A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE SABBATH
After an absence from Bible Fellowship of two weeks, I was very pleased upon my return to see the group engage the subject of Shabbat. The practice of 7th-day observance of the Sabbath is virtually non-existent today among the vast majority of Christians. These same Christians concurrently claim the Hebrew Scriptures as their canon, and in those Scriptures, the oracles of God specifically command its observance:
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 For six days you shall labor (abad) and do all your work (melachah), 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work (melachah), you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your (resident who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested (nuach) on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Exodus 20:8-11)
