More Blessings for remembering and keeping the Sabbath
Isaiah 56:2 MKJV
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping the sabbath, from defilingH2490 it; and keeping his hand from doing any evil.
H2490 Original: חלל Chalal (khaw-lal’) – Definition:
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- to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin
- (Niphal) 1. to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a
b. ritually 1a
c. sexually 1. to be polluted, be defiled
d. (Piel) 1. to profane, make common, defile, pollute 2. to violate the honour of, dishonour 3. to violate (a covenant) 4. to treat as common
e. (Pual) to profane (name of God)
f. (Hiphil) 1. to let be profaned 2. to begin
g. (Hophal) to be begun - to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore
- (Qal) to pierce
b. (Pual) to be slain
c. (Poel) to wound, pierce
d. (Poal) to be wounded - (Piel) to play the flute or pipe
– Origin: a primitive root [compare H2470] – TWOT entry: 660,661- Part(s) of speech: Verb
– Strong’s: A primitive root (compare H2470); properly to bore that is (by implication) to wound to dissolve; figuratively to profane (a person place or thing) to break (one´s word) to begin (as if by an opening-wedge); denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute): – begin (X men began) defile X break defile X eat (as common things) X first X gather the grape thereof X take inheritance pipe player on instruments pollute (cast as) profane (self) prostitute slay (slain) sorrow stain wound.
And following this verse there is a beautiful promise to the foreigner and the eunuch who guard the Sabbath.
Isaiah 56:3-5 MKJV
And do not let the son of the stranger, who has joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah has utterly separated me from His people. And do not let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
(4) For so says Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My Sabbath, and choose things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant;
(5) even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Another promise tied to the Sabbath:
Isaiah 58:13-14 MKJV
If you turn your foot because of the Sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of Jehovah, honourable; and shall honour Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
(14) then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed yourself with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
Sabbath, not just for yesterday, today but into the 7th Millennium
And the Sabbath is forever, so eternal and set-apart, we will be keeping the Sabbath day in the 7th Millenium during the Millennial reign that is yet to come:
Isaiah 66:22-23 MKJV
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make stand before Me, says Jehovah, so will your seed and your name stand.
(23) And it will be, from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before Me, says Jehovah.
The Mark
I cannot end this study without speaking a little bit concerning the mark of the beast spoken of by Yeshua in the Book of Revelation.
Many people clamour about worrying about an implanted chip of some sort. Yehovah’s Sabbath is to be inscribed upon the palm of our hands and kept in our thoughts. The mark of the beast, a counterfeit mark, will also be in the hand and in the forehead of those who submit to it.
Revelation 14:9-10 MKJV
And a third angel followed them, saying with a great voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark in his forehead or in his hand,
(10) he also will drink of the wine of the anger of God, having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath…
Keep the Sabbath. Keeping the fourth commandment and we shall be kept from receiving this mark.
The Sabbath is an everlasting covenant.
It is eternal, like a wedding band. It is the sign and visible oath that we belong to the One who gave us the instruction to remember it and keep it.
We proclaim His authority over our lives each week when we keep it and proclaim that Yehovah is in fact – the Creator and Sustainer of this Universe. If we are not keeping and guarding the Sabbaths, we are not keeping Yehovah’s commandments. Yehovah said,
John 14:15 MKJV
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
These commandments, when we keep them, set us apart, and they “make” us Holy.
So, what do you do now?
You’re new to this way of life and have never kept any Sabbaths or you used to keep them and then for some reason or another, you went and began to work on them, thus breaking the Sabbath. As we have read; the penalty for breaking the Sabbath is paid for with your life. Your very own life.
Do you now realize just how important they are to Yehovah? And how important they should be to you?
Get on your knees and ask Yehovah to strengthen you and help you to keep His Holy Days, His Sabbaths, from this point forward. If you are serious then He will forgive you. But know for a fact, you will be tested again and again to see if you are serious.
You must pass each test as it comes to prove to Yehovah your seriousness. Failure and you can expect to be re-tested again very soon. Pass and the next tests seem to be easier and easier until at some point they seem to stop. We are talking about the Weekly Sabbath.
And, you will then also be tested on the Annual Sabbaths; the 7 annual Holy Days found in Leviticus 23.
The last Sabbatical year was in 2023, after which has come the sword. You do not want to fail this test now. Keep in mind the penalty for breaking the Sabbath. With war and Hunters, all around you, you will want to be etched in the palm of Yehovah, both you and your family.
Do not think that the God you worship will not do such a thing. That He would not kill you or allow you to be killed. Never forget He did destroy the entire nation of Egypt and the Egyptian army. He also kicked out from His land the ten northern tribes of Israel for not keeping the Sabbaths and also later on Judah for not keeping the Sabbaths and Sabbatical years. We are grafted into the same vine – we are no more special than they were to think that He will not do the same to us.
In fact, prophecy indicates He is now doing exactly that. Punishing worldwide with heat, drought, flood, wildfires, terror, pestilence, more earthquakes, war and captivity, until people are destroyed off the land.
If you want to be etched in the palm of His hand so that He knows you and never forgets you, then you had better etch the Sabbath into your palm so that you know Him and never forget Him.
Many ask, what if you have to work on the Sabbath?
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