BrightCandle said:
Why is there none to keep Saturday? In fact Jesus is accused of breaking it, and uses the illustration of David breaking it too!
While I already made the Scriptural point, I thought I would add that you are in disagreement with Irenaeus on this point:
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 4, chapter 8
For the Lord vindicated Abraham's posterity by loosing them from
bondage and calling them to salvation, as He did in the case of the woman
whom He healed, saying openly to those who had not faith like Abraham,
"Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath-days loose his ox
or his ass, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound these eighteen
years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath-days?" It is clear therefore,
that He loosed and vivified those who believe in Him as Abraham did,
doing nothing contrary to the law when He healed upon the Sabbath-day.
For the law did not prohibit men from being healed upon the Sabbaths; [on
the contrary,] it even circumcised them upon that day, and gave command
that the offices should be performed by the priests for the people; yea, it
did not disallow the healing even of dumb animals. Both at Siloam and on
frequent subsequent occasions, did He perform cures upon the Sabbath;
and for this reason many used to resort to Him on the Sabbath-days. For
the law commanded them to abstain from every servile work, that is, from
all grasping after wealth which is procured by trading and by other worldly
business; but it exhorted them to attend to the exercises of the soul, which
consist in reflection, and to addresses of a beneficial kind for their
neighbors' benefit. And therefore the Lord reproved those who unjustly
blamed Him for having healed upon the Sabbath-days. For He did not
make void, but fulfilled the law, by performing the offices of the high
priest, propitiating God for men, and cleansing the lepers, healing the sick,
and Himself suffering death, that exiled man might go forth from
condemnation, and might return without fear to his own inheritance.
3. And again, the law did not forbid those who were hungry on the
Sabbath-days to take food lying ready at hand: it did, however, forbid
them to reap and to gather into the barn. And therefore did the Lord say to
those who were blaming His disciples because they plucked and ate the
ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands, "Have ye not read this, what
David did, when himself was an hungered; how he went into the house of
937
God, and ate the shew-bread, and gave to those who were with him; which
it is not lawful to eat, but for the priests alone?" justifying His disciples
by the words of the law, and pointing out that it was lawful for the priests
to act freely. For David had been appointed a priest by God, although Saul
persecuted him. For all the righteous possess the sacerdotal rank. And all
the apostles of the Lord are priests, who do inherit here neither lands nor
houses, but serve God and the altar continually. Of whom Moses also
says in Deuteronomy, when blessing Levi, "Who said unto his father and
to his mother, I have not known thee; neither did he acknowledge his
brethren, and he disinherited his own sons: he kept Thy commandments,
and observed Thy covenant." But who are they that have left father and
mother, and have said adieu to all their neighbors, on account of the word
of God and His covenant, unless the disciples of the Lord? Of whom again
Moses says, "They shall have no inheritance, for the Lord Himself is their
inheritance." And again, "The priests the Levites shall have no part in the
whole tribe of Levi, nor substance with Israel; their substance is the
offerings (fructifications) of the Lord: these shall they eat." Wherefore also
Paul says, "I do not seek after a gift, but I seek after fruit." To His
disciples He said, who had a priesthood of the Lord, to whom it was
lawful when hungry to eat the ears of corn, "For the workman is worthy
of his meat." And the priests in the temple profaned the Sabbath, and were
blameless. Wherefore, then, were they blameless? Because when in the
temple they were not engaged in secular affairs, but in the service of the
Lord, fulfilling the law, but not going beyond it, as that man did, who of
his own accord carried dry wood into the camp of God, and was justly
stoned to death. "For every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be
hewn down, and cast into the fire;" and "whosoever shall defile the temple
of God, him shall God defile."
