How does one “break the Sabbath” in the New Covenant?
The Genesis Sabbath (Genesis 2:3) and the Sabbaths given Israel’s children beginning in Exodus 16 all foreshadowed the divine “rest” that would be made available through the Messiah, Jesus our Lord and God/Elohim (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Hebrews 4; Colossians 1); therefore, Jesus is the fulfillment of all the Sabbaths foreshadowed (Colossians 2:16; Hebrews 4); therefore, in the New Covenant, one breaks the Sabbath by denying Jesus as Messiah, a denial of Jesus’ sacrifice for their sin, a sin-burden that weights man soul to the depths of Hell…a denial of divine rest from the condemnation of sin, a divine rest from self-righteousness/legalism, a sin that cannot be forgiven if one dies in body having rejected Jesus as Messiah by faith (John 3; John 8:24).
