Q & A with Brother Jay

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE DAY

Question:
• I have a question on the flexibility of Sabbath... Is it in any way acceptable to observe Sabbath on any other day besides Saturday?

Answer:

• No dear sister it is not flexible at all. There was only one day set-apart as the day of rest. It is one of the test commandments to see if we are going to Obey or not. It is also a sign that we are his people if we keep his Sabbath day. This is one of the things that graft’s us into Physical and Spiritual Israel! Physical because we join covenant with Father Yah and Messiah at Immersion, this is a physical action, and Spiritual, because of Messiah along with the gift of the Ruach HaKo’desh/Set-Apart Spirit.

Exo 20:9 "Six days you labour, and shall do all your work,
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath1 of יהוה your Elohim. You do not do any work – you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
Exo 20:11 "For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore יהוה blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.

Exo 31:13 “And you, speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign 1 between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, יהוה, am setting you apart.Footnote: 1 The only sign of יהוה setting us apart, the only sign of the everlasting covenant, is His Sabbaths, one of them being the seventh day Sabbath. This is repeated in Ezek. 20:12 & 20.

Exo 31:16 ‘And the children of Yisra’el shall guard the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant.
Exo 31:17 ‘Between Me and the children of Yisra’el it is a sign forever. For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ " Therefore יהוה your Elohim commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Isa 56:1 Thus said יהוה, “Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
Isa 56:2 “Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and guarding his hand from doing any evil.
Isa 56:3 “And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to יהוה speak, saying, ‘יהוה has certainly separated me from His people,’ nor let the eunuch say, ‘Look I am a dry tree.’ ”
Isa 56:4 For thus said יהוה, “To the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths, and have chosen what pleases Me, and hold fast to My covenant:
Isa 56:5 to them I shall give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters – I give them an everlasting name that is not cut off.

• No place are we ever told in scripture that we can change this day to another or that any human on earth has the Authority to change it. Even those that keep Sunday will admit that the true Sabbath day is on the 7th day of the week and not the 1st.
• These are just a few things that people have had to say about this over the years from different Christian Denominations.
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• Question: Which is the Sabbath day? "Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
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• "Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
"Answer. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927),p. 136.