 Is the Sabbath Saturday or is it on a Sunday? Hey small Christians welcome back and a recent question was what day is the Sabbath actually? Of course now in the church we tend to go to church on Sunday and so some will say or assume that maybe that Sunday is now the new Sabbath. Well let's go back in the scriptures and let's look and see if that is actually correct. If we look in the scriptures there and look at the word Sabbath let's say for example in Exodus chapter 16 verses 26 we're going to see the word Sabbath there. The Sabbath the word Sabbath is derived from the Shabbat which is how we pronounce Sabbath and what it really means is to cease to stop but it also has a cousin that's that is the word seventh or seventh which is where we get the word the Hebrew word Shavia and so the Sabbath has to be the seventh day and on the seventh day according to the Bible on the seventh day the Lord ceased or rested from his work. Not that he had to stop nothing like that but still the word Sabbath just refers to arresting and it is the seventh day and then we see also in Leviticus the Bible talks about how the land is going to also have a Sabbath which is in this case going to be the seventh year and so it doesn't have to necessarily be seven days it just simply refers to a seventh something on the seventh of something and there's a rest to it and so in the case of the Jews they had to let the land rest on the seventh year or in the seventh year. Interestingly also in Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 we won't get into the meaning of it but we see where he says that 70 weeks are decreed and the word for week is the same as this word Shabbat which is from the word 70 weeks or the word weeks well the word week is referred to as seven and so that should kind of make it clear that the seventh day is the Sabbath which is for us Saturday and so why would we think that as some do that Sunday is the Sabbath well the reason for that is in places like Acts 27 says on the first day of the week when they were gathered together to break bread this was kind of a custom for the church to gather together on the first day of the week and then we also look in first group in 16 too it says on the first day of the week each of you is to put something aside and store it up so it became a habit of custom that they began meeting together on the first day of the week for for different meetings for prayer for fellowship well that's what we do now and so it's out of what they did that caused us to begin meeting on Sunday however Sunday is not the new Sabbath we're told that we should not cast judgment or let anyone cast judgment on you regarding food or drink with regarding festivals or new moon or a Sabbath meaning there are going to be some they're going to judge you or have a problem with you going to church on a Sunday rather than a Saturday we are told according to this passage in Colossians don't allow that however one thing that's interesting is that we all are going to receive according to Hebrews a new Sabbath that is a Sabbath rest for the people of God well obviously that's speaking of eternity so now just to be clear the Sabbath is a Saturday and we attend church normally on Sunday however you could attend church on any day you can gather together with the saints on any day there is no there is no prescription for Gentiles in the New Testament to come together on the Sabbath