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Just so I’m clear, is it a sin to not rest on the Sabbath?
No it's not a sin to not keep the 7th day sabbath for the Christian. The reason is because that covenant isn't what a Christians is governed by. The prophet says the new covenant won;t be like the new covenant. This is a reference to contents of the covenant. So effectively two prophets say the sabbath will cease. Jeremiah in 31:32 self defines and limits verse 31 to something other than the covenant made with their fathers.The short answer is yes, read Heb 4... it is linked to the sin of unbelief.
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Carl Emerson.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Israel was exiled for breaking the covenant law given at Sinai. Moses very clearly says it is the famous 10.
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. This is the same list in Lev 23 and elsewhere in the OT.
This is the weekly sabbath of the famous 10 number 4. It's correctly called her sabbaths because the sabbath was given strictly to Israel evidenced by the famous 10 and Ex 31:13, 17. In the giving of the famous 10 only Israel was present. Read Ex 19 and 20.
We have two agreeing witnesses to establish this fact.
Although the sabbath is mentioned in the NT, there's no requirement to observe it.
The subject of Heb 4 is about rest. The weekly sabbath isn't mentioned. The word "sabbatismos" has nothing to do with the weekly sabbath. It's a typology kind of word specifically about a type of rest. So it doesn't say the sabbath remains. Paul can't say it does and also say - But we are now delivered from the law... Nor can he warn about returning to the law making Jesus of no effect. Such statements make it clear Paul didn't teach obligation to the law.
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