Comparison and Contrast of the Weekly vs Annual Sabbaths
Weekly Sabbath
Annual Sabbath

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Hebrew word # 7676 Shabbath:  intensely from #7673 Shabath- intermission i.e. specifically the Sabbath- every Sabbath.  #7673 Shabath:  a primitive root to repose i.e. desist from exertion used in many implication relations cause to, let, make to cease, celebrate, cause to fail, keep Sabbath, suffer to be lacking, leave, put away, make to rest, rid, still, take away.  Greek word #4521 Sabbaton:  Of Hebrew origin #7676, The Sabbath, or day of weekly repose from secular avocations, also the observance or institution itself, by extension a sennight i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths, likewise the plural in all the above applications- Sabbath day, week.

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Hebrew word # 7676 Shabbath or #7677 Shabbathown.  #7677 Shabbathown:  From #7676 Shabbath a sabbatism or special holiday, rest, Sabbath (an Annual Sabbath falling on a Weekly Sabbath is a “High Sabbath”)

(Of note:  the only times in the New Testament that the term “Sabbath” is used, it is referring to the weekly Sabbath.  Greek word #4521 is never used with reference to an Annual Sabbath.)

A statute (Hebrew word #2706 Choq:  from #2710 Chaqaq; an enactment; hence an appointment of time, space, quantity, labor or usage- appointed bound commandment, convenient, custom, decree, due, law, measure, necessary, ordinance, portion, set time, statute, task.  #2710 Chaqaq:  To hack i.e. engrave to be a scribe simply; by implication to enact laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times or prescribe- appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, portray, print, set).  Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 5

A statute (Hebrew word #2708 Chuqqah:  feminine form of #2706 Choq and mean substantially the same- appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.).  Leviticus 23

A commandment (Hebrew word #4687 Mitsvah:  From #6680 Tsavah, A command, whether human or divine, collectively the Law- which was commanded, law, ordinance, precept.)  #6680 Tsavah:  a primitive root intensly to constitute, enjoin, appoint, bid, give a charge, give or send with command, send a messenger, put, set in order.)  Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5: 12, 15, 10: 4

A commandment (Hebrew word #6680 Tsavah) Numbers 28-29

Placed inside the ark.  Exodus 25: 16, 31: 18, Deuteronomy 10: 2  (Symbolically guarded)

Placed on the outside of the ark.  Deuteronomy 31: 26  (Symbolically guarding) Review and Herald, May 6, 1875

God the lawgiver with His seal placed inside.  Name (Lord God), Title (Creator), Name/Title combined (Lord of the Sabbath), and Jurisdiction (Heaven, Earth, and Sea, All your dwellings) Exodus 20: 8-11, Leviticus 23: 1-3

God the lawgiver with His seal placed inside.  Name (Lord God), Title (Deliverer), and Jurisdiction (All your dwellings throughout your generations) Leviticus 23: 4-44

A sign between God and His people placed in their hearts, soul, hand, between the eyes.  Exodus 31: 12-18, Ezekiel 20: 12, 19-20, Deuteronomy 10: 4, 11: 18

A sign between God and His people placed between their eyes and in their hands.  Exodus 13: 1-10, Ezekiel 20: 12, 19-20

Present at creation. Genesis 2: 1-3 & Exodus 20: 11

Present at creation. Genesis 1: 14 & Psalm 104: 19 ("Seasons" is Strongs Concordance Hebrew word #4150 Mowed or Moed or Mowadah: "From 3259 Yaad; properly an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):- appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn, synagogue, (set) time appointed.")

Moral law.  Review and Herald, by EGW, October 24, 1899, Luke 4: 16, Patriarchs and Prophets, by EGW, p. 365

 

Moral law.  Review and Herald, by EGW, October 24, 1899, Luke 2 & 22, John 7, Desire of Ages, by EGW, p. 452-453.

Ceremonial stuff was superimposed on the Weekly Sabbaths in the Old Covenant.  Numbers 28: 9-10, 1 Chronicles 23: 31, 2 Chronicles 2: 4, 2 Chronicles 8: 12-13, 2 Chronicles 31: 3, Nehemiah 10: 33, Ezekiel 45: 17, Daniel 9: 27, Hebrews 9

Ceremonial stuff was superimposed on the Annual Sabbaths in the Old Covenant.  Leviticus 23, Numbers 28: 16-31, 29: 1-40, Daniel 9: 27, Hebrews 9

Blessings for obedience, curses for disobedience.  Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 10-11, 28-30

Blessings for obedience, curses for disobedience.  Deuteronomy 28-30

“Sabbath of the Lord thy God” Exodus 20: 10, Leviticus 23: 3

“Sabbath” “Solemn assembly to the Lord thy God”   “Solemn feast unto the Lord thy God”  Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16: 8, 15

“Blessed”, “Sanctified/Hallowed” Genesis 2: 3, Exodus 20: 11“Holy convocation”  Leviticus 23. A Delight Isaiah 58: 13-14.

“Holy convocation”  Leviticus 23. A Delight and a Day of Rejoicing Leviticus 23: 40, Deuteronomy 16: 14, and Isaiah 58: 13-14.

A day of rest, i.e.no work.  Genesis 2: 2, Exodus 20: 10-11, Deuteronomy 5: 14

A day of rest, i.e. no work.  Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16: 8, 21

Kept in the New Covenant (after the cross) by Jew and Gentile Christians (minus the ceremonial stuff listed above).  Acts 13: 14-15 & 42-44, 15: 21, 16: 12-13, 17: 2, 18: 4

Kept in the New Covenant (after the cross) by Jew and Gentile Christians (minus the ceremonial stuff listed above).  Acts 2: 1-4 & 47, 12: 1-3, 18: 21, 20: 6 &16, 27: 9, 1 Corinthians 5: 7-8, Sketches from the Life of Paul, by EGW, p. 105, Acts of the Apostles, by EGW, p. 390

Prophesied that an apostate power would think to change this law.  Daniel 7: 25

“We keep Sunday in obedience to the law of the Catholic Church. The church made this law after the Bible was written; hence the law is not in the Bible. The Catholic Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish Festivals.” (T. Enright of the Redemporist Fathers of the Roman Church, April 26, 1902)

Prophesied that an apostate power would think to change this law.  Daniel 7: 25

“We keep Sunday in obedience to the law of the Catholic Church. The church made this law after the Bible was written; hence the law is not in the Bible. The Catholic Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish Festivals.” (T. Enright of the Redemporist Fathers of the Roman Church, April 26, 1902)

 

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