Are Christians Sabbatarian?
In the OT there is a certain word that we can draw a wonderful, important truth from and learn a valuable lesson from it, and it is......... "Nehushtan!"
2nd Kings 18:4
“He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.”
Israel became discouraged on the way to Canaan and complained against God and Moses, so the LORD sent fiery serpents among them, which bit and killed many. When the living repented and begged for mercy, God told Moses to make a brass replica of a fiery serpent and put it on a pole. If any person bitten by a fiery serpent looked at the brass serpent, he would live. Moses did as God told him, and Israel survived by looking at the brass serpent. See Number 21:4-9 for the whole history.
The superstitious Jews foolishly presumed this brass serpent Moses had made would have residual religious value, so they worshipped it for another 800 years! When the godly and righteous King Hezekiah reformed the nation, he found this religious relic and finally destroyed it. When he destroyed it, he mocked it with a name, Nehushtan! A mere thing of brass!
The Jewish Sabbath, taken out of its place as part of Old Testament ceremonial worship for Israel only, is just a day of the week now, no different than Monday thru Friday. Nehushtan! It is only a day of the week! It has no value; it has no power; it has no role; it is a snare to the ignorant and superstitious. Just as the brasen serpent made by Moses for that time period and situation. Leave it to Israel under the Old Testament, where it belong, it is Nehushtan for NT Christian, it has served it purpose for which it was given, and even Israel did not fully comprehend their own Sabbath restrictions and use it for their own advantage when it served for their purpose and judge others of breaking it even when they did acts of mercy, and even doing responsibilities acts that had to be done, but, the religious being governed by their own wicked hearts and not the word of God think nothing of pleasing self when what they are doing is for them, but are quick to judge their fellow man when they do acts of mercy. They forget that the man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man profit and well being.
Christian or Sabbatarian? One cannot be both. Let us discuss if one can be both, which we know you cannot be a NT Christian and live under the Jewish Sabbath days, and to add to that error, expect other to do the same, and then judge them not to be of God for not doing so.
So, the burden of proof lays squarely on the Sabbatarians shoulders to prove that we are under Moses' Law of the Sabbaths days. I say Nehushtan! It is nothing for us under the NT. The profit of the seven day Sabbath of rest we can benefit of resting our bodies, as much as we can at least one out of seven days, whatever that day be for the reader, just as we rest our fields by rotating planting crops by resting a certain portion one out of seven years, that a wise farmer fearing God knows to do.
In the OT there is a certain word that we can draw a wonderful, important truth from and learn a valuable lesson from it, and it is......... "Nehushtan!"
2nd Kings 18:4
“He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.”
Israel became discouraged on the way to Canaan and complained against God and Moses, so the LORD sent fiery serpents among them, which bit and killed many. When the living repented and begged for mercy, God told Moses to make a brass replica of a fiery serpent and put it on a pole. If any person bitten by a fiery serpent looked at the brass serpent, he would live. Moses did as God told him, and Israel survived by looking at the brass serpent. See Number 21:4-9 for the whole history.
The superstitious Jews foolishly presumed this brass serpent Moses had made would have residual religious value, so they worshipped it for another 800 years! When the godly and righteous King Hezekiah reformed the nation, he found this religious relic and finally destroyed it. When he destroyed it, he mocked it with a name, Nehushtan! A mere thing of brass!
The Jewish Sabbath, taken out of its place as part of Old Testament ceremonial worship for Israel only, is just a day of the week now, no different than Monday thru Friday. Nehushtan! It is only a day of the week! It has no value; it has no power; it has no role; it is a snare to the ignorant and superstitious. Just as the brasen serpent made by Moses for that time period and situation. Leave it to Israel under the Old Testament, where it belong, it is Nehushtan for NT Christian, it has served it purpose for which it was given, and even Israel did not fully comprehend their own Sabbath restrictions and use it for their own advantage when it served for their purpose and judge others of breaking it even when they did acts of mercy, and even doing responsibilities acts that had to be done, but, the religious being governed by their own wicked hearts and not the word of God think nothing of pleasing self when what they are doing is for them, but are quick to judge their fellow man when they do acts of mercy. They forget that the man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man profit and well being.
Christian or Sabbatarian? One cannot be both. Let us discuss if one can be both, which we know you cannot be a NT Christian and live under the Jewish Sabbath days, and to add to that error, expect other to do the same, and then judge them not to be of God for not doing so.
So, the burden of proof lays squarely on the Sabbatarians shoulders to prove that we are under Moses' Law of the Sabbaths days. I say Nehushtan! It is nothing for us under the NT. The profit of the seven day Sabbath of rest we can benefit of resting our bodies, as much as we can at least one out of seven days, whatever that day be for the reader, just as we rest our fields by rotating planting crops by resting a certain portion one out of seven years, that a wise farmer fearing God knows to do.
