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What does the Bible say about the Sabbath, and should we still be keeping it today?
Here are my Top 10 Scriptural reasons for why we should keep the Sabbath.
It’s time to UNLEARN the lies.
It is popular among Christians to say that the Sabbath has been done away with, or that
we no longer need to keep the Sabbath.
Some even say that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday.
However, none of these claims can be supported by Scripture.
There is not a single verse in the entire Bible that tells us the Sabbath was ever changed
or removed, and not one verse ever tells us to stop keeping the Sabbath.
Yet, there are well over one hundred verses in the Bible that tell us to keep the Sabbath.
Here are my top 10 Scriptural reasons about why we should still be keeping the Sabbath.
10.
THE SABBATH WAS ESTABLISHED AT CREATION
“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.
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 2:2-3
9.
THE SABBATH IS ONE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
"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 the
Lord your God.
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 the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”
- Exodus 20:8-11
8.
THE SABBATH IS A SIGN BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE
"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it
is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the
Lord who sanctifies you…
Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout
their generations as a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made
the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
- Exodus 31:13-17
“Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they
might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them…
I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; hallow My
Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
Lord your God.”
- Ezekiel 20:12-20
7.
THE SABBATH IS A GIFT TO US
And He said to them, "The Sabbath was MADE FOR MAN, and not man for the Sabbath.”
- Mark 2:27
“Moreover I also GAVE them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they
might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”
- Ezekiel 20:12
6.
GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO KEEP THE SABBATH
“Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; Who keeps
from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has joined himself to the Lord Speak, saying,
"The Lord has utterly separated me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am,
a dry tree."
For thus says the Lord: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases
Me, And hold fast My covenant, Even to them I will give in My house And within My walls
a place and a name Better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting
name That shall not be cut off.
Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, And to love the
name of the Lord, to be His servants - Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds
fast My covenant - Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful
in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house
shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."
- Isaiah 56:2-7
5.
THE SABBATH WILL STILL BE KEPT IN THE NEW CREATION
“’For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,’
says the Lord, ‘So shall your descendants and your name remain.
And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another,
all flesh shall come to worship before Me,’ says the Lord.”
- Isaiah 66:22-23
4.
WE ARE COMMANDED TO REMEMBER THE SABBATH
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
- Exodus 20:8
3.
TO FORGET OR CEASE THE SABBATH IS A PUNISHMENT IN ITSELF
“He has done violence to His tabernacle, As if it were a garden; He has destroyed His
place of assembly; The Lord has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten
in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.”
- Lamentations 2:6
“‘I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths
- All her appointed feasts…
I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot,’
says the Lord.”
- Hosea 2:11-13
2.
YESHUA, Paul, AND GENTILE CONVERTS KEPT THE SABBATH
“So 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 to read.”
- Luke 4:16
“So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might
be preached to them the next Sabbath…
On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.”
- Acts 13:42-44
“Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with
them from the Scriptures,” - Acts 17:2
“And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.”
- Acts 18:4
1.
THE BIBLE NEVER SAYS TO STOP KEEPING THE SABBATH
“Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout
their generations as a PERPETUAL covenant.
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel FOREVER; for in six days the Lord made
the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”
- Exodus 31:16-17
And here is a bonus scripture:
FALSE PRIESTS DO NOT KEEP THE SABBATH
“Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished
between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean
and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned
among them.”
- Ezekiel 22:26
I hope you enjoyed this top 10, and if you are not currently keeping the Sabbath, I pray
this video has challenged you to consider doing so.
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