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You were born for a rhythm of rest that the modern world has stolen. Discover the transformative power of the true Sabbath and unlock the divine heritage that has been waiting for you since the dawn of creation.  In this powerful teaching from God Honest Truth, you are invited to rediscover the Sabbath through the lens of Scripture alone. You will uncover what the Tanakh actually says about the Sabbath, why it was established, and how it was meant to be lived out—not as a burden, but as a blessing. This is not about religion as usual—this is about being God Honest with the Word and aligning your life with what Yahweh has declared from the beginning.  Whether you’re just beginning your Tanakh journey or ready to deepen your Christian roots, this video delivers the inspiring knowledge you need to experience authentic rest and transformed faith. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the sabbath in the Tanakh (aka Old Testament).  Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and click the bell icon so you don't miss our next teaching!  #BibleStudy #BiblicalSabbath #Christianity #GodHonestTruth #KeepTheSabbath #Sabbath #SabbathTruth  Video Chapters: 00:00:00 Teaching Introduction 00:00:48 Video Start 00:02:08 Series Overview 00:09:48 Creation 00:20:34 Continuing Through the Tanakh 00:42:14 Instructions & Regulations 01:05:19 Biblical Sabbath Adopted & Appropriated? 01:12:43 Miscellaneous 01:16:08 Summary  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://godhonesttruth.short.gy/SabbathE12026  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: [https://www.GodHonestTruth.com]  Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GodHonestTruth  Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/godhonesttruth  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing or flagging this content, you acknowledge and accept these terms.  Fair Use: Any inclusion of third-party audio/music, video, or images is used under Fair Use for commentary, parody, and educational or documentary purposes.  This video may contain content that is unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs.

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00:00:01you've heard of the sabbath but have you heard it from scripture did you know there's a way

00:00:07for people to tell if you're in covenant with the almighty in fact the sabbath in scripture

00:00:14is described as a sign between you those who are in covenant with god and god himself

00:00:22this and so much more is coming up in this teaching on the sabbath and that's not a part

00:00:29of the shabbat series

00:00:49so this teaching is going to be all about shabbat and the tanakh we're going to be starting out our

00:00:54study of the shabbat in this shabbat series and starting from the very beginning which is this

00:01:00knock and we're even going to go back to the very beginning itself which is creation all of that

00:01:06coming up in just a moment make sure you have your notes ready and if you want more notes additional

00:01:12notes than what we present here because we had to cut a lot of it out in order for the

00:01:17sake of time

00:01:18you can go and find that at our website at godhonesttruth.com click on the post for this

00:01:25particular episode there you'll be able to find the on-demand video you'll be able to find the

00:01:30draw slides as you see here on your screen you'll also be able to find the academic reports we had

00:01:36produced from ai for this particular subject the notes that we personally took ourselves and have

00:01:41shared with you and you'll also be able to find the transcript if that's something important to you

00:01:46or helpful to you and it's all right there on our website at godhonesttruth.com now an even easier

00:01:52way to access that is through the link down below in the description just click on that link and it'll

00:01:56take you directly to that article post and that link should be down there whether you're watching on a

00:02:02video platform or an audio podcasting platform it should still be down there all the same so starting

00:02:09out let's go ahead and do a overview of what we're going to be studying and looking at during this

00:02:14particular series first of all we're going to be talking what the scriptures itself talks about

00:02:19multiple types of sabbath there is the weekly sabbath there is the festival sabbath also known

00:02:26as known as shabbatons there is the seventh year sabbath and also the 50th year sabbath which is

00:02:34referred to as a jubilee now what we are studying in this particular series and especially tonight

00:02:40it's going to be the weekly sabbath we're not going to get into too much detail on the other

00:02:46types of sabbaths we may mention them in passing but nothing really in depth or in detail it's all

00:02:52going to be about the weekly seventh day sabbath so i just want to clarify that as we go forward

00:03:00we're also going to be talking about a lot of stuff during the entirety of the series so if something

00:03:05doesn't get brought up during a particular episode like such as this one then by all means please

00:03:10stay tuned for the next few episodes and it may get answered by then and if it doesn't then make

00:03:17sure to send us in your questions or join us on one of the forum of the faithful series in

00:03:23this

00:03:23particular series we're going to break it up into various episodes tonight we're going to be talking

00:03:28about shabbat and the tanakh as we mentioned earlier this is going to be going from genesis all the way

00:03:34through second chronicles or if you're holding to a mainstream protestant layouts from genesis to

00:03:41malachi so tonight it's going to be all about shabbat and the tanakh just within that scope of what's

00:03:48referred to as the aka old testament in episode two we're going to be looking at shabbat and the

00:03:55brithadashah or the aka new testament that gets into even more detail but tonight we're going to be laying

00:04:02the foundation with the tanakh in our third episode this is where it's going to get really juicy and it's

00:04:08going to explain a lot of things that confuse a lot of people in that episode in episode three we're

00:04:14going to be looking at shabbat in the early centuries especially the first few hundred years after the

00:04:19time of yeshua and the apostle so definitely make sure to stay tuned for that one in episode four we're

00:04:26going to be looking at shabbat the reformation what the reformers thought about shabbat and the various

00:04:33other concepts of the sabbath and also looking at various miscellaneous things that doesn't deserve

00:04:39its own episode so we're going to put it in episode four right there in episode five we're going to

00:04:45be

00:04:45looking at and examining various arguments for sunday as the sabbath you'll have a lot of evidence and a

00:04:53foundation leading up to that on the first four episodes so that should be pretty easy for you as

00:05:00we go through there but we're still going to go over them and examine them all the same just for

00:05:04clarity and understanding and then finally in our last episode we're going to be looking at a concept

00:05:10known as the lunar sabbath so you want if you don't know what that is definitely tune in for that

00:05:16particular episode but always always tune in to each of these particular episodes for all the

00:05:23information that's going to be coming your way now in past years we have done teachings on the sabbath

00:05:29but it's only been one episode or one teaching and we haven't had time or the ability to go into

00:05:36depth

00:05:37and that's what the point of this particular series is is to try and go into even more depth on

00:05:42the

00:05:42subject of the shabbat now let's go over some quick terminology real quick for those of you who aren't

00:05:50necessarily messianic minded like the majority of us watching this particular video number one we're

00:05:57going to be using the term shabbat most of you know this as the word sabbath the english word sabbath

00:06:03comes from the hebrew word shabbat so shabbat is just simply the hebrew word for sabbath so that's what

00:06:11we mean when we say shabbat typically as you see in the book of genesis especially genesis chapter one

00:06:21the days in scripture start at sunset and they run through sunset of the next day so a day in

00:06:31the

00:06:31scriptures is evening and morning darkness and then daylight that means that the shabbat or the sabbath

00:06:40of scripture goes from friday at sundown until saturday at sundown how can we prove that well

00:06:47make sure you stay tuned because we're going to be getting into all that evidence as we go through

00:06:52this series we'll back it up and we will show you but just stay tuned especially in episode three

00:06:58when we start looking at some of the evidence of the romans talking about the hebrew sabbath and

00:07:05them going to war with the hebrews etc etc so it's coming just have patience and bear with us

00:07:14another word that we might use just in passing like i said is the word shabbaton this is something

00:07:19that stands for like a high day or a minor sabbath as it's sometimes called or a festival sabbath for

00:07:26instance we just got done with pesach or passover the first day of passover is a shabbaton it doesn't

00:07:33matter what day of the week it falls on it's still the a sabbath a type of rest a day

00:07:39of rest

00:07:40that pertains to the first day of pesach then last week we had the regular weekly shabbat as well

00:07:48and then the last day of pesach was also a shabbaton another day of rest where you do no servile

00:07:56work

00:07:57the shabbat tones could go in to have a drosh all to themselves but just let it be known that

00:08:03that's

00:08:03what a shabbaton is it's a festival sabbath that's added to certain moedim

00:08:10well sometimes feast days too but particularly moedim like pesach or yom kippurim etc etc then they

00:08:18are in addition to the weekly sabbath so that's what a shabbaton is we're also going to be using

00:08:23the word tanakh extensively what is the tanakh for those of you who don't know the tanakh is an acronym

00:08:30that stands for the torah the nevaim and the ketuvim and that stands for the torah which obviously is

00:08:38the first five books of scripture the nevaim which is the prophets and the ketuvim which is the writings

00:08:45this is a collection otherwise understood as the aka old testament if you come from a more mainstream

00:08:53protestant background we're also going to be using the term brit hadashah and what is the brit hadashah

00:09:00well just like the tanakh is what the actual word is for the aka old testament the brit hadashah is

00:09:07what the actual term is for the aka new testament it's also sometimes referred to as the apostolic

00:09:14writings etc etc or the messianic writings stuff like that but we're going to be reusing the term

00:09:19brit hadashah and once again if we do not get into some of the thoughts that you have as we

00:09:27go through

00:09:27this particular drosh stay tuned because we'll probably answer it later on especially if it's not

00:09:33within the scope of that particular episode and scope of tonight's episode is the tanakh if it doesn't get

00:09:40answered tonight tune in next week for the forum of the faithful you can join us or ask your question

00:09:46and we'll get to it at that point so now let's go ahead and start tonight's teaching or drosh about

00:09:52shabbat and the tanakh and what better place to start at from the then the very start of creation and

00:10:01creation itself let's look at something very very interesting that you may not have noticed before now

00:10:08as we go through the first chapter i'm sorry the first and second chapters of the book of genesis

00:10:16notice this as we go through each of the particular days of creation i'm not going to read the entire

00:10:21creation account just the relevant points to make this particular illustration but the first day goes

00:10:28as such an elohim called the light day in the darkness he called night and there came to be evening

00:10:34and there came to be morning one day now one thing to note is that in the actual hebrew it

00:10:40doesn't

00:10:40call it the first day it actually calls it day one and if you look at it it's yom echad

00:10:47not yom rishon

00:10:49that's very interesting most a lot of translations i've seen will say the evening and morning the first

00:10:55day but that's completely inaccurate it it definitely gets the um what do you say the concept over but it's

00:11:02not semantically correct i guess you could say and there's a lot of stuff that can go into that too

00:11:08but

00:11:08that's the topic for another day now notice there it says the evening and the morning were one day

00:11:14then we go on and we look at verse eight and elohim called the expanse heavens and there came to

00:11:19be

00:11:19evening and there came to be morning the second day again there was evening and morning the second

00:11:25day verse 13 and there came to be evening and there came to be morning the third day verse 19

00:11:31and there

00:11:31came to be evening and there came to be morning the fourth day verse 23 and there came to be

00:11:36evening

00:11:36and there came to be morning the fifth day verse 31 and elohim saw all that he had made and

00:11:43see it was

00:11:44very good and there came to be evening and there came to be morning the sixth day have you noticed

00:11:49a

00:11:49pattern yet as to what is going on here every single day of creation when it wraps up everything that

00:11:59it talks about yahweh doing it says there came to be evening and there came to be morning and the

00:12:04particular day the second day the fifth day the sixth day etc etc however there is a difference when

00:12:12it comes to the seventh day notice what it says here in chapter 2 verse 1 thus the heavens and

00:12:20the earth

00:12:20were completed in all their array verse 2 and in the seventh day elohim completed his work which

00:12:29he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and finally

00:12:34verse

00:12:343 and elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart or made it holy because he on it he

00:12:40rested from

00:12:41all his work which elohim in creating had made notice here for the seventh day it does not say anything

00:12:49about there was evening and there was morning the seventh day that stands in stark contrast to the

00:12:55rest of the creation account which does include the evening and morning part there are various

00:13:01theories and interpretations to this but i just thought it was very very neat to notice that it's

00:13:07almost like it's an ongoing thing that has not been set and passed away and things like that it wasn't

00:13:15just a set time in place it was something that keeps on going even down to today was very very

00:13:23interesting

00:13:24also another thing to look at in this creation account especially as it regards the topic of shabbat

00:13:30is that number one it says that elohim rested from all his words so how in the world does the

00:13:42creator of everything that we see everything that exists how is it that he needs rest well he doesn't

00:13:50actually because it says later on in the tanakh that yahweh neither sleeps nor slumbers so he doesn't get tired

00:13:57because he is the creator so what does it mean when it says here in genesis chapter 2 that yahweh

00:14:04rested

00:14:05well this isn't a resting because of tiredness or being worn out such as we get we can't apply our

00:14:13own situation to that of the creator especially in this particular instance for instance this week i've

00:14:20me and my family i've really worked hard even though supposed to be spring break we haven't got a break

00:14:26we've been doing a lot we've been getting firewood we and on two different days we have been doing some

00:14:33remodeling both our house and another house been carrying flooring doing flooring doing some

00:14:39plumbing work etc etc so at this point in the week we are tired and we want to rest but

00:14:47when it comes

00:14:47to yahweh and especially the creation account it wasn't because he was tired that he rested instead it was

00:14:54because he was done with creation think about a project that you have and you do it and maybe it's

00:15:03not

00:15:03physically exhausting but once you complete it you just stop you rest from that work because it's

00:15:10done there's nothing else to do as far as that task goes and that's what it means here in scripture

00:15:16when

00:15:17it talks about yahweh resting he had done creation he was finished creating and so there was nothing else

00:15:23to do and so he stopped and he rested because everything was complete he also did it in order to

00:15:30set an

00:15:31example for us later on we're getting ahead of ourselves here but later on it says that shabbat was

00:15:37made for man and not man for shabbat so he set us an example for us to follow now some

00:15:47things to notice

00:15:48also about this creation account number one the cessation of work like we said earlier about yahweh

00:15:56rest in here the cessation of work is not due to fatigue but rather a deliberate act of setting

00:16:02apart time because he had actually completed the work that he had set out to do now notice also too

00:16:10let's go back real quick in this account here in genesis chapter one chapter two he says that he made

00:16:17the day holy he set it apart this is the very first thing that ever gets made holy or set

00:16:25apart

00:16:26it's actually the very first moedin which we'll get into in just a moment but he set that time apart

00:16:31and it's not a particular section of land it's not a particular people it's not a building or a monument

00:16:38or

00:16:39anything like that this was a period of time that got made holy that's what was set apart that was

00:16:47the

00:16:47very first thing that's ever mentioned as being made holy or set apart in scripture

00:16:55oh there we go getting ahead of myself the seventh day is the first thing in scripture to be declared

00:16:59holy or kodesh indicating that sacredness itself is ascribed to time not merely to objects or places

00:17:07the first thing to be blessed or made sacred was a section of time before israel before the

00:17:12tabernacle etc etc even before israel was set apart as a people group the sabbath was set apart and made

00:17:22holy shabbat is a temporal sign and that's something to keep in mind too because as we go through the

00:17:28scriptures tonight you'll see that the shabbat is a sign between us and yahweh but the shabbat is a temporal

00:17:36sign a sign in time sort of like the rainbow is a visual sign that we see up in the

00:17:42sky and the

00:17:43circumcision is a physical sign also shabbat in like manner is a temporal sign the placement at the

00:17:52end of the creation or the conclusion of creation signals that the sabbath is

00:18:00meant for everyone and it's meaning that it is universal and it's well we'll leave it at that

00:18:08it means that's universal this whole world was created during the creation account for everyone

00:18:14it's universal and the shabbat was part of that creation account and that makes it universal as

00:18:21well so in contrast to what we saw with the noahide laws shabbat is for everyone not just a specific

00:18:29race shabbat is part of a is part of creation as we saw earlier and it's the cap the uh

00:18:39we call it

00:18:40uh-huh we had it just then uh is the conclusion of creation it is the seal of creation and

00:18:49on there

00:18:49oh i gotta save my notes here so not only is shabbat set apart is the first thing to be

00:18:53set apart

00:18:54not only is it the conclusion of creation but that capped everything off and it sealed creation

00:19:00that is shabbat it's gonna be reiterated and later on in this knock as we go forward in this you'll

00:19:07see that here in just a moment as we get into the book of exodus and yahweh himself gave us

00:19:13a divine

00:19:13example by resting on the first shabbat now once again yahweh himself did not get tired and so he did

00:19:21not need to physically rest and recoup his strength as we do but instead he did give us an example

00:19:28by

00:19:28resting and we are to imitate that something called in latin the imitatio day the imitation of god and

00:19:38this is one of those things that we should imitate one of the things of god that we should imitate

00:19:42and

00:19:42that is resting on shabbat just like yahweh rested on the very first shabbat during the week of creation

00:19:49and set it apart and made it holy and shabbat was the first moed for those of you who don't

00:19:56know

00:19:56moed is a hebrew term that means set i'm sorry uh appointed time there we go

00:20:05i'm going too fast here i'm just gonna slow down a little bit but moed means an appointed time and

00:20:11shabbat was the very first moed or the very first appointed time we'll see that as we go through here

00:20:18too because it's always listed when it talks about the moed later on in sanak the other moedim

00:20:23such as pesach such as shavuot such as sakot etc etc shabbat is mentioned as one of those moedim and

00:20:31shabbat was the first moed now let's go ahead and go on past creation and continue through the tanakh

00:20:39as it is regarding the shabbat now it would be my contention that ever since the beginning of

00:20:47creation all the way up through the time that the people went into egypt that they knew about the torah

00:20:55about the instructions that yahweh had handed down now what proof do we have we can see various proof

00:21:03here and there throughout the tanakh or especially throughout the genesis account leading up to the

00:21:11slavery in egypt but there is very very sparse information and evidence about the shabbat however

00:21:18it would be my contention that even the shabbat was known before the slavery in egypt and then when it

00:21:24came out of egypt they had to be re-taught these various things and especially the shabbat and also

00:21:32faith and reliance on yahweh and here is some evidence to show you just that we look at exodus

00:21:41chapter 16 specifically verses 2 through 30 and i cut out some of this just for the sake of time

00:21:47but you

00:21:47can read the full context on your uh on your own or for yourself if you'd like but the reference

00:21:54is

00:21:54exodus 16 2-30 and all the congregation of the children of israel grumbled against mosheh and

00:22:01aaron and yahweh said to moshe see i am raining bread from the heavens for you and the people

00:22:07shall go out and gather a day's portion every day in order to try them whether they walk in my

00:22:13torah or

00:22:14not and it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in and it shall

00:22:19be twice as

00:22:20much as they gather daily and moshe said yahweh hears your grumbling which you make against him

00:22:26and what are we your grumblings are not against us but against yahweh and it came to be on the

00:22:32sixth day

00:22:32that they gathered twice as much bread two omers for each one and moshe said to them this is what

00:22:39yahweh has said tomorrow is a rest a sabbath set apart to yahweh that which you bake bake and that

00:22:45which

00:22:45you cook cook and lay up for yourselves all that is left over to keep it until morning and they

00:22:51laid

00:22:51it up till morning as moshe commanded and it did not stink and no worm was in it and moshe

00:22:57said eat

00:22:58it today for today is a sabbath to yahweh today you do not find it in the field gather it

00:23:04six days but on

00:23:05the seventh day which is the sabbath there is none because yahweh has given you the sabbath therefore he has

00:23:11given you bread for two days on the sixth day so the people rested on the seventh day

00:23:18now once again this is something that teaches the people two different things number one it teaches

00:23:25them the sabbath the weekly sabbath because as they went through the wilderness here they had six days

00:23:32that they would gather this manna from heaven and then on the seventh day which was the sabbath which

00:23:38was what they were being taught they would not have any manna and they would have to rely on what

00:23:43they gathered the day previously so they were being taught or re-taught the cycle the six days and then

00:23:50sabbath six days and then sabbath cycle after they came out of egypt they were also being taught

00:23:57reliance and faith in yahweh they started grumbling against moses and aaron and yahweh says it's not

00:24:04against you it's against me and he gave them manna in order to feed them and sustain them

00:24:11but some of them if you read the entire section here it says that some of them gathered too much

00:24:16and then the next day if it wasn't a sabbath the next day it would stink and stuff like that

00:24:21it would

00:24:21rot and they needed to just gather what they needed for that particular day and rely on yahweh to provide

00:24:29for them the next day and not gather too much this is something that taught them reliance and faith

00:24:35on yahweh as well did it stick well not for everybody definitely not that's why a lot of them

00:24:41did not enter the promised land after they came out of egypt it was their children but some of them

00:24:47it

00:24:47did stick with them and taught them faith and it especially gave us an example and taught us as well

00:24:53as

00:24:53them the six day and then sabbath six day and then sabbath cycle as scripture lays out going on we

00:25:01look

00:25:01at exodus chapter 20 verses 8 to 11 remember the sabbath day to set it apart six days you labor

00:25:09and

00:25:09shall do all your work but the seventh day is a sabbath of yahweh your elohim you do not do

00:25:14any work

00:25:15you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your cattle

00:25:20nor your stranger who is within your gates for in six days yahweh made the heavens and the earth

00:25:25the sea and all that is in them and rested the seventh day therefore yahweh blessed the seventh

00:25:31day and set it apart a couple things to notice here as this is part of the ten commandments especially

00:25:39the fourth commandment this is the longest and the most detailed of all the ten commandments

00:25:47don't believe me go look in exodus chapter 20 for yourself and this is by far the longest described

00:25:55and longest detailed commandment of all the ten commandments but one thing to notice here real

00:26:00quick as we start off it says that the seventh day is a sabbath so keep that in mind as

00:26:08you go

00:26:08through put that in your notes definitely that the seventh day sabbath is only one of

00:26:15many sabbaths we mentioned a couple of those back at the beginning of this particular episode but

00:26:21there are other sabbaths as well you have the festival sabbaths you have the seven year sabbath you have

00:26:27the 50th year sabbath etc etc so the weekly sabbath is only one sabbath among a handful of sabbaths

00:26:36number two look at the reasoning or what the sabbath is tied to here in this particular

00:26:44recounting or telling of the ten commandments because there's two different kinds there's

00:26:48i'm sorry there's two different times that the ten commandments are given to us in scripture that's

00:26:54here in exodus 20 and also in deuteronomy which we'll get to here in just a moment

00:27:00but here in the exodus account of the ten commandments the sabbath is tied to the

00:27:06creation account going back to what we saw earlier and that you should keep the sabbath or remember

00:27:14the sabbath rather because on the week of creation yahweh rested on the sabbath and set it apart he

00:27:22rested on the seventh day and set it apart now compare that to what we read in deuteronomy chapter

00:27:295 verses 12-15 here it says guard the sabbath day to set it apart as yahweh your elohim commanded

00:27:38you

00:27:38six days you labor and shall do all your work but the seventh day is a sabbath of yahweh your

00:27:44elohim

00:27:44you do not do any work you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female

00:27:49servant nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor your stranger who is within your gates

00:27:55so

00:27:55that your male servant and your female servant rest as you do and you shall remember that you

00:28:00were a slave in the land of mitzrayim and that yahweh your elohim brought you out from there by a

00:28:06strong

00:28:06hand and an outstretched arm therefore yahweh your elohim commanded you to perform the sabbath day

00:28:14now in contrast to the exodus account of the ten commandments here in deuteronomy is tying the sabbath day

00:28:21to the redemption from egypt and one of the things that i really believe this is trying to guard

00:28:28against is guarding against the enslavement by the hebrew people of other people enslaving them and

00:28:35making them work 24 7 without a break like they did or had to do back in egypt and i

00:28:43think it's why

00:28:44they mention it here as tied to the exodus from egypt and also it talks about in both accounts

00:28:52the male servant and the female servant and every single person or i'm sorry every single aspect

00:28:58even including the animals the only exception as we'll see here going forward is the priest in the

00:29:05temple or the tabernacle of yahweh but that's coming up for the moment just take it that everyone

00:29:11whether it is your wife your wives your family your sons daughters your men slaves your men

00:29:18servants your female servants your animals livestock all everybody rest on the sabbath

00:29:27like i said there's a few exceptions but just take it right now that everyone rest on the sabbath

00:29:33this stands in stark contrast to some of the cultural peoples around them such as the babylonians but

00:29:40we'll get into that and just later on as we look at some um we set some atheist naysayers and

00:29:49stuff

00:29:49like that we'll look at that coming up near the end of this teaching but the sabbath in scripture

00:29:55is for everyone not just a certain group of people so definitely remember that as i mentioned earlier

00:30:02this kind of helps in at least my opinion helps prove kind of guard against the enslavement of other

00:30:09peoples and making them work 24 7 it helps to guard against greed because when everyone takes off

00:30:17on the sabbath there's no money to be made even if you have employees your employees are supposed to

00:30:23be taken off you're supposed to give them the day off for the sabbath so it helps to guard against

00:30:28greed

00:30:29helps to guard against placing others in servitude in order to produce for you to produce for you for

00:30:35gain or to place yourself in servitude for gain and a lot of people do that nowadays they place

00:30:42themselves in servitude they work themselves 24 7 or to get ahead in life to get ahead in their career

00:30:48to get ahead financially etc etc so this commandment both in exodus and deuteronomy in those

00:30:58differences differences or nuances in each one i think both of them definitely help serve or guard

00:31:03against these various things that we just mentioned now as i mentioned there are some slight exceptions

00:31:10to this everyone resting on the shabbat rule usually there's always exceptions so let's look at one

00:31:18exception real quick and that is the priest and this is defined in scripture actually so we're going to

00:31:24back this up priests were commonly tasked with various physical duties as we read or as we read

00:31:31throughout scripture they had physical duties they had to perform such as slaughtering the sacrifices

00:31:37then butchering it dividing it up in various ways keeping the fire burning for the ascending offering

00:31:43keeping the menorah in the temple or the tabernacle going keeping the incense the altar of incense going

00:31:51etc etc etc the show bread which we'll show you here in just a moment they had various physical duties

00:31:57and

00:31:57this did not stop on shabbat not for the priest anyways because there were even sacrifices on shabbat

00:32:05that the priest had to perform we look in x i'm sorry numbers chapter 28 verses 9 through 10 on

00:32:13the

00:32:13sabbath day two lambs a year old perfect ones and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a

00:32:18grain

00:32:18offering mixed with oil with its drink offering the ascending offering for every sabbath besides the

00:32:24continual ascending offering with its drink offering so they had a additional sabbath sacrifice that the

00:32:33priest had to perform so the priest get they don't get this day off they get other days off but

00:32:42that's

00:32:42a point for another time but they in general don't get the sabbath off they also have to perform

00:32:50duties regarding the show bread within the tabernacle or the temple as well leviticus chapter 24 verse 8 on

00:32:58every sabbath he is to arrange it before yahweh continually from the children of israel an

00:33:03everlasting covenant let me read that again on every sabbath he meaning the priest is to arrange it

00:33:10what is it the show bread before yahweh continually from the children of israel an everlasting covenant

00:33:18and finally we're going to look at leviticus chapter 6 verses 12 to 13 and the fire on the

00:33:24slaughter place is kept burning on it it is not put out and the priest shall burn wood on it

00:33:31every

00:33:32morning and arrange the ascending offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings

00:33:38fire is continually kept burning on the slaughter place it is not put out so one of the things that

00:33:47the priest had to attend to even on shabbat is the continuation and the burning of the fire

00:33:54they're in the tabernacle of the temple for the slaughterings the ascending offerings etc etc the

00:34:01command to keep the temple service going which is what the priests were doing they were commanded to

00:34:08keep the temple going it was was sometimes referred to as a vertical duty to yahweh himself and was

00:34:16considered higher than the command for like everyone else the individuals the people who weren't priests

00:34:24and that's what's referred to generally as the horizontal duty those of you who do not have a

00:34:31we could say it um occupation of service to yahweh there is a difference between

00:34:41gain and serving you can serve or you can gain something like you would a paycheck or a gold medal

00:34:50or

00:34:51etc etc there is service to yahweh and there's also service to others which stands in stark contrast

00:34:58to that which you would gain through a normal occupation but even in the tanakh we see that the

00:35:04priest had duties physical duties to perform even on shabbat now we also look in exodus chapter 31

00:35:14verse 13 and here it says and you speak to the children of israel saying my sabbath you are to

00:35:20guard

00:35:21by all means for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations to know that i yahweh

00:35:27am setting you apart as we mentioned earlier the sabbath is a sign between yahweh and his people

00:35:36who are in covenant with him the sabbath is a sign of the covenant so are you in covenant with

00:35:44yahweh

00:35:46how can we tell well there are signs that we can determine whether or not you are within

00:35:51in covenant with yahweh one of those signs is the keeping of shabbat

00:35:58number two exodus chapter 31 verse 17 between me and the children of israel it shabbat is a sign

00:36:06forever for in six days yahweh made the heavens and the earth and the seventh day he rested and was

00:36:12refreshed now notice here that again is calling shabbat as a sign between yahweh and his people

00:36:20the covenant sign or a covenant sign rather also it says that is a sign for ever put that down

00:36:28in

00:36:28your notes we're not going to get into all of that right now but definitely write down that shabbat is

00:36:34a

00:36:34sign forever circle highlight underline that word forever that's going to be coming up especially in

00:36:41the upcoming episodes next ezekiel chapter 20 verse 12 and i also gave them my sabbaths

00:36:50to be a sign between them and me to know that i am yahweh who sets them apart here it's

00:36:57using a plural

00:36:58of sabbath it's shabbatoti shabbat is sabbath the plural sabbath but shabbat is the possessive meaning

00:37:07my sabbath so i also gave them my sabbath to be a sign between them and me to know that

00:37:13i am yahweh who sets

00:37:14them apart so again sabbath so again sabbath especially the weekly sabbath but also the

00:37:21other sabbaths are a sign between those in covenant with yahweh and yahweh himself and one more

00:37:29ezekiel chapter 20 verse 20 and set apart my sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you

00:37:37to know that i am yahweh your elohim again it's a sign it's we're beating a dead horse right now

00:37:44and

00:37:45i promise we'll stop but just this gets the point across that shabbat is a sign between yahweh and his

00:37:51people so that everyone knows or it's one of the pieces of evidence to show the world that we are

00:38:00the

00:38:00people of yahweh and that yahweh is our god which it says right here to know that i am yahweh

00:38:08your god

00:38:09yahweh your elohim so now we saw where creation i'm sorry shabbat come from even back in creation

00:38:17how it's tied to both creation and the redemption from egypt and how it is a sign between us and

00:38:24yahweh

00:38:24and nowadays with everything mixed up and twisted and tradition and history and all that other stuff

00:38:31some people think that the law is a burden that we shouldn't do it that it was done away with

00:38:39and

00:38:39all that other stuff but that's not really what scripture actually says in fact scripture does not

00:38:46call the sabbath a burden scripture calls the sabbath a joy or a delight or things like that and that's

00:38:56what we should really come to regard the sabbath as as a joy or as a delight we look in

00:39:02isaiah chapter

00:39:0358 verses 13 through 14 if you do turn back your foot from the sabbath from doing your pleasure

00:39:10on my set apart day and shall call the sabbath a delight the set apart day of yahweh esteemed and

00:39:17shall esteem it not doing your own ways nor finding your own pleasure nor speaking your own words then

00:39:23you shall delight yourself in yahweh and i shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth and

00:39:29feed you with the inheritance of yaakov your father for the mouth of yahweh has spoken so the sabbath is

00:39:36supposed to be something that we take joy in not something that we should see as a burden or

00:39:41something negative we should take joy in it and see it as a blessing because it really is if you've

00:39:49ever been in a situation where you've worked seven days a week you know how tiring and mentally even

00:39:55exhausting that can be so it is a blessing to have one day a week bare minimum one day a

00:40:02week that we take

00:40:02off and have to rest now you add in the festivals sabbaths and there's even more than once a week

00:40:10but the sabbath is supposed to be a delight and once we start seeing it like that it becomes even

00:40:16more

00:40:17special you don't know try it switch over i promise you you can always switch back if you want to

00:40:23but once

00:40:24you see the joy the blessing of it you'll understand exactly what scripture is saying you'll actually

00:40:30understand what i'm saying and what every other messianic says as well and we look at isaiah

00:40:37chapter 56 verses 6 to 7 also the sons of the foreigner who joined themselves to yahweh to serve

00:40:44him and to love the name of yahweh to be his servants all who guard the sabbath and not profane

00:40:49it

00:40:49and are holding on to my covenant them i shall bring to my set-apart mountain and let them rejoice

00:40:54in

00:40:55my house of prayer their ascending offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on my slaughter place

00:40:59for my house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples this is starting to get into some

00:41:05of

00:41:05the end time stuff but just let it be known that it's still going to be a joy and still

00:41:11going to be

00:41:11a blessing for those who guard the shabbat the sabbath even in the end time and that's something that

00:41:20goes back to what we read earlier about the sabbath being forever we see as we read some of these

00:41:26eschatological passages that even in the end times there's going to be the sabbath there's various

00:41:33parts it talks about from sabbath to sabbath and from new moon to moon new moon all nations will come

00:41:39to my mountain to worship me and to learn my word this is part of that the whole sabbath context

00:41:46and

00:41:47here is talking about those who guard the sabbath those who love the name of who the name of yahweh

00:41:55and serve him those are the ones who will be brought to the set-apart mountain and who will rejoice

00:42:02in

00:42:03yahweh's house of prayer so even in the end times shabbat is going to continue and should still be a

00:42:10source of

00:42:11joy source of delight so now when we do a study or a teaching on shabbat we can't

00:42:20do a study or a teaching on shabbat without getting into the instructions and the regulations regarding

00:42:26the sabbath well that's what a lot of people especially the mainstreamers would want to know

00:42:31and look at so let's take a look at some of the instructions and regulations that are contained

00:42:38within scripture regarding the subject of shabbat number one we look at exodus chapter 20 verses

00:42:459 through 10 and this says six days you labor and shall do all your work but the seventh day

00:42:51is a

00:42:51sabbath of yahweh your elohim you do not do any work you nor your son nor your daughter nor your

00:42:57male

00:42:57servant nor your female servant nor your cattle nor your stranger who is within your gates again

00:43:04i just want to reiterate this whole universality of the resting on shabbat is for everyone you your

00:43:10family your wife your wives sons daughters your male servants female servants even your livestock

00:43:18everybody is ordered to rest on the sabbath but as far as the instructions and regulations goes

00:43:26it says that you shall do all your work during the six days of the week but the seventh day

00:43:33is a sabbath is a day of rest that is when you rest and that is the main instruction and

00:43:41regulation

00:43:42regarding the sabbath that you rest is there instructions that you should

00:43:51eat no you can fast on shabbat is there instructions that you should go to church no there is

00:44:00you know one particular passage that calls it a set-apart gathering to have a set-apart gathering

00:44:06but that's a study for another time just there are things that go against that particular

00:44:12interpretation though because if you look at moses when he went up on the mountain

00:44:18for the to receive the ten commandments the torah he was up there for 40 days and 40 nights so

00:44:24he was

00:44:25bound to a missed gathering with other people during that time then he came down broke the

00:44:30tablets because of the golden calf and then went back up for another 40 days and 40 nights so a

00:44:36possible 80 days stretch but that's open to interpretation so moses would have missed

00:44:43many sabbath gatherings if that was the commandment also yeshua went out into the wilderness and was

00:44:50tempted by satan for 40 days and 40 nights there as well when he fasted so he would have missed

00:44:55gathering with people on the sabbath so i don't think there is a commandment to get together on the

00:45:01sabbath but the main instruction and regulation for shabbat is to rest to keep it to guard it to make

00:45:11it holy

00:45:12and to rest but here especially in exodus it says six days you're to do all that you do all

00:45:18that you

00:45:19labor all your work and then the seventh day is the sabbath notice also when you read through

00:45:25scripture the only day of the week that has a name is the seventh day and that is the sabbath

00:45:31and this

00:45:32makes it very very easy to remember as well because you have a cyclical pattern here you work for six

00:45:40days

00:45:41rest on the seventh work for six days rest on the seventh work for six days rest on the seventh

00:45:48fairly easy right we just got to control our own desires our own inclinations our own greed a lot

00:45:55of times and just simply do it then we read in deuteronomy chapter 5 verses 13 through 14 six days

00:46:03you labor and shall do all your work the seventh day is a sabbath of yahweh your elohim you do

00:46:07not

00:46:07do any work you nor your son or your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your

00:46:12ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor your stranger who is within your gates so that your

00:46:17male

00:46:17servant and your female servant rest as you do so pretty much the same exact instructions and regulations

00:46:23as we saw back in exodus 20 and we look at leviticus chapter 23 verse 3 six days work is

00:46:30done but the

00:46:31seventh day is a sabbath of rest a set apart gathering you do no work it is a sabbath to

00:46:39yahweh in all your

00:46:41dwellings once again the main regulation and instruction for shabbat is that you work for

00:46:48six days and then you rest on the sabbath so on the sabbath rest no work now this particular word

00:46:56work

00:46:57here has been the subject of various interpretation throughout the millennia throughout the centuries

00:47:03as to what exactly it means this may be something that you have a question about yourself we see

00:47:11or in the scripture says do not work on the sabbath but what is work well hate to bust your

00:47:18bubble but

00:47:19we're not going to define it for you here we're not going to dictate to you what is and isn't

00:47:24work we're

00:47:25going to give you some information we're going to give you scripture and let's call your full entries

00:47:31etc etc but we're not going to tell you what work is anything outside of scripture anyways you can define

00:47:39that for you and yourself and for your own family i'm not going to get into that whole mess because

00:47:44i really don't think that we should actually because scripture doesn't so decide for you and yours

00:47:50what work is but here's some information to help you decide on that this is getting back into the nerdy

00:47:58part of this whole study but the word work that you find here in exodus 20 deuteronomy 5 and leviticus

00:48:0623

00:48:06is strong's h4399 as strong's h4399 and it's the hebrew word melacha melacha and here is your

00:48:17outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org as well as your strong's definition for melacha and

00:48:25here you can see it has various terms which really doesn't nail it down to one specific concept but here

00:48:33in strong's it's got melacha defined as ministry generally employment may never servile work

00:48:41abstractly or concretely property as a result of labor business cattle industrious occupation

00:48:48etc etc so the strong's definition does not really

00:48:54bullet down to one specific definition of what work means in scripture

00:49:00then here's your brown driver briggs entry for melacha also your jasinus's hebrew lexicon entry

00:49:07for melacha and finally your jasraus dictionary of the targums entry and klein dictionary entry and

00:49:15again we cut these down to just the relevant parts for each of these different entries but if you want

00:49:20to see the full entry you can go look those up for yourself or look in our notes because we

00:49:25copied the

00:49:26entire entry and put those in there for your benefit but going on we look in exodus chapter 35 verse

00:49:343

00:49:34some additional instructions and regulations that scripture does tell us not to do or gives an example

00:49:42of what not to do exodus chapter 35 verse 3 do not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings

00:49:49on the sabbath day

00:49:51now this hits a lot of different points here as well so what does kindle a fire mean in your

00:49:57dwellings

00:49:58well number one think about the times back then what would have to be done in order to get a

00:50:03fire

00:50:04up and going and started from scratch it would require striking a flitstone i guess if you had that

00:50:11against some kind of piece of metal to create sparks and create that way which can be physically

00:50:17exhausting if you don't get it the first time i guess yeah there's the striking of the plant and

00:50:25things like that there's also the rubbing of two sticks together the whole bow and drill kind of

00:50:29method it so it's in a situation like that it's advantageous to keep the fire going instead of having

00:50:35to start it from scratch because it can be laborious in that kind of situation nowadays we have the push

00:50:43button you can start a propane gas stove or if you're like me and you got a wood stove all

00:50:48you

00:50:48gotta do is strike a match and it gets it going so would that really be considered work and kindling

00:50:56a fire in this regard well again that's another thing for you to decide for yourselves some people

00:51:02take it to the extremes for those of you who don't know there are certain sects of judaism especially

00:51:06within highly populated areas who will have elevators which go on automated shabbat service

00:51:14in other words they go from the top of the building down to the bottom of the building

00:51:19stopping at every single floor and opening the doors and it just repeats that up and down up and

00:51:23down because they think that if you push a button or you turn on switch and it creates a spark

00:51:30that

00:51:30that's kindling a fire i would personally hardly disagree with all that and would not consider

00:51:38that to be kindling a fire or work if i push a button on a microwave on shabbat to heat

00:51:44something up

00:51:46that is not work in my opinion again you can take and consider what is and is not work for

00:51:52you and

00:51:52yours and if you want to consider that work by all means go for it but i do not see

00:51:57that as kindling a

00:52:00fire as what's being talked about here in scripture but just let it be known that scripture does say

00:52:05do not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings now another interpretation which i think really goes in

00:52:12line with this particular um instruction is that in order to kindle a fire and the reason you would

00:52:21kindle a fire way back then was for the purpose of producing a product sort of like we call it

00:52:29um

00:52:30forging things in a blacksmith fire or baking bread for sale and stuff like that so yeah they would

00:52:37produce the fires a lot of times for the production of various goods and products and to make money and

00:52:46things like that so that would be the main point of do not kill a light fire in your dwellings

00:52:52on

00:52:52sabbath day would be the for the production or for the purpose of greed and make money and that would

00:52:58be

00:52:58contrary to the whole idea of rest on the sabbath i do not think this applies to the preservation of

00:53:05life remember when we talked about um we discussed earlier in another episode way back when about

00:53:13yeshua talking about rescuing a animal from a ditch and the whole concept of what's referred to as

00:53:20pekuach nefesh and that is the concept where you set aside or bend a commandment for the preservation of

00:53:28life say for instance you are stranded somewhere and the only thing that you have to eat may be wild

00:53:35pigs

00:53:35in order to save your life the concept of pekuach nefesh would allow you to eat that pork in order

00:53:44to save

00:53:44your life and once you get out of that of course you stop but the same concept would apply here

00:53:49as

00:53:49well if you and your family are freezing or someone else is so cold they're going to freeze to death

00:53:55and sabbath day yahweh doesn't want you to die just because there's to be no fire or no kindling of

00:54:02a fire on sabbath no you can start a fire in order to save your life and i wholeheartedly believe

00:54:08that

00:54:09even yeshua said that david and his men ate the show bread even though they weren't priests in

00:54:15order to save their life and to well their uh we call it malnourishment or their hunger

00:54:23understand what is actually going on if you don't have to don't build a fire but if it's to save

00:54:29your

00:54:30life by all means kindle the fire and i do not think that would be in violation or what do

00:54:37you call

00:54:38it um contradiction to the overall overarching theme of the commandments especially as it goes here on

00:54:47shabbat now let's look at jeremiah chapter 17 verses 21 through 22 thus said yahweh guard yourselves and

00:54:55bear no burden on the sabbath day nor bring it in by the gates of yerushalayim nor take a burden

00:55:00out of

00:55:00your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work and you shall set apart the sabbath day as i

00:55:06commanded your

00:55:07fathers so here i think it's really getting to the point of bearing a burden having physical

00:55:12exertion on shabbat says do not bear a burden on the sabbath day do not bear a burden out of

00:55:18your

00:55:18dwelling etc etc do not physically exert yourself i think is what the main point here is on this

00:55:27and finally we see here in nehemiah chapter 13 verse 15 in those days i saw in yahudah those

00:55:34treading wine presses on the sabbath and bringing in sheaves and loading donkeys with wine grapes and

00:55:39figs and all kinds of burdens which they brought into yerushalayim on the sabbath day so i warned

00:55:45them on the day they sold food here's a couple of things number one this is i think definitely the

00:55:52engagement in commercial activity because it says they're they're treading wine why would you need

00:56:00to tread wine in order to save someone's life you i have zero idea how that could be used to

00:56:07save

00:56:07someone's life so that would definitely be a physical exertion type of work for the purpose of

00:56:15greed and financial gain commercial activity so yeah this whole section right here is talking about

00:56:22commercial activity as it's being described because you can see nothing here is about saving a life or

00:56:30promoting or serving yahweh etc etc the wine can be held off until the first day of the week or

00:56:37the

00:56:38third day of the week etc etc it does not have to be pressed on the sabbath the products that

00:56:44are

00:56:44produced from these various grapes such as the wine the grapes the figs etc etc they don't have to be

00:56:51loaded and transported on the sabbath that can wait until a later time a later day so yeah this particular

00:56:58section is talking about commercial activity on shabbat and finally going on into nehemiah chapter

00:57:0510 verses 28 through 31 and the rest of the people all those who had separated themselves from the

00:57:11peoples of the lands and to the torah of elohim all who had knowledge and understanding were answering

00:57:16into a curse and into an oath to walk in the torah of elohim and to guard and to do

00:57:22all the commands of

00:57:23yahweh our master and his right rulings and his laws and that if the peoples of the land bring wares

00:57:30or

00:57:30any grain to sell on the sabbath day we would not buy it from them on the sabbath or on

00:57:35a set apart day

00:57:38here is talking about again another commercial activity where these other people were bringing

00:57:43in things to sell and etc etc and even probably commercial services you think of things like

00:57:52shining shoes or massages etc etc these commercial activities on the sabbath day and these people who

00:57:59had committed themselves to yahweh and to his torah and etc etc they would not partake of any of it

00:58:06would not partake of them on the sabbath day and would not partake of them even on a set apart

00:58:13day

00:58:13now what are these set apart days these are things like the festival days the actual moedim themselves

00:58:19etc etc so here again we are once more getting an example of non-commercial activity on shabbat

00:58:30so once again you've got various things that are specifically spoken about in scripture

00:58:36number one the main overarching emphasis about shabbat from scripture is to rest and not work

00:58:44what is work defined as in scripture well it's very very sparse actually number one it's no kindling

00:58:50of a fire but there are nuances as we explained earlier number two the commercial activity number

00:58:56three bearing burdens things like that so as far as the fine details go scripture itself does not really

00:59:05give a whole lot of fine details as far as what constitutes work and what does not constitute work

00:59:13however leave it to certain religious authorities to define for themselves what is and isn't work and as we go

00:59:22forward in this series you'll actually see some of this uh conflict arise especially in the next episode as we

00:59:31talk about

00:59:32shabbat and the brit hadashah as one commenter here had brought up about yeshua and picking the grains

00:59:40with his disciples on shabbat the jews those within judaism came up with their own definition of what

00:59:46constitutes work according to scripture now this is added from judaism into scripture it doesn't come out of

00:59:55scripture this comes from the mishnah actually mishnah shabbat seven it comes from the talmud it's the

01:00:03mishnah shabbat seven and these are 39 different regulations defining what is and is not work according to

01:00:15judaism i'm not going to read all these out for you you can look at them here on your screen

01:00:19or go to

01:00:20the notes and check those out for yourself but it gets very very odd and most of these there are

01:00:2939 in total and if you

01:00:31read that particular section of the mishnah it actually it actually describes it as 40 less one i don't know

01:00:40why

01:00:41they couldn't just say 39 but they describe it as 40 less one so 39 different activities that the jews

01:00:50define

01:00:51as work and most of these are derived from what was being done on the construction of the tabernacle

01:01:01in the wilderness and if you go back and read in the scriptures it talks about what should be done

01:01:07as far as

01:01:08constructing the tabernacle and etc etc and even though this was the tabernacle for yahweh himself they

01:01:16still rested on the seventh day even when they were in the middle of constructing the tabernacle

01:01:23so the construction got paused every seventh day even though it was for yahweh himself and

01:01:30the whole construction part of it that's where they derived these 39 different melehot or prohibitions

01:01:37against work as it regards the sabbath and some of these kind of do make sense according to what we

01:01:44read earlier and studied earlier but some of them don't make sense at all actually as far as regards to

01:01:52shabbat and overall if you look at these it seems like for instance that one who builds a structure okay

01:02:00that makes sense but it has nothing regarding a couch if you want to move a couch on shabbat

01:02:07that is physically exerting but it would not fall into any of these various definitions of work from

01:02:14judaism so do you go with what judaism decides or what scripture tells you personally i go with what

01:02:21scripture tells us and not get carried away and put all these fences around the commandment as we saw

01:02:29or discussed earlier when it comes to such things as pushing a button and causing a spark in an elevator

01:02:36or a microwave etc etc now there are as everyone knows there are commandments in scripture and there's

01:02:44various types of commandments that people have defined them as over the years there are negative

01:02:50commandments and there are positive commandments we have saw some of the negative commandments

01:02:55as it regards the shabbat such as do not kindle a fire do not work all the do nots of

01:03:02scripture

01:03:02those kind of commands are what's referred to a lot of times as negative commands but there are also

01:03:07positive commands as well and there are positive commands when it comes to the subject of shabbat

01:03:13we look at exodus chapter 20 verse 8 remember the sabbath day to set it a part to make it

01:03:22holy

01:03:22so remember zakar the shabbat to set it apart that is a positive command make it holy

01:03:31deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 12 guard the sabbath day to set it a part as yahweh your elohim commanded

01:03:40you so we got zakar back in exodus and now we have like um who was it said there one

01:03:48day closer

01:03:49said shamar in deuteronomy chapter 5 the car and shamar remember and guard the sabbath day in order to

01:03:57make it holy or in order to set it apart those are positive commands what are some more we look

01:04:04at

01:04:04exodus chapter 23 verse 12 six days you are to do your work and on the seventh day you rest

01:04:11in order

01:04:12that you that your ox and your donkey might rest and the son of your female servant and the sojourner

01:04:18be refreshed the command to rest is a positive command is it wouldn't say do not rest it says

01:04:26to rest leviticus chapter 23 verse 3 excuse me six days work is done but the seventh day is a

01:04:34sabbath of rest a set-apart gathering you do no work it is a sabbath in all your dwellings

01:04:42this has both a negative and a positive here but it says the sabbath is a sabbath of rest that's

01:04:47the

01:04:47positive part do no work is the negative part both pertain to shabbat one's a positive and one is a

01:04:55negative so again you have positive commands regarding shabbat you have negative commands

01:04:59regarding shabbat it's all tied to especially creation but also to the redemption from exodus

01:05:09i'm sorry the redemption from slavery in egypt and most importantly shabbat is a sign between

01:05:15those in covenant with yahweh and yahweh himself now some people especially those of the atheist kind of

01:05:23mindset or the non-believer kind of mindset would say that certain things especially like the sabbath

01:05:31was actually adopted and brought in by the hebrews from other cultures it wasn't original

01:05:39to the bible and it was all made up after the fact but is that actually true well let's look

01:05:46at that

01:05:46real quick because the first glance it may sound plausible or even accurate but what is the truth

01:05:56so here is the uh as you say the uh proposition that some people put forth is that the babylonian

01:06:04day of rest the babylonian sabbath is referred to as shabbat two is what those who invented the bible

01:06:13took from the babylonians and added it to that which they included in their invention which was the bible

01:06:20that's just what that's just what's put forth a lot of times but frederick dalish if you ever heard of

01:06:28him was a prominent german assyriologist in 1902 and he argued that much of the hebrew bible

01:06:34including the creation story the flood narrative and in the context of what we're studying now the sabbath

01:06:40was borrowed from earlier mesopotamian cultures like the babylonians delish and other proponents of

01:06:47the pan-babylonian school pointed to several linguistic and cultural parallels regarding the

01:06:52subject of shabbat now look at this number one is the name they identified a clear linguistic link

01:07:01between the hebrew shabbat and the akkadian shapatu they do sound very similar shabbat and shapatu

01:07:11but it's my contention that that's where the similarities end and stop it's just that one

01:07:17particular point but they tried to make other points as well for instance the full moon in

01:07:23babylonian text the shapatu was the 15th day of the month the full moon it was described as um

01:07:29new libi a day of calming the heart specifically the heart of the gods and you already see the

01:07:37distinction and the difference between shapatu and shabbat another point they make is that this

01:07:44shapatu was regarded as one of the evil days babylonians also observed unlucky or taboo days

01:07:51on the 7th 14th 21st and 28th of the month also another point to bring up as well

01:08:02i don't think delish or these other people who go along the same line make this point or put this

01:08:08forward but the shapatu was only relevant and only applied to certain people of the culture

01:08:14specifically the elites people like the higher class people or the kings and princes etc etc it didn't

01:08:22apply to everyone the lower class people did not get to participate in this and the shapatu was only

01:08:28on the 15th day of the month the middle of the month so does that mean that shabbat was appropriated

01:08:36from the babylonian shapatu no not at all there are clear and important and distinctions and

01:08:45differences between shapatu and the hebrew or the biblical shabbat number one is the lunar versus the

01:08:53weekly occurrence as we just saw the shapatu of babylon was based on the full moon which happens

01:09:01in the middle of a lunar month so it didn't happen every single week like the biblical shabbat does

01:09:09the babylonian shapatu was tied to the lunar cycle once on the 15th of the month yahweh's sabbath is only

01:09:15ever mentioned as a repeating seven day cycle independent of the moon if you'll notice in

01:09:22scripture the hebraic calendar was described in scripture is a lunar solar kind of calendar

01:09:29when it back in creation it says that yahweh placed the lights in the heavens as signs for the muadim

01:09:38for

01:09:38the appointed times and what's one of the signs in heaven is the sun and also the moon so it's

01:09:44not

01:09:44just the moon but also the sun think about it you got to have evening and you got to have

01:09:50morning

01:09:51in order for it to be a day and you count number of days to get to a certain time

01:09:56on the calendar

01:09:56etc etc so it takes both the moon and the sun when we look at biblical kind of things in

01:10:04contrast you

01:10:05have the babylonian shapatu which was only based on the moon especially the full moon happening in

01:10:11the 15th or the middle of the month also the another important distinction is that the shapatu was based

01:10:20on and revolved around superstition whereas the scripture contradicts and speaks against prohibits

01:10:29superstition on many different accounts the babylonian days were considered especially

01:10:34shapatu were considered evil or unlucky however yahweh's sabbath is presented as a holy or set apart day

01:10:42of rest and that we are to consider as a joy or a delight and as spiritual refreshment in addition

01:10:50to

01:10:50physical and mental replenishment as well stark contrast between shabbat and shapatu there's also the

01:11:02universality as we kind of mentioned earlier we saw in creation that the shabbat was part of creation

01:11:09and as such was universal for everyone then we looked at the various accounts of the two commandments

01:11:15both in exodus and in deuteronomy and both times it talks about that you your wife your son your daughter

01:11:23your male servant your female servant your ox your cattle your even your animals everybody was to take

01:11:31the day off the day off on shabbat but the babylon shabbat was not like that and it stands in

01:11:37stark contrast

01:11:38here the babylonian shabbat regulations often only applied to the elite like we mentioned earlier people

01:11:46like the kings and priests especially but also some of the higher class people as well yahweh's sabbath commanded rest

01:11:53for everybody whether it was your slaves your servants the foreigners within your gates the

01:12:00natives those who were natively born israelites the high class low class and even animals we saw that

01:12:06in scriptures for ourselves so yahweh's shabbat is universal it happens every seventh day and it stands

01:12:15in contrast to the babylonian shabbat which was only on the 15th day of the week i'm sorry the 15th

01:12:21day of

01:12:22the month it was considered a superstitious unlucky day and it only applied to a certain sect of the

01:12:29demographics within babylon not everybody so there are very very important distinctions between the

01:12:39biblical shabbat and the babylonian shabbat too so now here's some miscellaneous things that did not

01:12:46deserve its own section in this particular teaching number one the fourth commandment regarding shabbat

01:12:53like i said earlier is the most detailed of all the ten commandments it's the longest and most detailed

01:12:59go check it out for yourself even the no idols commandment the no adultery the honor your father and

01:13:07mother none of those come close to the amount of detail and the length of the fourth commandment on

01:13:14shabbat is the only day of we of the week in scripture to have a label or a name every

01:13:21other

01:13:21day is like the first day second day third day etc etc but the seventh day has the label or

01:13:26the name of

01:13:29shabbat nowadays we think of taking the weekend that's taking time off and resting as a way to take care

01:13:36of

01:13:36us but however that can sometimes border on selfishness if we only think about us taking

01:13:45the specific day of the week that yahweh commands and every time and on every occasion illustrates

01:13:50submission and obedience we don't just take any day of the week we take the one that yahweh tells us

01:13:57to

01:13:57take off and we do what yahweh tells us to do such as not work not kindle to rest up

01:14:05you can spend time

01:14:07with family you can study scripture you can get together with a congregation etc etc and make it a day

01:14:13of joy but don't tend to make it all about you because that would definitely border on the edge of

01:14:21selfishness and that is something we definitely did not see in scripture in order we did not see

01:14:27a commandment be selfish on shabbat in other words so take that for what you will as you consider what

01:14:35to do with you and yours on shabbat we are to conduct ourselves in the image of yahweh as what's

01:14:41referred

01:14:42to in latin as the imitatio day and we see that yahweh observed the seventh day as a sabbath and

01:14:50as an

01:14:50example to us and again the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath if we want to

01:14:57obey him follow him

01:14:59imitate him we should keep shabbat like he did like he set the example for us and shabbat as scripture

01:15:07tells

01:15:07us is the seventh day of the week the eschatological or the end times vision of universal worship from one

01:15:16sabbath to another situates and places the sabbath at the heart of not just the original creation but

01:15:25also the new creation and the millennium and eternity i guess you could say too here when

01:15:33heaven or the new jerusalem comes down to earth in psalms 92 this is very interesting as well if you

01:15:41ever

01:15:41looked at the book of psalms and chapter 92 and if it's got a title up there it'll title it

01:15:47as a song

01:15:48or a psalm for shabbat or the sabbath day and it reflects both the liturgical and spiritual dimensions

01:15:56of sabbath worship especially for the psalmist but also for the rest of us as well so go read

01:16:03psalm 92 because that is dedicated for shabbat itself so now in summary

01:16:11shabbat is a part of creation not human culture or later legal codes it's not that jewish shabbat

01:16:20it's not from avalonia etc etc shabbat the actual real yahweh's shabbat is a part of creation

01:16:30not human culture or later legal codes shabbat was the first thing to ever be declared as set

01:16:38apart or holy the israelites were re-taught shabbat in the wilderness after the exodus from egypt now

01:16:46i again i fully admit there is little very little evidence about people keeping and observing shabbat

01:16:55before the exodus and even less about a commandment to keep shabbat before the exodus but i do believe

01:17:02that was what was in place we are told to set apart the shabbat by resting and not working again

01:17:10there

01:17:11are various interpretations as to what work is and i do believe that should fall on you and yours to

01:17:18decide for yourself what is or is not work now there's certain examples that we get from scripture but other

01:17:24than that it would be up to you the priests were guided to serve on shabbat even though everyone else

01:17:32rests and we this is getting ahead of ourselves but in the brit hadashah yeshua does say that the

01:17:38priests profaned the sabbath by working but yet are considered blameless so the priests were working

01:17:46on shabbat but it was in service to yahweh the biblical sabbath stands in stark contrast to the

01:17:54babylonian shabbat and we went over various evidence for that there are stark differences

01:18:00between shabbat and shabbat so no shabbat did not come from shabbat but shabbat may very well have come

01:18:09from shabbat ever notice how when people try to throw mud on the bible they always say that or always

01:18:17try to make the claim that certain parts of the bible came from other places such as shabbat coming from

01:18:24shabbat or you know the story of jesus or yeshua coming from mithras but they never say that these

01:18:32other cultures stole it from the bible it is never the other way around you ever notice that

01:18:38interesting anyways shabbat is a temporal sign or a sign in time of the covenant between us and yahweh

01:18:48it's one of the signs because there's other signs as well but shabbat is a sign of the covenant

01:18:55for those who are in covenant between us and yahweh and that's just the god honest truth

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