When God said "REMEMBER".......

When God said "REMEMBER".......
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work....For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. EXODUS 20:8-11

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Weekly Sabbath separate from "Ceremonial" Sabbaths

"When the Lord instructed Moses concerning the annual feasts which
revolved around the seven annual Sabbaths, He declared in conclusion, “These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations . . .beside the Sabbaths of the Lord
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Lev. 23:37-38.

Thus are we instructed by God Himself that the annual Sabbaths are apart from, and in addition to, “the Sabbaths of the Lord,” i.e., the weekly Sabbath. As the Bible commentary by Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown well observes:
"Leviticus 23:38 expressly distinguishes ‘the Sabbath of the Lord’ from the other Sabbaths." - Comment on Col. 2:16.

Ron du Preez has written an excellent article for the SDA Encyclopedia on this topic of the ceremonial sabbaths versus the weekly Sabbath. He notes:
Each of these annual times fell on specifically identified days within the first, third and seventh lunar months of the yearly religious calendar of ancient Israel. Of these, only the Day of Atonement is directly labelled a “sabbath” in the original Hebrew language (e.g., Lev. 23:32), as it is the exclusive annual ceremonial day on which all work was prohibited (v. 28). The other six sacred occasions were days when only “servile” or “regular” or “laborious” or “occupational” work was prohibited (vv. 7, 8, 21, etc.), thus permitting the cooking of food (e.g., Ex. 12:16).”
F.D. Nichol

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