Theological Branch: Eschatology

Topic: Etiology of the Sabbath

The term Sabbath found in Exodus 16: 23..
And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

 This verse tells us that the Sabbath is unto the Lord...where as Isaiah speaks of sabbaths which are man made. 
Isa 1:13-14 KJV 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. *14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.*
Exodus however is making allusions to the original rest day that the Creator initially instatiated in Genesis 2: 2-3. This day clearly cannot be attributed to the day(s) that Isaiah had refered to in his writtings.
So from this analysis it is clear that there are sabbaths of man which are in contra distinction to the Sabbath of the Lord(Jehova). 

The English Bible translates as:
To morrow is the rest(Sabbath) of the holy Sabbath unto the LORD: Exodus 16: 23 
Whereas the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) reads as:
שַׁבָּת֧וֹן שַׁבַּת־קֹ֛דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָ֖ה מָחָ֑ר אֵ֣ת 
Which can be transliterated as:
Sabbath a Sabbath rest...Tomorrow to Yahweh...

The Sabbath day is unto the Lord. Making It is of Jehovian etiology. It was Jehovah who Brought it into existence never was man's understanding involved. This is argued mostly from Hebrew grammar and literary stylistics than theology.


The term rest is in Exodus 16:23 is of the following grammatic structures.
The Genetive means that it belongs to someone and in this case it is Yahweh, as is given by the term שַׁבָּת֧וֹן שַׁבַּת

which is transliterated as "Sabbath a Sabbath" qualified by "to Yahweh", being the direct Object of ownership of the day of rest.
Morphology: N-CSCPart of Speech:
- N: Noun

Grammatical Categories:
- Gender C: Common
- Number S: Singular
- State C: Genitival Pronoun

This analysis is intended to show the Origins of the Sabbath, which happen to exist in two places Genesis 2: 2-3 and Exodus 16:23. 
Hence Isaiah cannot normally militate against the Seventh day Sabbath of Genesis.
*Isaiah 1:14, Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.*

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