[Basic] The Sabbath Day (1) - The Meaning of the Sabbath Day

The Sabbath Day (1)

The Meanings of the Sabbath Day

The exact definition of the Sabbath Day comes from the work of creation of God Elohim, Who created the heavens and the earth for six days and rested on the seventh day from all Their work, but it is not like that of SDA(Seventh Day Adventists) which insists that a day begins from the time of sunset.

Ge 2:2~3 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

After God Elohim created all things by Their will, They rested from the work of creation, and chose the seventh day and blessed it and made it holy as the Sabbath Day.

The meaning of the Sabbath is the resting day, hole and blessed, and do nothing on that day except giving service to God the Creator. Therefore the First Coming Jesus kept the Sabbath Days as His custom and by His will to teach the special meaning of it and let His people learn from the example of His giving service in truth and in spirit.

Lk 4:16 He[Jesus] went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

God Elohim set us the good example to mark the seventh day as the holy day and kept every Sabbath. If They had not chosen the seventh day for Their people, there would have been all the same days without any special meanings, and God's children would not been holy and blessed in any days.

Thanks to God Elohim, the Creator, we can be blessed by keeping the Sabbaths every week. This is the way to remember God's will and obey Their commands and avoid the corruption from serving the other gods which didn't create the heavens and the earth.