GOD’S SABBATH
All through the Bible, you can find scripture which points to the Sabbath. The Sabbath of the Old
Testament is the same Sabbath which you find spoken about in the New Testament. The Sabbath
that God created at the end of the “Creation Week” and is mentioned in both the Old and New
Testaments is the same Sabbath of today.
The earliest mention of the Sabbath in the Old Testament is in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
“Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day
God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work
which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested
from all His work which God had created and made.”
Genesis 2:1-3 *
In the Law of God, which are the Ten Commandments, the fourth commandment specifies the
seventh day as the Sabbath. The Ten Commandments were written by God’s own finger on stone
tablets.
In the fourth commandment, God specifies that “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and
the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed
the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:11 *
This points back to the creation of the world.
* New King James Version