Raymond B. answered • 03/09/22
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some claim it's sundown Friday evening to sundown Saturday.
Most Christians do it from midnight early Sunday morning to midnight early Monday morning.
Some just do it 1/7 part of the week, any day or any time. Similar to 1/10 of your income as a tithe.
the tithe is the first fruits, yet the government already takes that in taxes, so it can only be a 2nd fruits. The secular work tends to take precedence over the 1st 1/7 as well.
Half the world's calendars have Sunday as the 7th day of the week. Mexico has Sabbado as the 6th day and Domingo as the 7th day. Commercial calendars have Monday as the 1st day and Sunday the 7th.
The movie Chariots of Fire has a heroic track star default on a race scheduled on the Sabbath.
Alabama, this year, had a 7th Day Adventist basketball high school team forfeit, & lose their playoff game, due to officials refusing to reschedule, even for a few hours to get their game reset after sundown Saturday, even though the other teams involved agreed to reschedule to accommodate the SDA teams' religious beliefs. The Alabama Governor demanded the officials give an explanation for their unwillingness to give a small accommodation for religion. But the SDA team showed up to cheer on the winners in the playoffs, and had no regrets as to their forfeit. They received endless online applause and praise for their stand on priniciple.
They won more in "losing" than they would have won had they gone on to win the championship.
the 4th commandment (3rd for Catholics) has two versions, one in Exodus and another in Deuteronomy (the 2nd law) One refers to memory of Genesis & God resting on the 7th Day. The other refers to memory of the Passover.
The Passover is an "annual" Sabbath, occurring on a Full Moon. Actually every "weekly" Sabbath falls on a moon phase, Pentecost, Passover, Tabernacles and Feast of Trumpets. There is no Hebrew word for "week" Sabbath = week. The real Sabbath is the moon phase. It occurs on the 1st, 15th, 22nd and 29th of each lunar month, which falls on a different day of the current secular calendar week every year.
Jews, 7th Day Adventists, Catholics, Protestants, 7th Day Baptists, 1st Day Baptists all got it wrong. the Lunar Sabbath is the real Sabbath Day. But whatever day you observe, you get it right about 1/7 of the time, one out of seven times.
Then there's the sunset to sunset versus others who believe the "day" starts and ends at sunrises.
Another not fully clear end points of the "day." Sunsets seem to win, so far.
It is one of the 10 commandments which even the Christians who believe the law ended, nailed to the cross with Jesus, still believe is mandatory. Most all believe the other 9 still apply. The 4th is one of the 10, hard to overlook. Hebrews has a verse saying there remains a Sabbath Rest. It's not just a memory of Genesis and Passover, but also a foreshadow of the Millennial rest, when Jesus comes again to rule for 1,000 years. the Genesis week is 6 days of work followed by 1 day of rest. A day with the Lord is as a 1,000 years. There are 6,000 years of human work & suffering, followed by 1,000 years of rest and peace. Similar to the Feast of Tabernacles, a week of rest, begun with an "annual" Sabbath, ending with another "annual" Sabbath, both on moon phases.
In Genesis, God created the moon on the 4th day. The Sabbath is in the 4th Commandment. Genesis chapter 1 says the stars, sun and moon were created for season, times and our calendar, which includes the day of the Sabbath.
