08/28/2026
“God completed His work that He had done on the seventh day, and He ceased on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.” (Gen 2:2–3)
Before Sinai. Before Moses. Before Israel became a nation, Yehovah blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
Some point out that Genesis does not record a direct command telling Adam and Eve to keep the Sabbath. That is true. But Genesis tells us when Yehovah sanctified the day. Its holiness began at creation, not at Mount Sinai.
Scripture shows this pattern elsewhere. Noah already knew the difference between clean and unclean animals long before Sinai (Gen 7:2; 8:20). The written Torah later gave Israel detailed commands concerning a distinction that was already known.
The same pattern appears with the Sabbath. Before Israel reached Sinai, they were expected to rest on the seventh day when the manna was given. Yehovah asked, “How long will you refuse to keep My mitzvot and My Torah?” (Exo 16:28). This happened before the Ten Commandments were spoken from the mountain.
Then, when Yehovah commanded Israel to remember the Sabbath, He pointed back to creation:
“For in six days Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Thus Adonai blessed Yom Shabbat, and made it holy.” (Exo 20:11)
Sinai did not make the seventh day holy. Yehovah had already done that in Eden. Sinai placed the command in writing and called His people to remember.
And who was the Sabbath made for?
Yeshua answered plainly: “The Shabbat was made for man, and not man for the Shabbat.” (Mark 2:27)
The word translated “man” is anthrōpos. It means mankind, humanity. When the 7th day was blessed, there were no Jews or Gentiles. There was mankind.
Yehovah chose the day. He blessed it. He sanctified it. Yeshua said it was made for us.
I do not keep the Sabbath because I am a Seventh-day Adventist. I am not. I do not keep it to earn salvation, and I do not worship a day. I keep it because my Father commanded it, blessed it, made it holy and gave it to me as a gift. My Messiah kept it and declared Himself Lord of it.