45 Bible Facts Concerning God's 7th Day Sabbath.

What does the Bible really say?

1. Our Lord rested on the seventh day of creation. Ex. 31:17

2. Our Creator has blessed and hallowed the seventh day of the creation week. No other day of the week was given this divine blessing. Ex. 20:11

3. The Lord sanctified the seventh day. Gen. 2:3

4. The Sabbath day was established at the end of the creation week in the garden of Eden. Gen. 2:1-3

5. It was made before the fall of man. Gen. 2:1-3

6. The Sabbath was made for man. Mark 2:27

7. The Sabbath is a perpetual covenant. Ex. 31:16

8. It was made 2300 years before there was a Jew.

9. The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28

10. The Sabbath is a sign between the Lord and His people forever. Ex. 31:17

11. It was a part of God's law before Sinai. Ex. 16:4-30

12. The Sabbath was made part made part of the moral law as the fourth commandment. Ex. 20:8-11

13. The ten commandments were spoken by God's voice from Mt. Sinai. Deut. 4:11-13

14. God wrote out the commandments on stone by His own finger. Ex. 31:18

15. The ten commandments, written on two tables of stone, were given to Moses. Deut. 5:22

16. The ten commandments were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Deut. 10:1-5

17. God pronounced death as the penalty for defiling the Sabbath. Ex. 31:14, Ex. 31:15, Ex. 35:2

18. God forbade work upon it, even in the most hurrying time. Ex. 34:21

19. God promised if the that Jerusalem should stand forever if they would keep the Sabbath.
Jer. 17:24, 25

20. The people were rebuked for profaning the Sabbath. Neh. 13:18

21. Jeremiah prophesied Jerusalem would be burned if the Sabbath was violated. Jer. 17:27

22. The Lord promised to eunuchs and sons of the strangers that keep the Sabbath to have an everlasting name and bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer for all people. Isa. 56:4-7

23. God has promised to bless any man that will keep the Sabbath from polluting it. Isa. 56:2

24. The Lord will cause those who keep His Sabbath holy to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed them with the heritage of Jacob thy father. Isa. 58:13-14

25. The Sabbath is a sign between God and his people. Ex. 31:17

26. The Sabbaths are given to the people that they might know that it is the Lord that sanctifies them. Eze. 20:12

27. Jesus declared that he kept his Father’s commandments. John 15:10

28. Jesus, the Son of God kept the Sabbath. Luke 4:16

29. Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man. Mark 2:27

30. Jesus said the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath day. Matt. 12:8

31. Jesus said it was lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. Matt. 12:12

32. Jesus taught the critical Pharisees about keeping the Sabbath.
Matt. 12:1-7

33. Jesus cautioned the people to pray that not need to flee on the Sabbath. Matt. 24:20

34. The holy women kept the Sabbath according to the commandment after Jesus was crucified; and after the Sabbath, returned to the sepulcher with prepared spices and ointments.
Luke 23:55-56

35. Paul continued to meet with the Jews and teach them on the Sabbath days. Acts 17:2

36. It is called the Lord's day. Rev.1: 10. Compare Ex. 20: 8-11; Isa. 58:13; Mark 2:28

37. Paul held prayer-meetings on the Sabbath. Acts 16:13

38. Paul preached upon the Sabbath numerous times. Acts 13:14, 15, 42-44; 16:13; 17:3; 18:1-4, 11

39. There was no dispute between Jews and Christians about the Sabbath; hence both kept it.

40. The Sabbath is mentioned in the Bible 137 times (KJV) from Exodus through Colossians.

41. No where in the Bible does it mention that the Sabbath was abolished or done away.

42. God has never given permission to man to change His holy Sabbath day to a different day of their preference or tradition.

43. There is no record that God ever removed his blessing or sanctification from His holy Sabbath day established at the end of the creation week, and reminded to us all in the 4th commandment. Ex. 20:-11

44. Jesus said that he did not come to destroy the law and nothing shall change in God’s law until all be fulfilled. He further warned that those who shall break and teach men to break the commandments will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:17-19.

45. The Sabbath will be kept eternally in the new earth. Isa. 66:22-23