Chapter 31
Nothing Do but “This”

And useful this is to have learned, and to know. For “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14) much advises us, and much clarifies: It ultimately is what the New Testament means, when its narrative speaks, or relates of “the sabbath”, and comments to make explanation of “the sabbath”, and clarify its “practice”.

“A sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14) is, in the New Testament simply “the sabbath”, and is what eventually is called “the sabbath”. Of the Old Testament’s rudimentary wording, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God”, “the sabbath” is expression at the New Testament’s time. For each corresponds, and is reference to the other.

A. “My Sabbaths”

Also, however, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” is what Exodus 31:13 (deMSby) quotes God, speaking of as “my sabbaths”:

“Nothing other than1 my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

As God refers here to “my sabbaths”, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” is his particular, select subject theme.

And this is a focal matter of sovereign urgency and great importance. It well-deserves its allotment of priority.

For as discussed in the previous chapter, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” assigns a significant and singular schedule, particularly “throughout” the week’s seventh day:

14“And throughout the seventh day, a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

Which traditionally means, and is taken to mean, and effectively authenticated is by tradition to mean, that one is to do virtually nothing beyond inactivity and physical inertia.

“For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now. Thus, this above very often misperceived scripture does not prohibit doing anything at all, which most is apparent “throughout” the seventh day, and how Scripture assigns you this day.

And this explains; and it clarifies why God says in Exodus 31:13, initially regarding the week’s seventh day (deMSby):

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout2 your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

Although superficially this seems to speak preferentially of only the week’s seventh day, daily it is in its orientation. Constant it is in its actual purview.

For its fulfillment necessitates that, and requires an involvement “throughout” every day. And no less involvement is requisitioned here, as even our traditions can’t altogether hide:

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know3, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13).

This can not speak of any one day of the week, in particular, exclusively alone.

For God’s words here assure this continuity:

“I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

Thus, limiting the span of God’s words here, and restricting their significance exclusively and only to one day per week can derive from nothing but misguided observation of the text considered here and a failure to interpret this text realistically, whose realism is manifest, as follows…

No: God is not “making you religious”, and doing that strictly “throughout” the seventh day. No: He is not “making you Jewish”, and doing that particularly for one day. No: He is not “making you Christian”, and doing that selectively for any certain day.

But as declares he above in Exodus 31:13, he is “sanctifying [‘holyizing’] you”, through your constant “preservation” of “my sabbaths”, which generally refers to the once-a-week exclusive and so restricted “practice” of “your sanctification”, or “your holyization”, that renders you “holy”, that you become “holy” (deMSby I Peter 1:16): Your consummate sanctification every “seventh day” (Exodus 31:15) will achieve practical “preservation” of “my sabbaths”, thus “sanctifying you”, or “holyizing you”, which authorizes what God says, in analysis subsequently in Exodus 31:14 (deMSby): “Holy” this ultimately “is” “for you”.

B. You, Then, Can Do It

Because: Regarding this, the virtual premise is, and must realistically needs to be recognized…

If you can spend an entire day completely at “your sanctification”, and nothing do but “this, your holyization”, you, then, can do it “throughout” every day, and viably “preserve” it “throughout your generations”. If you can do this, and manage it “throughout” the duration and the continuity of a full day, you, then, can do it “throughout” the continuous and on-going sequence of all seven days.

And this is the understanding of God’s words, which recorded are accurately, in this verse Exodus 31:13 (deMSby):

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve”.

If you can “practise” “the day of the sabbath” “throughout” the continuum of the seventh day, you, then, are able to do it authentically, and continue viably “throughout” the concatenation of every day, thus affirming, that God is “sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13), and doing this constantly “throughout” every day, proving, that you achieve “this, your sanctification”, which is God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), and fulfills his “will”: You “preserve” “nothing other than my sabbaths” every day (deMSby Exodus 31:13).

C. A Far Greater Challenge

For doing only that as exclusive concentration is a far greater challenge and a more demanding challenge than doing that along with vocational employment and professional requirement. Because: Such employment effectively reduces the practical necessity for one to be inventive, and to “improvise” entirely “this, your sanctification”, and occupy exclusively oneself with it.

Employment and requirement of a job-related nature are to some extent a distraction and diversion, which “justifies” removal of attention, concentration and behavioural application from concentration needed by “your sanctification”. Which neither is available, nor justifiable, nor is excusable, nor is resort where “you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14), that potentially distracts you from “your sanctification”, or perhaps compromises “your holyization”.

1Invariably is this word rendered speciously by all traditional versions of biblical scripture. And that includes whatever “version” you read.

For typically is this word understated, and misrepresented as something like “certainly”, “surely” or perhaps “verily”. Which is inaccurate and incorrect. And this will explained be in Chapter 36.

2This phrase, “throughout your generations” (deMSby Exodus 31:13) utterly precludes, and effectively forbids dismissal of what follows after this phrase as possibly archaic, obsolete, “‘Old’ Covenant”. The which is “without biblical relevance at present”.

Because: Exodus 31, verse 16 says this of the sabbath and “practice” of the sabbath: “Israel’s descendants will preserve the sabbath, to practise the sabbath throughout their generations as an eternal covenant” (deMSby), which means, that words like “obsolete” and “old” are patently unsuited and unrealistic, when speaking of this “covenant”, which is “eternal”.

For understand heedfully and thoughtfully, dear reader: When Scripture urges, that you practise holiness (II Corinthians 7:1), or “your holyization” (I Thessalonians 4:3), or simply be “holy” (I Peter 1:16), or “receive” “the holy spirit” (Acts 2:38), such urges you to “remember”, and “observe the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8 and Deuteronomy 5:12).

“For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now. And this will sustain neither ending, interruption, intermingling nor revision.

Thus, “Israel’s descendants will preserve the sabbath, to practise the sabbath throughout their generations as an eternal covenant” (deMSby Exodus 31:16). “For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now.

3It is to be regretted, and unfortunate is. But due to tradition’s version of the Fourth Directive, why it is urgent, and would be important conclusively to “know”, and to “know” with assurance, “that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (Exodus 31:13) is now so “forgotten”, and so obliterated as to constitute a mystery comprised of this question: Why should such be important and so urgent?

Why is it vital to be confident, and “know”, and to “know” with assurance, “that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13)? Just why is such rated so important?

For although “this, your sanctification” accomplishes, obeys, and fulfills God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), what endowment issues through “your sanctification”? What concession is there through “your sanctification”?

“Your holyization” has what specific benefit? What particular grant, compensation and reward does “your sanctification” offer to you yourself?

For truly guaranteed is a highly-prized reward for the person, who persists, and continues in commitment to “remember the day of the sabbath [or ‘ceasing’] to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8). “For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3).

But due to tradition’s treatment of the Fourth Directive, this highly-prized, promised, guaranteed reward is obscured amidst inaccurate, distorted Bible truth. So this above inquiry is without an answer now, and beyond speculation, mere conjecture and surmise can have no authoritative answer and solution. But in the book, This, Your Sanctification, Fourth Remembrance, Its Application, which soon will be published by de MontSabbathby at deMontSabbathby.org, this above inquiry its answer will receive.

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Chapter 31
Nothing Do but “This”

And useful this is to have learned, and to know. For “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14) much advises us, and much clarifies: It ultimately is what the New Testament means, when its narrative speaks, or relates of “the sabbath”, and comments to make explanation of “the sabbath”, and clarify its “practice”.

“A sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14) is, in the New Testament simply “the sabbath”, and is what eventually is called “the sabbath”. Of the Old Testament’s rudimentary wording, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God”, “the sabbath” is expression at the New Testament’s time. For each corresponds, and is reference to the other.

A. “My Sabbaths”

Also, however, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” is what Exodus 31:13 (deMSby) quotes God, speaking of as “my sabbaths”:

“Nothing other than1 my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

As God refers here to “my sabbaths”, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” is his particular, select subject theme.

And this is a focal matter of sovereign urgency and great importance. It well-deserves its allotment of priority.

For as discussed in the previous chapter, “a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God” assigns a significant and singular schedule, particularly “throughout” the week’s seventh day:

14“And throughout the seventh day, a sabbath (or ‘ceasing’) to Yahweh, your God, you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14).

Which traditionally means, and is taken to mean, and effectively authenticated is by tradition to mean, that one is to do virtually nothing beyond inactivity and physical inertia.

“For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now. Thus, this above very often misperceived scripture does not prohibit doing anything at all, which most is apparent “throughout” the seventh day, and how Scripture assigns you this day.

And this explains; and it clarifies why God says in Exodus 31:13, initially regarding the week’s seventh day (deMSby):

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout2 your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

Although superficially this seems to speak preferentially of only the week’s seventh day, daily it is in its orientation. Constant it is in its actual purview.

For its fulfillment necessitates that, and requires an involvement “throughout” every day. And no less involvement is requisitioned here, as even our traditions can’t altogether hide:

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve. For throughout your generations, a sign it is between me and you, that you may know3, that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13).

This can not speak of any one day of the week, in particular, exclusively alone.

For God’s words here assure this continuity:

“I, Yahweh am sanctifying you”.

Thus, limiting the span of God’s words here, and restricting their significance exclusively and only to one day per week can derive from nothing but misguided observation of the text considered here and a failure to interpret this text realistically, whose realism is manifest, as follows…

No: God is not “making you religious”, and doing that strictly “throughout” the seventh day. No: He is not “making you Jewish”, and doing that particularly for one day. No: He is not “making you Christian”, and doing that selectively for any certain day.

But as declares he above in Exodus 31:13, he is “sanctifying [‘holyizing’] you”, through your constant “preservation” of “my sabbaths”, which generally refers to the once-a-week exclusive and so restricted “practice” of “your sanctification”, or “your holyization”, that renders you “holy”, that you become “holy” (deMSby I Peter 1:16): Your consummate sanctification every “seventh day” (Exodus 31:15) will achieve practical “preservation” of “my sabbaths”, thus “sanctifying you”, or “holyizing you”, which authorizes what God says, in analysis subsequently in Exodus 31:14 (deMSby): “Holy” this ultimately “is” “for you”.

B. You, Then, Can Do It

Because: Regarding this, the virtual premise is, and must realistically needs to be recognized…

If you can spend an entire day completely at “your sanctification”, and nothing do but “this, your holyization”, you, then, can do it “throughout” every day, and viably “preserve” it “throughout your generations”. If you can do this, and manage it “throughout” the duration and the continuity of a full day, you, then, can do it “throughout” the continuous and on-going sequence of all seven days.

And this is the understanding of God’s words, which recorded are accurately, in this verse Exodus 31:13 (deMSby):

“Nothing other than my sabbaths [or ‘ceasings’] shall you preserve”.

If you can “practise” “the day of the sabbath” “throughout” the continuum of the seventh day, you, then, are able to do it authentically, and continue viably “throughout” the concatenation of every day, thus affirming, that God is “sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13), and doing this constantly “throughout” every day, proving, that you achieve “this, your sanctification”, which is God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), and fulfills his “will”: You “preserve” “nothing other than my sabbaths” every day (deMSby Exodus 31:13).

C. A Far Greater Challenge

For doing only that as exclusive concentration is a far greater challenge and a more demanding challenge than doing that along with vocational employment and professional requirement. Because: Such employment effectively reduces the practical necessity for one to be inventive, and to “improvise” entirely “this, your sanctification”, and occupy exclusively oneself with it.

Employment and requirement of a job-related nature are to some extent a distraction and diversion, which “justifies” removal of attention, concentration and behavioural application from concentration needed by “your sanctification”. Which neither is available, nor justifiable, nor is excusable, nor is resort where “you shall not undertake any work” (deMSby Exodus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 5:14), that potentially distracts you from “your sanctification”, or perhaps compromises “your holyization”.

1Invariably is this word rendered speciously by all traditional versions of biblical scripture. And that includes whatever “version” you read.

For typically is this word understated, and misrepresented as something like “certainly”, “surely” or perhaps “verily”. Which is inaccurate and incorrect. And this will explained be in Chapter 36.

2This phrase, “throughout your generations” (deMSby Exodus 31:13) utterly precludes, and effectively forbids dismissal of what follows after this phrase as possibly archaic, obsolete, “‘Old’ Covenant”. The which is “without biblical relevance at present”.

Because: Exodus 31, verse 16 says this of the sabbath and “practice” of the sabbath: “Israel’s descendants will preserve the sabbath, to practise the sabbath throughout their generations as an eternal covenant” (deMSby), which means, that words like “obsolete” and “old” are patently unsuited and unrealistic, when speaking of this “covenant”, which is “eternal”.

For understand heedfully and thoughtfully, dear reader: When Scripture urges, that you practise holiness (II Corinthians 7:1), or “your holyization” (I Thessalonians 4:3), or simply be “holy” (I Peter 1:16), or “receive” “the holy spirit” (Acts 2:38), such urges you to “remember”, and “observe the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8 and Deuteronomy 5:12).

“For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now. And this will sustain neither ending, interruption, intermingling nor revision.

Thus, “Israel’s descendants will preserve the sabbath, to practise the sabbath throughout their generations as an eternal covenant” (deMSby Exodus 31:16). “For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3) now.

3It is to be regretted, and unfortunate is. But due to tradition’s version of the Fourth Directive, why it is urgent, and would be important conclusively to “know”, and to “know” with assurance, “that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (Exodus 31:13) is now so “forgotten”, and so obliterated as to constitute a mystery comprised of this question: Why should such be important and so urgent?

Why is it vital to be confident, and “know”, and to “know” with assurance, “that I, Yahweh am sanctifying you” (deMSby Exodus 31:13)? Just why is such rated so important?

For although “this, your sanctification” accomplishes, obeys, and fulfills God’s “will” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), what endowment issues through “your sanctification”? What concession is there through “your sanctification”?

“Your holyization” has what specific benefit? What particular grant, compensation and reward does “your sanctification” offer to you yourself?

For truly guaranteed is a highly-prized reward for the person, who persists, and continues in commitment to “remember the day of the sabbath [or ‘ceasing’] to make it holy”, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8). “For this, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3).

But due to tradition’s treatment of the Fourth Directive, this highly-prized, promised, guaranteed reward is obscured amidst inaccurate, distorted Bible truth. So this above inquiry is without an answer now, and beyond speculation, mere conjecture and surmise can have no authoritative answer and solution. But in the book, This, Your Sanctification, Fourth Remembrance, Its Application, which soon will be published by de MontSabbathby at deMontSabbathby.org, this above inquiry its answer will receive.

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