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Entering Into His R
est
The Sabbath as a Sign of Covenant Relationship with the AlmightySlide2
*What Is the Meaning of “Sabbath”?
*What Does it Mean that the Sabbath is Holy?
*How
Do We Keep the Sabbath Holy?
*What is the Purpose of
the
Sabbath?
*What
Does it
Mean
that the Sabbath is a Sign
?
*Did
Yeshua
Work on the Sabbath?
*Is
Keeping Sabbath a “Salvation Issue
”?Slide3
What Is the Meaning of “Sabbath
”?Slide4
Genesis 2:1-3
The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. By the seventh day
Elohim
finished the work that he had been doing, and he
ceased
on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
Elohim
blessed the seventh day and
set it apart because
on it he
ceased
all the work that he had been doing in creation. Slide5
The
Hebrew word here translated
ceased
is
tbv
, (pronounced
shabbat
).
The
Brown, Driver, Briggs
Hebrew lexicon translates this word as
cease, desist, rest.
The
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
also renders our word as
cease, desist, rest.
And
the
Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
says this word means to
cease, stop, rest,
celebrate.Slide6
What Does it Mean that the Sabbath is Holy?Slide7
The Separations of Creation
(
Heb
bdl
–
divide,separate,distinguish
)
*Day 1- Light from Darkness
*Day 2 – Waters Above from Waters Below
Day 3 – Land from Water
*Day 4 – Day from Night
(Day 6? – Woman from Man)
Day 7 – Sabbath Day from the other SixSlide8
25
"'You must therefore make a
distinction (Hebrew
badal
)
between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground-- those which I have set
apart (Hebrew
qadash
)
as unclean for you.
26
You are to be holy to me because I,
Yehovah
,
am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own
. (Leviticus 20)Slide9
Genesis 2:1-3
The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. By the seventh day
Elohim
finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
Elohim
blessed the seventh day and
set it apart
(
Heb
qadash
) because
on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation. Slide10
Holy (
qadash
)
The
BDB
suggests the meaning of this root word is
separation
, withdrawal.
HALOT
defines it as
holy, commanding respect, awesome
,
singled out
,
consecrated for
.
The
TWOT
renders our word
be hallowed, holy, sanctified; to consecrate, sanctify, prepare,
dedicate
.
Emerging from these abstract terms is the
concept of
separating
or
setting apart
of something.
Thus,
separate
or
set apart
is its true and basic
meaning and is usually the best way to translate it.Slide11
We are commanded to Keep the Sabbath Holy (to set it apart).
How Do We Keep the Sabbath Holy?Slide12
Remember the
Sabbath (
shabbat
)
day to set it apart. For six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to
Yehovah
your
Elohim
; 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 cattle, or your resident foreigner who is in your gates. For in six days
Yehovah
made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested
(Hebrew
nawach
) on
the seventh day; therefore
Yehovah
blessed the
Sabbath (
shabbat
)
day and set it
apart
.
(Ex 20:8-11)Slide13
Remember
to separate the Sabbath day
Remember is a word which calls one to action
Yehovah
“remembered” his covenant – he acted to fulfill his covenant
We are to “remember” the Sabbath day to act in a way in which the Sabbath is separatedSlide14
Guard the day of the Sabbath to set it apart just as
Yehovah
your
Elohim
has commanded you. You are to serve and do all your work in six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of
Yehovah
your
Elohim
. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male
servant,
your female
servant,
your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have
rest (
nuwach
).
(
Deut
5:12-14)Slide15
Why Should We Keep the Sabbath Holy?
Remember
that you were a slave in the land of
Mitzrayim
and that
Yehovah
your
Elohim
brought you out of there by strength and power; therefore,
Yehovah
your
Elohim
has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day
.
(
Deut
5:15)Slide16
What is the Purpose of the Sabbath
?
(All your questions about what we can and can’t do on Sabbath should be easier to answer if we understand the purpose of the Sabbath)Slide17
1
– A Day to Rest
Rest from what? (work –
melacha
)
Melacha
is what you do to earn a living, the work of your hands, what you create or form or produce with your hands.
Business, occupational work, handiwork, craftsmanship
.Slide18
Melecha
The Work of
Elohim
in creation
If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges, to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor's goods (
melacha
) (
Shemot
22:8
)
Slide19
What About Cooking?
Then
Yehovah
said to
Mosheh
, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather a certain amount each day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not. And
on the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather each day
" (
Shemot
16:4,5).Slide20
This is what
Yehovah
has said: '
Tomorrow is a time of
cessation (
shabbaton
),
a set-apart Sabbath to
Yehovah
.
Whatever you want to bake, bake today; and whatever you want to boil, boil today; and whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning
.'" So they put it aside until the morning, just as
Mosheh
had commanded, and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it. (
Shemot
16:22-24)Slide21
2
- It is a Day unto
Yehovah
For
six days you
shall
labor and do all your work, but
the seventh day is a Sabbath to
Yehovah
your
Elohim
(Exodus 20:10)
Not for your own pleasure! Isaiah 58:12-14
The Sabbath was made for man… Mark
2:27
Is it a day to sleep and lounge
?Slide22
3
– A Day to Worship
Yehovah
Psalm 95 – a Sabbath PsalmSlide23
O come, let us
worship
and
bow down
: let us
kneel
before the LORD our
maker (vs.6, KJV)
Chavah
– to prostrate oneself, bow down. Prostration
was quite common as an act of submission before a superior.
Kara’
-
bow down, kneel, sink down to one's knees, kneel
down
Barak
– to kneel, bless, salute, greetSlide24
4 – A Day For Holy Assembly
Speak to the sons of
Yisrael
and tell them, 'These are
Yehovah's
appointed times
which you must proclaim as set-apart assemblies--my appointed
times
: (
moedim
).
Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest,
a set-apart
assembly
(
miqra
qodesh
).
You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to
Yehovah
in all the places where you live. These are
Yehovah's
appointed times, set-apart assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time
.‘ (Leviticus 23:2-4)Slide25
Now the One who created the heavens and the earth and all the living inhabitants thereof was establishing a permanent memorial of his creative acts by establishing the seventh day as that time when all mankind is to
stop all his activity to honor and acknowledge
the Creator of all.Slide26
What Does it Mean that the Sabbath is a Sign
?
What Does Sabbath-Keeping Signify?
Can You be in Good Standing with the Creator While Ignoring the Sabbath?Slide27
Tell the sons of
Yisrael
, 'Surely you
shall
keep my Sabbaths,
for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations
, that you may know that I am
Yehovah
who separates you. So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is set-apart for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, anyone who does any work on it, then that life will be cut off from among his people. Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, set-apart to
Yehovah
;
anyone who does work on the seventh day must surely be put to death.
(Exodus 31:13-15)Slide28
And
the sons of
Yisrael
must keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the sons of
Yisrael
forever
; for in six days
Yehovah
made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was
refreshed (Exodus 31:16-17)Slide29
Sign – Hebrew
tAa
(
owt
)
HALOT:
sign, distinguishing mark
TWOT:
sign, mark, token, ensign, standard, miracle, miraculous sign, proof, warning. Slide30
How Does the Sabbath Function as a Sign?
Only those who are truly committed to
Yehovah
will set apart the Sabbath.
All others will make excuses why they believe the seventh day Sabbath is invalid
It is a sign “between you and me” – a private sign which others do not understand.
When you set apart the Sabbath, He sets you apart as belonging to Him
The committed, submitted ones will keep it.Slide31
Penalty for not keeping Sabbath holy
Surely die and Cut off
from his people
.
“Everyone
who defiles it must
surely be put to death
; indeed, anyone who does any work on it, then
that life will be cut off
from among his people
.”
When does this occur?Slide32
Sabbath Sign – a Test commandment
Exodus 16:4-5
4
Then
Yehovah
said to
Mosheh
, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day.
In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my
instruction (Torah
).
5
On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days."Slide33
The Torah is a Mark
Love the
Yehovah
your
Elohim
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts... Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads (Deuteronomy 6:5,6,8).Slide34
Fix
these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads... Observe all these commands I am giving you to follow--to love the
Yehovah
your
Elohim
, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him" (Deuteronomy 11:18,22
).Slide35
Keeping Feast of Unleavened
This
observance will be for you like a
sign on your hand
and a
reminder on your for
ehead that the law of
Yehovah
is to be on your lips. For
Yehovah
brought you out of
Mitzrayim
with his mighty hand
. (Exodus 13:9)Slide36
Did
Yeshua
Work on the Sabbath?Slide37
4
th
Gospel 5 - The Healing of the Invalid
16
So, because
Yeshua
was doing these things on the Sabbath, the
Yehudim
persecuted him.
17
Yeshua
said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
18
For this reason the
Yehudim
tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he
breaking
(?!)
the Sabbath, but he was even calling
Elohim
his own Father, making himself equal with
Elohim
.Slide38
What work occurs
every day in the temple,
including the Sabbath day?
Answer: a work of forgiveness, release, redemption and restoration of humans
Yeshua
, like his Father, was working every day, including the Sabbath, to heal and restore people.Slide39
The Healing of the Woman on the Sabbath
But
the president of the synagogue, indignant because
Yeshua
had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day." Then
Yeshua
answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?
Then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of
Avraham
whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day
?" (Luke 13:14-16).Slide40
Is Keeping Sabbath a “Salvation Issue
”?
Entering Into His Rest
Hebrews
3:7-4:11Slide41
7
So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
8
do not harden your hearts as you did in the
rebellion (provocation),
during the time of testing in the desert,
9
where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
10
That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
11
So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"Slide42
My Rest
Hebrew
yti
(
x'Wnm
.
(
menuchati
)
This phrase, “my rest”, occurs 3 times
Psalm 95
Psalm 132:14
This is
my resting place
for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired
it
Isaiah 66:1
This is what
Yehovah
says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will
my resting place
be?Slide43
They Shall Never Enter My Rest
yti
(
x'Wnm
.-la, !
Waªboy
>÷-~
ai
Literally, “If they will enter my rest”
LXX:
eiv
eivseleu,sontai
eivj
th.n
kata,pausi,n
mou
Is this Hebrew metaphor for “they shall never”?
Or is this an oath literally stating the condition by which one may enter?Slide44
12
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful,
unbelieving heart
that turns away from the living
Elohim
. (see Ps 78:17ff)
13
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
14
We have come to share in Messiah if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first
.
15
As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."Slide45
16
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those
Mosheh
led out of
Mitzrayim
?
17
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
18
And to whom did
Elohim
swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
19
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.Slide46
Hebrews 4
1
Therefore
, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it
.
(
Ez
18:20… can you lose your salvation?)
2
For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.Slide47
3
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as
Elohim
has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.
4
For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day
Elohim
rested from all his work."
5
And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest."Slide48
6
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.
7
Therefore
Elohim
again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts
.“
8
For if
Yehoshua
had given them rest,
Elohim
would not have spoken later about another day
.Slide49
9
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of
Elohim
;
10
for anyone who enters
Elohim's
rest also rests from his own work, just as
Elohim
did from his
.
11
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
*See also 1 Corinthians 10:1-13Slide50
12
For the word of
Elohim
is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
13
Nothing in all creation is hidden from
Elohim's
sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.Slide51
The Bible never promises that entering into
Elohim’s
Promised Rest is easy
Yeshua
:
13
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it
. (Matthew 7)Slide52
So, is keeping Sabbath a “Salvation Issue”?
Our ancestors were saved and baptized but in their rebellion forfeited entering in.
Many are called but few are chosen.
Do you love him with all your heart, soul and strength? (the supreme commandment)
Those who want to enter the kingdom rest are called to enter his Sabbath rest.Slide53