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.
5. What further statement of Christ seems to lay the responsibility for the origin of sin upon Satan and his angels?
Through what was the original creation wrought?
What prophecy was fulfilled in the Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit in the time of the apostles?
How do those with renewed hearts and minds regard the commandments of God?
Did Christ come to abolish or to destroy the law?
What was to follow the great earthquake?
What only can overcome the world?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle