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Which Day of the Week is the Sabbath?

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TrustAndObey said:
Oldsage, was the Passover lamb to be killed on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread?

2 Chronicles 35:1 Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Feast of Unleaven bread starts the next day, these feast are intertwined.
 
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Isa 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear.
Isa 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood.

Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Jhn 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he
sent me.

Jhn 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? because ye cannot hear my word.

Hbr 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put to an open shame.

Isa 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isa 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Act 28:28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

Rom 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

Rom 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Hbr 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Hbr 12:29 For our God a consuming fire.
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Rev 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
 
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These are certainly fair questions.

Notice the context in the passage about going out:

They had been told not to gather food on that day, but continued to do so against the commandment. So in this case the going out is directly related to the details of the story.

While Jesus undoubtedly made reforms to their notions of the Sabbath he saw no problem with going to the synogogue, reading from the scrolls etc. So I likewise feel comfortable doing so.

The fire one is a bit more problematic for several reasons.

a. we have no direct clarification on this from Jesus.

b. We have no mitigating context that would weaken the command, so we assume it is simply as it reads. Now of course, that is not problematic unless we are not following it!

c. There is a biblical story that SOME would say sheds some light on the subject:


some say that to light the fire you have to do work as this man was doing. In fact I just now saw that debi mentioned this aspect, so am editing a bit, that kindle encompassed more than just lighting.

The bigger point may simply be that turning on a light is a lot easier than lighting a fire, keeping it going etc. God was stressing the not working part because they had trouble following through on this. But if someone was convinced they shouldn't flip a light switch during the Sabbath, I guess I would have no problem with them acting on that conviction.
 
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ra123 said:
Remember Gods word tall.

Adam and Eve fell from grace and became subject unto the law of God, having a saturday sabbath, which can never save. Before that they were with God himself, they needed no sabbath.

Then why did God bless it and make it Holy?
 
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Yes, I've read those verses before too. Still you are making a major mistake because you still do not see that the word "sabbath" was not only used to denote the seventh-day Sabbath of the Commandment - it was also used for the various feasts outlined in Lev 23. So, to be blunt, you don't know which 'sabbath' you are trying to talk about in using the above verses that actually kind of apply.
 
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I agree and well said.
 
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I am struggling to see what you mean with this one. Obviously the words for in and out would be different, but the point is the same. They were not to go gather bread when told not to. The going out was in relation to picking up the bread.

And as you mentioned Jesus as a means for testing practice, He had no problem with going out of His place on the Sabbath and worshipping.
 
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We live under GRACE,if we belong to GOD.This law is not for us ,nor was it ever.

1Jo 3:23
And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.
1Jo 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.

I am sorry I have to differ in your opinion because we do live under His Commandments....


First I would like to know if you have read this whole chapter in the Bible and secondly I would like to know are you without sin? We are Saved by Grace and given that freely BECAUSE WE ALL fall short of the Glory of God ..... To have no sin means that one is perfected and unless you can tell me that you are then you are like any other Christian that falls short of His Glory .....

Secondly Yes I know full well what this Scripture says but it does not take away the validatity of the Commandments that Christ re-itterated .... He came to fulfill Law not take it away and that too was stated by Christ.

This wasn't a revocation of the Commandments that govern our Worship of the Lord and that govern our Love to one another.... This is the problem, we are told to center our devotion on the Father through the Son.... We pray to Father and Worship the Father always, using but One mediator to do this and that is the Son, Christ .... But Christ is our Lord God too and therefore in recognizing the Lord's Day and centering all of our Worship on that day we then are honoring them both and the Comforter ..... We are worshiping the Trinity as the Whole at that point .....

We thank that Father for the Son, we thank the Son for His Sacrifice and then for giving us the assurance of Hope because He is the Risen Lord... and through thsi all we ask the Holy Spirit to be with us an continue to be the Comforter that was left in His stead.... We Worship this EVERY Sunday as a new celebration in the Trinity .... Every Sunday is Easter and then once a year we celebrate in FEAST.... This and Passover and the Ascencion are all very important infact the most important things we do in the Church ....



 
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As to the law never being for us (meaning gentiles I assume) that is not quite true. What is true is that we do not see explicit commands as in the ten commandments before Sinai (though there are some hints of them in saying that Abraham kept God's statutes, etc. )


But we do see that Cain knew it was wrong to kill his brother. We do see God blessing the 7th day. We do see that stealing was wrong from Jacob's story, etc. Even the pagans knew that adultery was wrong when Abraham said that his wife was his sister.

The point is that in the beginning they did not need the external law, as you said , they had God himself. But they did have an understanding of His requirements.

As men fell further they needed very clear commands. But the goal now is not to get rid of those commands, but to go back to living out the commands from an internal orientation of love of God and love of our brothers, as Christ lives in us through His Spirit.
 
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No literally they were not allowed to leave their homes period ..... it meant more than just working and going into the fields it meant the actual leaving of their homes period ...

abide ye under your home or roof (first definition)

then

let no man go from/out of his place (second definition)

It was being quite literal not to leave the home period .... that was the point .... it was very strict in content and they say that God was not a legalist .... I guess then He is when it comes to this kind of stuff huh? It was specific there was no room ....
 
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oldsage said:
Then why did God bless it and make it Holy?
Yes but he blessed it and made it Holy before he even created Adam no less Eve and it was not instituted in use anywhere in the Bible until Moses .... Show me where God instituted it's use before then .... And do remember that if you say that just because of that Scripture and then because it was in Genesis ... this would be a conclusionary argument which would make it Tradition ....
 
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I agree that we shall have Sabbath in the future but shall it be as we know it.

When I saw you wrote this
"Do we honestly believe that God would lift up the mercy seat in heaven, take out the tablets of stone written with His Own Finger, and chisel out just ONE of His commandments?"

What I understand you don`t belive in what jesus done for us.I have read that the ten commandments shall we not follow anymore




Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
 
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Yes, quite clearly, unless of course you read the rest of the passage. And as I said, are you saying Jesus violated the command? I don't think so.

Moreover, there were additional sacrifices, besides the daily ones, in the temple. Were they to stay in their house? It doesn't seem possible. Of course you could say they were safe being the priest under Jesus' permission slip, being priests and all.

EV 23:3 " `There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

here it is called a day of sacred assembly, not seclusion.

It doesn't sound as though they were in their homes. In fact Jeremiah clarifiies by saying:


The problem was the work, the load, etc. Notice he refers to the commandment made to their forefathers. Was it to not leave the house? No, it was to not carry a load or do work, which was what they were leaving the house to do.

Even the Pharisees, legalistic as they were, did not prevent going to worship. Surely they, if any, would have leaped on that if it were understood such.

The point is that individual words apart from their context do not say anything. Just as we said in the case of the "first day of the week" argument, the whole context determines it, not just the individual definitions. You will notice in the case of the first day of the week issue that I referred to biblical usage, not definitions from a Greek scholar. Why? Because biblical usage is what is the question, not what a Greek scholar or Hebrew scholar says.
 
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A. show me where the command not to murder was given. But Cain knew it was wrong.

B. Man was created day six. God rested day seven. So it was made holy after.
 
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I agree that we shall celebrate the sabbath in the future but shall we do it as we know it?

I was little suprised when I read this:

"Do we honestly believe that God would lift up the mercy seat in heaven, take out the tablets of stone written with His Own Finger, and chisel out just ONE of His commandments?"

What I understand what you say here are that you don`t belive in what Jesus did for us (sacrificed) Why I say that is because of Ephesians 2:15
her it say for me that Jesus took away the commandments.What said jesus self about the commandments? Matthew 5:21 - 22 and 27 - 32. For me here jesus go much longer then the ten commandments was.can you see the same.
Have I understand you correct about this?
 
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Exd 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that may know that I the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body of Christ.

2Cr 5:17 Therefore if any man in Christ, a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Matthew 28:1, In the end of the sabbaths, as it began to dawn toward the first of the sabbaths,


oldsage said:
Then why did God bless it and make it Holy?
 
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Mat 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Mat 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

Mat 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Mat 11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Mat 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal.

Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Mat 11:30 For my yoke easy, and my burden is light.



 
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ra123 said:
Matthew 28:1, In the end of the sabbaths, as it began to dawn toward the first of the sabbaths,

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sorry for the satire, but you do realize if you take this statement as literally as you claim then all you are saying is that the Sabbaths are ending ....and beginning again. SABBATHS is the key word here. And Sabbath was well defined. So unless you take it to mean week, then Sunday is not in view here at all. Please be consistent.
 
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