God the Father in His infinite concern for others set aside one day a week for us to rest ……should we not listen? Or was the Sabbath fulfilled in Jesus Christ, King of the Sabbath, and now every day we rest in Him not just one day a week?
Other peoples had their own various patterns of work and rest, but Israel was to set aside one day in seven for rest. The word Sabbath means "rest." The day was kept holy by ceasing all labor on that day. The Sabbath was specifically the seventh day, Saturday. It was patterned after the seventh day of rest for God following the six days of creation.
The first day of the week was Sunday. The people gathered to worship on this day for the same reason we do today, to celebrate the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Jewish believers continued to worship on the Sabbath, which is Saturday. The Book of Hebrews tells us that Christ and His finished work is our Sabbath, our rest.
Hebrews 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
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