Friday, May 14, 2010

Which day is sabbath saturday or sunday? ill u will have to choose which one it will be?

';And on the seventh day God ended 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 in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made'; Genesis 2; 2:4Which day is sabbath saturday or sunday? ill u will have to choose which one it will be?
Monday.Which day is sabbath saturday or sunday? ill u will have to choose which one it will be?
When is Saturday or Sunday? I mean, it's now Monday here, but in the Far East it is Tuesday already. It's really the same moment in each place right now. So if Saturday is the real sabbath should we in America not observe it on Friday to be at the same moment as Saturday in Israel? Or do you think God created the world according to the time zones as the world went around.





Get over the exact minute or day question! Just observe the Sabbith one day in seven, where ever you feel it fits.
It doesn't matter. What a nit picky detail! I go to church on Sunday, but I worship God 7 days a week.
The Sabbath


Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. The word sanctify means to set apart as holy. Elohim specifically set apart the seventh day as holy. This day was different from the other days of creation week. We read three times in these two verses that Elohim did not work on this day. The emphasis is that this was His day of rest. Sabbath (rest) establishes a pattern from the beginning to always leave time and place for the Creator to validate life.





Some people dispute the origin of the commanded day of rest, Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. The word sanctify means to set apart as holy. Elohim specifically set apart the seventh day as holy. This day was different from the other days of creation week. We read three times in these two verses that Elohim did not work on this day. The emphasis is that this was His day of rest.


Some people dispute the origin of the commanded day of rest, noting that the word Sabbath isn't mentioned here. However, the Hebrew word translated ';rested'; is shabath, which is the root word for ';Sabbath.'; Shabath means to cease, or rest, and because this is what Elohim did after six days of creation the Sabbath gets its meaning as ';a day of rest.'; To paraphrase the account in Genesis 2, ';Elohim sabbathed on the seventh day from all His work.'; The Hebrew language is clear and unambiguous in its intent.





When we think of the Sabbath, we often think of the Fourth Commandment, ';Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,'; Exodus 20:8. Elohim commanded His people Israel after being delivered from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. The events of that period of Israel's history鈥攖he Exodus鈥攚ere extraordinary. The plagues on Egypt, the death of all Egypt's firstborn, the parting of the Red Sea (gulf of Aquabar), manna coming from heaven and Elohim giving the Ten Commandments on stone tablets were all miraculous occurrences.





These events were dramatic testimony to the birth of a new nation. And it is only because His chosen people (the ones He called and the ones that cried out to Elohim their YHVH to deliver them) were now going to be a witness in the midst of the nations of a world that had forsaken Elohim. YHVH staged this incredible beginning of His new nation to show the world that He was still in charge. But the intimate relationship from the very beginning Elohim wanted with Man as His means of imparting His character into Adam would now be realized through the Commandments. Though the Commandments are not designed to establish this relationship they are the means to develop a climate in which this relationship can take place.





In Exodus 20 He points us back to creation, reminding us that ';in six days YHVH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore YHVH blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it'; (verse 11).





The Sabbath commandment has an important spiritual purpose. It clears the way for fallen Man to reconnect with his Creator. By this cycle of weekly remembrance Man would be positioned so the Creators authority could work in the lives of all humanity. YHVH intended that the Sabbath be observed as a reminder of that fact. The significance of the Sabbath was evident before YHVH gave the Ten Commandments to the nation of Israel. For example, a few weeks earlier, after the crossing of the Red Sea, when the Israelites witnessed the destruction of Pharaoh's armies, Israel entered the vast desert wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula. Within a few days the Israelites' food supplies, brought with them from Egypt, were exhausted. ';You have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger,'; they cried to Moses (Exodus 16:3).





However, YHVH was already a step ahead of them. He promised to send manna, a miraculous substance to nourish and sustain them as long as they were in the wilderness (Exodus 16:4, 15-18). Through the Manna Week and its implementation YHVH re-establishes the pattern He designed in the beginning. Manna was provided only six days out of every seven. On the sixth day there would be twice as much as usual, but none on the seventh day (Exodus 16:5, 22). Moses explained to the people what YHVH had told him: ';'Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to YHVH...Lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning...Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none''; (Exodus 16:23, 26).





But some didn't listen and ';went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none'; (Exodus 16:27). YHVH's reaction: ';How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? See! YHVH has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day'; (Exodus 16:28, 29). Here, several weeks before giving Moses the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, YHVH said the Israelites were refusing to keep His commandments and laws! He also said, ';YHVH has given you the Sabbath.'; He didn't say ';is giving'; or ';will give';; He had already given them the Sabbath, to be observed every seventh day!





One more time YHVH pointed them back to the original creation week and the pattern. YHVH, through Moses, commanded Israel, ';Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy'; (Exodus 20:8), and told the Israelites that they ';refuse[d] to keep My commandments and My laws'; by violating the Sabbath before Mount Sinai (Exodus 16:28).





Remarkably, some will still argue that this doesn't prove the Sabbath existed from creation week and wasn't instituted until given to Israel at Mount Sinai. Also in this rationalization it was only given to the physical nation of Israel for a limited time. So do not look for a bigger picture.


However, Y鈥檚hua Himself dispelled this notion. ';The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath,'; As He pointed to Its intent and purpose (Mark 2:27). He clarified the great underlying principle of the Sabbath day that so many have missed through the centuries: The Sabbath, far from enforcing a tiresome bondage or sanctioning a list of forbidden activities, is something YHVH made for man! It was sanctified (made holy/separate) as Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day of creation week with the Sabbath being sanctified the following day (Genesis 1:26-31; 2:1-3).





To Y鈥檚hua the Sabbath was positive and beneficial, not the oppressive burden some religious leaders have made of it. Notice His choice of words. The Sabbath wasn't something just for the nation of Israel; He said it was made for man鈥攆or all humanity鈥攁nd observing it wasn't a meaningless practice forced on people to bring only hardship and difficulty.





The seventh day was made for man, created expressly for mankind's benefit and well being! Several other translations bear this out: ';The Sabbath was made for the good of man,'; says Today's English Version. ';The Sabbath was made for the sake of man,'; reads the New English Bible. The Williams New Testament says, ';The Sabbath was made to serve man.';





Y鈥檚hua understood the purpose of YHVH's law, including the Sabbath鈥攖hat He intended it to be a blessing and benefit to mankind. YHVH, speaking through Moses, had earlier told Israel to ';love YHVH your Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments.';





Why? ';That you may live and multiply; and YHVH your Elohim will bless you in the land which you go to possess'; (Deuteronomy 30:16).





Moses, after leading Israel for 40 years through the wilderness, summed up the Israelites' experiences just before they entered the promised land. He understood how wonderful the law was that they had received from YHVH, that it was unique. ';Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as YHVH my Elohim commanded me ...Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people'...What great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?'; (Deuteronomy 4:5-8).





YHVH clearly intended the Sabbath to be a blessing to those who would use it as He intended. The actual instructions YHVH gave regarding the day were brief but give valuable insight into its intent. Let's look at some of these instructions.





';Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of YHVH your Elohim. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days YHVH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore YHVH blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it'; (Exodus 20:8-11).





On the Sabbath, we see that all members of a household were to rest from labor, even servants, guests and animals. All were to rest every seventh day from their normal, routine work. All family and household members were specifically listed, including parents, sons, daughters, servants and guests. If none did normal work, presumably everyone would spend much of the Sabbath with other family members as a family or household.





The command to observe the Sabbath in all households is reinforced in Leviticus 23:1-3, where YHVH lists other required religious observances. He also makes it clear that the Sabbath is His holy time, not that of Moses or Israel: ';And
God's Sabbath is from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. It is not up to us which day is the Sabbath, only if we will obey God's commandment concerning it.


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The seventh day has no mention of evening and morning, so the true Sabbath (seventh day) is eternal day(light), not Jewish nor Christian days(lights). God notably ended blessed and sanctified, then rested. That God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. Reconciling the world, which is done ';in Christ';(is the end of the law), and done by not imputing their sins unto them, is both by and unto ';that God';: 2Corinthians 5:19. Take Heed = pay attention to the details. For in Hebrews 2 ';escape'; is via ';give more earnest heed'; to what's been said. Only other option mentioned is ';no escape';, which notably applies to ';them';, not ';us';: 1Thessalonians 5:3,9. For the Lord is longsuffering to ';us-ward';--%26gt;, not to %26lt;--them-ward; which things are an allegory, and a mystery to solve, to make it to the end written alive unto God, which speaks of dying to the law, not by the law; And of grace mercy peace to come, not of law nor law worketh wrath to come. We are delivered from law worketh wrath to come: Romans 4:15 ... 1Thessalonians 1:10. God(Grace) hath not appointed us to wrath(law): 1Thessalonians 5:9.





Connect your biblical dots, grasshopper; For it's ';allegory'; and ';mystery';, allegoric mystery to solve, by seek %26amp; find, ';find grace';, ';in time';, to ';help';. Find grace at ';the throne of grace';, where only ';mercy'; is obtain-able. Hebrews 4. What sort of grace? The grace of our Lord JC. What sort of mercy? Merciful: full of mercy. Now that is first peace-able, according to James 3:17, among seven things grace unto from God our Father is, is first pure wisdom from above, is first pure grace, not Noahic grace which is soulish and had partiality, saved some only, 8 souls, who later died and received not the promise: Hebrews 11 hall of shame.





The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
You can always tell when it is a sabbatarian asking a question, because they always load the question in such a manner as to be intellectually dishonest.





Your citation from Genesis shows God blessed the seventh day on which He rested. It does NOT say God blessed every recurring seventh day.





None of this has to do with making a choice between the sabbath and the first day of the week.





The sabbath was a point of the covenant law made between God and Israel, and not God and all mankind, or God and Christians. No Christian was ever told to keep the law, let alone the sabbath. Christians are under the new covenant; not the old.





Therefore Christians are not required to ';keep'; any day.





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Saturday. but after a 3,000 years it's got a little twisted
Saturday is the Mosaic Sabbath. Always will be, it hasn't changed one iota.





Now, having said that let's look in to the scriptures.In the book of Acts 20. 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and


continued his speech until midnight.





From then onwards and even today christians gather on


the first day (Sunday) of the week to break bread and worship


Almighty God.Holy communion is a sacred time for the christian to remember the price that was paid for us to indeed be christians (followers of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ).Please read 1 Corinthians 11. 23- 29.





We are not told in the New Testament to continue with the keeping of the Sabbath (Saturday)
It depends: To the Jews is Saturday. To Christians is Sunday.





The command to keep the Sabbath holy was addressed to the Jews only as a sign of belonging between God and the


Jews, according to Ezekiel 20:12,20.





For Christians, Paul gave them the freedom to choose any day they wanted to keep or not to observe any at all, according to Romans 14:5,6.
For the Jewish faith, it's Saturday....but since Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday, Christians generally rest on a Sunday.
God only made one day holy. To say following the Sabbath is just a nit picky detail is like Cain thinking his fruit sacrifice was ';good enough';. We know from the story though, that God does indeed value obedience.
Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy...





the Sabbath is what the calendar has marked as saturday....





this is for all who follow Christ....
Please don`t test our intelligence..it was obviously Wednesday!!

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