The Sabbath (or Shabbat in Hebrew) is one of the most precious gifts that our Father ever gave Israel! It is a vital outward
sign to those in the world of our marriage to YHVH.
This is a study on the Shabbat, but more importantly why the Shabbat was moved to a Sun-day worship.
I pray that Yahuuah imparts knowledge as you study along. Please keep an open heart my friend. The enemy has stolen
many truths but Yahuuah as He has spoken is RESTORING!
For much of my life I lived in an environment that hailed Sunday as the lords day and as the Christian Sabbath.
Sunday never seemed like a holy day to me. It was special only because we got all dressed up and made a big thing about
going to church. Otherwise, as a child I remember Sunday as basically a boring day, and frustrating because stores closed
early.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed worshiping from my earliest childhood, but I found that I enjoyed fellowship with the Most
High practically the same every day. Sunday was not a day when there was more of His presence in my life than any other day.
All those years in church I never heard one sermon on the validity of Sunday as the Sabbath. What was the proof in scripture
for meeting on that day.
Then came the time when I really wanted to learn the truth, no matter how painful... something I never seen before. Boy..
when you ask for a fish Abba always gives a whale!
I learned boy... I learned that I have been robbed! 1900 years of lies!
I saw the deception of the enemy, and quickly ran to Abba's truth.
One of the gifts that was restored to me is Abba's Shabbat.
And if you come along on this journey through the scriptures you will see why I proclaim the 7th day as Yahuuah's Holy
Set Apart Day for His people Israel, and renounced any involvement of Sunday gatherings and refuse to meet at any meeting
on a sunday to this very day. And why the enemy is so bent on moving the sabbath to a day to worship HIM!!
Shabbat Shalom!
Wendy (Rivka)
If you are reading this and have never heard of Abba's Shabbat or still believe it's on Sunday... remember... I was once where
you are right now. At a cross roads. There are only two roads... one to the left and one to the right. You can only choose
one, not both. (As you will soon see)
I choose knowledge and revelation at any cost. I hope you do the same... even if the cost is leaving what you know...what
you are comfortable with to step into the unknown. Abba is there to mightily bless you.
Our Father's Shabbat
Ultimately, I realized that it is His Word that not only created all things, but also is permanently active to hold all things
together (Col 1:16-17). Everything from the time of creation is bound together and continues by His will. If Sabbath would
not be then all would not be. The creation of the Sabbath on the seventh day is completely bound together with the creation
of the sun, moon, stars, vegetation, animals and mankind.
The belief in Sabbath annulment questions the faithfulness of G_d.
With material creation G_d created time, and time was to be something that especially belonged to Him. Through making the
seventh day of creation a day of rest from His labors, and a day given to mankind as a gift of rest, G_d was placing the marker
of time. He was setting forth the holiness of time. Holy is defined as separate, unusual, unique and special. The celestial
bodies of the Sun and Moon mark the physicality of time, but the Shabbat establishes G_d's holiness in time, meaning His unique
control of time. The Shabbat also gives mankind the special gift of being allowed to join in that holiness with G_d by resting,
even as He rested the seventh day.
What I have just shared is the tip of the iceberg. Yet, it is enough for anyone to know without a doubt that neither Sunday,
nor any other day, may become the Sabbath.
First of all, for something to replace the Shabbat it must perform in the fashion of the thing it replaces. It must at least
know what it is replacing. Think of a baseball team that decides to replace a pitcher for another. The team will not go out
and put a football quarterback in that spot. Rather the team will replace a pitcher with another pitcher, one who knows how
to pitch a baseball. Would not Sunday observance need to have the qualities of the day it replaces if it is to replace Shabbat?
Why is it that Sunday is not taught to have any qualities of Shabbat? Why is Sunday not honored by most of those who say they
observe it?
But the main question is, "Why is the seventh day Sabbath not observed or honored by most believers?" We must
explore the lies that prevent people from entering into the Father's Blessings.
LIE #1: WE DO NOT NEED A SABBATH REST ANYMORE
Some say we do not need a Sabbath rest anymore. That is untrue because our bodies yet need rest, but even if that was so,
the Shabbat is not based on our need, for G_d did not rest because He was tired, but rather to appreciate His work. Does the
Creator no longer want to have His creation appreciated?
The fact is Hebrews 4:9 says, There remains the Sabbath for the people of G_d.
I hear someone saying, But the Sabbath was made for man.
Well said! Therefore the Most High has given you a gift from Himself, actually a part of His own holiness. Oh, and don't
forget, The gifts and callings of G_d are without return (Rom 11:29). So your statement only proves the continuation of the
Shabbat.
Then another will say, Well, if the Sabbath is a gift, then I can do with it what I want. I would say to that person,
You would be wise not to throw any of G_d's gifts in the trash! Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. How many
times have you done something for someone you love, even if you did not view it with favor? Why would anyone who loves G_d
NOT want to do what He loves?
LIE #2: MESSIAH BROKE THE SHABBAT
For too long people have been deceived into thinking that Messiah Yeshua (Jesus of Nazareth) broke the Sabbath in order to
show us we were free from the Sabbath. The entire concept of Messiah breaking the Sabbath is a blasphemy and an affront to
the Most High. It is born out of ignorance and rebellion.
Why would anyone want to be free from a gift of G_d? Actually, Messiah affirmed the Shabbat with the things that He did
and only performed those deeds that were permissible on the Shabbat. His critics came against Him with their current traditions
(the Talmud) for Shabbat keeping, which were not commanded in the Torah. They were traditions of men, not commandments of
G_d. Messiah Yeshua healed on the Shabbat because healing is a form of being freed from labor, which is central to the Shabbat.
Also, Messiah Yeshua never committed sin. He never broke the Torah (Teaching, mistranslated as Law).
LIE #3: MESSIAH CANCELED SHABBAT BY FULFILLING TORAH
Messiah Yeshua said, Think NOT that I have come to destroy the Torah. RATHER, I have come to fulfill it (Mat 5:17). Here
we learn that fulfilling the Torah cannot mean canceling it out or overturning it. To argue that fulfilling means cancellation
is faulty reasoning. Our Messiah was clear: fulfilling has nothing to do with destroying or annulling, and in truth fulfilling
is the opposite of annulment. Fulfilling means to provide what was lacking. Messiah Yeshua came to make sure the Torah had
all the necessary elements in it, especially the principal thing: His death and resurrection.
Why would Messiah take away the Shabbat by His death and resurrection? How would that correlate? No one has ever given me
a common sense answer. Surely Messiah has provided us with a spiritual rest from sin; a kind of Sabbath rest within the soul.
However, that in no way removes the seventh day Shabbat. The Shabbat was given before sin came into the world, so it is not
a type of rest from sin. Did G_d rest on the seventh day from His sin? To put forth the seventh day Sabbath as a type of rest
from sin progresses towards blasphemy, because it implies G_d needed rest from sin, since He rested then. Of course, the New
Testament nowhere implies such. It is a feeble excuse perpetrated by unreasonable minds.
LIE #4: WE CAN CHOOSE ANY DAY TO MAKE OUR SABBATH
The Shabbat is rest from the labor of creative processes. G_d stopped creating on the Sabbath, so we stop also. When our mind
and hands have stopped creating we have time and ability to appreciate what has been created, especially by the Creator. Only
then are we are experiencing something He experienced. Since He is holy, then the experience of His Shabbat is holy. As we
experience His Holy Day, then we are holy also.
The only regular day of the week the Most High ever made holy is the seventh day. Only He can decide what day is holy.
No matter how hard we try we cannot make a day holy, because holiness is not dependent on our actions. Holiness is solely
dependent on His determination. Many believers have thought to make certain religious days holy by the force of their celebration
on that day. Such is arrogance and ignorance.
There is not one place in the Bible where anything is holy, except that called holy by the mouth of the I AM. Therefore, no
person can choose any day they wish to celebrate the Shabbat, because only the seventh day is holy. Celebration of Sabbath
rest on any other day is totally void. Shabbat is on Saturday like it has always been in scripture, and was never changed
by Yahuuah or His Messiah to the Pagan Day of worshipping the sun... Sun-day.
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The enemy always has a counterfeit for everything Our Creator has. Remember that. The Shabbat is no exception! The enemy
has is His day on Sunday.
It's so important that you get the reason why Sunday is not and can never be Yahuuah's Sabbath Day.
You must understand that if you worship on Sunday you stand with pagan Mother Rome.... if you worship on Saturday you
stand with Yahuuah.
I know that's a hard statement to swallow. But Yahuuah is merciful. We all just want to please our Father. Some things
are, and will be done in ignorance simply because we DO NOT KNOW the difference. We have blindly trusted our leaders.
I'm asking you now to look at our Father's instructions.
So Sunday's not the Sabbath.... what is G-d's Sabbath all about???
Well my friend...lets have a look into what the enemy doesn't want you to be blessed with.....
Shabbat is Our Sign to the World
Exodus 31:13, 16, 17
13 "Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations
to come, so you may know that I am YHVH, who makes you holy.
16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
17 It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever.
for in six days YHVH made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested.' "
As we learned, the Father's Name ...Yahuuah is a SEAL. Throughout scripture we see it's an invisible Seal of protection that
is placed on the child of Israel. Unseen by the world physically, the Seal is only seen by the evidence of it being in place....
protection and being placed "on high" with supernatural protection.
The Sign....The Shabbat from the Father is a precious gift. The Sign... is physical. Purposely created by our Father to
be seen PHYSICALLY by the world as a WITNESS! A witness of who we belong to. Who we are married to.
Many Rabbi's liken the Shabbat to a wedding ring. If you couldn't tell anyone you were married...how else would they
know?? BY THE WEDDING RING!
Every Shabbat, we seperate ourselves from the world through the "Set apart" Holy Shabbat. We become set apart
by partaking in the Set apart Shabbat.
Once a week, we stop, rest and acknowledge our Creator and His Creation. We love on Him, and enjoy all that He has blessed
us with...our family and friends.
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