RIGID SCRIPTURAL TRUTH

ABOUT SABBATH-KEEPING

(SABBATISMOS HEB 4:9)

YHWH is Elohim of ORDER. And it does matter which day He chooses and sets apart (makes holy). Though sometimes His instructions unclear and confusing for us but we trust our Creator through our faith and obedience following the example of Abraham who obeyed and brought his son Isaak for sacrifice.

Point and reasons for Sabbath are well explained, stated and cleared out by Shaul (Paul) in Hebrews chapter 3 and 4. One has to follow the whole thing and not fish out only certain verses.

This revelation I have received after being really bothered about 4th commandment and unsatisfied with common Christian explanations. Praying for answers I also started studying all the Feasts of the Lord on the basis of TaNaK (Old Testament) as they passed by. Later on the Sabbath of Day Of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the study of the feast and its details opened the book of Hebrews for deeper understanding, especially concerning the Sabbath-keeping. I was astonished; it was a revelation for sure and answer to my prayers. Hallelu-Yah!

I hope you'll profit from it too, may YHWH open you eyes and ears in the name of Y'shua HaMashiach.

 

Heb 3:8-11 …as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice (10 commandments were first spoken by YHWH Himself in Exodus 20), Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways (Y'ashua kept the Sabbath). So I sware in my wrath (bowls which will be poured out in Rev 16:1), They shall not enter into MY REST (He rested on the seventh day in Genesis 2:2).

 

Note: If YHWH spoke the 10 instructions Himself (Exodus 20), they are extremely important and solid. He made it very clear. He doesn’t change His mind as we do, and what He proclaimed once can’t be changed in any way. “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that gone out of my lips” (Psa 89:34)

 

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Heb 3:18-4:1 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest (it is also Sabbath millennium in New Jerusalem; if you do not enter in Sabbath then you do not get into Promised Land), but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (making their own reasoning instead of simple trust and obedience to the Word). Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it (making exactly same point as I did above!).

 

Is it only for Jews? here is an answer:


Heb 4:2 For unto us (Jews) was the gospel preached, as well as unto them (Gentiles): but the word preached did not profit them (Gentiles), not being mixed with faith in them (pagan traditions like Sun-day, Easter, Christmas etc.) that heard [it].

 

We know about 4th commandment but coming from pagan background and influenced by Hellenistic philosophy we mix our beliefs and understanding, we change or explain things by reasoning on wrong fundament. Let’s recall – our fundament is living by the Word. And the Word were spoken, written and even became flesh!

 

Heb 4:3-4 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world (here is the clear reference to Genesis 2:2 which states that His rest is the Sabbath and it was established from very beginning even before 10 commandments were spoken out).
For he spake in a certain place (Genesis 2:2, there were no chapters and verses at a time of Shaul, so he says "certain place") of the seventh [day] (not the first one or another, order is important!) on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day (“My rest”) from all his works.

 

Heb 4:5 And in this [place] again (Psa 95:11), If they shall enter into my rest

 

“My rest” is also the Promised Land, if we don't obey and keep the commandments including Sabbath Y’shua’s blood works no more and we won't enter New Jerusalem (our Promised Land). The Sabbath millennium is the seventh prophetic day, where the King of Kings will reign.

 

 

Heb 4:6 Seeing therefore it (Sabbath) remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

 

Sabbath is the shadow picture of entering in heavens, the Sabbath millennium. It is the pass through, the seal – if you do not have it you stay outside, you do not enter!!!


Heb 4:7 Again, he limiteth a CERTAIN (7th!!!) day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice (4th commandment), harden not your hearts.

 

            What do you feel and think right now?! Shaul says “hearden not your heart”, please!!!

Just trust and believe, without faith you can’t get to the Father.

 

Heb 4:8 For if Jesus (Christ, or Y’shua) had given them (Apostles and His close followers) rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day (like Sun-day?).

 

            Right in the bull’s eye!!!

 

SUMMARY:


Heb 4:8 There REMAINETH therefore 'sabbatismos' [original greek text] to the people of God (not only Jews but all in the Messiah). (the thought is not yet finished…)
Heb 4:10 For he (YOU!) that is entered into his rest (Sabbath), he also hath ceased from his own works (day for fellowship with YHWH, family and friends; work is complete on Friday and set aside not to interfere in any way), as God [did] from His (in Genesis 2:2).

 

It is clear stated that practicing of Sabbath (“certain day”=7th) remains and how to do it. Do it as YHWH did and as He instructed! Here it is:

 

Heb 4:11 Let us labour (do our best, uttermost) therefore to enter into that rest (Sabbath now and later New Jerusalem), lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief (violating or excusing the 4th commandment spoken by YHWH Himself from mount Sinai).

 

It is not legalism, it is not me who wants it, it is not even the Old Testament. ALL above is from Scriptures inspired by YHWH, you can't deny or ignore it, as it says:

Heb 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (conflictless and ignorant Sunday life or "let us hold fast [our] profession" Heb 4:14).

 

            I hope ‘the sword’ made it into your heart and mind as a surgeon removes the cancer.

It is painful now but freedom and blessing afterwards. Pray, fast and make your decision in favor of the Almighty.

 

 

Sergey Postnikov