This is the post you said has not been addressed and I would be happy to readdress it and thanks for the invitation.
Biblical meaning of
Holy = set apart. . .from work and to rest in this case.
God actually explains the meaning of holy in reference to the Sabbath.....
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on
the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it (set the seventh day aside for holy use),
because in it
He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
God again spoke of the seventh day in the Sabbath commandment using the same verbiage, the seventh day is set aside for holy use and God asked us to "remember" pointing us back to Creation as it is a weekly memorial on the Sabbath day for us to remember everything God made for us without us. Creation was His works and so are the Ten Commandments Exodus 32:16 We remember Him as our Creator on the Sabbath because He is the God of Creation and the same God of Judgement Revelation 14:7 and only He can sanctify us Ezekiel 20:12 and He does through the Truth of His Word. John 17:17 Too many people think they can sanctify themselves through their works or righteousness, but only God and His works are sanctifying and righteous and all of His commandments are righteous Psalms 119:172 meaning the right way God wants His children to live because what He asks of us, is for our own good if we Trust and believe in Him.
Exodus 20:8 “
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
We rest from our works to keep the Sabbath day holy, and we enter His rest when we cease from our works as God did from His Hebrews 4:10 on the seventh day Hebrews 4:4, Genesis 2:1-3,
Set apart by him for rest because it was a foretelling, pattern/type of his own full-time Sabbbath rest for us in Christ, from our own works to save and in Christ's completed work which saves.
No where does the scripture say Jesus is the Sabbath day commandment and this teaching is leading people to break His commandments and something Jesus warns us about. Matthew 5:19 You will never find one scripture that says Jesus is the Sabbath day, Jesus gives rest when we are obedient to Him, not through our disobedience as the plain scripture says. Hebrews 4:6
Feel free to
Biblically specifically
demonstrate in the following, not just assert, why any comment in black text (
Scripture is blue text) is in error.
Heb 3:12:
12) See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
The scripture is not in error, your commentary about it is the error.
This passage is actually the second of five warnings in the letter:
1) 2:1-4 - do not fail to hear the NT gospel,
There is only one gospel, not two and it is an everlasting gospel Revelation 14:6
Gal 1:6-9 -- there is
only one Gospel
Gal 3:8 "The Gospel was preached to Abraham"
Heb 4:2 "The Gospel was preached to us just as it was to them also"
2) 3:7-4:13 - do not fail to believe this word of God, a living power that judges with an all-seeing eye,
3) 5:11-6:12 - do not fall away (apostasy),
4) 10:19-39 - do not lapse back,
5) 12:14-29 - do not refuse God.]
Agreed
Heb 3:15-19:
15)
As has just been said:
"Today, if you hear his voice (in the NT gospel),
do not harden your hearts (in unbelief of the gospel)
as you did in the rebellion." (and refuse to enter into Christ's NT salvation by returning to Judaism)
No, your commentary does not match these scriptures.
This scripture is saying "Today" if you hear His voice (just what it means, do not wait another day- TODAY) We need to seek God while He can be found Isaiah 55:6 the devil wants us to delay in our obedience to God, 'I will obey tomorrow' but that's a dangerous belief because the more the devil controls our minds the less likley we will not soften our hearts to the Holy Spirit calling us back to His Truth John 14:15-18 Psalms 119:151
Do not harden your hearts in rebellion which is unbelief and disobedience nothing in this scripture about "Christ's NT salvation by returning to Judaism'
16) Who were they who heard and rebelled? (refusing to enter Canaan)
Were they not all that Moses led out of Egypt? (Nu 14)
The Israelites
17) And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned (rebelled), whose bodies fell in the desert?
Agreed
19) So we see that they were not able to enter (the
promised Canaan
rest,
Exodus 33:14;
Deuteronomy 12:8-10)
because of their unbelief. (as you will not enter his NT salvation rest because of your unbelief of the gospel and return to Judaism)
Again your commentary is not matching the scripture. Let's instead use scripture to show why the Isralites were consumed and did not enter their rest and what they disobeyed...
Hebrews 3:16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (disobedience).
Psalms 95: Today, if you will hear His voice:
8 “Do not harden your hearts,
as in the rebellion,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Hebrews 4:6 Since therefore it remains that some
must enter it,
and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
The Israelites failing to enter into the rest of the Promise Land was due to their disobedience.
Hebrews 3:18,
Hebrews 4:6
What did they disobey…..? According to scripture...
Ezekiel 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which,
if a man does, he shall live by them’;
and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:21 “Notwithstanding, t
he children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, ‘which,
if a man does, he shall live by them’;
but they profaned My Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.
The whole point of Hebrews 3-4 is to give warning that we do not follow the same path of disobedience as the Israelites who disobeyed the Sabbath according to the scripture and the topic of Hebrews 4.
Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest,
lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
Which is why the Sabbath-rest (keeping the Sabbath) remains for the people of God Hebrews 4:9 NIV
a Sabbath rest
σαββατισμὸς (sabbatismos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4520: A keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.
We can not improve on what God personally wrote and God personally spoke, but God's adversary wants us to believe this lie that His eternal law can be altered. Revelation 12:17 and is behind the ones who changed His Sabbath which the majority of people followed but God warns His people Dan 7:25.
God blesses us through our obedience to Him including the Sabbath commandment that is part of His eternal law that cannot be changed.
Isaiah 58:13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on
My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking
your own words,
14
Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Jesus is not saying He is the Sabbath, He wants us to honor Him on His holy seventh day Sabbath by doing His ways- resting in His Word, His creation, His Spirit for a full 24 hours every Sabbath day. The only one who thinks keeping the Sabbath is bondage or changed is God's adversary who wants nothing more than us to defile the Sabbath just like the Israelites, who did not enter into their promise land and God's rest and wants to stop us from entering into our promise land and His rest.
