THE MYSTERY OF TWO SABBATHS (PART 2)

18451. EVERLASTING FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY IS THINE, AND WE SHALL REJOICE IN IT.

18452. YESTERDAY, I TAUGHT YOU WHY SABBATH IS A MYSTERY.

GENESIS 2:1-3 (KJV):
1. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3. And God blessed the SEVENTH DAY, and SANCTIFIED IT: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”

THE MYSTERY IS THAT, GOD WORKED AND AT THE SAME TIME RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY. HE DIDN’T FINISH HIS WORK ON DAY 6. GENESIS 2:2 SHOWED US GOD’S WORKS DIDN’T FINISH ON DAY 6, GOD STILL WORKED ON THE SEVENTH DAY BY FIRST CREATING DAY 7, BEFORE HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORKS.

THAT MYSTERY SHOWED US THAT GOD’S REST WAS A PASSIVE REST. HE DIDN’T ACTIVELY RESTED BY GOING TO SLEEP 😴. HE RESTED, RELAXED BUT KEPT HIS MIND ON ALL HE HAS CREATED.

LET’S BEGIN BY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY WEEK IS SUNDAY, AND THE 7TH AND LAST DAY OF THE WEEK IS SATURDAY.

GOD IS THE POSSESSOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. HIS INFLUENCE IS OVERWHELMINGLY SO. “… the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men…” (DANIEL 4:25; 32). THERE WAS A TIME SUNDAY, BEING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, WAS A WORKDAY. THE ONLY REST DAY GLOBALLY WAS SABBATH WHICH IS SATURDAY THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK.

CHRISTIANITY IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL POWER THAT DRIVES MODERNITY. AFTER THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, AND CHRISTIANITY EXPLODED ALL OVER EUROPE AND ASIA, OVERTHROWING PAGANISM AND IDOL WORSHIP, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPEROR – CONSTANTINE I, DECREED THAT SUNDAY WOULD BE OBSERVED AS A DAY OF REST THROUGHOUT THE VAST EMPIRE, IN ADDITION TO SATURDAY HOLIDAY. THE ROMANS WERE THE GREATEST POWER IN THE WORLD THEN. LATER THE BRITISH EMPIRE, AFTER MANY STRUGGLES, ALSO HAD TO ADOPT SUNDAY AS REST DAY, MAKING TWO DAYS OF REST (SATURDAY AND SUNDAY)

RABBONI OPENED OUR EYES AND REDEFINED SABBATH FOR US. SABBATH IS NOT JUST A SPECIAL RELIGIOUS DAY TO REST FROM WORK, HE SHOWED US A NEW PRACTICAL MEANING OF SABBATH AS A DAY OF DELIVERANCE FROM EVERY EVIL. SABBATH IS A TIME OF FREEDOM OR RELEASE FROM EVERY FORM OF SLAVERY OR CAPTIVITY. JUST AS WE HAVE A SABBATH DAY, SABBATH WEEK, SABBATH MONTH, WE ALSO HAVE A YEAR OF SABBATH.

SABBATH IS MORE THAN PHYSICAL REST, SABBATH IS A SPIRITUAL REST FROM EVERY AFFLICTION.

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