A Defense of the Sabbath Day

I: The Attack on the Sabbath Day

1: The Sabbath was only for Israel: (Ex. 31:16-17, Deut. 5:15)

2: No Command at Creation to observe the Sabbath: (Gen. 2:2-3)

3: Christ was anti-Sabbath: (Mark 2:23-28)

4: Paul was anti-Sabbath: (Gal. 4:10-11, Col. 2:16-17)

5: Christ is our Sabbath rest: (Matt. 11:28-30, Heb. 4:10-11)

II: The Defense of the Sabbath Day

1: The Sabbath was only for Israel? (Rom. 9:6-8)

2: No Command at Creation to observe the Sabbath?

An example to be followed (Gen. 2:2-3; Exo. 20:8-11)

Observed before Sinai (Exo. 16:26-30)

3: Christ was anti-Sabbath? (Matt 5:17-19, Mark 2:27-28)

4: Paul was anti-Sabbath?

The issue in Galatians – the Judiazers

Col. 2:16-17 a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

2 Chr. 31:3 3 The king also appointed a portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings: for the morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and the New Moons and the set feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD. (cf. Neh. 10:33)

5: Christ is our Sabbath rest? (Heb. 4:9, Exo. 31:13)

“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest [a sabbitizmos (σαββατισμὸς) = a ‘Sabbath-keeping’] for the people of God.” Heb. 4:9

Conclusion