1.
The Sabbaths were designated as a time for a Holy convocation to ascribe
to the Lord the glory due to His name.
We
give to the Lord the glory and honor due to His name by presenting ourselves
before Him on the day He has ordained and expressing our love and gratitude for
who He is and what He did for the benefit of humanity on that specific day and occasion
as we have been duly instructed saying; “You shall keep My Sabbaths and
reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:30;
26:2).
So by observing the
Sabbath/s one expresses his/her gratitude to the Lord as being the Supreme Lord
God Almighty and also ascribing to Him the glory due to His name as to what
transpired on that particular day as we have been duly admonished saying; “Speak
to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the LORD, which you
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. 'Six days shall
work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy
convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all
your dwellings’ (Leviticus 23:2-3).
Every God ordained
Sabbath is a memorial of what the Lord did for humanity and by observing it one
expresses love, gratitude and appreciation for what the Lord did for humanity for
example:
- On
the weekly Sabbath (seventh day) we give glory and honor to the Lord as
the Creator,
- Passover
and days of Unleavened bread we give to the Lord glory and honor as our
Redeemer and Savior.
- The
Feast of First Fruits which is the Sunday which falls during the seven days
of Unleavened Bread we give glory and honor to the Lord as the resurrection
and the life.
- On the Feast of Pentecost, we give glory and
honor to the Lord as being our Helper, Teacher, Healer, Provider and
commemorating the arrival of the Holy Spirit.
- On the Feast of Trumpets, we give glory and
honor to the Lord as being our Deliverer and Conqueror.
- On
the Day of Atonement, we give glory and honor to the Lord as our Atonement
and High Priest;
- On
the Feast of Tabernacles, we give glory and honor to the Lord as the King
of kings and Lord of lords and commemorating the date of His Birth.
- On the Eighth day of the Feast of
Tabernacles we give glory and honor to the Lord as our Circumcision (especially
Gentiles) and give glory to the Lord as the Eternal God.
For we have been duly
admonished saying; “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh ---
who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the
flesh by hands --that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from
the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having
no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were
far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:11-13).
The Eighth day is also
the day that we give glory to the Lord as and the Eternal God and commemorating
the day He received the name Jesus as we have been duly instructed saying; “And
when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was
called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb” (Luke 2:21).
This name as we all
know is one which is above all other names as we have been duly instructed
saying; “Therefore,
God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every
name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and
of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father’ (Philippians 2:9-11).
Every Sabbath therefore, commemorates something that the Lord did for humanity on that particular day and should be celebrated, commemorated and perpetuated for future generations just as we are commemorating and perpetuating certain events such as Independence and Emancipation Day etc.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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