Yom Shabbat, Kislev 30, 6003 – December 8, 2018
Adapting To Changes
On a day meant for rest, it can be good to examine why it exists, if that can be known. Or at least, it is good for us perhaps to see what is known about this set apart day. The first indicator is told to us where the Sabbath is first revealed.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
We see some important points here. First is that God had set out to do something, which is create. He created a world. He was finished with that work of creation. Then, like the punctuation at the end of the sentence, He had a day where he did not create, which was His work. He had a day where he just rested from His work.
And we see that God did his very first blessing of something that was not a living creature, He blessed the day and sanctified it. This means He pronounced (blessed) it as set apart (sanctified) the day as the day where He declared His world creation work finished. This world creation work was the forming (created) and then the purposing (made) of the things formed. It would seem that this was like a closure. Had He not “closed off” this work, then the work would be expecting something additional. However, the declaration of the formation and the purposing as fully empowered to execute what He intended, complete with patterns for the energizing of the system (Sabbaths and Feasts), established the destiny and sealed the work.
The Sabbath is like the application of the King’s signet upon the wax of the week’s envelope. It creates the power for the week, from week to week. It is the evidence that YAH is at hand, and that this is His work, and woe to those that might open the seal of the King without permission (the enemy). YAH established Sabbaths and Feasts (i.e., appointed times/holidays) as a means of applying the King’s signet in the wax of time. When we keep them we align with the declared energy of YAH.
Shabbat Shalom!
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your will be done here in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people. Let Your kingdom come perfectly here, as it is perfectly in heaven. Send us no Your provision that it might overflow to those around us. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here in us and around us. Wipe away all thoughts and memories of the evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be only thoughts and memories of You and Your love for us. Restore Your people to You, Father, as in the garden. Restore unto Your people all that the worm has eaten. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all the good that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides. Send in today the $423,523,962.53 that we might use it to publish the kingdom here in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people, care for the widow and the orphan, feed and cloth the poor, and be Your ambassadors here. Rise up, my King, and smith the evil. We ask all these things of You, Father, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiak. Amen.