SHABAT
The most important day of the week
Introduction:
With my words I want to address all people of good will.
As a called prophet for Muslims, my message primarily applies to them.
Christians are no less important, since they have a lot of catching up to do.
1. The Shabat was abolished in the 4th century AD out of spiritual blindness.
2. Jesus was a Jew. The mind says that his successors should also become Jewish.
3. Jesus had said to the Samaritan woman: “Salvation comes from the Jews (John 4.22).
4. Messianic Judaism, without institutional ties, is open to all people.
SHABBAT is usually written with 2 B. Since I lived in an orthodox retirement home in Jerusalem for about 2 years, I write Shabat as I heard it during this time. Shabat comes from the basic Hebrew form “shavat” rest, celebrate, stop, be over. The (hard word) Shabbat is wrong in my opinion.
Exodus 23:12 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 “Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as [a]your stranger, may refresh themselves.
Footnotes:
a. Exodus 23:12 Lit the sojourner
I completed a three-year apprenticeship in Judaism, from November 5, 2007 to November 4, 2010:
I did not experience the Jews as Exodus 23:12 teaches the Shabat. Every Orthodox Jew takes great care not to profane the Shabat. With his life he diametrically contradicts biblical teaching.
In Orthodox Judaism 613 Mitzvot (commandments) are taught to do justice. There are countless commandments that we should learn to do at Heavenly Father’s hand. If we practice the promise of Reichenschwand, we do it automatically:
“If you trust in me and place your hand in mine and allow me to guide you, you will transcend the boundaries with me into a new land that you have never known and whose miracles are so great that the most beautiful thing you can imagine merely a shadow is in comparison. But make sure you do not get left behind when I want to go further with you!”
But it may well be that Heavenly Father has to educate us and let us do detours. I have already made several detours and I am aware that I need a lifelong upbringing.