The Weekly Sabbath
The weekly Sabbath, known as Saturday today, is the seventh day of the week. In the beginning, the Sabbath was created by God. He blessed and sanctified the seventh day at creation as a special day for rest and fellowship with Him. The Sabbath is a memorial of creation and was made for all mankind. It was the commanded day of weekly worship for 3,000 years before the Ten Commandments were given to Israel. The Fourth Commandment is a reminder to observe and to keep the Sabbath day holy.
As Lord God of the Old Testament, Yahushua Christ created the Sabbath by resting on the very first seventh day and by blessing and sanctifying it. In the New Testament, Yahushua Christ proclaimed that He is Lord of the Sabbath day. During His ministry on earth, He reaffirmed the sacredness of the Sabbath and taught its proper observance. Yahushua Christ Himself showed by example that it is right to do good on the Sabbath day, in addition to resting from one’s physical labor and secular business. The apostles of Yahushua-Christ and the early New Testament Church observed the Sabbath and taught Gentile Christians to observe it.
The keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath is a special sign of the covenant between God and His people. God commands that it be observed from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. During this holy time, Christians are commanded to rest from their labor and to assemble to worship God and to receive instruction from His Word. Observance of the seventh-day Sabbath is essential for salvation and for true fellowship with God the Father and Yahushua Christ.
Scriptural References
Gen. 2:1-3 | Mark 2:27-28 | Ex. 20:8-10
Ex. 31:13-17 | Isa. 58:13-14 | Isa. 56:1-7
Isa. 66:23 | Ezek. 20:12,20 | Lev. 23:1-3
Luke 4:4 | Acts 13:42-44 | Acts 17:2
Acts 18:4,11 | Acts 19:8-10 | Heb. 4:4-10