Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy

There are other rhythms in Genesis - the rhythm of the cycle that God gave us with life ( and I will come back to that later, I think), the rhythm of work and rest and the 7th day Shabbat (the Sabbath) day, which means desist, cease, rest.  This one in particular I need to study on. The whole idea of the Sabbath is to remember that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.  We are told in Exodus 20:08 to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy and then in Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your domestic animals, or the sojourner within your gates.  Here we are told HOW to keep it Holy. Seems pretty straight forward.  So why does most of the Christian world worship on Sunday as the 7th day?

From what I have been able to find out, the changing of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday happened in the first few centuries AD and was tied into the pagan traditions.  As I read the Bible, every Sabbath is a Saturday.  I see no example of worshiping on a Sunday.  








This is a big step to take.  Where would we worship? How can we still fellowship with other believers if we partake of a Saturday Sabbath? I have found two answers to these questions.  1) we could worship with Torah believing Christians (which seem to be few and far between) and 2) we can still join together in worship on Sunday.  We can worship on any day of the week.  The Biblical idea of Sabbath is rest.  So, on Saturday we rest AND we go to worship on Sunday (or any other day, for that matter). Actually, this probably fits the Biblical idea of Sabbath better than the popular practice of a Sunday Sabbath.  Hebrews 10:25  not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.  Nothing in this verse or any other says it must be on our Sabbath Day.  There are some things required on the Sabbath, but worshipping together can be any day of the week!


My conclusion: Saturday must be our Sabbath.  There is no other Biblical example given.  It is a major part of God's rhythm, begun at creation and reaffirmed throughout the Bible.  Christ himself observed the Saturday Sabbath. This does not preclude worshiping any other day of the week, but I see nowhere that a Sunday day of worship is required.


So the second item I am adding to our rhythm is Saturday Sabbath.  We have tried this a few times (last Lent) and it worked majorly well for us.  Gee - go figure - it's what God TELLS us to do!


I think I already know the next rhythm God wants me to delve into and I think this one will be a little more involved.  The rhythm of seasons.  God has quite a bit to say about seasons in the Bible and I would imagine I have a lot to learn.