Hidden Sabbath Truths Part 2 - Sabbath in Redemption
Hidden Sabbath Truths Part 2 - Sabbath in Redemption
In his second presentation Pastor Bohr deals with the other two dimensions the Sabbath points to that, unlike the first one, came as a result of sin. In a later version of the Ten Commandments, found in Deuteronomy 5: 12-15, the motivation clause for keeping it differs from the Exodus 20 account which gives creation as the motivation. In this version, God’s redemption of Israel from slavery in Egypt is the reason given for keeping it.
They were to be kind to their servants by giving them rest on that day also, unlike Pharaoh, who had forced Israel to work hard all week with no rest on Sabbath. This foretold how Jesus was to come as our Passover, rescue us from our slave-master, Satan, and redeem us from our hard labor of sin so we could enter into His rest and become one with Him. Pastor Bohr also shows that the manna episode was given to Israel, not only as food to sustain them in the desert, but also as a prophecy that they could not live eternally on bread alone, but needed the coming Word and Bread of Life, Jesus, to save them.
As represented by the manna miraculously kept fresh on Sabbath, Jesus would rest in His Father’s care and promise on Sabbath in the tomb and would not in any way decay or stink. We are to “eat His flesh” of life by resting in death to self as He did and contemplating on Sabbath what He did for us on the cross when He said “It is finished”. Thus, Christ’s re-creating us spiritually on the sixth day, (as He originally did literally on Friday when He finished Adam and Eve’s creation), by taking our punishment and dying on the cross so we could be set free from sin’s curse and live, as well as His resting in the tomb on Sabbath after Passion Week as an example of us resting in His finished work of re-creation and redemption, is an additional reason why God asks us to keep the Sabbath holy.
The final dimension is still to come, when Jesus breaks His rest from creating and will once again create the earth in six days and meet with us literally for worship, communion and contemplation each Sabbath in the earth made new. The Sabbath and conditional immortality, the two major doctrines Satan has twisted with errors in most people’s minds and practices today, will be restored to their proper place as seen in Isaiah 66: 22-23. The earth will be wiped clean from sin and restored to what Eden once was and “all mankind” (not just Jewish people) will forever keep Sabbath holy as a sign, not only of creation and redemption, but also of God’s love in bringing us to eternal life in a restored world with Him. After hearing this series, there can be no excuse for anyone to neglect the Sabbath any longer.
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God's People to Keep the Sabbath
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ~ Genesis 2: 2
God sanctified and blessed the day in which He had rested from all His wondrous work. And this Sabbath, sanctified of God, was to be kept for a perpetual covenant. It was a memorial that was to stand from age to age, till the close of earth's history.
God brought the Hebrews out of their Egyptian bondage, and commanded them to observe His Sabbath, and keep the law given in Eden. Every week He worked a miracle to establish in their minds the fact that in the beginning of the world He had instituted the Sabbath....
In the third month they came to the desert of Sinai, and there the law was spoken from the mount in awful grandeur. During their stay in Egypt, Israel had so long heard and seen idolatry practiced that to a large degree they had lost their knowledge of God and of His law, and their sense of the importance and sacredness of the Sabbath; the law was given a second time to call these things to their remembrance. In God's statutes was defined practical religion for all mankind. Before Israel was placed the true standard of righteousness.
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep.” Some, who have been anxious to make of none effect the law of God, have quoted this word “sabbaths,” interpreting it to mean the annual sabbaths of the Jews. But they do not connect this positive requirement with that which follows: “For it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” ~ The Review and Herald, August 30, 1898
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Prophecy Made Simple - Study Notes
Learn how to study and understand Bible prophecy in a simple fill-in-the-blanks style.
This comparative and historical approach will open fascinating and life-changing insights into that which you may not have considered before and it beautifully unlocks mysteries and questions discovered in Bible prophecy.
This seminar is an easy-to-understand and common sense study of the great prophecies of the Bible that is unique among such seminars dealing with Seventh-day Adventist beliefs about Bible prophecy and doctrine. Don't be fooled by the title and pass up this series if these subjects may seem to be already very familiar to you, because, while Pastor Bohr makes these topics clear, logical, and simple to understand for those who are not familiar with Adventist views on Bible prophecy, yet it contains fresh spiritual depth, insights, and food for all who desire to understand these great prophecies better.
