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Can we identify which day of the modern week is the biblical seventh-day Sabbath? Some argue that calendar changes (Julian to Gregorian), the Babylonian captivity, or lost time make it impossible to know which day is the Sabbath.

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SABBATH

  • Signifying a period of rest GEN 2:2,3; LEV 23; 25; 26:34,35
  • Preparations for the EXO 16:22; MAT 27:62; MRK 15:42; LUK 23:54; JHN 19:31
  • Religious usages on the GEN 2:3; MRK 6:2; LUK 4:16,31; 6:6; 13:10; ACT 13:14
  • Sacrifices on the NUM 28:9,10; EZK 46:4,5
  • UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO GEN 2:2,3; EXO 16:5,23-30; 20:8-11; 23:12; 31:13-17; 34:21; 35:2,3; LEV 16:29-31; 19:3,30; 23:1-3,27-32; 24:8; 26:2,34,35; NUM 15:32-36; 28:9,10; DEU 5:12-15; 2KI 4:23; 1CH 9:32; 2CH 36:21; NEH 9:13,14; 10:31; 13:15-22; PSA 92:1-15; 118:24; ISA 1:13; 56:2,4-7; 58:13,14; 66:23; JER 17:21,22,24-27; LAM 1:7; 2:6; EZK 20:12,13,16,20,21,24; 22:8; 23:38; 44:24; 46:1,3; HOS 2:11; AMO 8:5; MAT 12:1-8,10-12; 24:20; MRK 2:27,28; 6:2; 16:1; LUK 4:16,31; 6:1-10; 13:10-17; 14:1-6; 23:54,56; JHN 5:5-14; 7:21-24; 9:1-34; 19:31; ACT 13:14,27,42,44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4; COL 2:16; HEB 4:4,9
  • OBSERVANCE OF
  • By Moses NUM 15:32-34
  • By Nehemiah NEH 13:15,21
  • By the women preparing to embalm the corpse of Jesus LUK 23:56
  • By Paul ACT 13:14
  • By the disciples ACT 16:13
  • By John REV 1:10
  • VIOLATIONS OF
  • INSTANCES OF
  • Gathering manna EXO 16:27
  • Gathering sticks NUM 15:32
  • Men of Tyre NEH 13:16
  • The inhabitants of Jerusalem JER 17:21-23

MANNA

  • General scriptures concerning EXO 16:4-35; NUM 11:6-10; DEU 8:3,16; JOS 5:12; NEH 9:20; PSA 78:24; JHN 6:31,49,58
  • Preserved in the ark of the testimony EXO 16:33; HEB 9:4
  • FIGURATIVE JHN 6:48-51; 1CO 10:3; REV 2:17

DAY

  • A creative period GEN 1:5,8,13,19,23,31; 2:2
  • Divided into twelve hours JHN 11:9
  • Prophetic 2PE 3:8; DAN 8:14; 9:24-27; 12:11,12; REV 11:3; 9:15; 12:6
  • Six working days ordained EXO 20:9; EZK 46:1
  • The sixth day of the week called preparation day MRK 15:42; JHN 19:14,31,42
  • The first day of the week called the Lord's day REV 1:10
  • Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles EXO 3:18; 1KI 19:4; JON 3:4
  • Sabbath day's journey, about two-thousand paces ACT 1:12
  • The seventh of the week ordained as a day of rest -- See SABBATH

SEVEN

  • Week consists of GEN 2:3; EXO 20:11; DEU 5:13,14
  • (Extensive entry covering days, weeks, months, years, and symbolic uses of seven throughout Scripture)

PREPARATION DAY (from DAY topic)

  • The sixth day of the week called preparation day MRK 15:42; JHN 19:14,31,42

NEHEMIAH

    1. Son of Hachaliah NEH 1:1
  • The cupbearer of Artaxerxes, a very trusted position NEH 1:11; 2:1
  • Is grieved over the desolation of his country NEH 1
  • Is sent by the king to rebuild Jerusalem NEH 2:1-8
  • Register of the people whom he led from Babylon NEH 7
  • Register of the priests and Levites NEH 12:1-22
  • Rebuilds Jerusalem NEH 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • His administration as ruler of the people NEH 5; 6; 8; 9; 10; 11; 13
    1. Two Jews who returned to Jerusalem from exile EZR 2:2; NEH 3:16; 7:7

RESURRECTION

  • General scriptures concerning JOB 14:12-15; 19:25-27; PSA 16:9,10; 17:15; 49:15; ISA 25:8; 26:19; EZK 37:1-14; DAN 12:2,3,13; HOS 13:14; MAT 22:23-32; 24:31; 25:1-13; 27:52,53; MRK 12:18-27; LUK 14:14; 20:27-38; JHN 5:21,25,28,29; 6:39,40,44,54; 11:23-25; 14:19; ACT 2:26-31; 4:1,2; 17:18,32; 23:6,8; 24:14,15; 26:6-8; ROM 4:16-21; 8:10,11,19,21-23; 1CO 6:14; 15:12-32,35-57; 2CO 4:14; 5:1-5; PHP 3:10,11,21; 1TH 4:14,16; 2TI 1:10; 2:18; HEB 6:2; 11:19,35; REV 1:18; 20:4-6,13
  • TYPIFIED: Isaac GEN 22:13; with HEB 11:19; Jonah JON 2:10; with MAT 12:40

CRUCIFIXION

  • The reproach of GAL 3:13; 5:11
  • Of two criminals MAT 27:38
  • Of disciples, foretold MAT 23:34
  • FIGURATIVE ROM 6:6; GAL 2:20; 5:24; 6:14

TIME

  • Beginning of GEN 1:1,14
  • Epochs of: Before the flood JOS 24:2
  • The exodus EXO 19:1; 40:17; 1KI 6:1
  • Daniel's reckoning of time, and times, and half times DAN 7:25; 12:7
  • Indicated by a sun-dial 2KI 20:9-11; ISA 38:8
  • Division of, into watches EXO 14:24; 1SA 11:11; MAT 14:25; MRK 6:48
  • One day is like one-thousand years 2PE 3:8
  • Fullness of GAL 4:4; EPH 1:10

CHRONOLOGY

  • Jewish year instituted EXO 12:2
  • See TIME

SABBATIC YEAR

  • (A rest that reoccurs every seventh year)
  • Called YEAR OF RELEASE DEU 15:9; 31:10
  • Ordinances concerning EXO 23:9-11; LEV 25
  • Israelite bondservants set free in EXO 21:2; DEU 15:12; JER 34:14
  • Creditors required to release debtors in DEU 15:1-6,12-18; NEH 10:31

LORD'S DAY

  • See SABBATH

WORSHIP

  • To be rendered only to God EXO 20:3; DEU 5:7; 6:13; MAT 4:10; LUK 4:8; ACT 10:26; 14:15; COL 2:18; REV 19:10; 22:8
  • (Extensive entry covering acceptable worship, public worship in temple, family worship, postures, and many related subtopics)
  • DAY topic explicitly names "the sixth day of the week called preparation day" (MRK 15:42; JHN 19:14,31,42) and "the seventh of the week ordained as a day of rest" -- confirming the weekly cycle was identified and named in the NT
  • SABBATH Nave's entry includes post-exile observance by Nehemiah (NEH 13:15,21) and post-crucifixion observance (LUK 23:56)
  • LORD'S DAY redirects to SABBATH in Nave's