Sabbath Day Expired with The Law. It is not a New Testament Feature.

“There remains (as an open invitation) a Rest for the people of God. That those who have entered that Rest, have ceased from their works as God did from His.”

The Sabbath day as a holy day as prescribed by law, was to serve as a reminder from creation of the first 7 days, whereby the Creator God Rested, or had a Sabbath days rest on the seventh day. Meaning that He rested from all His works on that day, and dedicated that day a holiday, meaning a holy day. He then past that on to successive generations as an invitation for those who become His, for them to learn learn to cease from their works as God did from His.

That God worked for six days to rest on the Sabbath. But the Sabbath Day is only valid as long as that era continued. And because Gods work is done, that what He created in the first seven days, will need no amendments or modifications “for known to God from eternity are all His works.” Then for us shall be “a thousand years shall be as a day and a day shall be as a thousand years”, for us to know His time frame. That the seventh days rest was to be played out with literal days and not years as was for creation. That those who were His were to play out the patterns of sevens until the last Sabbath that pertained to those of that Old Covenant and the creation associated with it.

That order was reconfirmed with Moses and the Law and packaged in the Ten Commandments  saying; 

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

And because Christ came to fulfill and expire “all the Law and the prophets”, that was to include the Sabbath Days Rest observance. It is those who are fully vested “in Christ”, who have ceased from their works as God did from His”, who are part of the New Creation NOW. “For you are a new creation “in Christ”, old things having past away, behold (or, check it out) all things have become new, and all things are from God (as opposed to creation). That those of us who are “in Christ” Who is our Sabbath. Even as His invitation was “come unto Me all ye who are heavy laden and burden and you shall find Rest for your souls”. It is in this way we are perfectly capable of interacting with the Godhead body in the way that they are before creation.

That the Sabbath Days Rest as included in The Ten Commandments have expired with the rest of that Old expired Covenant. As also have the relics of all the feast days, the animal sacrifices and the Law and the prophets, as evidenced by the office of the Apostles who replaced the prophets, with The New Will and Testament, as The New and Living Way to the Father, in contrast with the old. Not that the Law was to no longer have a purpose, it still exists for those in process, but only as a historical relic to remember how NOT to do it. That the law was added to make sin exceedingly sinful”, till you are dead to its influence as you await the goal line some think is the end of their life, but that is unsupported by scripture And that Law does include the Sabbath as we will demonstrate.

It was the Old Covenant that became Old when Christ came and expired it. “It was added till faith comes”. But because the people of that era failed miserably to do so, the Son of God did it for us. That He accomplished all the Laws demands, and gifted it back to us as a package deal. That “All the Law and the Prophets were till John the Baptist (The Last Old Covenant Prophet who was beheaded to prove its expiration. Since then The (New Covenant) Kingdom is preached for all to enter”. And “To as many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become His children (greater than servants), to as many as believe in His name”, who were born not according to (a carnal act of) the flesh but by and from God, to include the Gentile nations. This is why He is the proclaimed Savior of the world”, To as many as receive Him”. So everyone has their part. That being made in Gods image infers individual sovereigns. This is why they must accept. Otherwise the covenant would only need to be mechanical and not require permission and therefor would not need documentation, if a reply was not required.

SO because of that, and since the time the expiration happened as evidenced by the cross. So that anytime any of the old Covenant laws are held up and re-presented as active, binding, official and enforceable? That spits in the face of the Christ at the cross who is now our Sabbath Day Rest fulfilled and gifted to us. So that if we abide in Him? We are in that rest and that Sabbath proves our slate is clean. Not because of us, yes we respond to the call, but more so because to be “in Christ” is to be in “The New Creation”. That is  why “if anyone is in Christ, they are in “The New Creation”. Old things having (already expired and) passed away. Behold ALL things (have already) become new (in contrast with the old) and ALL things (new), are “in Christ” (as opposed to “old Adam”). That is why “from here on we regard no one according to the flesh. We once knew Christ in a carnal way. From now on we know Him like that way no more” (2 Corinthians 5.18+)

So because Christ is our New Creation, and because we Rest in Him and what He did. That He fulfilled ALL the Law and the Prophets era interlude that was “added till our faith comes” and it did. To mean a new object of faith who is Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father. That “To as many as believed in Him, to them He gave the power to become the children (or offspring) of God”. Christ removed the old, and became “The New and living way to the Father”. But because this is having to do with the eternal, in reality it is “the Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world”, and why God rested to also prove this was done as we say. So that if someone reckons (an accounting term) themselves under law, they are. And each one will be awakened, “each one in their own order”. To indicate that this could mean you to. “For there remains a rest to the people of God. That they may rest from their works as (to mean the same way) God did from His”. And that is credited to your eternal account as soon as you have the understanding and the faith accept the Covenant. But the point here is that ALL the old era relics are only valid and enforceable as long as a person doesn’t understand these principles.

Away with the Old

Hebrews 1.1  God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets (who were the officiators of the Old Covenant), 2 Hath in these last days (associated with the New and last covenant era) spoken unto us by his Son

It was then He ordered the decommissioning of the Old Covenant era, to include the places, offices and officers, feasts buildings and sacrifices, by Saying “See all these buildings? For I tell you the truth that their is NOT ONE STONE that is standing that shall not be cast down”. Because they rejected and crucified Him. Even as He said in parabolic form “for even now the ax is laid to the root of the tree”, to mean an end without hope to visit or rebuild.

For how many righteous did they produce” 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 That is why we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” And “the Law was added to make sin exceedingly sinful”. Till they are good and dead.

Therefore with the institution of the New Covenant, not with the blood of bulls, but by the blood of Christ to blast a hole for us into eternity. Therefor we Rest in Him, and the rest of the laws demands are gifted to us as well as a packaged and a done deal, credited to us for us to be righteous in this way by faith, as meaning the invisible.

So then to re-establish or reinsert a Sabbath, in another “Jerusalem” or to try to breath life into any of the other O.T. laws, with any of the modern day Jewish embellishments, becomes a return back to the old as the competitors and the anti-Christs, to receive the same Judgment, as well as those who embrace that un-scriptural idea, is to spit in the face of the Christ of the cross, who set us free from that culture of sin and death. This is for us not to perform a religious sabbath, but to participate into the very thing the Laws Sabbath was a prophecy and a promise of. To enter Gods Rest.

With the cross of Christ we have “Old things having passed away, behold all things become new and all things are from (and of) God from before He said “Let there be light”.

To mean “all the Law and the prophets were till Christ. Now The Kingdom of God is at hand, and all that do so by faith can enter it”.

That’s the power and the purpose of  Christs blood and death. To establish not a Covenant so much as is the old, but a Testiment. A New Will and Testament” of the deceased, as one who delivered the heirs to the Estate, their goods. Because that’s what a Will and Testament does. It lays out the distribution of the estate to the heirs. And with the death of Christ at the cross was smitten. Just like a piniata, the goods were dispersed. “To as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become His offspring”.  And no where in the New Covenant does it ever refer to a second coming or future events for a distribution of goods. That is why scripture says that “we have been raised up and have been seated in Heavenly places In Christ”, as a foregone conclusion. Because it is. This is what the New Covenant is about. And there is no accounts of future distributions to wait for.

Amen?

Remember that the New Will, Testament and or Covenant, was instituted from the death of Christ. To mean that all the Sabbath accounts in the gospels before Christ cross from Matthew , Mark, Like and John, have only to do with the Old Covenant that sacrificed bulls, goats and such, but NOT The Son who completed them at the conclusion of the Gospels with the cross, our crossover from the old to the new.

Now, we who believe have a new and living way, not to God as Lord, but to God as Father because of Christ our sacrificial Lamb.

References From Scripture

First, you have to remember, the word “Rest” has more than one meaning. So we will only bring up the “rest” from scripture that has to do with the Sabbath day concept of Rest.

And second. The New Covenant technically is enforced from the time of the cross as the place where the testator Christ, was crucified, or killed, to distribute the ownership of His goods to those who have been “begotten by the word of truth to be a kind of first fruits of His (new) creating to qualify as being born again. And because there are still some yet to come, the goods are still being distributed with those who respond to the call to repent and accept the invitation to “The Kingdom of God is at hand.

Here are the only verses in scripture after the cross and the institution of the New Covenant that refers to the term “Sabbath”, proving the claim that to pick a day of the week to be a special day of worship, is no longer required in the New Testament era.

Colossians 2.16 “ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 

As if to mean you still need to honor them, for they were only “shadows of things to come, but the essence is of Christ” who came. (Colossians 2.16)

Let no one judge you in regard to a Sabbath.

Hebrews 4 urges us to be diligent to enter that rest. To “cease from our works as God did from His. That is the gift.

Hebrews

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His (Sabbath day, to expire that notion) rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel (of Rest) was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter the rest, and those to whom the rest was first preached did not enter the rest because of disobedience, 7 again He designates a certain day to rest, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works (as having to do with Old Testament  obligations) as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that (last day )rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

So then to enter the last “day” like Adam had a “day” that in that “day” you shall die, or become dead to the things of God. For us to on turn be “in that day you eat you shall live” thereby reversing the Admic curse, to be raised in understanding where the fall took place, to put us back on track. Do that for us who are renewed in understanding , in the spirit of our minds? We “reach out to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of us, by associating with the New Covenant creation, not associated with Adam of the 7 days but Christ who is called  “the last Adam” (2 Corinthians 15) as a failed and temporary production line of people. Christ was the last of the old creation and covenant, so that those of us who believe in Christ? We see our old self with Him as well. As Paul put it. “I live, but not I. It is Christ who lives in me so that the life I live, I love in the faith of the Son of God who gave Himself for me (to do so) I do NOT frustrate the grace of God. If righteousness comes any other way (then to place ourselves in Christ for the provisions and benefits of Eternal life and ALL it entails) then Christ died in vain”. And if you continue to try any other methods to live godly, is to use impostors murderers and thieves of human souls.

There is only one option and way for any of us to receive the fruit of life. The cross of Christ”, because if the is any other way? Christ died in vain. He is “The Way snd The Truth”. Amen.

And as a bonus for belief.

The Hebrew rendition of the name Cain, Abels brother, is Cainan-yah. And John the Baptist, cousin of Christ who was the last prophet notified prophet of the Old Creation/covenant era, we say this because when he was beheaded, was as if to say that the Old order of creation had no longer any forward speaking prophecies to say. Hence, expired like food to be poisonous. That’s why The Law era is called The Covenant of Death”.

Well this John in English transposed back through time to its original language, is in fact Yahcainan, or like with Yashuah become Joshua. Turn the y into “J” is how you get from John, Yah n, Yahcanon 

So we have book ends for the old creation with Cananyah and Yahcanon. And this is why “,If anyone is in Christ they are a new creation “distinctively different by way of opposites as if looking in a mirror at an inversion) old things having past away behold all things are New. Din for all time was forgiven…

The only way you could be charged with sin, is to identify yourself with sin, as needing to be redeemed in another way in order to be forgiven washed, and made new. Even as Scripture says that “you are a New Creation in Christ (as opposed to Adam),  old things having past away, behold all things become new. Something the Old could not do. But something you can do by re-subjecting yourself to the old by keeping your old man alive by living under the law era, even just to celebrate the Sabbath as such, or any festivities having to do with the Hebraic Covenant. To go back to that is an insult to Christ. To having not known this, to them realize the jubilation of being set free from the old? You can still do this now between you and the Creator and His Only Begotten. He became the sacrificial lamb stuck in the thicket called the law. To be now set free. Those who Christ sets free in this way? Are truly free. Please do not insult the gift giver.

The Kingdom of God, the Heavenly one, is still “at hand” and proverbially within reach. Enter in with us behind the Veil.