The Sabbath of Rest (Shabbot) Weekly Leviticus 23:3

“Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yah, the God who sanctifies you." Exodus 31:13

The Bible clearly establishes the seventh day of the week, commonly known as “Saturday,” as the Sabbath—from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday. All Bible days begin and end at sunset.

The Sabbath is the sign that identifies to people what God you serve. It is the sign by which we may know that the Most High God, Yah, is Master. It identifies Yah, and by so doing, it identifies who His people are as well. (Yah is the name of the Most High God and the God of Israel according to Psalm 68:4.)

On the seventh day, Yah ended the work of creation—what was created by work. He rested on the seventh day, and by doing so, created the Sabbath. He then blessed and set apart the seventh day as a day of rest and worship for mankind. In resting on the seventh day of Creation, Yah put His presence in that day, making it holy time. Four thousand years later, when Yahshua (YAH’s Salvation and His Word (Torah)) lived in human flesh, He was still putting His presence in this same weekly, recurring Sabbath; He went into the synagogues "as His custom was . . . on the Sabbath day" (Luke 4:16). And likewise, "Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures" (Acts 17:2). It was his customary practice to keep the Sabbath, as the Bible proves by its recording of eighty-four different Sabbaths Paul kept.

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Exodus 20:8

The Sabbath is a space of time. That time, whenever it arrives, is not ours but the Most High God's. If we appropriate it for our own use, whether for work or pleasure, we are stealing that time from Yah! In Exodus 20:8, He commands us to "keep it holy." We honor the Him by keeping holy those things that He has made holy—and only He can make things holy! No other day was made holy, so no other day can be kept holy.

"Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord God. In it you shall do no work. . . ." Exodus 20:9-10:

If you delight in the Sabbath and honor Yah by not doing your own agenda or finding your own pleasure, or speaking your own words, then Yah will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob, your father.

The Sabbath command is a spiritual command. It has to do with our fellowship with, assembly for, and worship of YAH. This is why the Sabbath was made for man—as a blessing of rest and refreshment to be enjoyed.