The Four Gospels on Sabbath & Resurrection

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Who cares when Jesus resurrected? The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world, not that.

~Who cares~?

I do, very much, because Jesus cared, very much. So much in fact that He insisted to do his Father’s will to the day and hour and date and season to glorify Him and be glorified by Him “according to the Scriptures”, “so that the prophets shall be fulfilled who wrote concerning the Christ how that He HAD TO SUFFER.”



<<The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world, not that.>>



Now ~that~ is the Sabbath most dishonouring nonsensical untruth!

~That~, the principle of <<The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world>>, is the basics for idolatry clearly discerned by Paul in Galatians 4 already, and developed into ‘heh paratehrehsis’ or the “superstitious observational worshipping” of <the creation> “of days, months, seasons, years” in both contemporary Sabbath and Sunday observing Christianity.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world... Even the writer of Hebrews acknowledges this.

Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Exodus 20:11 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.

Hebrews 4:4 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.

<<The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world... Even the writer of Hebrews acknowledges this.>>



The writer of Hebrews acknowledges nothing like that the <<Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world>>. It’s not true and it's nonsense as I’ve said before.



Now

Hebrews 4:4, “For God on this wise spake in a certain place concerning the Seventh Day, And God did rest the day The Seventh Day from all his works”;

Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the Seventh Day, and sanctified it because in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made”;

Genesis 20:11, “For in six days the LORD made / created heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, but the day The Seventh Day rested: wherefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath[*] Day, and hallowed it.”



[*LXX ‘heh hebdomeh’—“Seventh Day” for Hebrew “Sabbath” in Genesis 20:11 Exodus 31:17]



“BECAUSE the LORD RESTED: THEREFORE, the LORD GOD blessed and hallowed the day The Seventh Day and in it (the day The Seventh Day Sabbath) finished all his works”—“finished all his works” mainly God’s “work” of act, “to rest”.

Like Exodus 31:17 says,

“…because the LORD on the day the Sabbath = the day The [“appointed”] Seventh Day, REVIVED / RESURRECTED”!

The LORD “rested” in and through none other than Jesus Christ [the “Man Appointed”] in The Full Fellowship of the Trinity.

The LORD GOD when “He RAISED Him from the dead”, “on the Sabbath rested”, because the True Witness “said, while He was still alive: On the third day I will rise again”.

That “third day”, “God appointed a Sabbath Day”, not because He created or finished to create, but “because God on the Seventh Day, rested”! (Job 14:12-18)

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Revelation 1:10 says “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day ...” It is obvious to anyone who is not a Sabbatarian that the Lord's day can only be Sunday, the day that Jesus rose from the dead.

Yea surely, <<It is obvious to anyone who is not a Sabbatarian that the Lord's day can only be Sunday>>…hahahaha…


But seriously ~this is not true at all~ because <<that the Lord's day can only be Sunday>> seems to be apparent to only one who is a Sunday believer.

Nothing in or about Revelation 1:10 suggests that the Lord’s Day must be Sunday; rather, everything in and about Revelation 1:10 obviates the fact “the Lord’s Day” is “the Day of the Lord”, Day, Jesus “is the Lord of”, “the Son of Man” is Lord of, “the Son of Man that layeth claim on the Sabbath, that keepeth the Sabbath from being polluted, that keepeth it from evil being done”, and that “maketh them that taketh hold on the LORD’S Covenant, joyful in (his) House of Prayer … for the House of the LORD shall be called an House of Prayer for all people”— and so shall be called “the Day of the LORD”, “the Lord’s Day”: “of prayer” and “joy”, “because in it God from all his works” in Christ Jesus, “rested”.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

Just take a look at what John Gill's commentary says about this.

John Gill Commentary:

<< Revelation 1:10

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day

Not on the Jewish sabbath, which was now abolished, nor was that ever called the Lord's day, and had John meant that, he would have said on the sabbath day; much less the Jewish passover, but the first day of the week is designed; so the Ethiopic version renders it "on the first day"; and is so called just as the ordinance of the supper is called the Lord's supper, being instituted by the Lord, and the Lord's table, ( 1 Corinthians 10:21 ) ( 11:20 ) , and that because it was the day in which our Lord rose from the dead, ( Mark 16:9 ) ; and in which he appeared at different times to his disciples, ( John 20:19 John 20:26 ) , and which the primitive churches set apart for his worship and service, and on which they met together to hear the word, and attend on ordinances … >

Gill excels himself in speculative arrogance. Like large assemblings of zebra ‘dazzle’ predators and confuse them so they cannot single out an individual to attack, so Gill throws all the contrasting stripes and colours and confusing shades and hews from different angles and distances into one short paragraph to avoid being shown his false impressions and distinct errors. He even darkens the clear bright scene with <<the Ethiopic version (which) renders it…>>, viz., “on the Lord’s Day” of Resurrection in the fullness of the Sabbath in the very daylight of the Sabbath mid-afternoon inclining towards the First Day of the week, <<…"on the first day">>!!

Why must Africa’s <<Ethiopic>> darkness engulf the clarity of John’s impeccable Greek? Ah, impossible not to understand—<Staff Edit> Not even to fabricate and make use of a fanciful variant reading as though it really existed. It is saddening yes, but scandalous no less.


The honest Christian of integrity and guts, Do not be taken to heels though any might try to unsettle you with ideas of the greatest among men; they are no more than their opinions, too often baseless, powerless, worthless, opportunist liars’, opinions.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

faithful Messianic Israelites met and worshiped on the Sabbath day, and observed the Jewish feast days (cf. Col. 2:16; 1Cor 5:8; 1Cor 16:8).

These Scriptures do not mention or even suppose that <<Messianic Israelites met and worshiped on the Sabbath day, and observed the Jewish feast days>>. Christians ---ordinary, usual, normal, ~faithful~ first century Christian believers--- met and worshiped on “the Sabbath Day”, "the day The Seventh Day God thus concerning spake, And God the day The Seventh Day from all his works, rested." True believers NEVER met, worshiped on, or observed, <<the Jewish feast days>> or Jewish Sabbath, for that matter. They met, worshiped on, and observed on “Sabbaths’ Feast OF CHRIST THE SUBSTANCE” Colossians 2:16, that was, “if Jesus gave them Rest and a Sabbath-Rest Day therefore for the People of God remained!” Hebrews 4:8.


By implication therefore, yes, Spiritual ~Israelites~ or just Christians met and worshiped on just the Sabbath Day, and they thereby on just the Sabbath Day observed every and all the Old Testament feast days of every nature and type, all having been fulfilled by Jesus, through Jesus and in Jesus Christ and for Him once for all and evermore “on the Seventh Day God thus spake … by the Son in these last days as in times past God in divers manners spake unto the fathers (Israelites and non-Israelites) by or through the prophets (Israelites and non-Israelites).”

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

The anniversary of the resurrection always falls right after Passover. It is marked on the "first of the sabbaths" in Acts 20:7 (Εν δε τη μια των σαββατων), when the disciples met to "break bread",

The ~anniversary~ of the resurrection used to fall right on passover day when the first sheaf was waved before the LORD right after passover “sabbath” on which the sheaf was always "kept in store” or “ark” – “coffin” or “sanctuary”.


In Acts 20:7… “The disciples being assembling together on the First Day of the week still, after having been assembling together for The Of Us To Break Bread before, Paul discussed matters with them.” ‘En de tehi Miai (Hehmeran) tohn sabbatohn sunehgmenohn hehmohn klasai arton, ho Paulos dielegeto autois’


If it were the <<anniversary of the resurrection after Passover>>, Luke would have written, not, “en de tehi Miai tohn sabbatohn”, but ‘en de tois sabbasin tehi miai’, or rather some even bigger nonsense like, ‘meta ta sabbata tehn mian’.

It therefore is three times double nonsense ~it~ whatever ~it~ is, <<is marked on the "first of the sabbaths">>.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

All the resurrection accounts show that Yeshua was raised from the dead on the first Sabbath after Passover (μια των σαββατων; Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; cf. vs. 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; cf. Acts 20:7; cf. 1Cor. 16:2). In 1 Cor. 16:2 Paul tells the faithful to save up a contribution "down from the first of Sabbaths" (κατα μιαν σαββατων) to send to Jerusalem for Pentecost (1 Cor. 16:8). The anniversary of the resurrection always falls right after Passover. It is marked on the "first of the sabbaths" in Acts 20:7 … The expression showing the time of the resurrection appears eight times in the Apostolic Writings. It designates a special Sabbath (cf. Lev. 23:15) along with the regular Sabbaths.

NONE of the ~expressions~ in <<Mark 16:2 … Luke 24:1 … John 20:1, 19 … Acts 20:7 … 1Cor. 16:2>>, is in fact <<expression showing the time of the resurrection>>.

Nor does any of these ~expressions~ <<appear eight times in the Apostolic Writings>>— the Gospels.

And none of them, including <<Matthew 28:1>>, <<designates a special Sabbath>> or, <<designates a special Sabbath along with the regular Sabbaths>>.

It’s all ~LittleLambofJesus~ like some dragon drop or young cast beast from apocalyptic cataclysm bleating love song.

 

[Dale]

Who cares when Jesus resurrected? The Sabbath is to honor the creation of the world, not that. Even the writer of Hebrews acknowledges this.
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Exodus 20:11 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.
Hebrews 4:4 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.

You don't care when Jesus resurrected because you're not interested in Jesus.

Apparently the New Testament is just a footnote to the Old Testament as far as you are concerned.