SABBATH FACTS - Day of Rest (Part 4)

 

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "The Jewish Sabbath (from Hebrew shavat, “to rest”) is observed throughout the year on the seventh day of the week—Saturday. According to biblical tradition, it commemorates the original seventh day on which God rested after completing the creation."

 

In the days of Jesus when the long day of shame and torture ended, He was crucified on the cross. Then, He was buried in a tomb and guarded by Roman soldiers as the sun's rays ushered in the Sabbath. On that dáy, the Son of God lay in quietude in Joseph's tomb. His work completed, His hands folded in peace, He rested through the sacred hours of the Sabbath day.

 

Now Jesus rested from the work of redemption, and though there was grief among those who loved Him on earth, there was joy in heaven for “his perfect work in the flash on earth was finished.” Deuteronomy 32:4.

 

“The Sabbath was designed to call to mind Jehovah’s Rest on the seventh day, after he had created all things in six, and thus keep in memory the living God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. It is the great safe-guard against Atheism and Idolatry. If men had always kept the Sabbath, they never could have forgotten God; never would have doubted the existence of the Creator, for this institution was designed to point them back to the time when he created the heavens and the earth. And they never would have worshiped other gods, for this institution points out the true God, who created all things in six days, and rested on the seventh.”

 

“The Sabbath, then, is a memorial of the living God. The institution is perfectly calculated to call the Creator of all things to mind, and keep him in perpetual remembrance.”

 

Soon when there shall be a “restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” Acts 3:21, the creation Sabbath, will still be a day of rest and rejoicing through the ceaseless cycles of eternity. To God be the glory!

 

With joy, we call all exclaim today:

"Don’t forget the Sabbath,

The Lord our God hath blest,

Of all the week the brightest,

Of all the week the best;

It brings repose from labor,

It tells of joy divine,

Its beams of light descending,

With heavenly beauty shine.

 

Refrain

Welcome, welcome, ever welcome,

Blessed Sabbath day,

Welcome, welcome, ever welcome,

Blessed Sabbath day.

May you and your family always be blessed and refreshed as you worship GOD every Sabbath!

 

By GARDEN MINISTRY