Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos 2:4
Many people often ask: Does the Lord still expect His Remnant to keep the Sabbath?
Let us allow His words to reveal if that is so, or not. We will use the formula for interpretation of scripture described in Isaiah 28:10-13: Precept upon precept, Line upon line, Here a little, and there a little.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. .......Genesis 2:1-3.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:10, 11.
Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. ............. Ezekiel 20:12.
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths...............................................Ezekiel34:28.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:...Isaiah 58:13.M
Jesus himself stated:
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Mark 2:28
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luke 6:5
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
The Prophet Isaiah mentions that the Sabbath will be observed even in Heaven:
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. ...........Isaiah 66:22, 23.
The final statement I'd like for you to consider; if the Lord still expects the sabbath to be kept?; is one that really get to the heart of the matter; I will again allow the scriptures to explain themselves. What does this imply? The sabbath is to be kept, holy!
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. .......Matthew:24:19-22.
