First of all, when was the Sabbath instituted?
"Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:" Nehemiah 9:13-14.
The Jews at the time described by Nehemiah were under GRACE BEFORE THE LAW.
Now notice in Exodus 12:16:
"And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you."
A convocation is an ASSEMBLY, a MEETING. The sabbath WHICH WAS MADE FOR MAN AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH (Mark 2:27) was not the day that the Jews assembled, it was the FIRST DAY (Acts 20:7).
The sabbath also marks the 1000 year day of rest in the millenial kingdom. When the millenial kingdom is over in Revelation 21-22, the rest of eternity begins ON THE FIRST DAY AFTER THE SABBATH.
If 7DA's followed the rules of the Sabbath consistently, then WHY DO THEY ASSEMBLE on Saturday, when Exodus 16:29 says they were supposed to STAY IN THEIR PLACES?
"See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
Furthermore, if the Christians were to keep the sabbath, then why is Paul walking around the river ON THE SABBATH? Acts 16:13
"And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither."
No NT Gentile Christian kept the sabbath from Acts onward, nor were they ever commanded to, nor did the apostle Paul himself keep it (as shown above in Acts 16). When 7DA's claim that Col 2:16 doesn't include the 10 commandments, then just what sins and ordinances were blotted out? So God didn't blot out murder? Theft? Lying? Adultery? Just what got blotted out?
ANd notice in Col 2:16 it is sabbath DAYS. There are 4 of them. Heb 3:11, 18. Heb 4:1-3, Heb 4:4, and Heb 4:5-9. The last sabbath will be the rest of the earth for 1000 years. Isaiah 14:7-9 with Revelation 20:13.
The sabbath was set aside for ISRAEL, not Gentiles. Psalm 2, Psalm 97-99, , Isaiah chs 2, 65 and 66. The laws of the sabbath observance were done away in Christ in the NT. John 1:17, Galations 3:3,13, Acts 13:39, Romans 6:14, and all of 2 Corinthians ch 3.
Furthermore, you shouldn't be typing on the Sabbath! You should be resting from your debates :thumbs: