Friday, November 17, 2023

God's intent

"Exodus 20:8-11 makes a clear connection between the Sabbath day and the seventh day on which God the Creator rested. 
Sabbath observance therefore involves the affirmation that God is Creator and Sustainer of the world. 
And He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Mark 2:27
Jesus gives an indication as to its true meaning. That is, He places it against the universal horizon of God's intent that it benefit all creation and not just Israel."

Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology