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What is the sabbath in the new covenant?

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Keeping a sabbath, or not keeping one, has divided Christian churches, and fake churches, for a long time. Here for once is the truth about the sabbath in various covenants, and what it is today.

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​Do the Eastern Orthodox recognize the sabbath day?

Google answer, quote:

"Yes, Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize Saturday as the biblical Sabbath (the day of rest after creation) and honor it liturgically, but they focus their main worship on Sunday, the Lord's Day (Day of Resurrection), viewing it as the new creation's fulfillment, without the strict Mosaic Law restrictions of Jewish Sabbath. Saturday is a day of rest and remembrance, marked by relaxed fasting rules and prayers for the departed, while Sunday is the primary day for the Divine Liturgy and celebrating Christ's resurrection,"

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Catholics,

Google answer: quote:

"Yes, Catholics keep a holy day of rest and worship, but they observe Sunday (the Lord's Day), not the Saturday Sabbath, as a fulfillment of the commandment for rest, celebrating Jesus' Resurrection and the new creation in Him, rather than the Old Covenant's seventh-day Sabbath. The Church teaches that the essential principle of keeping a day holy for God is transferred from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week"

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Protestants, Evangelicals, Anabaptists:

Google quote:

"The practice of keeping a Sabbath day varies among Protestants, Evangelicals, and Anabaptists, with most observing the Lord's Day (Sunday) as a day of worship and rest, while some groups, such as Seventh-day Adventists and certain Anabaptist sects, continue to observe the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday)"

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The truth about the sabbath.

At the core centre of misunderstanding the sabbath day is the belief that the 10 Commandments must be preserved, with some seeing no way to do it unless they keep the old time period "from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday" defined as "abstinence from work".  In Numbers 15:32-36, It describes a man being stoned to death for gathering sticks on the Sabbath,

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The truth observing or believing in the sabbath day had become almost like a false god to the 12 Tribes. God will not be usurped over by anything. Jesus said "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath" . My teaching is that this means not only "this asserts his divine authority, as the Creator, over the Sabbath law, demonstrating that He can define its purpose and prioritise human need (like healing) over rigid legalism" but that true rest is found in Jesus, and in the eternal consequences in the victory of the cross, his resurrection. Jesus became Lord of the sabbath day by replacing a day on Earth with an eternal sabbath day earned through his cross and resurrection, and a state of peace now by resting in the salvation of the finished work of Christ.

As Google states of Hebrews chapter 4:

"Hebrews 4 describes an eternal Sabbath rest for God's people, distinct from the weekly Saturday Sabbath, found through faith in Jesus Christ, not works, offering spiritual peace and salvation, and pointing to the ultimate heavenly rest. The passage contrasts Israel's disobedience, which barred them from the promised land (a type of rest), with the enduring promise of God's spiritual rest, urging believers to diligently enter it through Christ, resting from their own efforts and trusting His completed work for salvation". The Catholics and Orthodox both hate this interpretation of Hebrews 4, fulfilling the sabbath as an eternal day of rest earned by Christ in the gospel, and inner personal rest and peace in that Jesus saves, as it misses out acts of priestcraft by so called priests and personal works for salvation, thus they decide to either stick to the old sabbath day (Orthodox) or invent a new Sunday sabbath (Catholics).

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So.... what about the 10 Commandments? If the old sabbath day is not still the same and a "commandment", or replaced by a Sunday Sabbath (resurrection Day) are the 10 commandments now 9?  The centre piece of new testament law, are the 2 commandments. Nevertheless if what I say is true (and Google's defining of Hebrews 4 is true) is the meaning of "sabbath day" now modified, so there are still Ten Commandments, or are there only nine?

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exceeds the righteousness - I am not like other men

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As Keith Green sings in his song: When I hear the praises start:

  

The 10 Commandments have definitely changed

(Catholic apostasy into "non sacramental marriage)

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a day of rest is not a "works of the flesh" issue

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passover and spiritualisation

​lesson to be learned from initiating sabbath (man needs resT - connected to rom 16

Freedom in Christ

Romans 16

The slow slide into Judaism 

History and 8 covenants

debates on sabbath did not mean keeping the Jewish sabbath

Catholic new sabbath fuels sacramentalism

"forever" characterises 

born again by an act of priestcraft

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OVER "a declaration by Jesus found in the Gospels (Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5) that asserts His divine authority, as the Creator, over the Sabbath law, demonstrating that He can define its purpose and prioritize human need (like healing) over rigid legalism, proclaiming that true rest is found in Him, not just ritual observance. "

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