What is the meaning of the word "Sabbath"?
Answer
Rest.
NOTE - Previous to the fall, God designed that man's time should be occupied with pleasant,
invigorating, but not wearisome labor. Gen. 2:15. Laborious, wearisome toll came in consequence of sin.
Gen. 3:17-19. While under the fall the Sabbath, therefore, may bring physical rest to both man and the
beasts of burden (Ex. 23:12) in a way not originally intended, physical rest was not its original and primary
design or purpose. Cessation from the ordinary labors and occupations of the week was ordained, not
because these are wrong or sinful in themselves, but that man might have an appointed time and a
frequently recurring period for the contemplation of the Creator and His works. Under the gospel, the
Sabbath is a sign of spiritual rest and freedom from sin. So we read, "For he that is entered into His rest, he
also bath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." Heb. 4:10.
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In His teaching, to what did Christ direct attention?
Where was God to meet with Israel?
What kind of teaching have men substituted for the words which are spirit and life?
In what words had the prophet Daniel foretold this?
What was to he inflicted upon one of the heads of this beast?
How did the Apostle Peter say the message of the Lord's coming would be treated by some?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle