"From Evening to Evening shall you celebrate your Sabbaths" Lev 23
1. The Sabbath is the "seventh day" - in scripture. Ex 20:10
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the seventh day IS the Sabbath of the LORD (YHWH)" Ex 20:10
It is not "a seventh day" but "the seventh day" such that in Exodus 16 "
tomorrow IS the Sabbath" and for 40 years no manna fell on that exact day.
2. The Sabbath of Ex 20:11 is the very same as the Sabbath of Gen 2:1-3 - sanctified, made holy by God Himself.
Ex 20:11
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Gen 2:1-3
And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made
Sanctified (made it holy)
3. The
moral Law of God known to Jeremiah and his readers is written on the heart and mind under the "
NEW Covenant"
Jer 31:31-34
31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”
It contains the new heart, new birth with law of God written on the heart
It contains adoption into the family of God
It contains forgiveness of sins
It is the ONE Gospel of Gal 1:6-9
It is unchanged in the NT - Heb 8:6-12
4. That same OT Sabbath is to be kept for all eternity in the New Heavens and New Earth - by ALL Mankind.
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from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all mankind come before Me to worship" Is 66:23
5. The TEN commandments were included in the moral law of God in Eden and applicable to all mankind to this very day as Bible scholars on BOTH sides of the Sabbath topic in almost all Christian denominations admit.
The moral Law of God includes the TEN having "
'honor your father and mother' as the first commandment with a promise" Eph 6:2
6. The moral law of God defines what sin IS - even in the N.T.
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sin IS transgression of the Law" 1 John 3:4
7. The only one of the TEN not explicitly "quoted from" in the N.T. is "
do not take God's name in vain" Ex 20:7 which does NOT "prove" it is ok to take God's name in vain in the N.T. -- rather it is just a somewhat interesting detail.