I have a theory that the very presence of the Sabbath commandment in the Ten informs us that the Ten Commandments are not for Christians.
Is the presence of the Sabbath Commandment
proof that the TCs are not for Christians?
The Bible tells us that the Sabbath is a sign between God and the Israelites alone.
That being the case, how could a set of commandments carrying
the Sabbath commandment be for anyone else?
Exodus 31:13
“Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
Ezekiel 20:12, 20
Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy. … 20 Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”
The Moral law has been written on the fleshy tables of our hearts
2 Cor 3:2-6
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
This is after the promise he would write his law within us, inside our hearts.
Jeremiah 31:33-34
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.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Hebrews 10:16
16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
The Ten commandments were placed inside the ark of the Covenant written in stone by the finger of God Twice (Deuteronomy 10:2-5;Exodus 25:16; Exodus 31:16-18; Exodus 34:1) showing that they would stand for eternity. Where as the Mosaic law was only place on the side of the Ark(Deut 31:26) showing it would only stand for a time.
Each of the ten commandments are shown within the New Testament spoken of either by Christ or the Apostles. The keeping of the Sabbath day is no exception.
4th Commandment(Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it)
In the Old Testament: Exodus 20:8-11,
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Deut 5:12-15
All of the Apostles kept the sabbath day holy and sacred.Acts 13:14, Acts 13:42-44, Acts 15:21, Acts 16:13, Acts 17:1-3, Acts 18:4
The Apostle Paul has said that the day of rest given by YHWH still remains:
Hebrews 4:1-12
Paul tells us to fear if the Promise of rest were to have left us:
1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
The Gospel did not profit them who heard but did not have faith:
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
We who believe enter into rest as we were commanded to by God when he swore in his wrath Hallowing the sabbath day that we should enter into the rest set by him(after he had finished the works from the foundation of the world):
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
That is why he spoke in a certain place(the Moral law) on this matter, showing that even he did rest on this Seventh day sanctifying it as a everlasting sign and covenant between us:
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
And we are told again to continue to enter into his rest(keep the Sabbath day) to receive his promise:
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Seeing this, we know it remains(the Sabbath day remains) that some must enter therein(those of faith/belief). But to those to whom it was first given did not keep it because of their unbelief.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
When the Lord spoke to David he again limited a certain day(to David was again given the seventh day rest):
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
If Jesus had come to give us another day of rest(another Sabbath) then would he not have spoken of another day? Christ never mentioned another day for Sabbath worship. No it cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament:
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Because no other day was given by Christ or YHWH there remains a rest to the people of God. The same Sabbath day rest shown and spoken of since the beginning of the bible, being shown all the way into the new heavens and the New earth.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Those that enter into God's rest(seventh day Sabbath) cease from their own works, after the example of God himself ceasing from his.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
We are to labour to enter into that same rest(same Sabbath day) lest we fall away from God as those others did from unbelief.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Those who keep his Sabbath day(Saturday) are counted worthy of entering his Holy mountain in the last days.
Isaiah 56:1-12
The promise was indeed a perpetual covenant to show that those who kept it were sanctified by the Lord.
Exodus 31:13-18
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
14
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done;
but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The sabbath was given as a perpetual covenant for sanctification and promise to those who kept it holy. So when the kingdom and promise was taken from the OT Jews and given to us(Matt 21:43; Romans 10:19,20; Acts 28:25-28) who are made Jews after the Circumcision of the heart and spirit(Romans 2:28-29; Acts 15:7-9; Romans 10:8; Colossians 2:11-13; Philippians 3:3) it was given to us(who are the new Jews) being written in the fleshy tables of our hearts.
If Christ who is lord of the Sabbath day(Matt 10:1-8; Mark 2:25-28;Luke 6:1-10) had come to give another day of rest to us(or came to take it away all together), wouldn't he have told us we have another day of worship(or that it was finished/done away with)? Wouldn't he have mentioned that the Sabbath day was to be changed? All he told us was that the traditions of men added to the Sabbath were done(Luke 14:1-6) the same traditions spoken of by YHWH(Ez 20:13,16,18-21,24), that it was lawful to do the Lords work on the Sabbath as well as do what we need to do(things that may or may not pertain to Godly work such as getting an animal out of a ditch/pit).
Nowhere is the Sabbath day said to be completed or done away with. In fact the seventh day Sabbath is kept in the New Earth Isaiah 66:23 just as it was kept in beginning, Genesis 2:2.
The very fact that it is said to be kept in the New Heavens and New earth should clue us in to the fact that it still remains.