Not to be confused with sabaoth.
- The Hebrew word for “sabbath” means “rest.”
- The sabbath is the Jewish day of rest, the seventh day of the week (Saturday); rooted in Gen 2:1-3. Under the old covenant, the seventh day of the week was set aside for man to rest from his work.
- That ancient Israel celebrated the sabbath every week was a sign to the nations that God had created the heavens and earth in a week, thus disallowing any notion of evolution or an “old earth.” God would not have embarrassed the nation He established by having them promulgate as fact something that He knew would one day be revealed as false. He knew it would be called false, but that’s not the same thing as being false.
- Under the new covenant, we live in an eternal sabbath – meaning that every day is for doing the Lord’s will and not our own (2 Cor 5:14-15). Thus the sabbath was an Old Testament event – like Passover – that was designed to foreshadow Christ. Once we see the reality, we no longer focus on the shadow of that reality (1 Cor 5:7-8; Col 2:16-17). When I meet people, they reach out to shake my hand – not the hand of my shadow.
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