What Is Sabbath?

‘’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.’’ Genesis 2:1, 2

‘’For in six days the Lord  made the 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 20:11

The Sabbath is the memorial of creation. God designed that through keeping it, man should forever remember Him as the TRUE AND LIVING GOD, the creator of all things. Sabbath is therefore defined as a specific day set aside by the creator of heaven and earth for man to observe and worship him.

God reserved the Sabbath for his own service, he appointed, that as long as sun or the moon, the heavens and the earth, should endure, the children of men should spend this day in the worship of him who ‘gave life and breath and all things. The Sabbath is unique by these three distinct acts: God rested on it, He blessed it and He sanctified it. Sanctify means ‘’to make sacred or holy,’’  ‘’to consecrate,’’  ‘’to set apart as sacred.’’