By contrast - exegesis of Jer 31:31-33 where we are told "From Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" in the NEw Heavens and New Earth - for all eternity after the cross ... The Sabbath "in context" as Jeremiah and his intended readers would have known it - can not be spiritualized away into mist and fluff.
God made it abundantly clear in Gen 2:1-3 and Ex 20:8-11 that it is the real 7th day of our real week.
The commandment is very clear -- not mystical -- for those who enjoy sola-scriptura testing of all doctrine and practice.
I don't know how you have summarised Jeremiah 31:31-33 the way that you did. The versus are as follows......
Jeremiah 31:31-33
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: 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: 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.
The versus quite clearly has God contrasting the differences between the old covenant and the new covenant, in that the application to how one worships God changes from outward observances of the law that were temple centred Sabbath service, to one that is inwardly centred, where the faithful becomes that temple and observances are applied inwardly in the spirit and not to the letter of the law.
In Old Testament times when Jews were far away from Jerusalem, on sabbath days they would prostrate themselves, whilst facing the direction of the temple. Now according to the new covenant we sanctify the Sabbath by focussing inwardly on our spirit, by resting with God and ceasing from works of the heart that would break the Sabbath.
Let me give you a scenario of two people, let's say for example sake that one is a seven day Adventist and one is a Catholic. Let's say the seven day Adventist who attends Saturday mass in observance, resting from his daily fleshly works, but having some ill feelings toward their brother or sister or someone else. The Catholic is at his work place and he is under extreme pressure to perform and is bullied in the work place, yet finds solace in God to say Father please forgive them.
Now who has kept the Sabbath, the seven day Adventist or the Catholic?
Believe it or not the Catholic has rested from his works, whereas in this example the seven day Adventist has continued in his spiritual works of ill feelings towards others and has failed to sanctify the Sabbath.
In the above example the reverse can be applied where the seven day Adventist keeps the sabbath by virtue of resting in God and refraining from the ill works of the spirit.
So after Pentecost what does outward fleshly observances mean to God?
Nothing.
How we conduct our spirit, regardless of our fleshly performances, is determinant of us keeping the sabbath Holy. The sabbath becomes consecrated in the heart and not according to the ritualistic performance of the flesh.
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: (Romans 2:14)
A born again believer in Christ is the walking and breathing law, where God has purposely written his laws in their heart and so our performance is judged by the things of the heart, notwithstanding fleshly ritualistic performances.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:28)
So a person can outwardly perform all the Jewish ritualistic rights, yet if their hearts are far from God, then they have not entered his Sabbath rest.
8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
9There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
10for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,
e just as God did from his.
11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience, (Hebrews 4:8-11)
What determines obedience from disobedience, within the context of resting from their works, is the state of the heart and not fleshly performances..........
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Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Our hearts state of being determines whether we have entered God's Sabbath rest.
