Saturday, March 16, 2013

HIS SABBATH

SHABBAT SHALOM!  Today is the Seventh Day and it is the Sabbath!  Hallelu Yah! 
Today is His set apart day and if we say we follow after the G-d of Israel then we will remember and observe His day. RIGHT?  We will stand in obedience to Him and honor Him. RIGHT?

From Exodus..... “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

From Deuteronomy.....‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day."

One of the primary reasons the Israelites were taken into national captivity and lost from sight was because of Sabbath-breaking...........

"And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them" (Ezek. 20:11-13).

Yeshua said the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27.)  It was made as a benefit and a blessing for man’s good. The Sabbath was created at the same time man was created.

'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' (Gen. 2:1-3).

IF the Sabbath is so important to our Elohim and He says it is His mark between Himself and His people.....SHOULD IT NOT BE IMPORTANT TO EACH OF US? SHOULD IT NOT BE A DAY THAT WE SET APART TO HONOR AND OBEY HIM?  YES!

Let us all seek the Ancient Path.  Let us go back to the beginning of truth and turn from the wicked ways of the world and its man made institutions, doctrines, and teachings.  Let us all turn away from the pagan holidays and celebrations.