This being the 7th comic in the series and on the Sabbath, I thought it appropriate to focus on what to do for the Sabbath. I know when we first started doing the Sabbath, we weren't sure what to do. I mentioned before that teacher that made a challenge for the Sabbath. They had resources. A booklet you could print off on how to do the Sabbath. So we printed off that booklet and started doing those things. Looking back, those things were very traditional. Not necessarily Biblical. They weren't bad things, just not anything the Bible instructs us to do.

After some time, we got back to what Scripture says: rest. When the Sabbath is demonstrated at Creation, it was all about God resting. When the command was introduced again to the Israelites before Mt. Sinai, it was about resting. When it was told again as part of the 10, it was again about resting. Literally, all Scripture tells us on Sabbath is to make it set apart/holy/different from every other day, and to rest.

Some will bring up Leviticus 23:3, where it says to have a holy convocation, to take this to mean we have to meet with other believers on the Sabbath. The word translated as convocation in Hebrew is מקרא (miqra), which has a root word of קרא (qra) which is to call out, to read, to proclaim. So, translating it as a gathering really doesn't seem to fit. If we take this verse to say this is an addition to Sabbath it would be to read or proclaim something holy (as it is a holy miqra), so God's Word. Which, if you ask believers that keep the Sabbath what they do on it, most, if not all, do some type of Scripture reading during it.

Read your Bible and rest. Is this really that burdensome that we can't do this? We can't take a day off from work of our jobs or even of our own creations? Just rest and focus on God.

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