Brothers and sisters, according to the manna story Moses kept a Sabbath from morning to morning. Every day except the day before a Sabbath, collected was the manna in the "morning" and lasted until the next "morning". The day before a Sabbath, it would last past the ending "morning" of the previous day until a second day that also ends in a "morning". Clearly, a day for the manna story because of the Sabbath is from "morning" to "morning". The Sabbath begins with a "morning" with no manna found and the previous day's manna lasts beyond the end "morning" of the previous day for two days instead of one. Notice that manna spoils in the morning, except when the next day is a Sabbath. For the manna story, the point on the line when the preparation day crosses over to the Sabbath is when it does not spoil in the morning.
Then Moses said to them, “
No one is to keep any of it until morning.” However, some of them paid no attention to Moses;
they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil.
Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’ ” So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.” (
Exodus 16:19-26 NIV)
This is consistent with what Genesis reveals! God set the days of creation from morning to morning. In the case of the first day from first light to light again in the morning and later days until the Sabbath from morning to morning.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (
Genesis 1:3-5 NIV)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
