Camille wrote:I was reading Yada's translation of the first of the seven instructions (formerly known as the fourth of the ten commandments), and I was surprised to see the defining of Shabbat as a rest from the work of being Yahowah's representative and messenger. I had always conceived of Shabbat as a time to rest from worldly concerns and preoccupations. I am curious how people understand this.
Lev 23:3
Six (ses)
days (yowmym)
the service of the spiritual messenger (mala’kah)
shall be performed (‘asah - accomplished),
so then (wa)
in (ba)
the (ha)
seventh (shaby’y)
day (yowm)
will be a Sabbath (shabat - time of rest and reflection
), a set-apart (qodesh)
called-out assembly (miqra’)
for rest and reflection (shabatown).
All (kol)
service of the heavenly messenger (mala’kah)
shall not (lo’)
be done (‘asah - performed).
It is Yahowah’s Sabbath (shabat - time for rest and reflection)
in (ba)
all (kol)
your (‘atem)
dwelling places and throughout time (mosab - wherever and whenever you assemble).
By Yahowah's choice of words in the presentation of Shabat, I see it mostly pointing to Yahowah doing the work thru his implement Yahowsha (heavenly messenger) to save us and to rest in it.
Also it is healthful to take a day of rest and cease from your ordinary labors too. It is interesting that Yahowsha said "Mat 12:8 “For the Son of Aḏam is Master of the Sabbath.”. In the questionable Du-Tillet Hebrew it even has him saying "I am the sabbath".
Camille wrote: Does it mean that we shouldn't teach Yah's word on Shabbat, and should rest from this forum too?
Act 15:21 “For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him – being read in the congregations every Sabbath.”
Mat 23:2 saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Mosheh.
Mat 23:3 “Therefore, whatever they say <Mosheh> to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works <oral law>, for they say, and do not do.
Mat 23:4 “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but with their finger they do not wish to move them.
I note that early on Yahowsha mostly went into the temple on the sabbath. Could this be because the Torah <Mosheh> was being taught and he wouldn't have to endure the disgusting oral laws of the rabbis?
Camille wrote: If someone provides an intelligent answer to my post, does that mean that the person is representing Yah's word, or being His messenger with an answer? Apart from the office of a true prophet, are we flawed human beings even capable of being His representative or messenger? Should a true prophet rest from prophesying?
There are plenty running around calling themselves prophets, but can't even answer Pro 24:30 correctly, and mostly claim authority from Paul's writings. As previously being involved in the "charismatic movement" I heard plenty that were as vague as any fortune teller and astrologer would give and many would think profound. Even worse many were opposed to Torah as some new dispensation or revelation that overode scripture.
Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 23:16, Deuteronomy 18:9-13
Camille wrote: Does it mean also what I had always understood it to mean: to rest from secular (non-spiritual) activities like watching a movie? Or from ordinary work, like gainful employment or washing the car?
I'm reluctant to tell one what to do. Aren't there already enough religions? :^)
Heres a list of "sabbath hits" to study around, although for sabbaton I'd put more stock Mat,John,Rev and certainly not Paul:
H7676
שׁבּת
shabbâth
Total KJV Occurrences: 107
sabbath, 73
Exo_16:23, Exo_16:25-26 (2), Exo_16:29, Exo_20:8, Exo_20:10-11 (2), Exo_31:14-16 (5), Exo_35:2-3 (2), Lev_16:31, Lev_23:3 (2), Lev_23:11, Lev_23:15-16 (2), Lev_23:32 (2), Lev_24:8, Lev_25:2, Lev_25:4 (2), Lev_25:6, Num_15:32, Num_28:9-10 (2), Deu_5:12, Deu_5:14-15 (2), 2Ki_4:23, 2Ki_11:5, 2Ki_11:7, 2Ki_11:9 (2), 2Ki_16:18, 1Ch_9:32, 2Ch_23:4, 2Ch_23:8 (2), Neh_9:14, Neh_10:31 (2), Neh_13:15-19 (8), Neh_13:21-22 (2), Isa_56:1-2 (2), Isa_56:6, Isa_58:13 (2), Isa_66:23, Jer_17:21-22 (3), Jer_17:24 (2), Jer_17:27 (2), Eze_46:1, Eze_46:4, Eze_46:12, Amo_8:5
sabbaths, 34
Exo_31:13, Lev_19:3, Lev_19:30, Lev_23:15, Lev_23:38, Lev_25:8 (2), Lev_26:2, Lev_26:34-35 (3), Lev_26:43, 1Ch_23:31, 2Ch_2:4, 2Ch_8:13, 2Ch_31:3, 2Ch_36:21, Neh_10:33, Isa_1:13, Isa_56:4, Lam_2:6, Eze_20:12-13 (2), Eze_20:16, Eze_20:20-21 (2), Eze_20:24, Eze_22:8, Eze_22:26, Eze_23:38, Eze_44:24, Eze_45:17, Eze_46:3, Hos_2:11
G4521
σάββατον
sabbaton
Total KJV Occurrences: 68
sabbath, 59
Mat_12:1-2 (2), Mat_12:5 (2), Mat_12:8, Mat_12:10-12 (3), Mat_24:20, Mat_28:1, Mar_1:21, Mar_2:23-24 (2), Mar_2:27-28 (3), Mar_3:2, Mar_3:4, Mar_6:2, Mar_16:1, Luk_4:16, Luk_4:31, Luk_6:1-2 (2), Luk_6:5-7 (3), Luk_13:9-10 (2), Luk_13:14-16 (4), Luk_14:1, Luk_14:3, Luk_14:5, Luk_23:54, Luk_23:56, Joh_5:9-10 (2), Joh_5:16, Joh_5:18, Joh_7:22-23 (3), Joh_9:14, Joh_9:16, Joh_19:31 (2), Act_1:12, Act_13:14, Act_13:27, Act_13:42, Act_13:44, Act_15:21, Act_16:13, Act_17:2, Act_18:4, Col_2:16
week, 9
Mar_16:1-2 (2), Mar_16:9, Luk_18:12, Joh_20:1 (2), Joh_20:19, Act_20:7, 1Co_16:2
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their array.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
Gen 2:3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.