Faithful Writers

In more than a hundred languages of the world, the word for “Sabbath” as meaning a day of rest is actually “Sabbath” and refers to Saturday. For example: Arabic=Sabot, Armenian=Shabat, Spanish=Sabado, Italian=Sabato, etcetera.

The middle of the week of 30 A.D. was a Wednesday Passover. Jesus was to be “cut off” in the middle of the week! He was to be cut off in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week, in the middle of God’s 7000 year week and in the middle of the simple seven day week.

Of course God doesn’t have to rest. But He knew we would need one Holy Temple in time where we would need to get away from it all. That is why he rested on the seventh day and separated this day from all other days.

This is fascinating because it tells us that the Sabbath is NOT the result of or a response to sin. Hence, it is part of God’s original plan for all mankind.

This is an issue that the Apostle Paul spent a lifetime trying to break down. How can it be sinful for a Jewish believer to desecrate the Sabbath but not for a Gentile believer? This is nothing less than the creation of two totally different flocks!

Now an interesting thing you need to know is that there were two groups of people in the synagogue right from the start. There were the “men of Israel” and the “God fearers." The term “God-fearers” is widely regarded by scholars as a special designation for Gentiles who didn’t convert to become Jews but loved the Jewish scriptures and loved the teachings of Judaism.

Jesus’s death did not do away with the Sabbath. Second, and this is the main point I want to make. The earliest that the Book of Luke could have been written was about 62AD or about 30-plus years after the events that are being described here.

However, Jesus makes it clear in this chapter that there will be a whole sequence of events. He talks about the generation that would witness the destruction of the temple in 70AD and he speaks about the abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place.

Putting arguments aside that “we can make the Sabbath any day we want”, or “Christ did away with the law, so we don’t have to worry about it blah, blah, blah”, or “It’s only for the Jews blah, blah, blah” aside are you willing to concede to this one point?

"We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." What’s really refreshing about this situation is that the Catholic church is perfectly upfront and out in the open about what they’ve done.

Dr. Eck’s refutation of Luther’s accusation was so devastating that it rendered Luther speechless and ultimately caused him to lose the debate. “If you turn from the church to the Scriptures alone, then you must keep the Sabbath with the Jews, which has been kept since the beginning of the world.” -Dr. Eck’s Enchiridion pp. 78–79.

Unchecked anger is a doorway for spiritual attack, and this includes fear that leads to anger and resentment. I know this on a personal level, and I’ve seen the damage such an attack can produce. Even this very morning I was in conversation with a family member and in the discussion, I started thinking about the various trials and difficulties I had to overcome as a son of a sharecropper from the American South.

Scrolls and a candle on a wooden table under dramatic clouds with sun rays and a cross, creating a serene, spiritual ambiance and He would be contradicting the plain words of His Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As far as the Bible is concerned, you should know there is no SUCH THING as an Old Testament. Interpreting the Bible starting from the New Testament is as I’ve said before like trying to make sense of a movie by watching it from its halfway point.

The first point I need to make is that the word “Sabbath” is not even mentioned in the text. Actually, it’s not even mentioned anywhere in the whole book of Romans.

The answer is Paul is talking to Gentiles which means in the past they had never observed the Biblical feasts or the Sabbath in the first place.

How many pounds of marijuana does a Bible translator have to smoke to get to the translation “the first day”? It is a colossal error to translate this into “first day of the week."

I believe we must eliminate those Greek scholars from the field who learned to translate μια των σαββατων from others who told them that σαββατον meant “week” based on Church tradition.

Well, how about the Protestant world? Well, hold onto your horses Bucko because in this post, I’m gonna provide some insightful quotes from the world of Protestant scholarship and then I’m going to close this series of articles on the Sabbath.

Lest I be misunderstood, I would like to point out that I am NOT worshipping wealth or the acquisition of wealth. My point is to urge you NOT to waste your God-given talents. Use them to create massive value and contribute to society.

The point here is that life itself comes from outside of our four-dimensional universe and can only originate from God. In this day and age, we have evolutionists and other scientists trying to prove we can take things that are not living, and given enough time (billions and billions of years they say) and the right set of circumstances life can somehow spontaneously erupt minus any divine intervention.

Here is something you probably haven’t heard your pastor ever talk about. However, it is a pattern that is repeated throughout the Scriptures. The direction East has great spiritual significance and is always associated with holiness.

I think this is a post that wives, actually all women, whether married or not, are going to enjoy.

Now am I saying that you should deliberately avoid all social situations or relationships with other singles? Of course not. What I’m saying is don’t be frantic and frazzled.