Sabbath day (genesis)

Verses 1-3….

 We may wonder why God made a thing about the seventh day…He had completed creation in six days and on the seventh day He rested. What was so special about the seventh day?

God has mad time to revolve in blocks of sevens, and creation conforms to this. Take notice of the periods of gestation and eggs hatching of all living things are so many weeks of seven days. People have tried to make a ten day working week, but it doesn't work. There is better work production in six days with one day off. This is the way that God has ordained it to be…six days work, one day rest for both man and beasty as clearly stated in Deuteronomy 5:12-15.

What are people to do on this seventh day? It is to be a time of rest and reflection….in Israel's time it was clearly demonstrated by no manna falling on the seventh day….they were to sit down and think about the great things that God had done in bringing them out of Egypt, (and was still doing in giving them the promised land) Exodus 16:22-30.

  Isaiah tells us it was a time specially set aside for the Lord, to think of His things, to delight in Him, to sing His praises and not do our own thing or have our own pleasures (Isaiah 58:13-14). In the New Testament , this time was transferred to the first day of the week, the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the day when people are to gather together to remember Him and what He has done for them (Acts 20:7).

To remember our Lord is surely no chore, As Israel remembered their deliverance before;

To keep one day for the Lord we love, To rest from our labours for the One from above.

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