The word for evil in Hebrew here is ra` . Most people think of evil as being stealing, killing, lying, and things like that, but actually evil (ra` ) means to do something disagreeable, so when we go against YHWH's command to rest and to think of Him on the day, which He set aside and blessed, then that thing which we do, even as innocent as it may be, is considered evil. That little innocent thing, which we may do, such as sewing, going to the store to buy, repairing something around the house, etc. pollutes His day, which He has set apart and sanctified.
When something is set apart and sanctified it means that it can only be used for what it was set apart for. The fourth commandment says, "Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy." There is never any other commandment in the Bible, which annuls this. Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" James 1:17 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." This says there is no variable with YHWH. What He says sticks. He cannot change His laws or commandments; it says not even in a shadow of a way can He change them. Malachi 3:6 tells us, "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
The Lord cannot change, not one bit. If He did, then we could say that His attributes and nature are imperfect. Even if Yeshua was raised in the first day of the week, and I am not sure about that, as I have my own theory about that, which you can see here:
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and we were to exalt Him on that day, which there is no commandment for, that does not take away that YHWH gave a command to honor the seventh day of the week. He set it, and He cannot change it, because there is no variableness to Him.
If we repent, and if we pray for something, He can change our lives for the better, or if we disobey and sin, obviously our lives will change for the worse, because there is variableness in us, but something which He has set apart from the beginning, something which He has made law can never, ever, ever change. Just as He has set the courses for the paths of the ocean and for the circuits of the wind, they will never change, and so neither will the course of His Sabbath Day.
YHWH has a plan. His days are as a thousand years; one day to Him is as a thousand years to us. Seven thousand years will pass, and we will enter into His Shabbat. Our six days represent the six thousand years, which man will spend on earth, as we know it, but in the seven thousandth year, we are out of here to be with Him. We will be under His theocratic rule. That is the point of His sanctifying the Sabbath. It is a memorial between Him and us, that in the seven thousandth year we will be with Him, and that will never change, and neither will the typology of His day.
©Kimberly Padilla, A.A. Religion
20 November 2009
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