The authentic Genesis 2:2,3 seventh day ‘Shabbat’ (Hebrew for the Sabbath Day) is not “the first day of the week.” It’s the day defined as “the Holy of YHWH” in Is 58:13 as THE DAY BEFORE the first day of the week, just as Friday (the sixth Biblical day of the week), is “The Preparation” for the true Sabbath (Lk 23:54-56).
Besides, Sunday begins six hours after the start of the first day of the week and ends six hours earlier.
Genesis teaches us that God’s days are measured from sunset onward, through the morning, and back to sunset. Not as pagan culture keeps time, from midnight to midnight. “And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” (Gen 1:31 KJV)
The sanctified and blessed Shabbat, the sign of the everlasting covenant (Ex 31:13,16; Is 56:6; 58:13,14; 66:22-24; Mk 2:27,28; Heb 13:20,21) is perpetually from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, as was Jesus’ custom. All things are delivered to Him (Matt 11:27) so He becomes LORD, even of the Shabbat He made to receive our worship. This is the one and only Sabbath within Jesus’ yoke (Matt 11:29,30; 12:8,50)
Don’t expect to experience the promise of Is 58:14 if not treasuring the specific day preset from Creation itself as an everlasting covenant in its own right (Ex 31:13,16; Is 56:6)
The blessing on THIS Sabbath of the Ten Commandments is immutable and incomparable (Is 58:14; Matt 5:17-19; Rom 3:31; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 5:3).
Its promise and benefits are non-transferable.
Sunday has none of the recuperative and regenerative potential of the Ps 42:2,4 Sabbath.
Israel only needs a one day weekend to be replenished, whereas we need two, because Sunday can’t match the quality of the promised rest and refreshing God Himself experienced in Eden (Heb 4:1-11)
HUMAN tradition has no authority.
The tradition referred to in 2 Thess 2:15 is not HUMAN tradition. Look at Strong’s definition of ‘paradosis,’ as ‘Hebrew traditionary law,’ meaning the Set/Appointed Times of YHWH, being perpetual, continue ad infinitum under the Hebrew New Covenant, as Is 66:22-24 makes so plain.
Mk 7:6,7,9,13 lays down the principle. Apostasy begins with repudiation of God’s own ordering of time.
Sunday’s MISUSE as a substitute sabbath by presumptuous ecclesiastical invention, causes the true Sabbath to be polluted by its DISUSE (Is 56:6).
Rather keep the Sabbath that’s commanded by God as the amalgam of the one new man (Ex 20:8-11; Matt 12:8), and then meet on Sunday, not under false pretences in the guise of Shabbat, but acknowledging that Sunday is not what human tradition has made it out to be (He was raised on the first day of the week but neither institutionalized every Sunday as Resurrection Day, NOR transferred His Father’s Sabbath to Sunday). Then we don’t corrupt the truth and defile Friday evening to Saturday evening (Is 56:6), and ourselves, by misrepresenting “the first day of the week,” WHICH EVEN JESUS’ MOTHER AND CLOSEST HANDMAIDS DID NOT KEEP AS THE COMMANDMENT WRITTEN FOR US ALL IN EX 20. They rested their works (even embalming the Son of God in death, being unacceptable to the Father, as a breach of the commandment) “according to the commandment” (Lk 23:54-56; 24:1).
In short, Shabbat, coming around every seventh independently of tbe Jewish people and the calendar because it was made for mankind (Gen 2:2,3; Mk 2:27,28), is fixed by eternal commandment as the day between “The Preparation” (Yom Shishi, the sixth day) and “the first day of the week” (Yom Rishon, head of the working week which apostate Gentiles disavow, preferring the Babylonian Mon-Frid workweek). Shabbat is forever the day which Israel as timekeeper has preserved and which Jesus unequivocally confirmed in doctrine and practice (Matt 5:19).
Any other formula for proposing the identity of the covenanted sabbath is a “cunningly devised fable” (2 Peter 1:15,16) of a “seducing spirit” (1 Tim 4:1), as the genuine Mary, Peter and Paul fully concede. Apostasy BEGAN with repudiation of the Sabbath.
If we continue in this contempt for the indivisible marriage covenant (Ex 34:27,28,32), our sin WILL find us out (Nu 32:23), because Mary couldn’t be holy had she not kept the Day the Father sanctified for all of us in the eternal House of Jacob (Lk 1:33; Eph 2:11,12) as His sign between us that He alone sets apart a people for Himself (Ex 31:13,16); Paul no less; and at no point does Peter’s Gospel vary from Paul’s (Gal 2:6-10; 2 Peter 3:16-18).
So, better to be divided by the truth (Lk 12:47-53) than united with the deceived, by trying to dignify a lie which told often enough, becomes truth in the eye of the beholder.
In other words, better to choose sanctification by the Truth of God and His Word (Jn 17:17,19) to find “the unity of the faith” (unanimity in sound doctrine – Eph 4:11-14) in two’s and three’s as a quorum sufficient to attract the reward of the genuine Presence (Matt 18:20), than “follow the crowd to do evil” (Ex 23:2), for God will not be mocked by His precepts being set aside, for whomsoever does so or who condones such deviation to the left or to the right, sows to his flesh and will reap corruption (Gal 6:7-9).
