What is non sensical is for you to continue to defends what is not defensible and for you to have a believe, as you stated about the 4th commandment being a moral commandment, that judges the majority of all professed Christians as sinners.
My suggestion for what its worth is stop for a moment and prayerfully read this post and the Scriptures posted.
This is what God of the Bible said and He does not change. We do not decide what is righteous or moral
God does and He did, so plainly. Not just spoken written in Stone
by God, for its eternal nature. Its best to let God be God and us just be His servant obeying Him because we have faith that what He asks is for our own good.
Breaking God's Laws have always been sin and deserved death.
The Sabbath was never plucked out of the other 9 commandments that God wrote and God spoke Deut 4:13 Exo34:28 just because man does so, does not make God doing so. Breaking the Sabbath commandment came with the exact penalty as some of the other commandments
Exo 31:14
You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for
it is holy to you.
Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does
any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Same as the commandment for murder
Lev 24:17 ‘Whoever kills any man
shall surely be put to death.
Same as the commandment for committing adultery
Lev 24:1710 ‘The man who commits adultery with
another man’s wife,
he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress,
shall surely be put to death.
The God of the OT is the
same God of the NT. Mal3:6 Heb13:8
God destroyed the earthy temples for violating the Sabbath Jeremiah 17:21–27 that's how much God cares about His holy Sabbath, the Holy Day of the Lord thy God. Isa58:13
Why is the Sabbath so important to God, He tells us
Exo 31:16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath,
to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 17
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever (notice the next part, pointing back to Creation)
;
for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”
Its a sign between God and His people. When we violate the Sabbath, its telling God we are no longer His people. We have chosen another god to follow and this is what it does to God when we break it in His own Words. Again, God does not change
Eze 22:26
Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things;
they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and
they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Why many in their trial of the wilderness never made it to their rest in Canaan what we are told plainly not to follow their same example of disobedience to enter our rest Heb4:11
Eze 20:12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which,
if a man does, he shall live by them’;
and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
To think because we are in a majority group, that God would not really act out His righteous judgments because I am in the majority never worked out before if we look at Noah and is not what Jesus said plainly from His own lips. God is not a respecter of person.
Eze 20:13 “
Enter by the narrow gate;
for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are
many who go in by it. 14 Because
narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are
few who find it. Many means the majority few means the minority
The Sabbath never went anywhere in the NC except on His New Covenant's believers hearts. Heb8:10 2Cor3:3 if we allow Him to Rom8:7-8
The wages of sin is death still in the NC Rom6:23 unless we accept Christ and turn from our sins and abide in Him. Pro28:13 John15:5-10
Jesus was charged of breaking the sabbath and not being equal to God. That is why what He was changed with, which He never violated either, just man-made laws the rulers of the earth at that time viewed as law over the Law of God (not much has changed)
This is what Jesus said about these allegations
John 8:45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46
Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Jesus in His own words again is saying breaking the Sabbath is sin, what He was charged with, Sin is breaking God's law 1John3:4 any of the Ten Commandments James 2:11 they never were 9 commandments God of the Universe numbered them by design as Ten Deut 4:13 Exo34:28 and wrote "remember" on the one commandment He knew man would try to get rid of that points to Jesus as our Creator Exo20:11 and as our Sanctifier Eze 20:12
The Sabbath is about our loyalty to God. It runs much deeper than just a day. Whoever we obey is who we serve Rom6:16
Jesus is asking us to love and serve Him
Isa 56:6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant
He wants to bring everyone to His house, meant for ALL NATIONS
Isa 56:7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
God in His own words said keeping the Sabbath is doing righteousness Isa56:1-2, so its moral and all of His commandments are righteous Psa119:172 and His righteousness is everlasting Psa119:142
Why the Sabbath was a commandment kept by His disciples after His death Luke 23:56 when His covenant was ratified- it is finished nothing can be added after His death nothing it would require Jesus to die all over again and His sacrifice was one and for all Heb10:10 why we see Sabbath keeping faithfully by His people decades after the Cross just as Jesus said would happen Mat24:20 and the Sabbath continues, for worship forever Isa66:22-23
We are told to come out of our false teachings before its too late Rev 18:4 and I believe we are getting into end times. Our government as well all as other nations have been working on a decree much like in the days of Daniel (why its in this prophetic book) that is going to test the loyalty of God's people by making a national Sunday law that will eventually outlaw Sabbath-keeping. So its going to replace the commandment of God, with the commandment of man, what Jesus said is worshipping Him in vain Mark7:7-13 Mat`15:3-14. Theres been lots of talk on this and I can provide videos if anyone is interested.
Will our loyalty be with God, God's sign between His people and Him, when we stand before Jesus in Judgement Day. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, If you love Me, Keep My commandments, showing mercy to those who love Me and keep My commandments, or is our loyalty what is popular by man that God never sanctified Isa 66:17 or is a commandment of God.
Why in the last days we are told to worship our Creator who made the heavens and earth and everything in them Rev 14:7 which points us to God's seal in the 4th commandment.
The last days are about worship.
Do we worship and follow the one who changed God's times and laws Dan7:25 that the majority follow or stay faithful to God. Our actions will determine this.
Instead of fighting the 4th commandment its best get on our knees and ask for God's help in how we can honor Him and keep the Sabbath day Holy like He said to and keep all of God's commandments, to change our will for God's will.
Rev 22:11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever;
and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
The same beast who changed God's times and laws, that they in their own words said this change of transferring the Sabbath to Sunday, is a mark of their authority over God's
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
—C. F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895.
The antidote is found in the next verse
12 Here is the patience of the saints;
here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith
of Jesus.
Its faith
of Jesus not in Jesus- what did Jesus teach, how did He live, that is His faith.
Lets get back to what the God of the Bible asks. Not out of fear, but trusting God He knows what He is doing and knows He will never take away our free will, so we have to want to obey Him because we love Him, even if it doesn't always make sense or it seems as if the whole world is doing something different.
