amazing how hard people try to rationalize why Yahushua would instruct prayers for one of His commandments to be kept.Greetings again clefty, My only other thought on the Sabbath being unsuitable is that some Jews may have enforced restrictions on travelling more than a Sabbath day’s journey.
And to have Him NOT intend for its continuance...
Imagine if He had instructed prayers that in future times of trouble NO STEALING would continue or NO WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS...or don’t swear LOL
All totally understandable and acceptable in their future keeping...but that Sabbath should continue and suddenly we got a bunch of scholars arguing commentary as to WHY NOT He meant a perpetual sign be kept...
And here now it is because people fleeing on the Sabbath could only go so far...LOL
3/4 mile isn’t far enough? Can’t imagine most christians today able to run that far either...LOL
Trust me, Jews have come up with clever ways to extend this Pharisaical Sabbath distance...
But even history has it that there was this one time Jews declined to even fight on the Sabbath...that was modified too...LOL
But again His instruction was not a prayer that people be RAPTURED...or saved but woe if pregnant or nursing or in winter...or even that the Temple be spared but that the Sabbath be kept a day of rest...and not “RUN TO THE HILLS”
you really think Yahushua did NOT know the ways of war and siege or the time necessary for such “TIMES of trouble” and NOT a one day of “get out!”...is why He expected winter times too...you know months of cold damp days and nights...Even if there was some reprieve later, it appears from the message that Jesus instructed that the disciples were to leave immediately, not sometime that day, not the next day, but not to go inside their home, but down the stairs and out, or immediate departure from the field where they were working and not to return to their home.
He even includes “unless those days be shortened” see? obviously not a ONE day only time of trouble...possible Sabbath desecration...
LOL...they had much longer than a week...so I guess Yahushua’s warning about the Sabbath is irrelevant...If they had a week in which to decide what day to travel, then the warning about the Sabbath would be irrelevant.
as it was historical evidenced...they had over 4 years and months under siege to come out of Jerusalem...not just one day or winter...but invited out and given safe passage...
But of course the warning about the Sabbath is irrelevant to you as you insist it was about preserving people and NOT about being SABBATH BEING KEPT ITSELF...because you wish Sabbath NOT TO BE RELEVANT TO YOU OR STILL BINDING into the future...
You still have Heb 4:9 and Isaiah 56:6 and Isaiah 66:22-23
men running to and fro with knowledge increasing and the power of babylon increases it is true...great wealth to be made...Actually I did not work a six-day week, but a nine-day fortnight, with every second Monday off. Possibly this was because I did not have to plough my field with one horse, but contributed to my Power Station which had a few thousand horsepower, actually 885,000 HP.
we ignore what? We ignore which overall teaching and detail? The overall teaching we are to be obedient to the ways of His people Israel? The detail being NOT to fall into disobedience as they did in example? Verse 10 but that we be DILIGENT to enter that rest His rest and cease from our works as Yah did from His...you know after six days of work He entered His rest and ceased from His six days of work...when He instituted the Sabbath long before Jews...or even need of rest or it’s Law...you know before SINI suggest that Hebrews 3 and 4 describe the true rest in Christ, by comparison to the failure under Joshua to obtain permanent rest in the Land of Promise, and the shadow Sabbath under the Law. It is interesting that these two aspects are intertwined, with additional lessons almost unique to these chapters, while those that advocate Sabbath keeping today ignore the overall teachings and detail of these chapters.
Joshua did speak of the rest of the promised land Joshua 22:4 but he ALSO did speak of another day of rest:
22:4And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan. 5But take DILIGENT heed to do the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
So had Joshua given them rest ETERNAL then Joshua would NOT afterward have instructed them to be diligent of another day of rest. Heb 4:8
THEREFORE there remains a SABBATH KEEPING for the people of Yah Heb 4:9
Yup sabbatismos is not a SABBATH REST as much as it is a KEEPING OF THE SABBATH...
An interesting word comprised of a JOINING of the Hebrew and Greek languages for this lesson...ironic no? As Paul also writes of Yahushua JOINING the TWO into ONE...the Jew with the Greek into a citizen of Israel...neat eh?
Nearly every aspect of the Law is shown in the Letter to the Hebrews to be a shadow of the true.
And in PRESENT TENSE “priests who offer the gifts according to the Law who SERVE the copy and shadow of the heavenly things” Heb 8:4-5
“For the Law HAVING a shadow of the good things to come” Heb 10:1
Ironic again as Paul writes “new moons, sabbaths which ARE a shadow of good things to come” Col 2:17
Maybe because the Law itself is Spiritual? Romans 7:14
Is WHY My Law can be written in their Christlike “inner Jew” mind and circumcised hearts of His people Israel. Heb 8:10
Yup good things ARE still to come...the Sabbath and more foreSHADOWS Him and beyond...to Him again...until His throne of a LAWFUL kingdom with NO TEMPLE...
“Behold I am coming like a thief in the night” only some will be watching for Him with clean garments...His coming will be a shock deadly indeed to those unpreparedWhen do you suggest that Revelation 16:12-16 will be fulfilled?
ok...right...because maybe they do not parallel...two great battles yet...I parallel Revelation 16:12-16 with Daniel 11:40-45, Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 14, but these do not fit with a scorched and desolate earth concept.
yes...to be changed in a twinkling of an eye and putting on immortality so “that where I am... there ye may be also”I hope that in the near future, and possibly as times become more difficult, that both of us will have sufficient oil in our lamps when we hear the Bridegroom is on His way, and that we are ready and prepared to leave to meet him at a moment’s warning
oh...and at the final Trump...so not this one...LOL