“But pray that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath;” Matthew 24:20 NASB Sabbath – In spite of the fact that R. T. France compellingly argues that this verse and its surrounding verses do not apply to the coming of Yeshua at the end of human history, he makes one…
Consider Isaiah 30:15-16 Some quotations and some commentary. The work cited is Mark Buchanan’s The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath. “In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter…
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 has made. 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. Genesis 2:2-3 …
Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath and holds fast My covenant; Isaiah 56:6 NASB Foreigners – Let’s look at this just one last time. Should you and I…
Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath and does not profane it, and all who hold fast to my covenant; Isaiah 56:6 (Hebrew World) Sons of the stranger –…
Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Deuteronomy 5:12 NASB Observe – One of my dear friends sent me an article about the two Sabbath commands. The other one is the more familiar verse, Exodus 20:8. But if you read them side by side, you realize (especially…
and there was evening and there was morning day one Genesis 1:5 (my translation) Evening/ Morning – Our concept of time was invented to serve the purposes of the British Rail System in 1847. Obviously, this “railway time” (as it was called) was needed to coordinate the management of the trains, but it did not…
“Is it permissible to heal on the Sabbath?” Matthew 12:10 (NASB) Permissible – The Sabbath is a day of rest, an honoring of God’s creative effort and a fulfillment of His ordinance for our own good. But every Jew knew that the commandment concerning the Sabbath was part of a hierarchy of commandments, some of…
One of the central controversies about the movement from the Jewish orientation of the first century New Testament documents to the contemporary Christian culture is the place of the Sabbath. Marianne Dacy wrote her doctoral dissertation on this shift and other critical changes in the first few centuries following the death of Yeshua. Her analysis…
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, gaily living in splendor every day.” Luke 16:19 Gaily Living – “Reading the Bible in a translation is like kissing your new bride through a veil.”[1] Kenneth Bailey underlines Bialik’s point in this parable.[2] The translation “living gaily” disguises…
