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#1.6 THE SABBATH WILL BE KEPT IN THE LAST DAYS |
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This bible study uses a Greek Unicode font, and the Hebrew Unicode font "David" which comes with later versions of Windows.
| Hebrew Text - DEUTERONOMY 4:30-31 - English Translation | ||
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| בַּצַּר לְךָ-וּמְצָאוּךָ, כֹּל הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה; בְּאַחֲרִית, הַיָּמִים, וְשַׁבְתָּ עַד-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, וְשָׁמַעְתָּ בְּקֹלוֹ. | 30 | When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to YHWH your God, and shall be obedient to his voice; |
| כִּי אֵל רַחוּם יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, לֹא יַרְפְּךָ וְלֹא יַשְׁחִיתֶךָ; וְלֹא יִשְׁכַּח אֶת-בְּרִית אֲבֹתֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע לָהֶם. | 31 | (For YHWH your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. |
Note: Moses told Israel that if they would obey God "in the latter days", God would remember the covenant of their Fathers. Which covenant was that? The book of Deuteronomy is Moses speaking to Israel in the land of Moab before they crossed over Jordan to inherit the promised land. The previous generation had died in the wilderness during the previous 40 years, and it was with them that he made a covenant when he called them out of Egypt.
(Deuteronomy 4:12) "And YHWH spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no figure; only you heard a voice. And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tablets of stone.
Obviously this covenant was the ten commandments, which included the Sabbath Commandment, to be remembered in the last days. According to the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:32-33) the New Covenant would not be applied in the same way as it was at Mount Sinai. It would not be written on stone as it was then, but the law would be written in their hearts. However, it will be the same commandments.
(Jeremiah 31:31-33) Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; my covenant
which they broke, although I was a husband to them, says YHWH:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it
in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Notice what God is going to put in their hearts; "my law" (Jeremiah 31:3), which obviously includes the Sabbath commandment (Exodus 16:4-28), particularly verses 4 and 28.
| Greek Text - MATTHEW 24:15-20 - English Translation | ||
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| ὅταν οὖν ἴδητε τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ δανιὴλ τοῦ προφήτου ἑστὸς ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ ὁ ἀναγινώσκων νοείτω | 15 | Therefore when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him understand:) |
| τότε οἱ ἐν τῇ ἰουδαίᾳ φευγέτωσαν ἐπί τὰ ὄρη | 16 | Then let those who are in Judaea flee onto the mountains: |
| ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος μὴ καταβαινέτω ἆραι τι ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ | 17 | Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: |
| καὶ ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω ὀπίσω ἆραι τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ | 18 | Nor let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes. |
| οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις | 19 | And woe to those who are pregnant, and to those who breast feed in those days! |
| προσεύχεσθε δὲ ἵνα μὴ γένηται ἡ φυγὴ ὑμῶν χειμῶνος μηδὲ ἐν σαββάτῳ | 20 | But pray that your flight is not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day. |
Note: Why did Jesus tell his disciples to "pray that your flight is not ... on the Sabbath day." (Matthew 24:20)? Simply because in the very last days, which Jesus is talking about here, they will still be keeping the Sabbath, and some may be unwilling to travel on that day, which could prevent their flight. The context here is clearly established as the last days in verse 15 where Jesus refers to the "abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet". This is shown to be during the time of the Antichrist (Daniel 11:29-31), and at a time of purifying for the Jews (Daniel 12:10-11). In those days only true believers in Jesus will be left of the Jews (Zechariah 12:9-10; 13:8-9; Romans 11:26). Matthew 24:20 shows that Jesus expected the Jews to be keeping the Sabbath commandment in the very last days.
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