Why did God give us the "SABBATH"?

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Exodus 20:8-11

"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy. Six days shall you labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it you shall not do any work. You, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, not your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:"

Source: Ten Commandments(Exodus 20:3-17)

Answer 1

I know that there are many good answers here. I like to think of the Sabbath as a peaceful rest day. It's interesting the Chinese translation for Sabbath means exactly that...peaceful rest day. I can abandon my week long junk...and relax. When I have deacon duty or Sabbath School teaching, I still feel like I am resting. It's amazing, that I am not using my own energy when I serve God on the Sabbath.
God gave us the Sabbath to remember Him and His Creation. To Rest...and Commune with Him is something we can do on the day He set aside. Many people believe that Sunday is the new Christian day of worship. That is one of the lies started by Satan, and perpetuated by the Church at large. For everything God has Created, Satan has a sinister opposite.
The Seal of God v the Mark of the Beast
Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) v Unholy Trinity (Church, State and Spiritualism [Paganism]).
Sabbath v Sunday.
The True Church v The Harlot Church
There are more...some of you may already know this list.
May the Holy Spirit guide each of you into all Truth...and when you find it, that you will have the courage to leave tradition and cling to Truth.

Answer 2

Us who? The Jews? The Sabbath was for them.
In the year 1513 B.C.E. the Israelites were on trek in the wilderness en route to Mount Sinai and were running out of food. So God provided manna for them for six consecutive days but none on the seventh. (Ex. 16:22-30) For the first time Jehovah made it a law for his people to rest on the seventh day.
Later, at Mt. Sinai, this law was incorporated into the Ten Commandments, the fourth of which stated: “Remembering the sabbath day to hold it sacred, . . . do all your work six days. But the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God.” It also applied to servants and domestic animals. (Ex. 20:8-11) It was to be a day of complete rest, no wood was to be gathered or fires lit, and the penalty for breaking it was death. (Ex. 35:1-3) Moreover, it was an arrangement only for Israel: “Between me and the sons of Israel it is a sign to time indefinite.”—Ex. 31:16, 17.
Was all of this just a lot of ritual? No, the Sabbath was very beneficial for the Israelites. Physically the weekly rest was good for them. More importantly, the Sabbath provided an opportunity for activities that renewed the spirit, such as reading and discussing God’s Word. The Sabbath was good for families as well, affording opportunity for parents to teach their children about God.
Did Israel keep the Sabbath? Sometimes. However, after their return from exile in Babylon (537 B.C.E.), the Jewish religious leaders imposed many added man-made restrictions. They even made it unlawful to catch a flea on the Sabbath! With such a petty, fanatical attitude on their part, it is no wonder that Christ offended the religious leaders of his day. Because he did not uphold their concept of the Sabbath they were “beside themselves with anger,” and planned to murder Jesus.—Matt. 12:9-14; Luke 6:6-11, The New English Bible.
After Jesus’ death profound changes took place. Under the guidance of God’s spirit the early Christians realized that they were no longer under the Law and that “Christ is the end of the Law.” (Rom. 10:4; 6:14, 15) Hence, they were no longer bound to make animal sacrifices, pay tithes, be circumcised or keep the Sabbath. The apostle Paul wrote: “By means of his flesh he [Christ] abolished . . . the Law of commandments.”—Eph. 2:15.
Again and again the Bible makes it clear that Christians are not under the Law, that it was ‘taken out of the way,’ nailed to Christ’s torture stake.

Answer 3

The Sabbath has several purposes...the first one is as a memorial to Creation...it was ordained as the very first Holiday by God. Another purpose is to give us a day to rest...so we don't have to do, or think about the mundane things of daily living...such as work, or paying bills, etc. On the Sabbath, we are to do good, and commune with God. Spend quality time with family members too...
The Bible says there is no rest for the wicked...you might notice that many wicked people do not acknowledge the Sabbath...when we enter into the REST that God has promised the righteous, is it not the Sabbath?
Lone Ranger knows what I'm getting at...

Answer 4

He gave us the Sabbath so that we can rest and to reflect on Him and our relationship with Him.
The Messiah NEVER said this was done away with. The Messiah says that He came to clarify the law, not CHANGE the law.
The Messiah says that nothing will pass from the law until all is completed. Matthew 5:17-19.
All is NOT completed; we are NOT in New Jerusalem right now, there is still evil and wickedness afoot.

And so, every 7th day, we rest from work, from all the worldly fleshly toils we have to go through (along with things we put on ourselves) and we rest according to the word of the Living God. This will continue to be affect until Yahweh SAYS it's not.

Just because MAN says there's no need for it, doesn't mean it's true. Neither The Living God NOR the Messiah said that.

Answer 5

What could be more appropriate to the book of Hebrews than the elevation of the Sabbath to its full meaning and intent in the plan of God?..... So the Sabbath retains its Old Covenant meanings that identify God's specially sanctified people ("the people of God") and pointing them back to God as Creator. Added to that is the New Covenant meaning of entering into another rest through Christ, fulfilled in type by the rest given to Israel during Joshua's time (Hebrews 4:8).

This spiritual rest begins now in this life and reaches its consummation in the resurrection to eternal life at the return of Christ (Revelation 20:6). His return also signals the beginning of the millennial rest prophesied in the Old Testament.

The book of Hebrews cleverly weaves together three themes of rest: the rest promised to Israel from enemies, the weekly Sabbath, and the spiritual rest through Christ. The conclusion is that Sabbath-keeping is still necessary for the people of God, the New Testament Church.

As Hebrews 4:10 affirms, we must all labor to enter the spiritual rest and continue to keep the weekly Sabbath because of what it portrays in God's great master plan.

Answer 6

I see many of my SDA friends have answered this question!!! Hi you guys! The Sabbath will be kept even in the New Earth according to Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, so why would He eliminate it? The history does not lie! Sabbath was done away with by mans traditions over 300 years after Christ returned to heaven.

Answer 7

As a sign between His children and Himself. Notice the scripture does not say a sign between Him and the Jews
Those that are saved today become spiritual children of Israel.

Exd 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant.

Exd 31:17 It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Answer 8

God made the world and all that is in it in 6 days,God is a God of numbers and timing..He considers the number 7 as completion..our minds and bodies require rest and meditation on Him and His word so He set aside the Sabbath day as His Holy day

Answer 9

So we could have a nice rest and come together to thank God and sing praises to Him.

Jesus reminded us that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

Expect you know that means woman too, cause your cool!

Answer 10

The sabbath as talked about later in Exodus is a sign between God and Israel, Exodus 31:13-18. We know from Hebrews 10:1 that the law is a shadow of what came with Jesus. The weekly Saturday observance of a sabbath rest is a shadow of the rest we have in Heaven, Hebrews 4:1-11. No where is the command given in the N.T. to follow a Saturday sabbath rest, nor was an example given in Acts. Also nowhere was the sabbath changed from Saturday to Sunday. Our sabbath rest then as described in Hebrews 4 is in Heaven.