How did the 7th day of Creation become the Sabbath Day and the central focus of so much of the legalistic, spiritual bondage religion of the Pharisees and Sadducees in New Testament Judaism?
What is God’s plan for Saturday in the Creation Week, and the Sabbath regulations given by God to Moses for the nation of Israel?
THE ORIGIN OF THE 7TH DAY
To understand the 7th Day we need to first open to Genesis 2.
After the wonders of Genesis 1, God crowned the creative week with a memorial to His amazing work of Creation in Genesis 2. God elevated Saturday as a day to always reflect upon how amazing it was that he created everything we will ever discover in the universe around us in only six days.
Think about it as science continues to uncover more complexities in the vast reaches of outer space: God did all of that in just part of those six days. Then think about all of the intricacies of the varied forms of life all around us, beneath and above us, residing on this pale blue perfectly tuned habitat called earth: God made all of that in those six days.
Then God says pause each week with gratitude and worship for such an Almighty God who did so much in just six days. Join me reading Genesis 1:31-2:3.
Genesis 1:31-2:3 (NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2: 1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day, God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
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A THEOLOGY OF THE 7TH DAY
For just a few minutes lets just do an inductive Bible Study and note just exactly where we are and what God says in this part of His Word.
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