The Truth about the Lord's Day

[DHK]

<<<Christ is our Sabbath>>> is not Scripture; it is DHK's human supposition.

What does the Scripture say:
Hebrews 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. [from the WEB]
--That rest is Christ. In verse 9 it refers to a Sabbath rest, Sabbath allegorically referring to the rest that Promised Land would have given the Israelites. But Christ offers a more perfect rest. However we must first enter through him; He is our rest; through Him is our "sabbath rest," our rest in Jesus, our promised land with him or heaven itself.

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<<<He is our rest.>>>

That’s much better because that is SCRIPTURE --- Hebrews 3 and 4 Scripture.

Which SAME SCRIPTURE declares, “If JESUS gave them … the People of God … REST [‘katapausis’, “of God”, “tou Theou’]

“If JESUS gave them … the People of God … REST THERE THEREFORE REMAINS FOR (them) the People of God a keeping of the Sabbath Day” [‘apoleipetai tohi Laohi tou Theou Sabbatismos’].

It doesn't say a keeping of the sabbath day. You are perverting the Scripture.

(ASV) There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

(CEV) But God has promised us a Sabbath when we will rest, even though it has not yet come.

(Darby) There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

(DRB) There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

(EMTV) Then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

(ESV) So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

(Geneva) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(LITV) So, then, there remains a sabbath rest to the people of God.

(MKJV) So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

(WNT) It follows that there still remains a sabbath rest for the people of God.

(YLT) there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

(KJV) Hebrews 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
--Not one of the above translations indicate that the Sabbath is a command. It isn't. You have twisted the Scriptures. There REMAINS a sabbath rest, a certain kind of rest, for the people of God.

The “Rest” is “OF GOD” “for to be entered” [‘eiselthehn eis autehn’] by the People of God.

The “Sabbath-Rest” is “a Sabbath-custom valid for the People of God” “BY REASON OF THAT JESUS GAVE THEM REST”.

That borders on blasphemy, wouldn't you agree. Jesus condemned "customs."
There is not "custom" in heaven. The sabbath rest refers back to the promised land. They would have had perfect rest there had they obeyed the Lord but they didn't. However in the rest that Jesus will give them in heaven their rest will be perfect. That is the rest being spoken of--perfect rest. Perfect is not a custom..

The “Rest-of-God” is the CAUSE of the People’s “Sabbath Day’s-resting”; the People’s “Sabbath Day’s-resting” is EFFECT of “the Rest of God”; and “the Rest of God” IS “JESUS HAVING GIVEN THEM REST”.

Wrong again. Where does rest come from?

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
--Rest comes only from Christ.
Death comes from the keeping of the Law.

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<<<You have a sad life indeed if you have to wait for the Sabbath simply to have rest in Christ.>>>

You know nothing about my life or my happiness or sadness; and sarcasm won’t bring you nearer to acquaint yourself with me or with Jesus Christ, but is the cheapest form of judgment there is of another.

You seem to have had opportunity to taste and share the joy of God’s gracious gift of His Holy Day for his People’s enjoyment, gladness and rejoicing. You do know that the Song of Moses was sung on the Day-of-Deliverance when God had brought Israel out of the Land of Darkness and onto free ground on the other side of the Red Sea. And you do know that God let Christ ride the height of the earth through RESURRECTION because He honoured God’s Holy Day and called his Sabbath his delight.

Isaiah 56, 57 and 58 are as ‘New Testament’ as Mark or Matthew or John or Luke or Paul.

Again, REST comes only from Christ, not from the law, not from keeping the Sabbath:

Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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<<<The Sabbath was nailed to the cross. It was but a shadow of the "real," that which was to come, which is Christ.>>>

ABSOLUTELY!

The Sabbath was nailed to the cross AS CHRIST WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS AND IN HIM AND THROUGH HIM!

I have been saying THIS here on Babptistboard.com for years. You never noticed it.

The link is not valid. The scripture itself says that the sabbath is a shadow. It is passed away as a fleeting shadow does at night time. It is not real. It is gone. Christ "the sun of righteousness" is come. The shadow is gone. The sabbath is gone.

NOT ONLY that <<<The Sabbath was nailed to the cross. It was but a shadow of the "real," that which was to come, which is Christ>>>, but that The Sabbath which WAS nailed to the cross, “IS a shadow”—“IS a specter”—“IS a glimpse of the REAL—the SUBSTANCE—the NOURISHMENT ministered WHICH IS CHRIST … THE HEAD” of the young Christian Church “GROWING WITH THE GROWTH OF GOD”. That which IS to come, even CHRIST”.

Look at the nonsense you are writing. Shadows don't give nourishment.
Can your shadow feed you. Shadows are not substance! Your explanation is found wanting. Christ is come; the shadow of the sabbath is gone.

Yes! The Sabbath IS a shadow of Christ; and Christ’s Own will “shelter in the shadow of the Almighty”.

The shadow of the Almighty is a figure of speech just like the "arm of the Lord," "the face of God," "under his wing," etc. They are anthropormorhisms--figures of speech to help us understand more about God.
But Jesus told us directly:
"God is a Spirit, they that worship him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).
Spirits, including God, don't have shadows, wings, faces, arms, etc.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

I need not reply.

DHK gave all the necessary.

Thanks, DHK.