Theological Branch: Eschatology


Topic: Sabbath vs Politics

Exo 20:9-10 KJV 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

One of the reasons for keeping the Seventh day as the Sabbath is to cease from labour and work. This commandment strikes at the very core of political and civil service relations. The Hebrew idea of Labour is " *to provide a service to another or to work at a profession...*" 

While the term work means:
public business, either
 (a). political
 (b). religious

The observance of the Sabbath has both political and religious connotations.

Religious connotations where felt when Jesus performed miracles on the Sabbath.

Luk 13:14 KJV And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, *There are six days in which men ought to work:* in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

It's quite interesting to note that the argument was not based on *labor* but on *work* (because the commandment had said 'in it thou shalt not do any *work*') which happens to include a political-religious component. Sabbath conflicts that Jesus underwent where religio-political.

 This would further militated against Jesus at His trials where He was accused on political and religious grounds:

Luk 23:2 KJV And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

Luk 23:5 KJV And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry(Jewish communities), beginning from Galilee to this place.

The Sabbath day has both religious and political connotations. By choosing to cease labour and work on the Seventh day, is a sign of alligence to the one who commanded.  

Christ put it forth in this manner with regards to the real essence of Sabbath observance:

Luk 13:16 KJV And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Luk 13:17 KJV And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

This therefore is a concretization of the potency of keeping the Sabbath. Oneness with God(power to heal) and beneficence of Man(unloosing the bound).

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