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Why Sunday Really Is The NEW Sabbath

Christ really did replace the Saturday Sabbath with the NEW Sabbath day -- Sunday !!        
Here's the evidence - judge for yourselves.        
The Book of Hebrews in the New Testament is a series of comparisons.        
The Jewish priesthood is compared with Christian priesthood.        
With Paul the apostle reaching  the conclusion that the Christian is superior.        
Next, the Jewish system of animal sacrifices is compared with the Christian version -- Christ's sacrifice upon the cross.        
Paul explains why Christ's sacrifice is superior.        
     
Finally Paul quotes the Old Testament where God says the Jews "will NOT enter into My rest"(Hebrews 4.3,5; Psalms 95.11).        
Now the Jews clearly had entered the "rest" known as the Saturday Sabbath.        
So, evidently God has ANOTHER rest day in mind, namely the Sunday Sabbath !!!        
       
When Paul speaks of another "rest" day, this naturally hints at a SECOND Sabbath, a NEW Sabbath !!        
Why is that ? Because the word Sabbath means rest.      
According to Strong's Bible Concordance  
when it says of "the Sabbath of rest," in the Hebrew it says "the Sabbath of sabbath"(Exodus 31.15; 16.23; 23.12; Leviticus 23.3).
This shows strongly that "sabbath" literally means to rest.  
So, when God says, "they will not enter My rest," we can actually paraphrase that this way, "they will not enter My Sabbath" !!        
My point here is that Paul is simply doing with the subject of the Jewish Sabbath what he has already done with the Jewish priesthood and sacrificial system, namely compare it with the Christian version.        
       
Let's assume for just a moment that Hebrews is NOTHING but the comparison of the Jewish with the Christian.        
On that basis, when Paul brings up the Jewish Sabbath(Hebrews 4.4; Genesis 2.2), we HAVE TO expect Paul to then bring up the Christian version of it !!        
And that is just what he does do !! (Heb.4.8: "ANOTHER day").  
In a very embryonic undeveloped sort of way,  I must admit.      
       
Lets leave Hebrews to go strictly into the LOGIC of Christ's Resurrection being more than enuff of a basis for a new Sabbath day.      
Paul says, Christ's Resurrection is OUR resurrection.      
For we are in Christ.      
We are buried with Him figuratively in baptism - when we go under the surface.      
But by extension, we are RAISED with Him when we come back up - out of the water.      
Yes, we really are to see His Resurrection as ours as well.      
So each Resurrection day -- each Sunday -- is a day for doing what ??        
Ceasing to do our worldly work and activity and live as though we had already departed this world in death and received "resurrection bodies."      
My point is that by our figuratively resurrecting each Sunday, we are RESTING from worldly work.      
So it is LOGICAL for Sunday to become our REST day -- our Sabbath day.      
Get it ??    
     
PS: Let me take another run at it:    
With the original Sabbath, we rest because God rested.    
There is the principle of imitating God.    
Becoming one with Him.    
But there is also the theme of holiness, "keeping the Sabbath holy" - not just resting.    
So the Sabbath was for prayer, which is going to God, sort of going to heaven.    
You close your eyes as in death.    
You depart this world to a degree.    
So  even the original Sabbath was suggestive of dying (and by extension, resurrecting).    
     
Now the new Sabbath relates not to Christ resting but Resurrecting, of course.    
When we honor Sunday by keeping it holy, by resting from ordinary pursuits,      
it is to be done as though we are dying to this world.    
In short, the theme is resting in terms of departing from one world and entering (thru prayer) a higher plane of existence.    
In short, the new Sabbath continues what the original only hinted at.    
The new Sabbath is to be a day of our resurrection.    
In fact the Spanish name for Sunday is Resurrection.    
If it isn't Spanish, it definitely is true of Russian !!    
Because having a day of holiness is akin to departing this world and entering heaven with what is called a "resurrection body," it is appropriate for such a day to be based on Christ's own Resurrection day - Easter Sunday.    
It is only fitting that Sabbath move from Saturday to Sunday, in keeping with Christ's Resurrection falling on a Sunday.
Written by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
Published | Edited 20th Dec 2017
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