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Understanding the Sabbath Without Fear

🌿 When Curiosity Meets Caution Every now and then, someone reaches out to me with a quiet, sincere question:“I’ve been reading about the Sabbath and the festivals of God… and I want to learn more. But my husband isn’t comfortable with it.” I understand that tension more than she realizes. On one hand, the Sabbath and the biblical festivals are beautiful. They’re woven through Scripture from…

Understanding the Sabbath Without Fear

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Understanding Isaiah 56: Gentiles and the Sabbath

⭐ 1. Immediate Context: What Isaiah 56 Actually Says Isaiah 56 opens with a command from God: “Keep judgment, and do justice… Blessed is the man that doeth this… that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it.” (Isa 56:1–2) Then it addresses two groups who were often excluded under the Old Covenant: Foreigners (Gentiles) Eunuchs God says: “The sons of the stranger… every one that keepeth the…

Understanding Isaiah 56: Gentiles and the Sabbath

[theologymatt]

“The Sabbatical Year” a Sermon from Deuteronomy 15.12-18

“The Sabbatical Year” a Sermon from Deuteronomy 15.12-18

What would it be like to have everything work out okay? Imagine making a mistake—or, not even a mistake—imagine things went really bad and you had no control and lost everything. In ancient times, that could lead to become a debt slave. How could things work out? Becoming a debt slave is just like the kind of slavery you might imagine, but instead of being born a slave, life went wrong, and you…

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[josejp]

In the single mention of the seventh day in Genesis, the text "depicts the deity as himself observing the commandments to cease from labor on the seventh day and to make it sacred." What God does comes first. This, as Levenson suggests, makes the observance of the Sabbath "a matter of imitatio Dei."

Awesome Sabbath quote from Sigve K. Tonstad's book, "The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day" (Andrews University Press).