63 Biblical Reasons to Keep the 7th Day Sabbath
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This was a great article I found the other day by Robert Roy listed on the PFT website. So many people I hear from, started out trying to disprove folks in the Hebrew Root by searching scripture. However, the more they researched, the more they found truth. This was the case for me as well. I set out to prove or disprove. It’s obvious by this website where I came down at.
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63 Biblical Reasons to Keep the 7th Day Sabbath
By Robert Roy
http://www.MessianicPublications.com
[dropcap3]I[/dropcap3] remember kicking against the Saturday Sabbath. I remember spending hours combing through the scriptures, looking for passages that would justify its not being binding on me today. Sure it was established at creation. Sure, it was one of the 10 commandments. Sure, God said it would be a “perpetual” commandment, to be observed “forever.” But I remember finding an ambiguous passage here, or a theological rationalization there that would satisfy me for the moment — but that would then leave me thirsty, and unsatisfied, looking for more answers. In the back of my mind, I couldn’t help but think that I was just rationalizing my own disobedience — rather than objectively weighing the full weight of biblical testimony and witness.
If this has been your experience too, I invite you to put down your theological weapons, loosen your grip on your counter-arguments, and open up your heart to the possibility that the 4th commandment might be for today — that God may be holding out unknown pleasure, and blessings, and riches to you — and all you have to do is reach out and take hold.
Reason #1: God finished His work of creation and rested on the 7th day (Gen. 2:2-3, Ex. 31:17)
Reason #2: God uniquely blessed the 7th day (Gen. 2:3)
Reason #3: God made the 7th day “holy” — that is, “set apart” from all other days (Gen. 2:3, Ex. 31:14)
Reason #4: God rested from all his labors on the 7th day Sabbath (Gen. 2:2-3)
Reason #5: Man is made in God’s image, and since God rested on the 7th day, part of bearing God’s image means keeping the 7th day Sabbath (Gen. 1:26-27).
Reason #6: The Saturday Sabbath is one of the 10 commandments (Ex. 20:8-11, Deut. 5:12-15).
Reason #7: God says “above all” believers are to keep his Sabbaths (Ex 31:13)
Reason #8: God tells his people to keep the Saturday Sabbath so that they know that God is the one who sanctifies them — that is, sets them apart from all other people (Ex 31:13)
Reason #9: God tells his people to keep the Sabbath “throughout your generations.” (Ex. 31:13, 16)
Reason #10: The Saturday Sabbath is a sign or a mark of God’s authority over his people (Ex. 31:13, 17)
Reason #11: God tells his people to keep the Sabbath “forever.” (Ex. 31:16)
Reason #12: The 7th day, Saturday Sabbath is an eternal covenant (Ex. 31:16-17)
Reason #13: God’s people are told to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations (Ex. 31:16-17)
Reason #14: The Saturday Sabbath commandment was written with the finger of God (Ex. 31:18, Deut. 9:10).
Reason #15: God does not change his mind (Numbers 23:19)
Reason #16: God says that his commandments (including the Sabbath) are not too hard for us to do (Deut. 30:11)
Reason #17: God sent Israel into captivity for breaking the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:17)
Reason #18: Those who observe the Saturday Sabbath will be given “a monument and a name better than sons and daughters” (Isa. 56:5)
Reason #19: God promises to specially bless those who keep the Saturday Sabbath (Isa. 56:2)
Reason #20: God promises to not cut off those who keep the Saturday Sabbath (Isa. 56:3-6)
Reason #21: God promises that he will bring those who keep the Saturday Sabbath to his Holy Mountain (Isa. 56:7)
Reason #22: God promises to make joyful those who keep the Saturday Sabbath (Isa. 56:7)
Reason #23: The Sabbath is intended to be a delight (Isaiah 58:13)
Reason #24: God promises that we will “find our joy in the LORD” when we keep the Saturday Sabbath (Isa. 58:13)
Reason #25: God promises that those who keep the Saturday Sabbath will “ride on the heights of the land” (Isa. 58:13)
Reason #26: God promises that those who keep the Saturday Sabbath will “feast on the inheritance of our father Jacob” (Isa. 58:13)
Reason #27: In the future, after the Final Judgment, the Sabbath will still be in effect (Isa. 66:22-23)
Reason #28: God uses the Sabbath as a time marker when referring to the New Heavens and New Earth, showing that the Sabbath will still be in effect in the world to come (Isaiah 66:23)
Reason #29: Forgetting the Saturday Sabbath is a punishment (Lamentations 2:6)
Reason #30: The Lord gave the Sabbath as a sign or a mark between Him and His people (Ezekiel- 20:12-24)
Reason #31: God mentioned Sabbath breaking in a list of indictments against his people, along with other “moral” issues (Ezek. 22:8, 26, 23:38)
Reason #32: The prophet Ezekiel describes a future temple in which the Sabbath will still be in effect (Ezekiel 46:1-12)
Reason #33: The Bible warns that the devil will seek to change times, laws, Sabbaths, etc. (Daniel 7:25)
Reason #34: God takes away the Sabbaths and the Feasts as a punishment (Hosea 2:11)
Reason #35: God wouldn’t change the day of the Sabbath, or nullify it, without speaking this through the mouth of the prophets first (Amos 3:7)
Reason #36: God does not change (Malachi 3:6)
Reason #37: Jesus did not come to abolish even the least of God’s commandments (Matt. 5:17-19)
Reason #38: Nothing will pass from the Torah until ALL is accomplished (Matt. 5:18)
Reason #39: Those who break the Saturday Sabbath will be called “least” in the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:19)
Reason #40: Those who teach others to break the Sabbath will be called “least” in the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:19)
Reason #41: Those who keep the Saturday Sabbath (along with God’s other commandments) will be called “great” in the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:19)
Reason #42: Those who teach others to keep the Saturday sabbath will be called “great” in the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:19)
Reason #43: Jesus will say he does not know those who practice lawlessness (Matt. 7:23)
Reason #44: Jesus taught his disciples how to properly keep the 7th day Sabbath, with the expectation that his followers would keep it as he did (Matt. 12:10-12, Mark 2:27-28, 3:2-4, Luke 6:1-11)
Reason #45: Jesus told his disciples to pray that they wouldn’t have to flee on the Sabbath (Matt. 24:20)
Reason #46: Jesus taught that the Sabbath would be in effect after his death and before the great tribulation (Matt. 24:20-21)
Reason #47: Jesus set our example by observing the Saturday Sabbath (Mark 1:21, 6:2, Luke 4:16, 13:10, ).
Reason #48: Even after his crucifixion, some women “rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.” (Luke 23:56)
Reason #49: Jesus told his followers that the Saturday Sabbath was made for mankind (Mark 2:27-28).
Reason #50: Jesus said “If you love me, you will obey what I command” (John 14:15), and Jesus told his followers to keep the 7th day Sabbath (Mark 2:27-28, Matt. 5:17-19)
Reason #51: The disciples (including Paul) continued to observe the Sabbath after Yeshua’s death (Acts 13:14,16:13)
Reason #52: The Jerusalem council gave gentiles four basic commandments because they knew they would learn the rest of God’s commandments in the Synagogues on the 7th day Sabbath (Acts 15:21)
Reason #53: It was Paul’s habit to keep the 7th day Sabbath (Acts 17:2)
Reason #54: Paul kept the Saturday Sabbath every week (Acts 18:4)
Reason #55: Paul taught his churches to uphold the Law/Torah of God (Romans 3:31)
Reason #56: Jesus kept the Saturday Sabbath, and Paul was an imitator of Jesus, teaching others to imitate both himself and Jesus (1 Cor. 11:1)
Reason #57: Paul taught others to imitate himself (1 Cor. 11:1), and Paul kept the 7th day Sabbath (Acts 13:14;16:13; 17:2)
Reason #58: All scripture is profitable for reproof, correction, and training in righteousness — and “all scripture” would include the 7th day Sabbath (2 Tim. 3:16)
Reason #59: The Author of Hebrews says, “There remains, then, a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God” (Heb.4:9).
Reason #60: We are to “walk as [Jesus] walked,” and Yeshua kept the Saturday Sabbath (1 John 2:6)
Reason #61: We are told that love for God = obeying his commandments (1 John 5:3).
Reason #62: God’s commandments are not supposed to be burdensome (1 John5:3).
Reason #63: The Book of Revelation praises those living in the end-times who keep God’s commandments — which would include the 7th day Sabbath (Rev. 12:17)
And yet, man will still fight against the Word to seek out what’s in the world. This list reads like a checklist for the ‘few and the many’. Shalom!
AND as of today 119 just posted their sabbath day teaching
Love #18 one of my favs!
I find it interesting that Christians have a very difficult time obeying the Old Covenant commands and Elohim’s appointed feasts, and Shabbat is a feast, and which are his feasts, not Jewish feasts. Yahweh says these are my feasts, not Jewish feasts and Christians say that they are done away with when Yeshua was on the cross saying “it is finished”.
So, I find it ironic that Christians have no problem in obeying the law of the land which they are living under, which have more commandments than Torah, but Elohim’s commandments are too burdensome!
I don’t understand that logic.
Or, is it really a matter of lifestyle. Not all but most of the Christians out there don’t need to change their lifestyle because many live like the world and there is not distinction. Living under Yahweh’s commands you have to change your lifestyle because now you are set apart where before Christians just blend in where it is hard to tell if they are believers.
Something to think about.
The 4th Commandment say’s remember the Sabbath (Saturday) and keep it Holy-Set Apart. Point is I was reading some articles from a site that advocated a lunar-Sabbath. Now I have not done enough research on this lunar sabbath deal but I have been keeping or observing a Saturday-Shabbot for 3 years now and I will say that the Father has blessed me with some pretty incredible wisdom of Yahshua, the Fathers plan and His Torah. So even though we really don’t know what day is the Sabbath according to all the history of the various calendar changes by man, I can’t help but see where it say’s REMEMBER. I believe the Father knew that the days (calendar) would be obscured by man and we at the latter days would be inundated with misinformation, that He allow our Judah brethren to keep and record our Creator’s calendar the best they can. So blessed is everyone who REMEMBERS the Sabbath!!
P.S. anyone who can help me on this Lunar deal, which is to observe the Sabbath on the days after the new moon. Personally I just want to get it RIGHT in the Fathers eyes!
Shalom Brother Zach! I have no issues with this or keeping the Shabbat, but what troubles me a bit is that it references the scriptures and the word Saturday (7th day for some of us) is added into their biblical points as if the bible actually says Saturday. I really like this and am always looking for new things to share with people that are curious about the truth. But I am cautious of how it is written as to not give them excuses to say we are adding or changing the scriptures. In the military they tell us we can add to the regulations, but you can’t “take away” from them. The bible is just the opposite, we are not to “add to” or change what is written. We know the truth so we have no issues or challenges when we read this the way it is written, I am just thinking about the people who don’t that are referencing yours, 119 ministries, etc. sites for more information. Just some food for thought. Hope all is well! Keep doing the good work! Bless you! Sis Cari
James, the lunar sabbath idea is something made up a few years ago and has no roots in the Bible or in history. It is extemely easy to disprove by noting the days of creation week, and what day the first sabbath fell on. It wasn’t on a 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th of the month like the lunar advocates like to teach.
I’ve put some videos of sermons by Michael Pedrin about the Lunar Sabbath – The Big Lie on youtube if interested. Please notice that these are not professionally done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4jJlLNrrE
Something to remember James, is that, when The Father refrences “Remeber” it is not how we render it.
When He remembers something or someone… this again, isnt a menal ascent(assent?). This is an action. DOing something. Bringing it close to Himself, or acting upon it. So a mental “remembrance” of (what He calls The SIGN or SEAL of His people, something this important..) the Sabbath wouldn’t seem justified to me. I dont agree the lunar sabbath is correct either, but I also know that He says what He has given us to do is not to difficult, and He provides a way for the willing to be obedient. Pray about it, and in the meantime, take the rest He has given us, and relish in it.