Sabbath Keepers Fellowship & Prison Ministry
Ovadyah Ben Yisrael
FROM THIS WEEK'S TORAH PORTION:
"It is a sign between Me and you..."
“And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, ‘And you, speak to the children of Yisra’el, saying, “My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, YHWH, am setting you apart. And you shall guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among his people. Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to YHWH. Everyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death. And the children of Yisra’el shall guard the Sabbath, to perform the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. Between Me and the children of Yisra’el it is a sign forever. For in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”’ And when He had ended speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moshe two tablets of the Witness, tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim.”
Just as a wedding ring is a sign (Hebrew - "oth") between man and wife, so is the Sabbath day a sign between YHWH and His people.