Here is a lie by the 1st day churches. The Sabbath was made for the Jews. "Really"

Let’s look at what the Bible says in Mark 2:27, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”

Sabbath comes from the word Shabbath which essentially, as listed above, means “a day of rest.” God commanded a day of rest because He wants us to trust Him, and taking a Sabbath helps keep us from idolizing work. Also, we fall apart if we don’t rest.

The Sabbath was made by Jesus at the creation of this world. Jews did not exist at that time. God made the Sab­bath, with its threefold blessing, for all mankind, the entire human race. When the Ten Commandments were spoken by God on Sinai to the nation of Israel, they were told to "remember" what God had given to the whole human family hundreds of years before.

The Sabbath is for all humanity.

This commandment applied not only to the Jews but also to the "stranger within thy gates." Even the Gentile (to the Jew, a "stranger") was commanded to keep the Sabbath of creation. If we admit that we belong to the human family, then God's seventh-day Sabbath is for us.

Is God’s law for Jews only?

If the Sabbath were made just for the Jews, then the whole law of the ten moral commandments was made for the Jews alone. If that were the case, then Gentile Christians may take God’s name in vain and worship before idols of wood and stone. The majority are wrong when they deny the binding claims of the entire law of God, including the seventh-day Sabbath. “He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he [Jesus] walked” (1 John 2:6).

We should walk as Jesus walked...

Are you walking as Jesus walked? Jesus kept the seventh-day Sabbath as a Christian, not as a Jew. Won't you keep the Sabbath because you love God so much that you want to please Him with all your heart?

We should walk as Jesus walked...
Are you walking as Jesus walked? Jesus kept the seventh-day Sabbath as a Christian, not as a Jew. Won't you keep the Sabbath because you love God so much that you want to please Him with all your heart?

One of the Ten Commandments Christians struggle the most to keep was given in Exodus 20:8-11: Keep the Sabbath holy.

Unlike the previous commandments, which the Bible seems to list and then move on to the next one, the writer (Moses) pauses here and gives an explanation about Sabbath:

.People work six days a week. (Exodus 20:9).

.On the seventh day, no one should work. Not your daughter, son, cattle, etc. (Exodus 20:10).

.God, when creating the world, took a day off to rest, so why can’t you? (Exodus 20:11).

We’ll dive into the significance of Sabbaths, how the idea of this got skewed during Jesus’ time, and what it looks like for Christians today to take a day off weekly.

Sabbath Definition in Hebrew.

As the reader might have already derived, a Sabbath means a day of rest. What did it mean in the original Hebrew?

Sabbath comes from the word Shabbath which essentially, as listed above, means “a day of rest.” The word Saturday appears to come from this word, which could point to the Israelites taking a Sabbath on Saturdays.

Why Did God Give Us the Sabbath?

God seems to mandate a Sabbath for a number of reasons:

1. God wants us to trust Him. When the Israelites wandered the desert before they reached the Promised Land, God would make manna, a type of bread-like substance that would give them sustenance, and quail rain from the sky (Exodus 16).

Every day they would go out and collect that day’s rations and only that day’s rations. Any extra they tried to collect would end up full of maggots in the morning. But on the sixth day, God commanded them to gather twice as much so they wouldn’t work to get their food on the seventh day.

Like the Israelites tended to do in the Old Testament, some didn’t listen, and they wound up hungry on the Sabbath because they didn’t collect enough the day before. God wants us to trust Him. He will provide for us, even if we don’t work one day of the week.

2. We fall apart if we don’t rest. There were also practical reasons God commanded rest on the Sabbath. Those who work without taking a day’s break will encounter “physical exhaustion and breakdown,”

We are not meant to work nonstop. When we work seven-day weeks, we exhaust our brain so its creative functions cannot work properly. We become more stressed and wear ourselves out to the point we become susceptible to more illnesses.

3. We avoid idolatry when we take a Sabbath. If we work and do nothing but work, we run the risk of placing it before God in terms of importance.

How did the Sabbath get so complicated by the Pharisees' time?

The Pharisees got so stringent about not working on the Lord’s Day that they tried to condemn Jesus for healing someone on the Sabbath (Mark 6:1-3). And when his disciples even plucked a head of grain (Mark 2:23), Pharisees claimed they were working on the Sabbath.

Essentially, the Pharisees took the commandments of the Old Testament and created hedges, their versions of the commandments, around those commandments, just to avoid sinning.

Think of it this way:

Saturday Sabbath or Sunday Sabbath?

Sabbath isn’t necessarily synonymous with Sundays.

Some people may work on Sundays (retail, food service, etc.), and they may have to dedicate a different day to Sabbath. Because some may transcribe sermons for a pastor on Sundays, and take Saturdays off.

Even some church denominations have designated a different Sabbath day than Sundays. For instance, Seventh-day Adventist Churches , and other Sabbath organization take Sabbaths from Friday evening to Saturday evening.

Does Sabbath Still Matter Today? Is it Even Possible?

Writing this, I know I have to work 45-55+ hour weeks to make rent and living expenses. I work hard. And those reading this might have large families and even larger bills to pay, and you might not know if you will be able to pay it all this month. Some of you may work round-the-clock jobs that require you to be available seven days a week. It’s difficult to take a whole day off in our society, which expects us to run at full capacity all the time

Sabbaths might look a little different for us. It might just mean avoiding checking emails on weekends to avoid that extra stress. For those who work round-the-clock jobs, this might mean concentrating on a set number of hours and dedicating them to rest, even if, at this current time, you can’t designate 24 hours at once. Maybe designate 24 hours for the whole week and space it out.

Ultimately, it matters that we dedicate 24 hours a week (whether spaced out or at once) to rest, rejuvenate, and trust God to provide when our work hours cannot.