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My thoughts on the Sabbath as of now is it was a shadow....of Christ's rest...
I believe that is why I Believe it is a shadow...Hi corinth,
The Shadow laws are all written in the MOSIAC BOOK of the COVENANT. Unlike the 10 Commandments that God wrote on stone with his own finger, the Mosiac laws for remission of sin were all Shadow laws and prophetic in nature pointing to Jesus as our true sacrifice and God's plan of salvation in the NEW COVENANT.
You are mixing up the Shadow laws from the MOSIAC BOOK of the COVENANT with God's ETERNAL LAW (10 Commandments) that give us a KNOWLEDGE of good and evil; SIN and RIGHTOUSNESS (Romans 3:20; Pslams 119:172)
[QUESTION] How can God's 4th Commandment [SEVENTH DAY SABBATH] be a Shadow law if it was part of a FINISHED WORK, BEFORE the fall of manking and before sin entered the world and before God's plan of salvation?
[IT IS IMPOSSIBLE] Mankind was in harmony with God and there was no sin and no plan of salvation.
Please read GENESIS 2:1-3
Hope this is helpful![]()
I believe that is why I Believe it is a shadow...
It was made reference to the promise land and Jesus's Finished works
Not really, God's SABBATH was made before sin and God's plan of salvation and was a part of the finished work of creation so cannot be a shadow of anything (GENESIS 2:1-3).
The Shadow laws from the MOSAIC BOOK of the covenant were not God's 10 Commandments on tables of stone and were only given after monkind had sinned. There purpose was to point to Jesus as our Saviour from sin and God's plan of Salvation.
God's SEVENTH DAY SABBATH was made BEFORE SIN and BEFORE God's plan of salvation so cannot be a Shadow of anything as there was NO SIN when it was made and NO plan of salvation therefore no Shadow laws.
Hope this helps.
corinth Heb 4
James 2: 12 "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty."None of the apostles confirmed the Ten Commandments, rather the law of liberty and the commandments of Jesus. We've gone over this a dozen times and you still don't know the difference.
We are under the law of the Spirit of life in Christ which freed me from the Ten Commandments as they are the law of sin and death. They are also the covenant of Ishmael which was cast out.
James 2: 12 "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty."
So in my view everyday living in Christ is our rest. [Obeying His word]
So He still rested on that day even before we knew He rested on that day.
Before we knew it as what was called the sabbath.
These are my thoughts
God's SEVENTH DAY SABBATH was made BEFORE SIN and BEFORE God's plan of salvation so cannot be a Shadow of anything as there was NO SIN when it was made and NO plan of salvation therefore no Shadow laws.
You will find the law of liberty first mentioned in James 1: 25 "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."So do you know what that means?
The way to act in accordance with God's righteousness is dependant upon His righteousness, not on a particular covenant. For example, it will always be righteous to help the poor no matter how many covenants God makes, so any instructions that God has ever given for how to practice righteousness will always be valid no matter which covenant we are under as long as God's righteousness remains eternal, but as part of the New Covenant we are told that those who do not follow those instructions are not children of God (1 John 3:10). If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness changed when the New Covenant was made, then God's righteousness would not be eternal. So while the Mosaic Covenant has become obsolete, God's eternal righteousness and eternal instructions for how to act in accordance with His righteousness did not become obsolete along with it.
Do you understand what the phrase
“I know Him” means?
JLB
To keep things under control, I will address bits and pieces at a time.Paul affirms the Ten Commandments……
3. Paul tells gentiles "it is not the HEARERS of the Law that are just before God but the DOERS of the Law will be justified... on the day when according to my GOSPEL God will judge all mankind" Rom 2:13-16
6 Paul reaches all Christians under the NEW Covenant that God's LAW as known in Jer 31:31-33 is "written on the heart and mind" Heb 8:7-11
9. God's Law (10 commandments) are holy, just and good (Rom 7:12)
10. God's Law gives us a knowledge of what sin is (Rom 3:20; 7:7)
10. God's law does indeed give the Jew the knowledge of sin. But, again, this is not a warrant to conclude it remains in force since this fact about the Law does not preclude the possibility that something else might come along to give us all knowledge of sin. And Paul puts the Spirit in that role.
Read Hebrews 4Hi corinth, thanks for sharing your thoughts, I agree already with most of your post. This part above however is true in relation to the Gospel rest but not in relation to God's SABBATH rest and has nothing to do with the Sabbath being as you said ealier a Shadow law. It is impossible.
God's SABBATH was made before sin and God's plan of salvation and was a part of the finished work of creation so cannot be a shadow of anything as there was no sin and no plan of salvation for mankind given only the creation of heaven and earth.
* Please read GENESIS 2:1-3
The Shadow laws from the MOSAIC BOOK of the covenant were not God's 10 Commandments on tables of stone and were only given after monkind had sinned. There purpose was to point to Jesus as our Saviour from sin and God's plan of Salvation.
God's SEVENTH DAY SABBATH was made BEFORE SIN and BEFORE God's plan of salvation so cannot be a Shadow of anything as there was NO SIN when it was made and NO plan of salvation therefore no Shadow laws.
Thanks for sharing Corinth. Please ponder what is being said here and take it to God in prayer.
Hope this helps![]()