Mark 2:27. "......The Sabbath was made for man."

     Mark 2:27  "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:"

Note:  Now, do Y O U read in the above verse, that the Seventh day Sabbath was made for the Jews?
           BUT. . . .but is this not the standard excuse among men?
      WHY?
      Why is it, that 90% ? of "Christians", follow the the laws of men from Rome, and worship on the First day of the week?  Who knows this is SUN-god- DAY? THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN?  Hadrian, who ruled Rome, during the 120's A. D. passed a law, that No Jew was to worship on the 7th day of the week, Saturday, of course by this law, that impacted all Christians as well, as they followed the examples set by Christ Jesus and His 12.
      The Head of the Church in Rome, went along with this law, and it was re-enforced by the degree of Constantine in 321 A.D., Who sought to improve his standing, by declaring...."All shops shall close on the first day of the week,, for it is a Feast day in honor of The Venerable day of the Sun" .This began the Six days shall all work but the Day of the sun is a Feast day, that much of Christendom, still adheres to, to this very day! Look at any Roman coin, minted during this Emperor's rule, and find his face on one side and the sun god on the other, as he was head of both religions!

                    SO, WHY. . . THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, OF THE BIBLE?

1.  BECAUSE, GOD SAID SO!  [ that's too simplistic right?]

2.  Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 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. 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."

Note: God BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED IT..... Sanctified means to set aside for a Holy purpose!  Now think Y O U that man or men, can make any common day Holy? Can man or men, make anything Holy?   But look......

    Luke 23:52-56 " This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. "

A.  "And that day was PREPARATION DAY  [Friday, and the Sabbath's begin, at Sundown of Fridays]AND THE SABBATH DREW ON.   BUT PLEASE THINK AND CONTINUE....

     Luke 24:1-3  "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus."

    Friday  Christ died, and buried, women gathered cloth, oil and spices but THE SABBATH DREW ON!   This meant that sunset was near,  Watches were not yet invented, and sundials no common.

SABBATH/SATURDAY Christ "RESTED", in the tomb, from late Friday until early on the First day, Sunday.

B. Therefore does not Luke place the Sabbath between Friday, Preparations day, in the which all work was to be done and finished, for the Sabbath on the SEVENTH day, followed by the First day of the week. Thus the Sabbath is place squarely between Preparation day , Friday,and the first day of the week, Sunday!

     Mark 16:1-2 " And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."

   WHY?   WHY DID GOD CHOSE A TIME, A MEASURE OF TIME FOR HIS SABBATHS?

    YES. . .HIS, SABBATHS......

     Mark 2:27-28  "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath."

     Note:  If God had chosen a place, or a specific location, He would have needed to place it where all humanity could easily reach it, right?  So seeing the difficulty even today to travel to a spot on earth, that would not be possible, thus not practical even now, let alone then!
      But our Heavenly Father, in His infinite wisdom, and goodness, made time, a very specific time frame, the Sabbath.  Therefore, no matter where one is, if in Tibet, or in a prison cell, TIME will always catch up and surround each one of us, within any of the man-made hour zones, around the world!
     As, all shall witness, or be present, on Friday's SUN-SET, and the start of the Seventh day Sabbath!
     Therefore, the Seventh day is the Sabbath, and the Sabbath is the Seventh day!.


    Mark 7:6-9  "He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. "

     So what will Y O U do now? Will you honor the traditions of men, or Follow the dictates of YOUR CREATOR?  There shall, soon, come a time when men, under the dark one's deceptions, shall force, you to choose!
    God uses but love and truth, but Satan never will, but he'll use everything else![Revelation 13.]

    Exodus 20:8-11 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."

     John 15:14-16  "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

With your God-given free-will, each is free to choose, Jesus Christ, or man, or self!

      2 Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:"
    

   Yet Y O U must remember, IF GOD had not died for our sins, yours AND mine, Satan would have destroyed humanity eons ago! True Christianity IS the only Faith, in which God died for human sins, there 's NO other of earth's , many, many religions, that fact can be learned! Allah has no son, nor Buddha, nor any other man-made god, died nor their son!  Only the Great I AM!

Thanking YOU for your time.

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