The Shabbat
It was the seventh day that sealed Yah’s creation. It was then that Yah rested from His works. Behind the word translated as rested is the Hebrew Shabbat. The seventh day would come to be identified by the act of Yah’s resting. So it would be called the Shabbat, the Sabbath.
“Yah blessed the seventh day.” The Sabbath was thus the day of Yah’s blessings. It was also the day of holiness. It is connection to the Sabbath that the Hebrew root word for holy first appears in the Bible. Yah sanctified or made holy the seventh day. It was the first of all holy days.
The Holy Guest
At Mount Sinai, Israel was commanded to remember the seventh day and keep it holy. The Sabbath was a sign of the nation’s covenant with Yah. Since Yah blessed the creation on the Sabbath, the Sabbath also became a commemoration of the creation and Yah’s blessing upon it, a celebration of life, of peace, renewal and restoration.
For the Jewish people, the Sabbath was not simply to be observed—it was to be received. The Sabbath was to be welcomed into each Jewish home as if one were receiving a royal guest. Special prayers were to be recited upon its advent, welcoming the Sabbath’s entrance into one’s house with blessings, honor and joy.
As the seventh day was the final sealing of Yah’s creation, it spoke of completion and
perfection. And as the last of days, it was seen as a shadow of the last of all things, the
kingdom of Yah, the age of Messiah, the Olam Ha Bah and the reign of heaven, when war would be no more, when peace would cover the earth and when Yah’s presence would fill every space and moment—and all would be Shabbat.
Excerpt from The Dragon’s Prophecy, by Jonathan Cahn, page 154
Yah has been substituted for God
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