56. The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of God, as it came from His own mouth, and was written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. (See Exodus 20.) When Jesus began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.”
Matthew 5:17
If ther Sabbath was of the same rank than the command to not kill, why did Jesus never cite it as an command? There are several instance of Jesus citing commandments, sometimes from the decalogue, sometimes (especially when he showed the heart of the law) from other parts of the Law. Why did he never cite the 4th commandment?
Ponder this as well .... regarding the antichrist ...
An antichrist is one who denies Jesus is the son of God, or one who denies God became man in Jesus (denying euther the divine or the human nature of Christ), as we can reed in the verses where we find the term "antichrist". It is teaching of men to call another figure (the first beast in Rev 13) "antichrist", or even
the antichrist.
English Standard Version
He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and
shall think (can't actually do it)
to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
God appointed many feasts, not just the Sabbath. And Daniel was an OT prophet who did not know about the time of the church (Eph 3:5). If you read that book carefully, you will see that he "jumps" from the second coming of Christ (in the time of the Roman empire) directly o Jesus ruling and judging the world.
So whatever this verse is about, it is immediately about a time before the first coming of Jesus (and only by parrallel about later times). Unless you have NT corroboration for this, do not apply Daniel to the end of times as revealed in the NT.
