The Seventh-Day Sabbath
Bible Marking Assignment Lesson 6

The Sabbath was “made for man;”  this included all mankind.  Everything that was “made” was made by Jesus; therefore, it was Jesus who made the Sabbath day!  He called Himself the “Lord of the Sabbath day.”  The women who followed Jesus’ ministry observed the Sabbath day even after Jesus’ death.

See John 1:1-3, Mark 2:27-28, and Luke 23:50-56.

The reason Yahweh is worthy to be worshipped is because He is the Creator of all things.  The seventh-day Sabbath is the sign He gave us to remind us each week that He is the
One who made “heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water.”  To honor the Creator, we must honor His seventh-day Sabbath day also, for it is the memorial of
His creative work.  Even in the “new earth,” which the Lord will create after His return, after sin and sinners have been destroyed, “all flesh” will observe the seventh-day
Sabbath throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity!

See Revelation 4:11 and Isaiah 66:22-23.

In the last days of earth’s history, God’s remnant people will remind the world that they must “worship Him who made the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water.”  Thus, there would of necessity be a message to all people, of all denominations, to keep holy the seventh-day, the fourth of the Ten Commandments!  For this commandment was given to remind the world who the Creator is!

See Revelation 14:7.

Jesus went to worship services on the seventh-day Sabbath. The Jewish calendar records every Sabbath from before the time of Christ.  If the day had been lost in history, Jesus
would have told the Jews in His day.  But He went to worship services on the same Sabbath as the Jews of His day.  The day was never lost as some contend.

See Luke 4:16.

After the Jews left the synagogue in Paul’s day, the “Gentiles” wanted to hear Paul preach again.  He told them to come back the “next Sabbath day.”  He didn’t tell them to come back the next day for Sunday service!  There was no Sunday worship in Bible times.  That came into the church many years after the death of the apostles.  It was a carry-over from pagan sun worship, hence the name, Sunday.  It was brought into Christianity by the Roman Church fathers by tradition.  Paul and the New Testament believers kept holy the seventh-day Sabbath.

See Acts 13:42-45 and 16:13.

The seventh-day Sabbath is God’s sign or mark that He is the One who sanctifies us.  The seventh-day Sabbath is the fourth of the Ten Commandments and forbids secular work on the Sabbath day.  Failure to keep the Sabbath is sin, for the Bible says “sin is the transgression of the law.”   We show our love for the Lord by obeying His commandments.
The Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday night and continues till sundown on Saturday night.  This is Biblical time.

See Exodus 20:8-11, Ezekiel 20:20, 1 John 3:4, James 2:10-12, and 1 John 5:3.

There were ceremonial Sabbaths that involved sacrifices. These ceremonial Sabbaths were a “shadow” of the cross, and therefore were abolished when Jesus died on the cross. But we must not confuse these ceremonial Sabbaths with the seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment.  The seventh-day Sabbath was made before sin entered the world, and was a memorial of creation.  For this reason, the seventh-day Sabbath will never be done away with.

See Leviticus 23:24-32 and 37-38 to understand the difference between the ceremonial Sabbaths and the “Sabbaths of the Lord.”

Daniel the prophet predicted that the “little horn” power (the fallen religious system) would think to “change times and laws.”  This is how the holy time of God’s Sabbath
was changed!  God told us about it in advance.

See Daniel 7:25.