Shabbat

The disciples like also their Rabbi (Master) Yeshua kept the Shabbat. But we find that they also kept some rabbinic laws. One must not forget, that at this time the basis work of the oral law, the “Mishna”, was being collected and edited. So do we find in Acts 1:12 the rabbinic term Techum Shabbat, e.g. the permitted Shabbat way. “Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Mount Olive, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey” (Acts 1:12 KJV)

Is the Sunday, whom the entire Christianity celebrates, now totally wrong, because officially the Shabbat was appointed by God in the Ten Commandments?

Paul writes in Colossians 2:17, that the Shabbat, like the other feasts, are ” mere shadow of what is to come “. And to the Christians in Galatia (Galatians 4) he calls to them, that they are no more slaves of the law, but do everything, what they do, be done towards ‘Abba, dear Father’ in love as free people.

That Paul requests the Corinthians, to deliver their love offerings on the first day of the week (1Corinthians 16:1-2) discloses, that he respected the Shabbat, for on Shabbat it was not permitted to handle money or similar things are done. Also one gave the tithe or donations the following Sunday.

The first Christians at Troy gathered “on the first day after Shabbat, to break the bread” (Acts 20:7), for then certain work needs to be done, that are not allowed to be done on Shabbat. This “bread-breaking day – the Lord‘s supper” began already in the evening after the outgoing of Shabbat – at the so-called Motze Shabbat.

The Sunday instead is to remind us on the glorious resurrection of our Lord and Christ. But he did not replace as Dies Solis (Sunday) i.e. as Dies Domini (Day of the LORD) the Divine Rest Day of the Shabbat.

The Shabbat was instated by God as remembrance to the completion of Creation, on which everyone “shall have their share in the rest and peace of God”. The Sunday however is supposed to direct us to the completion of Redemption. It is a day to celebrate: “Christ is risen indeed and lives!”

Until the fourth century Christians were permitted to work on Sunday – because they had their resting day already on Shabbat. Not before Emperor Constantine made 325 AD the Sunday to be the day of the rest, on which any kind of work – apart from agriculture – was forbidden and obligated the Christians to take part at the Sunday service. Who was for three Sundays not in the church, had to take harsh punishments into account. In this way the Shabbat as the original day of rest was pushed out in favour of the Sunday.

SEPARATION FROM THE SHABBAT
With he Council of Nicea (325 AD) a development was enforced, that finally brought about, that Jewish teaching and Christian dogmatic went further and further apart. This was the “Judenrein”-Jewish-cleansing-process that determined in the Christian Church the development and many decisions. With other words, one founded a new Jewish-clean religion – this was done by man, not by God! This shows, how Christianity moved more and more away from Jewish traditions and Jewish tradition were replaced by heathen ones: out of the Biblical holy seventh day, the Shabbat, became the roman Sun-Day. Messianic Jews tend back to the roots of their faith that is to the first-church e.g. first Christianity. Every Messianic Congregation in Israel, which is led by God, will sooner or later return back to the roots of their faith.

The physical restoration of Return back to the Land of their Forefathers follows the spiritual restoration of Return back to the faith of the Forefathers. Even the State of Israel is adjusted on Shabbat for rest. Then stand regular buses, trains and airlines owned by the state; also shops and schools are closed.

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