What's It About?
שַׁבָּת Shabbat | Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day. Yahuah declared the Sabbath as the last day of the week and a day of rest from labor. He also proclaimed that Sabbath observance would be a distinguishing characteristic of His chosen people. It is the fourth Commandment given to the children of Israel in which they were instructed to guard the Sabbath and keep it holy forever as a covenant sign between them.
Key Information
Background Insight:
Bere'Shiyth (Genesis) 2:1-7; Devariym (Deuteronomy) 32:26; Yesha'Yahu (Isaiah) 56:1-8; YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 17:19-27; Mattithyahu (Matthew) 1:28; Luqas (Luke) 4:16; Ma'Asiym (Acts) 1:72; Ivriym (Hebrews) 4:9
Seventh Day| Week| שַׁבָּת shabbâth
Sabbath comes from the hebrew word שְׁבִיעִי shᵉbîyʻîy, sheb-ee-ee' which means seven. It is literally the seventh day of the week (ref: Bere'shiyth, Genesis 2:3). The Sabbath begins Friday at sundown and ends Saturday at sundown as outline in Bere'shiyth (Genesis) with the recount of the creation of the heavens and the earth. The Most High Yahuah included the observance of the Sabbath in his Covenant Commandments (the Law or Torah) to the children of Israel. Shemoth, Exodus 20:8-11 says to remember the Sabbath and to keep it holy, and to rest on the Sabbath, doing no work.
Shemoth, Exodus 31:13 tells us that we are to guard the Sabbath fo it is a sign that is between Him and us that we may know that He is Yahuah Meqoddishkem (Yahuah who sanctifies you). We are further reminded that this is a perpetual covenant.
How to Observe
How do we observe/celebrate?
We observe the Sabbath by remembering it is the 4th commandment given by Yah as a covenant and set apart sign and keeping it holy. Abba Yah tells us to rest on the Sabbath and to do no servile work (work for money) neither anyone in our house or within our gates. We are to prepare food before the Shabbat and gather with other believers. We do not buy nor sell or put anyone to work. We are to be selfless, blessing the kingdom of heaven and denying our self pleasures to focus on the Most High Yahuah.
Remember the day of the Shabbath, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: But the seventh day is the Shabbath of Yahuah Elohayka: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: For in six days Yahuah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yahuah blessed the day of Shabbath, and hallowed it. SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 20:8-11 את CEPHER
Wherefore the children of Yashar'el shall guard the Shabbath, to do the Shabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 31:16 את CEPHER
Are these Feasts of him done away with?
NO.
Qolasiym (Colossians) 2:16-17: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath day: things which ARE a shadow of things to come; but the body of Messiah.Feast Days - Should we observe them?
Should we still observe these feasts?
YES.
In Vayiqra (Leviticus) chapter 23 we're told four different times that these feast days are to be a "statute forever, throughout your generations" (Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41).
Sources: Cepher Bible with Apocrypha | Hebrew Israelites, Biblical Feast Days by Unknown Hebrew | Hebrew Lexicon | Blue Letter Bible
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