Is the Sabbath in the New Testament? 
Compiled By Brother L. Harrell

Leviticus 19:3   Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.


Is the Sabbath in the New Testament. Yes! Honor your father. Honor the king.

Pay tribute to Caesar? Yes. The money has his image and inscription.

Are you created in God’s image. Is his inscription in your mind and heart? If yes, then where is the honor? (If we are to honor Him it will be His way. What does He want? [answer below]

Romans 13:7   Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Malachi 1:6   A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Malachi 1:14   But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

1 Peter 2:17   Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Isaiah 58:13   If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 

If God made a day holy and separate from all days, dedicated to Himself, after creating the earth, before there was a Jew (this day was not made holy for a nation that did not yet exist, it was made for mankind), and before there was the Law, and He did not disavow it, we are to take heed to His will.


Purported "Yoke of the Sabbath"

There were kings in Judah, fathers and sons, seeds of David.  The divinely established throne was being handed down in succession from generation to generation. These were generations of leaders of the people of the One True Lord in the land given by Lord. There were kings in succession such as Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manesseh, Amon, and Josiah.  The Lord spoke to Jeremiah in the days of king Josiah’s reign (as well as during the reign of Josiah’s sons).  King Josiah was a man of great reform.  This was a man whose reformation was foretold many generations earlier.

 

During a period of great leadership and reformation under king Josiah, Jeremiah had a message of doom for the Lord’s people [beseeching them to repent].  During certain points of time in Jeremiah’s warning, he encouraged the people of Judah to surrender to and serve the divination practicing king of Babylon (See Ezekiel 21:21).

 

Jeremiah warned that certain kings that were to come after Josiah would not prosper.  Jeremiah spoke of gloom and doom for their beloved homeland that the Lord gave them many generations ago.  I believe many saw Jeremiah as “Mr. Negativity”, a man that was trying to put a yoke on the people of the Lord.  Jeremiah even went as far as literally putting a yoke on his neck for them to see (See Jeremiah 27:2).

 

In response to the yoke Jeremiah was trying to put on the people a "yoke", another prophet brought “prophecy” to the people that the yoke was to be broken, and said the king that Jeremiah said was not to rule in Judah (Jeconiah, aka Jehoiachin, aka Coniah), would return, along with Esther and Mordecai (See Jeremiah 28:2-4 & Jeremiah 22:24-26).

 

Today many give prophecy that the Day Set Aside for the Lord’s use is not to be regarded. Many say "in the name of the Lord" that letting our brothers rest and serve the Lord on the Day the Lord ordained is a “yoke” that has been broken. 

 

What was decreed in Genesis 2:3 can't be rescinded in conjunction with the Law of Moses.  Genesis 2:3, the Sabbath Day, was established long before Moses, Levi and the Law of Moses, and is not subject to it.

 

Genesis 2: 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.

 

As the errors of the false prophets that denied Jeremiah’s Truth became plainly evident, likewise, unless repentance is reached, the wrath of the errors of the false prophets of this day will also be felt.

 

Acts 10:15b What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.




revised:  09/07/10

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