1. The Sabbath was instituted at Creation:
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:2-3).
2. The Sabbath was given to Hebrews prior to Mount Sinai:
“How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day” (Exodus 16:28-30).
3. The Sabbath is part of the 10 Commandments:
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8-11).
4. Jesus worshipped on the Sabbath Day:
“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read” (Luke 4:16).
5. Jesus declared Himself Lord of the Sabbath day:
“For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day” (Matthew 12:8).
6. Jesus taught the Sabbath was created for all people:
“And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27).
7. Jesus warned about coming destruction of Jerusalem and taught that Christians in Israel should pray that the future destruction not come on the Sabbath:
“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:” (Matthew 24:20).
8. The disciples waited until after the Sabbath was over before finishing the burial process of Jesus Christ:
“And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them” (Luke 23:54 – 24:1).
9. The Apostle Paul continued to worship and teach on the Sabbath:
“And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures” (Acts 17:2).
10. The Moral Law–including the Sabbath–is still binding on man:
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31).
11. Sabbath Keeping will be part of worship in the New Earth:
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, And from one sabbath to another, Shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD (Isaiah 66:23)
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12. The Sabbath is the gospel of Jesus that teaches us to rest in the completed work of Salvation:
“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.” (Hebrews 4:9-10, ESV).
Stephen Beagles