Sabbath Worship

Q: I have just read your article on the Sabbath. I am interested to
know what you think of Isaiah 56. Is it not new covenant
(everlasting name)? This passage is also referring to the foreigner
and the eunuch (gentile perhaps). Love to hear your view!

A: Isaiah 56 is one of many descriptions of the kingdom age. The "new
covenant" was given to Judah and to Israel; not to grace age Christians.
This passage is dealing with the earthly Gentiles of the millennial age
and not with the church age saints. At that time all the nations of the
earth will also come to Jerusalem on the feast of tabernacles to
celebrate that feast with Israel. If we are obligated to the Sabbath
because of Isaiah 56 (which Paul says we are not - Colossians 2:16-17),
then we are also obligated to go to Jerusalem every fall in order to keep
the feast of tabernacles. But there is much more we would also be
required to do if you go by these kingdom passages. We cannot take part
of it without taking all of it lest we practice dissimulation.

In effect, this would put us entirely under the law again, something we
have been delivered from (Romans 6:14-15; Galatians 3:23-25). And when we
come back under the law, we have put ourselves back under the curse
(Galatians 3:13). The whole idea of us today being under Sabbath Worship
is an affront to the blood of Christ and His sacrifice on the cross. It
says that His grace was not sufficient. I hope this helps.

Till He comes,

Pastor David Reagan

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