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Rejoice in YEHOVAH's

Sabbath Day!

Many ask, "How should I keep YEHOVAH's Sabbath day?" This
article gives you the principles that will enable you to observe
YEHOVAH's Sabbath day as He intended.

Yeshua the Messiah said, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath"
(Mark 2:27). He didn't say it was made for the Jew, but for man -- for all human beings every-
where on earth.

Since the Sabbath was made for man, it was made when man was made -- during creation
week. Read the account in Genesis 2:2-3: "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he
had made; and he RESTED on the SEVENTH DAY from all his wok 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."

In Exodus 20:8-11, we read YEHOVAH's instruction about the Sabbath -- the fourth of
YEHOVAH's Ten Commandments or Words:

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy
work: 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 cat-
tle, 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."

Sabbath a Special Sign

The Sabbath is very special to YEHOVAH. It is a memorial of creation -- a special sign --
identifying YEHOVAH as Creator and those who keep it as His people. Notice Exodus 31:14-17:

"Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you....Wherefore the children of Is-
rael shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.

"It is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."

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