So Jesus doesn't know the difference between man and Jew, man is not how one spells Jew. Jesus is referring to when both the Sabbath and man were made and both of those point us to Creation, the Sabbath was made for man and the Greek word Jesus used means "Mankind" are not Gentiles part of mankind? The Hebrew word He used means "Adam" was Adam a Jew or just a man? Your disagreement here seems not to be with me.
The Greek word and meaning Jesus used:
nthrópos: Man, human, person, mankind
Original Word: ἄνθρωπος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: anthrópos
Pronunciation: AN-thro-pos
Phonetic Spelling: (anth'-ro-pos)
Definition:
Man, human, person, mankind
Meaning: a man,
one of the human race.
I do not see Jew anywhere.
Its the same word He used in Mat 4:4
Lets look at this Scripture a little closer...
First who is speaking here?
Isa 56:1
Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
Is keep justice and doing righteousness just for the old covenant?
God tells us its the foundation of His Throne Psa 89:14 and His righteousness is everlasting Psa 119:142
For My salvation is about to come,
Did Christ salvation come in the Old Covenant?
And My righteousness to be revealed.
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Blessed is the man who does this,
There's that word again, man- do you really believe Jesus doesn't know the difference between Jew or man? The Creator of all?
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
Jesus in His own words relates those who defile the Sabbath as doing evil. Its not the first time He has said this He relates it to idol worship Eze 20:16 and doing evil Neh 13:17 because who is one really profaning Eze 22:26. One is only deceiving themselves if doing righteousness or doing evil is only "Old Covenant" see Rev 22:11. No wonder why Jesus taught it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath Mat 12:12 meaning there are things we can do that are unlawful, meaning the Sabbath is still God's law according to Jesus who is God that became flesh.
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“Also the sons of the foreigner
So if man and everyone is not clear enough, this should be who the Sabbath is for
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
This is a huge verse- speaking of a covenant relationship with Christ. Not many places in the Scripture tell us how to join ourselves to Him. God promised not to alter a word of His covenant Psa 89:34 why the New Covenant was established on better promises Heb 8:6 and has
God's law now written in the heart and mind Heb 8:10
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ven them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
The holy mountain is heaven Joel 2:1
The earthy temple was patterned after God's heaven temple Heb 8:1-5 why we see the ark of the covenant that holds God's personal written Testimony, the Ten Commandments at the last trumpet, the standard of what all man will be Judged by, His unedited version, written by the finger of God, the Holy Spirit of Truth Rev 11:18-19
God still accepts sacrifices on His alter but in heaven they are not animal sacrifices they are the prayers of the saints Rev 5:8 Rev 8:3
I love this verse, it really sums it up
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
Who is the Sabbath for- those who holdfast His covenant for All Nations
No wonder why we see a little bit further in Isaiah
Isa 66:22 “
For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
Again, if we object to the Sabbath so much now, will God force one to keep coming before Him from one Sabbath to another to worship in His presence on the Sabbath for eternity. This is how it was meant to be from the beginning, but sin separated us from God. We can still keep the Sabbath as a holy convocation Lev 23:3 as we see by the example of Jesus and the apostles but how much greater will it be to worship Him in His presence each Sabbath instead of worshipping Him in spirit.
Sorry you feel this way about God's Sabbath that He said was made for everyone, to bless Isa 56:2 and sanctify us Eze 20:12 because we need God to do this, we can't ourselves Isa 66:17
I can show you in the NT at least 10 times where we are told to keep the Sabbath- are you truly interested or has your mind been made up despite what the Scriptures teach? I would be happy to go through them, but if we have closed off our hearts to hear God's Truth, its not going to make a difference
Yes, Jesus quoted Old Testament for the greatest commandments Deut 6:5 Lev 19:18 but what many don't realize, love is not just a feeling 1 John 5:3, its not up to each individual to determine their version of love to God, love to man. I know some people who say committing adultery is not a sin and they can love God, but still commit adultery and are saved (without a change in our heart and true repentance/ confession and forsaking Pro 28:13) . Or can use the Lords name in vain and still love God. I can't tell you how many professed Christians do this. Love is not up to each individual based on their heart Jer17:9 its actually a commitment to God. Love never went undefined, just like we see clearly what sums up love to our neighbor Rom 13:9 the second greatest commandment. All we have to do is read Deut 5, which Moses repeated the Ten Commandments almost 40 years after God wrote and spoke them Exo 20:1-17 Exo 31:18 before the children of Israel entered into their promise land for them to diligently keep and teach their children and children's children to diligently keep before saying Deut 6:5 so we know what is the summary of the greatest commandments. No greatest commandment to love God with all our hearts would ever not include Gods own personal Testimony of how to love God and how to love our neighbor. Exo 31:18 Exo 20:6 Deut 4:13
Many really do not understand what this means. When we are resting in Christ we are not sinning. No one is sinning and finding rest.
Sin is:
1 John 3:4 4 Whoever
commits sin also commits lawlessness, and
sin is lawlessness.
James 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder,
you have become a transgressor of the law.
You can find the rest of what He said in Exo 20:1-17
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary,
I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
again quoting directly from the Ten Commandments
We should rest in Christ every day, which is why in Hebrews 3 and 4 we are called to enter His rest if we hear His voice and come out of our rebellion or sin
Heb 3:7
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
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Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Everyone is called to come out of sin and rebellion to God and He will give us rest.
But not everyone hears and listens and the Sabbath is a commandment of God, one many didn't keep in their trial of the wilderness Eze 20:13 we are told not to follow their path of disobedience Heb 4:11, just like not murdering our neighbor or not worshipping other gods is in this same unit. The Ten Commandments were never called the Ten suggestions or multiple choice.
Isa 48:18
Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
We see this more also in Rev 14:11-12
True
Who said the Sabbath as
"The Holy Day of the Lord" Isa 58:13
and also
"The seventh day is Sabbath of the LORD"
Ex 20:10
And we find that it is Christ's day "
The Son of man is LORD of the Sabbath"
Mark 2:28
Its all throughout our entire Bibles.....why the Sabbath is all throughout the entire Bible, because its part of God's commandments- no government can survive on lawlessness and God's government is no different. Why He didn't leave it up to man to write His law- He personally wrote it, He personally spoke it and its under His mercy seat in heaven, the standard of Judgement to all. Rev 11:18-19 Ecc 12:13-14 James 2:11-12 Mat 5:19-30 Rev 22:14-15 its up to use to accept God's own personal Testimony Exo 31:18 or we can lay it aside, meaning its not for me, as Jesus condemned Mat 15:3-14 Mark 7:7-13, its all about choices. Whoever we obey is who we serve Rom 6:16 God said Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, it is My holy day, the holy day of the Lord- If my earthy father asked me to remember something is showing love to him doing that or forgetting. Why should we do this with our heavenly Father. He wrote it personally because its personal or should be for each of us.
