The Correct Copy

God incarnated to restore the omissions. Two thousand years ago He made the Nine to be Ten again. The real commandments in the Three were given; it had been made clear what they were. The correct interpretation of each of the Ten-C was given.

And so the Ten-C should read like this:

² I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. EXODUS 20

Commandment No. 1:  LOVE

²⁹ Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. MARK 12

³⁹ Love your neighbor as yourself. MATTHEW 22

²⁰ For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. ²¹ And [God] has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 JOHN 4

Commandment No. 2:  HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME

³ You shall have no other gods before Me. ⁴ You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. ⁵ You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, ⁶ but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20

Commandment No. 3: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP A LOVE-RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

⁶ Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5

Commandment No. 4:  OBSERVE THE SABBATHS

¹³ Observe My Sabbaths. EXODUS 31 

Commandment No. 5:  HONOR YOUR PARENTS

¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the Lord is giving you. DEUTERONOMY 5

Commandment No. 6:  COMMIT NO MURDER

¹³ You shall not murder. EXODUS 20 

Commandment No. 7:  COMMIT NO ADULTERY

¹⁴ You shall not commit adultery. EXODUS 20

Commandment No. 8:  DO NOT STEAL

¹⁵ You shall not steal. EXODUS 20

Commandment No. 9: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP LOVE-RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS

⁶ Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5

Commandment No. 10:  DO NOT COVET

²¹ You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. DEUTERONOMY 5

We shall scrutinize and understand each of the commandments in the succeeding chapters of this book. Meanwhile, do not think the Ten-C suffered no more corruption. It continues to be corrupted.

Corruption in Our Age

The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the Ten-C as follows:

1.         I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.

2.         You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

3.         Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.

4.         Honor your father and your mother.

5.         You shall not kill.

6.         You shall not commit adultery.

7.         You shall not steal.

8.         You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

9.         You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

10.     You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

Catholic churches and schools in the Philippines display two stone tablets that list the Ten-C accordingly. Now take note of the corruptions:

Again the LOVE commandment—Commandment No. 1—is omitted!

Commandment No. 10 is fragmentized into two (as Commandment No. 9 and Commandment No. 10) to hide the omission.

Do not commit murder in Commandment No. 5 is altered to read “Do not kill.” It makes a big difference. “Do not commit murder” gives the God-worshiper the right to defend himself and, if necessary, to kill in self-defense. “Do not kill” inculcates the wrong teaching that he should not kill at all, not even in self-defense.

Commandment No. 2 (which forbids idolatry) is cut short. These words are omitted:

⁴ You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. ⁵ You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, ⁶ but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20

In Commandment No. 4, Lord’s Sabbath is replaced with “Lord’s Day.” What’s the difference? Rest to the Lord is moved to the first day of the week (Sunday). Overruled is God’s command for everyone to rest from secular or mundane work, and to attend “sacred assembly,” on the seventh day (Saturday). 

 ⁹ Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. EXODUS 20

²¹ If they love their lives, they must not carry any load on the Sabbath. They must not carry anything in through the gates of Jerusalem ²² or carry anything out of their houses on the Sabbath. They must not work on the Sabbath. They must observe the Sabbath as a holy day, as I commanded their ancestors. JEREMIAH 17

³ The seventh day is a day of sacred assembly. LEVITICUS 23

The Seventh-Day Sabbath is only one of the Sabbaths. “Observe My Sabbaths,” says God in Exodus 31:13 and Leviticus 19:30. Sabbath observance is limited to one, to the wrong one.      

Terrible Consequences

God has spoken but His Word is being corrupted. What’s the bottom line? 

False teachings fill our minds. We become ignorant of the truth and accept the counterfeit as genuine.

The light of reason is obscured and the human will goes astray. Our actions and religious orientation become anomalous. They do not tally with the Word of God.

Christianity has continued but not in its original form.

False teachings keep us in bondage. We insist on observing killer lies, take pride in them and espouse them to our loved ones. We are given to practices that disobey the Word and to a mindset that says it’s okay to disobey. We think that what we are doing is righteous and acceptable to God, when in fact it is not.

Division, conflict and alienation creep in as we are given to different faiths.

God is greatly displeased. The impure stay impure. Lucifer loves it!

Second Death

Stop the corruption! He who breaks any one of God’s instructions—the Love Commandment or the Sabbath Commandment for example—sins (1 John 3:4). He shares the fate that awaits murderers, adulterers and plunderers. He shall enter the Second Death, which is the second level of the realm of the dead. The humankind currently walks on the first level. 

³ “God did say, ‘You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” ⁴ “You will not surely die,” the serpent [Lucifer] said to the woman. GENESIS 3

¹² Sin entered the world through one man… and in this way death came to all men. ROMANS 5

On the Day of Judgment, nothing impure will enter the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27). God is a God of purity and His kingdom, a kingdom of purity. The impure will be thrown into the Second Death. Revelation 19:20 describes it as the lake of fire and sulfur. The impure will be degraded further and estranged farther from God. Their poverty and suffering will intensify.

A Catholic friend remarked, “I may be ignorant of the Word but if in good faith I remain faithful to the teachings of my church, then perhaps God would spare me. Maybe I could escape the Second Death.”

Brother, ignorance of the Word is no excuse for our sins; it’s death.

¹⁷ If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. LEVITICUS 5

⁴ The soul that sinneth, it shall die. EZEKIEL 18 kjv

Sabbath Observance Imperative for All

Sabbath observance is never a matter of choice. It is mandatory.

¹³ You must observe My Sabbaths. EXODUS 31

²² They must observe the Sabbath as a holy day, as I commanded their ancestors. JEREMIAH 17

Take note of the word “must.”

Sha means “eternal one.” Ab, the root word of Abba, means “father.” Bat or bet means “house of” or “sign of.” Combined as Shabbat (Hebrew for Sabbath), they pack a powerful testimony: Sign of the eternal Father.[1]

¹³ [Sabbath observance] will be a sign between Me and you and the generations to come. EXODUS 31

Y’shua was the type who would do what ought to be done. If the divine intention were to stop Sabbath observance, then He would have pronounced so. What happened was the opposite. He made it His custom to observe the Sabbaths. He even made pilgrimages to the Jerusalem Temple to celebrate there the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Harvest and the Feast of Tabernacles in obedience of Deuteronomy 16:16.

¹⁶ On the Sabbath day Y’shua went into the synagogue, as was His custom. LUKE 4 (Emphasis supplied)

If the Son of God did not exempt Himself from observing the Sabbaths, why should anyone be exempted?

He purified the commandments of corruptions and warned of the troubles we shall face in obeying them. This indicates that He expected us to keep and honor the Ten-C.  

²⁰ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. JOHN 15

² They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. JOHN 16

ISN’T SABBATH OBSERVANCE AN OLD COVENANT PRACTICE AND ONLY FOR THE JEWS?  

It is not. If it were limited to the Old Covenant, why else did Y’shua, the apostles and the early Christians observe the Sabbaths? If it were meant only for the Jews, why else did God say in Leviticus 24:22, “You are to have the same Law for the alien and the native-born”?

¹³ Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. ECCLESIASTES 12

Observance of the Sabbath Commandment, even of the nine other, does not stop in Isra’el. The Jews are called to live by the Ten-C and so are the rest of the world (Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics and Born Again Christians included).

¹⁵ The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the Lord. ¹⁶ The same laws and regulations shall apply both to you and to the foreigner living among you. NUMBERS 15

¹⁶ Then, if [the other nations] will carefully learn My people’s ways, swearing by My name, “As Adonai lives,” just as they taught My people to swear by Ba’al, they will be built up among My people. JEREMIAH 12 cjb

God looks down from heaven at both Jews and non-Jews to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship Him (Psalm 53:2 tev). He is waiting to welcome into His kingdom Jews and non-Jews whose hearts are right with God.

¹⁰ Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? MALACHI 2

²⁹ Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too. ROMANS 3

⁵ [There is] one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS

¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. JOHN 10

⁶ And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him, to love the name of the Lord, and to worship Him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My covenant— ⁷ these I will bring to My holy mountain and give them joy in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. ISAIAH 56

Whether one is born a Jew or non-Jew is immaterial. God is after the spiritual man, not the physical man. He does not look at our religion, nationality, color, intelligence, wealth, gender, strength or physical beauty; God looks at our hearts. To Him the true Jew is anyone who hears the voice of the Good Shepherd and heeds His instructions. The true Jew is he who worships God in spirit and in truth. The true Jew is he who soaks in divine love and exudes it.     

⁶ For not all who are descended from Isra’el are Isra’el. ⁷ Nor because they are descendants are they Abraham’s children. ROMANS 9

²⁹ A true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the Law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people. ROMANS 2 nlt

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[1] Danny Shelton & Shelley Quinn, Ten Commandments Twice Removed (USA: Remnant Publications Inc., 2005), p. 102.

The Elements of Sabbath

 

Sabbath observance has four elements: Rest, sacred assembly, feasting and concelebration of love.

Be careful now because demons of confusion, lethargy and laziness will keep you from observing the elements. Do not give them the satisfaction. Sabbath observance will not be complete if an element is missing. 

Rest

Shabbat comes from shavat Hebrew verb meaning “to rest or cease from labor.” It mandates abstention from secular or mundane activities, particularly from earning a living.

²¹ Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. ²² Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers. JEREMIAH 17

“Cursed is the ground because of (your disobedience); through painful toil you will eat of it… By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,” said God to the first man (Genesis 3:17, 19). The introduction of Sabbath however has the effect of softening the curse, “At certain days of the year, I will lift the curse I have put on you. Rest from toiling the ground (earning a living) for I will take care of your personal and family needs.”

He who observes the Sabbath day will be compensated.

²⁹ Don’t they realize that I am giving them twice as much on the sixth day, so that there will be enough for two days? For the Lord has given you the seventh day as a day of Sabbath rest. EXODUS 16 tlb

He who observes the Sabbath Year will be compensated.

³ For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. ⁴ But in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. ⁵ Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest… ²⁰ You may ask, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest crops?’ ²¹ I will send you with such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. ²² While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. LEVITICUS 25

No one has to say, “If we observe the Sabbath, who would attend to our needs?” God will. He keeps His promises (1 Corinthians 10:13 tev).

¹³ If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath, and from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, ¹⁴ then you will find joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob. The mouth of the Lord has spoken. ISAIAH 58

Sabbath observance is a crucible test to find out who will trust God enough to make Him No. 1 in their lives.

¹ Since the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful none of you be found to have fallen short of it. HEBREWS 4   

¹⁰ For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only. MATTHEW 4

Sacred Assembly

Sabbath is more than rest for our bodies and minds. It is essentially a holy rest to the Lord (Exodus 35:2, Exodus 20:8). It enjoins the humankind—yes, not only us but the collective whole—to rest from secular activities and to hold a sacred assembly (what is called holy mass by Catholics, worship service by Born-Again Christians, holy convocation in kjv).    

Why Hold Sacred Assembly

What are we doing here?—perhaps you have asked yourself this while attending sacred assembly. The answers are all of the following:

§  To be sanctified (meaning “be set apart”) from the false worshipers and be distinguished as members of the Church.

§  To have the privilege of an intimate audience with God, thank and glorify Him for our blessings of the week, praise and worship the Most Holy Name.

§  To worship as a corporate body.

§  To submit the corporate petitions of the Church and the church to God.

§  To hear the Word for the week and be taught its proper interpretation (Nehemiah 8:8, Luke4:15-27).

§  To enjoy fellowship and concelebration of love with God, our families and churchmates.

§  For the weak, the weary, the persecuted, the hurt, the abused, the downtrodden, the broken-hearted, the perplexed, the downcast, and the sick to be refreshed, encouraged and renewed (Isaiah 40:31).

§  To have an indication, rehearsal and foretaste of the Sabbath rest that awaits the children of God in heaven.  

Where to Hold Sacred Assembly

Go to the chapel or church house where the name of Y’shua dwells, where sacred assembly is held according to the appointed times, and where 100% obedience is promoted.

How to Hold Sacred Assembly

Prisoners, the sick, the infirm, the elderly and their caretakers are excused from attending sacred assembly. Likewise, those who report for military and police duty on that day. And those who are physically distant from the chapel or church house. If you are one of them, don’t waste the day however; use it to advance your soul growth. Start your Sabbath observance by saying a prayer. Open your Bible and read a chapter or two. Take note of the verses that strike you. Meditate on its meaning. Do your best to understand what is being said like a soldier getting a direct order from his superior officer. Then do praise and worship especially because you are privileged to receive a direct order from God and can do it.

Where two or more come together in Y’shua’s name, the following activities are recommended:

§  Welcome one another, especially the newcomers if any. Greet each other Shalom!

§  Do praise and worship. Sing worship songs. Dance if you feel like dancing to the Lord.

§  Testify to the blessings you received during the week. Sing together a thanksgiving song.

§  Recite the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).

§  Read from the Scripture and teach its proper interpretation.

§  Teach about tithes and offerings. Sing a thanksgiving song while gathering them. Bring the collection to the altar. Pray for God to accept them and to bless the tithers.

§  Submit your corporate petitions.

§  Bring the sick, the possessed and the burdened before the altar. Lay your hands over them and do intercessory prayer for them.

§  Pray a closing prayer. Read the Benediction (Numbers 6:22-27). Sing a closing song.  

§  Pray for God to bless the Sabbath meal. Feast and fellowship with God and neighbor.

Feasting

Sabbath days are appointed feasts (Leviticus 23:2, 37). Fiesta is Spanish for feast. Sabbaths are fiesta days, except the Day of Atonement. The blessings we receive and God with us are good enough reasons for feasting. Feasting is not complete without music, games, merrymaking, funny stories and laughter. Nehemiah 8:10 says there must be “choice foods and sweet drinks.” We are to eat our tithes and offerings (Deuteronomy 12:6-7, 14:23, 15:19-20). If they are yet in the form of money, Deuteronomy 14:26 tells us to buy some “beef, lamb, wine, beer” with it. Wine and beer may be served but do not get drunk and unruly (1 Corinthians 11:22); for God is in our midst (Matthew 18:20) and He should be respected.

Churches nowadays collect the tithes and offerings and send the tithers away hungry and thirsty. This should not be the case. It’s unbiblical and a malpractice. We are to eat and rejoice with our families, churchmates, church workers and the less fortunate among us (Deuteronomy 12:18).

Sabbath feasting is a shadow of the 1,000 years of feasting God has prepared in heaven. He is hoping that all of us would honor His invitation.

¹⁶ A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. ¹⁷ At the time of the banquet he sent his servants to tell those who had been invited, “Come, for everything is now ready.” ¹⁸ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, “I have just bought a field. I must go and see it. Please excuse me.” ¹⁹ Another said, “I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.” ²⁰ Still another said, “I just got married, so I can’t come.” ²¹ The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry. LUKE 14

This is what God has to say to those who would rather pursue a path separate from that of God: “They shall never enter My rest” (Hebrews 4:3).

Concelebration of Love

In the Philippines Sunday is popularly held as “rest day.” The morning is used for cleaning house, washing the laundry, buying food and cooking. Some souls go to church for an hour or two. The afternoon is reserved for watching TV or films, shopping, dating, gossiping, gambling or getting drunk. But Sabbath should be spent in a different fashion.

Sabbath is for bonding, concelebrating and spending quality time with God and neighbor. Also, Sabbath day should be observed, not Sabbath hour.

What does concelebrating mean? It comes from two Latin words celebrare (celebrate) and cum (with). Encarta defines “celebrate” as

1.    vti show happiness: to show happiness that something good or special has happened, by doing such things as eating and drinking together or playing music

2.    vt mark an occasion: to mark a special occasion or day by ceremonies or festivities

3.    vti perform a religious ceremony: to perform a religious ceremony according to the prescribed forms

4.    vt praise something: to praise something publicly or make it famous

Nobody can do concelebration alone. This is why we refrain from observing the Sabbath by watching the sacred assembly on TV. Don’t do it if you can help it. That’s for the sick and the elderly who cannot attend the assembly in the physical. 

Concelebration with God. Physical eyes do not see it but during sacred assembly, our souls are, in fact, transported to the heavenly realm and seated to feast with God. Nothing should be more welcome and exciting. There is superabundance of infectious love, inner joy and festivity in the air. Open your vessel and you would be filled to overflowing. This is how spiritual refreshment and renewal come about. Perhaps this explains why on Sabbath days the Israelites (descendants of Jacob, whom God renamed Isra’el) walked briskly in going to their synagogues and walked very slowly after the sacred assembly. 

If you are water-baptized, that should mean the Spirit is in you, a communion of love binds you and God. During sacred assembly, you get to enjoy both communion and concelebration of love with God, wow!

Now, have you seen someone being critical, irritable or angry before, during or after attending sacred assembly? Or was it you? Well, being critical, irritable or angry is not the Sabbath spirit. Its spirit is LOVE. Take a dip and you get wet with love all over, so wet that you should turn into an infectious virus of love for one whole week! Nothing should be able to disturb your serenity. Nothing should make you critical or irritable or angry. If the sacred assembly does not turn you into a love-virus, better check what is wrong.

Concelebration with neighbor. This means keeping busy with love-works inside and outside of the church. Y’shua did it by going to a synagogue, fellowshipping with its members, reading from the Scripture, teaching its proper interpretation, and doing healing.

Love-Works Not a Sabbath Violation

The healing ministry would often get Y’shua into trouble with the religious authorities. Why? Because they thought He was desecrating the Sabbath, it being a day of rest. The religious authorities even considered stoning Him to death. For it is written: ^“Anyone who desecrates [the Sabbath] must be put to death” (Exodus 31:14); “the whole assembly must stone him outside the camp” (Numbers 15:35). <The New Covenant has ushered in the Age of Grace and stopped the practice.>

But did the Son of Man desecrate the Sabbath? The answer is No. To give us a hint on what He was doing, He said the Sabbath rites on circumcision (Luke 1:59, 2:21) and of preparing and cooking food (Numbers 28:9-10 and Leviticus 24:5-9) involved doing work, but no blame was attached to the Temple priests (Matthew 12:5). Why? Because their activities were a love-work unto God and neighbor.

To give us another hint, He said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:26).

¹⁴ Indignant because Y’shua had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, “There are six days for work. Come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” ¹⁵ The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? ¹⁶ Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Lucifer has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” LUKE 13

⁴ Then Y’shua asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to help or to harm? To do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. ⁵ Y’shua looked around at them with anger… deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts. MARK 3

¹¹ He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it fell into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹² How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath… ⁶ I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. ⁷ If you had known what these words mean, I desire mercy [love], not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸ For the Son of Man is the Lord of Sabbath.” MATTHEW 12

One night Y’shua was overheard one night to have prayed, “Abba, they are angry and mindful to kill Me, for I work for You on the Sabbath and call You Abba. Make them understand that love-works [acts of compassion, relieving a human pain or need] are not a violation of Sabbath. Make them understand that love-promotion should motivate Sabbath observance.” (cf. Gospel of Barnabas)

The Lord of the Sabbath never rests from producing fruits of love (John 5:17). To Him the Sabbath is the best occasion for expressing love, for building love-relationships.

Never did He desecrate the Sabbath for the simple reason that He had made His Word a law even unto Himself (Isaiah 46:11). It was His accusers who desecrated the day. They made an unholy judgment on the Innocent and violated Ezekiel 20:20 which says, “Keep My Sabbaths holy.”

² Blessed is the man… who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil. ISAIAH 56

Trumpet Call

It makes sense to observe the Sabbaths, as God commanded, for they come from a very practical God. He requires us to observe day of rest and be sanctified altogether because we all need rest and refreshing one day a week. He tells us to observe the Seventh-Day Sabbath once a week and the other Sabbaths once a year because only a handful can observe them daily. He tells the church leaders to feed their flocks (“They do not need to go away hungry. You give them something to eat”—Matthew 14:16) because He knows we would be hungry at the end of the sacred assembly. He is recompensing us because Sabbath observance would mean stopping from earning a living. Sabbath observance is made mandatory because the demonic forces would oppose it; He is prompting us to overcome the opposition. 

³¹ If you hold on to My teaching, you really are My disciples. JOHN 8

Y’shua said, “If you do not keep the Sabbath as the Sabbath, you will not see the Father.”[1]

¹⁶ Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. JEREMIAH 6

Now let us study in detail each of the Sabbaths.

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[1] Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, The Gospel of Peace (New York: Japan Publications Inc., 1992), verse 27.