Ok..so your position is that the holiness of the 7th day in creation week did not continue into the following 7th days thereafter?
If Im correct about your position,then, why did God command the Isrealites to keep the 7th day holy if the holiness did not continue to the time of the command.
God did not command them to make a holy day but to keep it holy..Implying that it is already holy .So Im assuming it would be holy from creation?
It was custom for Jesus to preach and teach in the synagogues on the sabbath days..He was doing his Father's work.If im teaching God's word at a gathering on the sabbath day I would consider myself to be doing the Lord's work,Labouring in the Lord.It is the Lord's day.
Jesus was not breaking his own laws..he was breaking the laws christian leaders made.
The priests did the same in old covenant and were found blamless..they were doing the Lords work.
Matthew 12:5- Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
You are focused on the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law.
What is your definition of fulfill?
Actually I am reading the Scripture and I am focused on THEM and not what someone has told me.
Allow me to make what I am saying perfectly clear.
I have stated before and do so again that If God instituted the “Sabbath” before the “Fall of Man,” it seems strange that the fact is not recorded in Genesis, and that Adam was not told to observe it. Nowhere in the Book of Genesis do we read of Adam, or any of his descendants, or Noah, or Abraham observing the Sabbath.
The only hint we have of a “seven-fold” division of days is found in Gen. 7:4, 10, when
seven days of grace were granted before the Flood came, and in Gen. 8:8-12, where a seven-day period elapsed between the sending forth of the dove.
As I have said........The first place we read of the Sabbath is in Ex. 16:23-26, in connection with the gathering of the manna --
"Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none."
Here we have the “
SEVENTH” day designated as “
THE SABBATH.” That the “Seventh Day” of the “Creative Week” was a
type of the Sabbath is clear from Ex. 20:11.......
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For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the 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.”
But we have no evidence that the Sabbath was commanded to be observed until after the Exodus, and the reason is clear. God’s “Rest Day” was broken by the “Fall of Man,” and there could be no “rest” until redemption was brought in, and this was
typically brought in by the redemption of the Children of Israel from Egypt through the offering of the “Passover Lamb,” a type of Christ.
The purpose of their deliverance was that they might find
rest in Canaan from the weary toil and slavery of Egypt. Deu. 5:15.
When a few weeks later the “Ten Commandments” were given on Mt. Sinai the Lord said to Israel in Ex. 20:8........
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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,”.
The Sabbath Day they were to
remember was not the “Seventh Day” on which God rested, but the “Day” that God had appointed as the “Sabbath Day” at the time of the giving of the manna.
The command to observe the Sabbath was given to Israel
EXCLUSIVELY. It was not given to the Gentiles. It was given to Israel as the “
SIGN” of the “Mosaic Covenant.”
Ex. 31:13............
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But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My Sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations.”.
The Sabbath Day then belongs to the Jews alone and is not binding on the Gentiles (the world), or on the Church (Christians). Nowhere in the Bible do you find God finding fault with any nation or people, except the Jewish nation, for not observing the Sabbath. As a Jewish ordinance it has never been abrogated, changed, or transferred to any other day of the week, or to any other people.
It is now in abeyance as foretold in Hosea 2:11 it would be. It is to be resumed when the Jews are nationally restored to their own land. Isa. 66:23. Ezek. 44:24; 46:1-3.
Since all of this is the Bible truth, easily found and read....then the “Sabbath’ does not belong to the Church, and is not to be observed by Christians, for the “Sabbath Day” is a part of “
THE LAW,” and Christians are nut under “
LAW,” but under “
GRACE.”
Rom 6:14. In his letter to the Galatian Christians Paul reproved them for going back to the “Law,” and declared that those who did so were “
under the CURSE.”
Gal 3:10. ........
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But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
Gal. 4:9-11.......
You observe days [Sabbath and Feast Days]
and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.”
Col. 2:16.............
“Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day"..
If Christians are under obligation to keep the “Jewish Sabbath,” then they are under the Jewish “Ceremonial Law” and should observe all the ordinances and Feast Days of the Jewish Ritual.
As an institution of Judaism, the Sabbath, with all the “Feast Days” and other ritualistic ceremonies and offerings of Judaism, ceased to function with the close of the Jewish Dispensation. The
JEWISH Sabbath was not changed to the
CHRISTIAN Sabbath, any more than “Circumcision” was changed to “Baptism.” There is no such thing as the “
CHRISTIAN Sabbath.” “Sabbath” has to do with
LAW, and “Christian” with
GRACE, and to join “
LAW” and “
GRACE” is to unite what God has forever separated.
After the Resurrection, Christ and His Disciples never met on the “Sabbath” but on the “
FIRST DAY of the week.”
Now then.....to try and suggest that we as Christians should keep the Sabbath, or honor a day of rest as you put it is denomination theology and not Bible truth.
I am not opposing you in any way. You just asked and I gave you what I believe and posted the Scriptures that validate my understanding.