What does it mean to Sabbath? The word “sabbath” means “cease”, and with the accompanying description from God, it means to cease working.
What is work? Rabbis have determined and codified many ways to define ‘work’. One such definition includes the distance walked that should be considered work. Rabbi Y’shua (Jesus) explained that “work” is what an individual determines it to be.
EXODUS 20
8” Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yehowah your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 11 for in six days Yehowah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yehowah blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
EXODUS 23
12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
The admonition to cease working is not only for followers to cease working, but also for followers not to cause other people or animals to work during the Sabbath. So no business should be done by us, nor anyone working for us, in any capacity.
The weekly Sabbath is the entirety of the seventh day of the week. According to the Bible, a day begins in darkness and ends in darkness; therefore the day begins at sundown and ends the following sundown. The weekly Sabbath begins Friday at sundown and ends Saturday at sundown.
In addition to the weekly Sabbath, God established Sabbaths during many of the holidays that God declared.
The early christian church honored all Sabbaths. They also met on the first day of the week to conduct the business of the church. It wasn’t until well after all of the Disciples and Apostles died that the church ceased to honor the seventh day Sabbath and the holy days — all of which God declared would be forever.
The Council of Laodicea in A.D. 364 decreed, “Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honour, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ” (Strand, op. cit., citing Charles J. Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church, 2 [Edinburgh, 1876] 316).
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