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In Ex 20:8 God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath day to keep it holy"
The "Sabbath Commandment" in Ex 20:8-11 is not the "making" of it - rather it is the call to REMEMBER it.. So it was made BEFORE that.
Jesus says the Sabbath was MADE for "mankind". Mark 2:27 "the Sabbath was MADE for MANKIND"
The Sabbath commandment is part of the TEN Commandments which Deut 5:22 says that God spoke "the Ten Commandments to the people... and He added no more" (Only the TEN were spoken directly to the people)
So this is the only set of commandments spoken directly by God to the people from the mountain , written on stone and kept inside the ark. (not that the TEN are the only commandments in the moral law of God - of course)
But "Remember" the Sabbath - from WHAT past event?
If it is FROM - Gen 2:1-3 when both mankind and Sabbath were made - then it is FOR mankind and was established as such in Gen 2 even before sin.
So then:
Is it from the Ex 16 event?
In Ex 16 God said this -
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: (KJV)
26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”
28 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
OR is it from the Gen 2 event?
In Gen 2:1-3 God said this
Gen 2:
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
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QUESTION: ??So in Ex 20:8 when God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath" - which event is He primarily wanting them to REMEMBER?
Does God tell us which event is the focus to be remembered IN THE ACTUAL Commandment - of those two past events?
Ex 20:8-11
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 For six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your resident who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ("Sanctified" it)
hmm vs 11 of Ex 20 points us not to the Ex 16 past event... but rather to the Gen 2:1-3 past event as we can see in its quote of Gen 2.
That answers the question "remember the Sabbath -- from what past event?" IN the actual commandment.
The focus in the Sabbath commandment is not on the manna event of Ex 16... it is on the "making of mankind and of the seventh-day as a sanctified holy day" in Gen 2:1-3.
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Question -- does Christ ALSO link the making of the Sabbath with the making of mankind (Gen 2) - and show the relationship that they have two each other?
Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was MADE for man (mankind) and not man (mankind) MADE for the Sabbath" - as Christ said. Where once again we see the "making" of the Sabbath and the "making" of mankind associated together. -- just as we do in Gen 2. No wonder the Sabbath commandment itself point to that Gen 2 "making" event.
BTW in Matt 4 Jesus points back to the book of Deuteronomy saying "MAN shall not live by bread alone - but by every word that comes from the mouth of God". Once again that same term for MAN - is - MANKIND.
Is 66:23 "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship"
The "Sabbath Commandment" in Ex 20:8-11 is not the "making" of it - rather it is the call to REMEMBER it.. So it was made BEFORE that.
Jesus says the Sabbath was MADE for "mankind". Mark 2:27 "the Sabbath was MADE for MANKIND"
The Sabbath commandment is part of the TEN Commandments which Deut 5:22 says that God spoke "the Ten Commandments to the people... and He added no more" (Only the TEN were spoken directly to the people)
So this is the only set of commandments spoken directly by God to the people from the mountain , written on stone and kept inside the ark. (not that the TEN are the only commandments in the moral law of God - of course)
But "Remember" the Sabbath - from WHAT past event?
If it is FROM - Gen 2:1-3 when both mankind and Sabbath were made - then it is FOR mankind and was established as such in Gen 2 even before sin.
So then:
Is it from the Ex 16 event?
In Ex 16 God said this -
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: (KJV)
26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”
28 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
OR is it from the Gen 2 event?
In Gen 2:1-3 God said this
Gen 2:
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
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QUESTION: ??So in Ex 20:8 when God said "REMEMBER the Sabbath" - which event is He primarily wanting them to REMEMBER?
Does God tell us which event is the focus to be remembered IN THE ACTUAL Commandment - of those two past events?
Ex 20:8-11
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 For six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your resident who stays with you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ("Sanctified" it)
hmm vs 11 of Ex 20 points us not to the Ex 16 past event... but rather to the Gen 2:1-3 past event as we can see in its quote of Gen 2.
That answers the question "remember the Sabbath -- from what past event?" IN the actual commandment.
The focus in the Sabbath commandment is not on the manna event of Ex 16... it is on the "making of mankind and of the seventh-day as a sanctified holy day" in Gen 2:1-3.
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Question -- does Christ ALSO link the making of the Sabbath with the making of mankind (Gen 2) - and show the relationship that they have two each other?
Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was MADE for man (mankind) and not man (mankind) MADE for the Sabbath" - as Christ said. Where once again we see the "making" of the Sabbath and the "making" of mankind associated together. -- just as we do in Gen 2. No wonder the Sabbath commandment itself point to that Gen 2 "making" event.
BTW in Matt 4 Jesus points back to the book of Deuteronomy saying "MAN shall not live by bread alone - but by every word that comes from the mouth of God". Once again that same term for MAN - is - MANKIND.
Is 66:23 "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship"
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