Shabbat observance in the New Testament Era

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Restoring the Soul to Life 

Malakhi 4:2 But to you who fear My Name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. ....Loukas 4:18-19-Yeshayahu 61:1,2 "The Spirit of YEHOVAH is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To proclaim the Good News to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;   To proclaim the acceptable year of YEHOVAH."....Mattityahu 4:23 And Yehoshua (יהושע) went about all Galil, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good news of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people......Mattityahu 10:1 And when He had called His twelve Talmidim to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.

..... All above Yeshua has spoken on Yom Shabbat

• Yeshua did not come to abolish even the least of Elohim’s commandments (Mattityahu 5:17-19)

• Nothing will pass from the Torah until ALL is accomplished (Mattityahu 5:18)

• Those who break the Shabbat will be called “least” in the kingdom of heaven (Mattityahu 5:19)

• Those who teach others to break the Shabbat will be called “least” in the kingdom of heaven (Mattityahu 5:19)

• Those who keep the Shabbat (along with Elohim’s other commandments) will be called “great” in the kingdom of heaven. (Mattityahu  5:19)

• Those who teach others to keep the Shabbat will be called “great” in the kingdom of heaven. (Mattityahu 5:19)

• Yeshua taught his taught ones how to properly keep Yom Shabbat, with the expectation that his followers would keep it as he did (Mattityahu 12:10-12, Markos 2:27-28, 3:2-4, Loukas 6:1-11)

• Yeshua told His taught ones to pray that they wouldn’t have to flee on the Shabbat (Mattityahu 24:20)

• Yeshua will say He does not know those who practice lawlessness (Mattityahu 7:23)

• Yeshua taught that the Shabbat would be in effect after His death and before the great trouble (Mattityahu 24:20-21)

• Yeshua set an example by observing the Shabbat (Markos 1:21, 6:2, Loukas 4:16, 13:10, ).

• Even after Yeshua was impaled, some women “rested on Yom Shabbat in according to the commandment.” (Loukas 23:56)

• Yeshua said “If you love Me, you will keep what I command” (Yochanan 14:15), and Yeshua told His followers to keep Yom Shabbat (Markos 2:27-28, Mattityahu 5:17-19)

• Yeshua told His followers that the Shabbat was made for mankind not man for Shabbat (Markos 2:27-28).

• The taught ones (including Paulos) continued to observe the Shabbat after Yeshua has risen and return to heaven (Acts 13:14, 16:13)

• The Yerushalayim council gave the non Jews believers four basic commandments because they knew they would learn the rest of Elohim’s commandments in the Synagogues on Yom Shabbat (Acts 15:21)

• It was Paulos’s keeps Yom Shabbat (Acts 17:2) (Acts 18:4)

• Paulos taught his assemblies to uphold the Torah of Elohim (Romaios 3:31)

• Yeshua kept the Shabbat, and Paulos was an imitator of Yeshua, teaching the believers to imitate both himself and Yeshua (1st Korinthos 11:1)

• Paulos taught the believers to imitate himself (1st Korinthos 11:1),  and Paulos kept Yom Shabbat (Acts 13:14; 16:13; 17:2)

• All scripture is profitable for reproof, correction, and training in righteousness — and “all scripture” would include Yom Shabbat (2nd Timotheos 3:16)

• The Author of Hebrews says, “There remains, then, a Shabbat-keeping for the people of Elohim” (Hebrews 4:9).

• We are to “walk as Yeshua walked,” and Yeshua kept the Shabbat (1st Yochanan 2:6)

• Elohim’s commandments are not burdensome (1st Yochanan5:3).

• We are told that love for Elohim = obeying His commandments (1st Yochanan 5:3).

• The book of Revelation praises those living in the end-times who keep Elohim’s commandments — which would include Yom Shabbat (Revelation 12:17)

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