The Sabbath Myth | Defining “Work” | Stripping Away Man-Made Rules to Find True Freedom
“Stop looking to man to define the Sabbath day of rest and start looking at the commandment.” We have done a spectacular job of taking GOD’s ultimate monument of liberation and turning it into a religious straight-jacket where any movement outside of rest and worship is defined as "work." These are the religious ideologies of man. For centuries, well-meaning teachers, scholars, students, and rigid legalists alike have spent endless hours micro-managing the Sabbath. They have written massive volumes of rules detailing exactly how many steps you can take, what buttons you can press, and whether tearing a piece of toilet paper constitutes “work.” How insane can one be! Hint: the Jews and "dumb dogs" that cannot bark or teach the true word of Elohim. But when you strip away the centuries of human misinterpretation and look at the raw, unfiltered Hebrew text of the commandment, a radically different picture emerges. The Sabbath was never meant to be a day of paralysis....