The fourth commandment states as followed : Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy; you are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You must not do any work - you , your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. For Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea , and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and declared it holy. ...Without a doubt this commandment is the most controversial and disposed of commandment. Partly because this commandment is both a ceremonial commandment and a moral commandment. It is moral in that it gives followers a framework of how to honor God by abiding to his commandment of a time of rest from labor to spend time with him. Moral in that if our God rested on sabbath and commands us to do as he did during creation, than breaking his command would be immoral. And it is ceremonial in that it established a calender day of observance in in a manner that pleases the Lord. But with compliance to paganism and the abolishing of ceremonial laws the sabbath was forgotten or disregarded. Its importance was diminished and replaced. However, Yahweh knew that his children would be would be led astray ,much like Cain took it upon himself to worship his own way so he began the commandment with REMEMBER so that we as growing babes could read this and now know that he has called us to set apart time with him him even from the beginning of time. And our father in heaven dies not stop there because because the following commandment tells us to honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. The 5th commandment reinforces the 4th in that we should honor our one true father and our days will be long on not just this world but in the room that our savior has prepared for us in the next world.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:31:42 +0000
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