• 3. ... There is no evidence of any kind of sabbath observance until Exodus 16.
If we limit the scope of understanding to those verses, this might be true because of ignorance of other scriptures/truth. But let use the whole Words of GOD's Word for a complete understanding.
• 3. SDAs have claimed that the sabbath has been the result of a continuing weekly cycle since creation. This is pure wishful thinking. There is nothing in Genesis that says that God gave a sabbath command.
AV Gn 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 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. 3 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.
AV Ex 16:23 And he said unto them, This [is that] which the LORD hath said,
To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
AV Ex 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 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: 11 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.
GOD linked the first seventh day to "
the rest of the holy sabbath".
Are any prepared to accuse GOD of being wrong ???
AV Ps 78:22-25 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. 25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
AV Mt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
Is there Sabbath in Heaven ???
AV Mk 2:27 And he said unto them,
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
AV Gn 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
To make this one an interesting scripture Study, What is Adam's name in Hebrew, and it's translation ???
AV Hb 4:10-11 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
AV Hb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
We will stop here for now, with a question:
Does Jesus/GOD have a continuity of perpetual Truth issue in any thing else holy or "
sanctified" every week in this Creation ???
H7676 in Hebrew said:
shabbath shab-bawth'
intensive from H7673;
intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath.
KJV: (+ every) sabbath.
AV Isa 66:22-23
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath{H7676 shabbath} to another{H7676 shabbath}, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
This continuity of perpetual Truth issue in holiness or "
sanctified" every week in this new Creation, any doubters ???
To be fair, Is there evidence in GOD's own WORDS, not man's unbelief , to suggest otherwise ???
AV Hb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
AV Re 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.
The end result is who wants to call GOD a liar, which is a sin in itself ???
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To be continued...."
Yours in Christ, Michael