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This Week’s Bible Question:
Was the Sabbath given as a sign for the Jews, or should it be observed today, as a day of worship by Christians?
Episode Transcription
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Michael Pearl: Alright, I am Mike Pearl. No concertina music today. We are here to answer your Bible questions, and I have not seen any of these questions beforehand. It’s just because if I did, I’d spend a lot of time preparing for it and I don’t have that much time. I have got a bunch of grandkids out there that demand my time. So, I just walk in here cold turkey. He hits me with your questions, and I try to come up with an answer. So, Jared, what’s the first question?
Jared: Was the Sabbath given as a signs for Jews or should it observed today as a day of worship by Christians?
Michael: Alright, there are clearly several times in the Old Testament… Let me see, I think I made some notes in the back of my Bible one time on that issue. If I can locate them… Yes, here they are. Alright, Exodus 31:12, and let me read that to you. Exodus — my old Bible is falling apart, and I have to hold on to it — 31:12. My fingers are too dry. That’s what happens when you get old, everything starts drying up. Here it is, beginning in verse 12.
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths,” not just one Sabbath, but multiple Sabbaths, “ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbaths” — plural — “therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death.” He goes on and talks about what they shouldn’t do on a Sabbath.
You see, they had a Sabbath of days, they had Sabbath of months, they had Sabbath of years. Then there are other Sabbaths during the course of the year like the feast days, seven days of feasting, and then they had Sabbaths of Sabbaths, like every 49 years. And then there were Sabbaths of Sabbaths of Sabbaths, that was four 70‑year periods which came out to 490, and Israel’s history can be divided in to four periods of 490 years. You see that in Larkin’s Dispensational Truth.
So, the other day someone said to me, “Are you a Sabbath keeper or Sunday keeper?” I said, “I am a Monday keeper and a Tuesday keeper, and a Wednesday keeper, and a Thursday keeper, and a Friday and a Saturday, and a Sunday keeper. I observe the Lord Jesus Christ every day and worship Him without pause throughout the whole week. All days are holy unto me.”
They said, “But do you set aside the Sabbath as unique, as special?” Jesus is my Sabbath. He is the Lord of the Sabbath. And so, no, I don’t hold Saturday or Sunday as a day above any other day of the week. All days are equal.
Now even though I was born with Jewish blood, I am now in Christ, and being in Christ, I am no longer under the bondage of that Mosaic Law. If I were, and I said to this person, “Do you keep Sabbath?” “Yes.” I said then, “I thought you went to church on the Sabbath.” He said, “Well, we do.” I said, “Well, don’t you get in to your car and travel four or five miles?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Well, according to the Bible if you keep Sabbath, you are not to go out of your place.” I said, “Don’t you guys get together and have dinner and play ball, and games on stuff, on Sunday afternoon?” He said, “Yeah, we get all the kids together.” I said, “Well, the Bible says you are only to think holy thoughts. You are not to think your own thoughts. You are not even to speak your own words.” You can’t talk about work, you can’t talk about politics, you can’t about playing ball, you can’t talk about family matters; all you can do is read the Word of God, pray and meditate.
The Jews determined you couldn’t travel any more than about a half mile. And so, if the synagogue was further than half mile away, it was not legal to walk to it. They are not allowed to build a fire on the Sabbath. You can’t light your stove. You can’t carry a pot and a pan. You can’t cook your meals. You cook them the day before.
See, I don’t know of anybody on the face of the earth, except a few orthodox Jews in Israel, that actually keep a biblical Sabbath. Just to set aside one day so you will be unique among Christians and then brag about your allegiance to the Sabbath and then totally ignore what God says you are supposed to do to keep it is a bit silly.
So, if you want to keep Sabbath, do it God’s way. But then if you do, you are falling from grace, because you are coming back under the Law of Moses, you are coming back under that which the Bible said, brought death. The letter of the law killeth, the spirit giveth life.
So, no, I am not a Sabbath keeper, and never have been, and never will be.
Now, let’s see some more of those verses of Scripture. Hebrews 3:18 is interesting in this regard.
So, let me say it the way I like to say things. If you are a Sabbath keeper, you are sinning. It is a sin to keep the Sabbath. It is a sin because you are falling from grace. You are ignoring the provision of God in Christ.
Let me see if I can find Hebrews. I can’t talk and quote my books of the Bible at the same time. Okay, Hebrews 3:18, beginning in verse 18. “And to whom swear he that they should not enter into His rest but to them that believe not. For we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” So the Sabbath that he promised them was the Sabbath of Christ, a rest in Christ, which they couldn’t enter into because of unbelief.
Now, in Romans 14:15, it’s interesting… Let me turn to that. Romans 14, verse 15. He said, “But my brethren be grieved with thy meat” — that doesn’t make sense. Let me check my verse again. Romans 14:5, okay. Here it is. He says, “One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; but he that eateth not, eateth not to the Lord, and giveth God thanks. None of us lives to himself, no man dies unto himself.”
He said, “Know ye not, we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. We’ll receive the things done in the body,” and so forth. The whole context of this is that some people are weak in the faith. He said, verse one, “Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. One man believeth he may eat all things, another believeth he may eat herbs, one man holds one day above another,” and so forth.
So, he says there are some people who are weak, weak in faith. And because of that, they feel like they can’t eat meat or they feel like they should keep a Sabbath day and they’re not at liberty to love the Lord equally on all days. And so, he said, let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He said, don’t judge another man in regard to that, don’t come down on his case because it’s to the Lord he does it. If he’s making a mistake in that regard, if he has a weak conscience, let him be, because he’s going to stand in the judgment seat of Christ and receive the things done in his body.
So, if there were such a thing as Sabbath keeping, this would have been a good place to say it, in discussion of holding one day above another. In other words, if it were mandatory upon Christians or expected of them to observe one day above another, Paul would have clearly said so. But what he did, he left it open, and said, “Whatever your view is, is okay.” But just know that sometimes views come out of weak consciences. In other words, a failure to clearly understand all that God says.
Then in Colossians 2:16 is another verse that we might turn to. He says, “Let no man…principalities and powers…” — let me get the context here. Okay. “Let no man judge you therefore in meat, or drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of a new moon, or Sabbath days which are shadows” — all these holy days, new moons, etc. — “are shadows of things which are to come; but the body of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in voluntary humility,” and so forth. “…and not holding the head….wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the root, while living in the world are you subject to ordinances like touch not, taste not, food, diet which things are to perish with the using.” So he indicates that being in Christ we’re no longer under the touch not, taste not, handle not ordinances.
Then Galatians 4:10. This is a good one. He says, “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.” Now that’s the church in Galatia. So they observed the days, the holy days, they observed the months, and they observed the times and the years. Times were Jewish 360-day periods of time.
“I am afraid of you,” he says, “lest I bestowed upon you labor in vain.” It troubled Paul that the church in Galatia was observing holy days, Jewish holy days. He said it’s an indication that maybe he failed in communicating the grace of God to them. Paul felt like if they truly understood the grace of God, they wouldn’t be embroiled in this Jewish legalism.
He said, “Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are…” and so forth, and he goes on in there. He begs them to be like he is in regard to the observance of these days.
Alright, let’s see what else we got here. Well, I think we’ve gone far enough for our time’s sake. But you can look in Genesis 2:1, 3; Exodus 20:11, 31:17; Hebrews 4:3‑10; Romans 1:8; Mark 1:5; Ephesians 6:21; Matthew 13:32; John 15:15… it looks like that’s what it is… and John 16:12, are some of the verses I’ve got listed on that subject.
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Dear Michael,
There is a great difference between the (oral) laws of the Jews and the Torah of YHWH! Including the ones for the Shabbat.
Biblical Shabbat: rest, no buying or selling, no making of fire (but you can have a fire!).
Jewish law: walk no more than…, don’t do this, don’t do that. Please don’t make this the same as the Biblical Torah of YHWH.
You should keep the Shabbat(s) weekly and every High Shabbat (Shabbaton, yearly feast of Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkoth etc).
The Torah was never done away with! not by Yahshua (jesus) not by Paul. Yahshua did every thing according to the Torah.
Explain the end from the beginning! you can’t explain the old testament from the new testament!
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one dot of the law to fail. luke 16:17
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Math 5:18
Michael: when did heaven and earth pass away? did I miss that event? Nop, heaven and earth will pass when YHWH returns to earth and heaven and earth will be one.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.Exo 12:14
Michael: Did YWHW lie when he said we should keep his ordinances, feasts and shabbats for ever? He could have told Moshe (moses): keep them till Yahshua comes, but He didn’t, did He?
Please Michael don’t be blindfolded! especially not when you are teaching people!
17“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19“Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Did you really never read this text?! (Math 5)
Shalom Ima
Ima, if you don’t keep the WHOLE law, then you can’t keep the law. That was the whole point of the exercise. It was to show us it was impossible for man to keep the law, but YHWH alone had to be the one to impart grace on us through His death burial and resurrection. Ima, do you keep the sacrificial laws? (I guess not) then you aren’t keeping the laws at all. It is impossible. There are no priests at this moment, there is no temple at this moment. So it is impossible.
Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. vs 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. vs 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? v 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? vs 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. vs 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:
Do I need to go on? or can you read Galatians for yourself? even Romans is full of evidence that the law is not the way of salvation. Read it slowly, savor the meaning. The law that Mr. Pearl talks about in his training books, is the moral law put in our hearts, like in Ezekiel, that someday our heart of stone would be taken out and would be replaced with a heart of flesh- this is the Holy Spirit who is sealed in our conscience. Taking the place of the Holy of Holies as we as believers have become the temple. (See Missler’s Be Ye Transformed- series of temple diagrams).
Non believers, are still under the law. Until they accept Christ and are sealed themselves, the law still applies to them.
As someone who was raised Messianic (sabbath and Torah observant Christian) I was always interested in what Big Papa Pearl thought about the subject. I was happy to hear that he does not esteem Sunday as a holy day. There’s nothing more annoying than christians preaching that you CAN’T keep sabbath, but you HAVE to go to church EVERY Sunday. As a messianic believer, I see a lot of hypocrisy in that, and I HATE hypocrisy.
I of course had an issue with Mike’s belief that esteeming Saturday as the Sabbath (rest day) is a sin. My faith is built on Jesus’ promise and ability to save me from all sin, and keep me from falling. I’m fine with people thinking I’m weak, but to say that I’m sinning is a slap in Jesus’ face, since he’s the one who saves me from sin.
A well intentioned friends mom once quoted all those same scriptures to me and told me it was okay to eat pork. So the next day at school I had a piece of pepperoni pizza IN FAITH. What I got was an anaphylactic reaction and a missed 1/2 day of school!! The same thing happened with shellfish and crustaceans! I can’t even TOUCH it. My contact solution had porcine and it swelled my eyes shut! So NOBODY can tell me the God gave ME permission to eat it. He may have given YOU permission, but not me.
I also esteem the sabbath because God wrote it on the tables of my heart to do so. When I was facing a teen pregnancy due to a sexual assault in HS I sought God with all my heart and soul. I was sure God meant for me to raise the child in the Lord. I knew that I needed a husband who would let me be a stay at home mom. My sister got me a job waiting tables but they wanted me to work Fri nights and Sat. I thought, if God is not on my side, it doesn’t matter how much I work, I’ll never have enough… But if God is for me, He will provide all that I need. So I kept the Sabbath unto the Lord, only working Sundays. I met my husband a couple weeks later when I was 5 months along. Our story is so amazing, and words do not do justice to Gods glory and grace. I have been a stay at home, homeschool mom since I was 17. My daughter is now 15 years old, and I have two others. Their story is amazing as well. Each one is a miracle and a strong testimony to Gods care for each one of us.
Therefore, God has taught me that Christianity is not a one size fits all faith. It is personalized. As far as being Torah observant, God writes His Torah on the tablets of our heart. The new covenant is in our hearts and minds, and Jesus causes us to keep his commandments that He writes there. I don’t believe God means for us to be the same. Just like the high priests tunic had 12 different colored gems, all different, all precious.
AMEN!!! When I am asked if I keep the Sabbath I say “yes, every day I keep it! because everyday I am in the Lord Jesus Christ!”
Dear Michael Pearl,
Not knowing what to think on the subject for long, and much more willing to know what to tell my little girls about it, I was so willing to know what you had to say on this, for I really respect you and trust you for the influence you and Debi and your family have on my life though all your writings, articles, videos… We really love you and pray for you all constantly!
I was surprised to hear about keeping ALL days for the Lord! That is certainly renewing!!
But I do have one doubt, the same one that always keeps my mind busy when trying to decide what I believe on this subject… why did God rest, then? I have taught my little ones that God surely was not tired, but HE did it to give us an example, so that we would take a day of rest, too. Now, my perspective is being challenged… and I sort of like it, if it will be to grow in wisdom and in the Lord’s ways… but I still find that doubt… why did God choose a day to rest, then, and “sanctified it”? And why did he included it in the 10 commandments? Are we not supposed to obey Him by following those 10 commandments, too? I am not talking, of course, of trying to get to God through keping a day or any other deed, or to get saved through any of that. I am talking of obedience after salvation, of wanting to do what pleases Him… I got to think that He liked people to keep a special day of rest a week, where he would be especially remembered and honored… maybe not in the pharisean, strict way… but in spitir and in truth. I had no clue whether it be Saturday, Sunday after the Resurrection, or what… now, getting to think that maybe there’s none… I still find those questions nanswered… could you help, please?
The reason he rested is that he was done with his creative work. As far as he was concerned he was done doing what he wanted to do with the earth and all that was in it. He probably did it in six days so that he could give us an example of a week of work with a 7th day rest. There does not seem to be any other reason for having a 7 day week other than that found in the bible. 7 is also a special number in that there are 7 notes in a scale of music and 7 colors in a rainbow.
The Sabbath seems to be a big stumbling block for many people of faith. I think the reason for this is that many people do not understand how to rightly divide the word of God. The bible is broken into different time frames. What Jesus spoke to the Jews while he was here in the flesh is important to us in its context, but in may not be for us in this time period. Paul is the Apostle to the gentiles and he wrote most of the New Testament. We live in an unprophecied time. We live in the age of grace. We should get our instructions from the Apostle Paul, he wrote the Romans through Philemon. My own experience with law keeping and grace was a terrible time for me until I understood what was written to me in the writtings of the Apostle Paul. read Galations where it says that to go back under Judaism and to follow the law is to fall from grace. Why go back under the law when God has made you free from it?
God Bless
God did not necessarily set an example… He gave us a picture when He invited Adam to rest with Him. The Garden of Eden was also not an example of rest because Adam was to "keep" it (take care of it). Mr 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: If man was made to keep the sabbath then wa ought to keep it… but thats not what it says. Furthermore Jesus goes on to say that He is the Lord of the sabbath… yet He seemingly broke the sabbath (in the Pharisees eyes)… The Christian is IN the Lord over the Sabbath, Jesus. Therefore I am in my rest daily… I am over and above the Sabbath (ALL Christians are over and above the law in general). If you think you need to keep the ten commandments than you MUST keep ALL of them! Read Leviticus and abide by it. But God crucified me with Christ, and where no law is there is no transgression (Ro 4:15). Hebrews 4 also speaks of this… the SABBATHS (PLURAL) were ALL pictures pointing to the final rest we would have in Christ Jesus! It was a perpetual covenant between God and the JEWS! Gods rest was His business, and Adam was invited into it. Same now, Gods rest that He invites us into is IN His Son, Christ Jesus. The Sabbath that God took was NOT a law, that was His choice… but the sabbath that God commanded to the children of Israel was 100% LAW! So much so that you were killed if you didnt keep it. I do not keep it because God killed me in Christ Jesus! The new testament epistles are FULL of this teaching! God bless!
Very interested in reading the reply to Ivett’s questions if there is one. I agree with what Mike Pearl said but would like to understand why God had that day of rest in creation.
The reason God rested was because He had finished creating. He wasn’t tired, He was finished. Now, He still governs the universe and works in the hearts of men but He is no longer creating new species, land masses, etc.
The answer to those who demand a legal Sabbath observance is found in Jesus’ words in Matthew 12:
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat. But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.”
Let’s follow Jesus’ logic:
1) The mercy of feeding David and his men was more important than a cermonial law.
2) The priest can break the Sabbath for the sake of temple service and yet remain innocent.
So, if mercy is greater than a cermonial law and a cermonial law was greater than the Sabbath then it follows logically that mercy is also greater than the Sabbath.
A > B and B > C therefore A > C.
Some laws are referred to as moral laws becuase they represent God’s nature and are unchanging and binding upon all men for all time. The ceremonial laws and civil laws were not binding for all time and God has liberty to change their use according to His plan. (Note, God Himself does not change, He only changes HOW he relates to His people.) This should be plain to see by the fact that Christians do not offer blood sacrifices on an altar.
If we have two moral laws in conflict we are all in serious trouble! Could you imagine one command to serve the One true God and then another command to serve as many gods as you please? How absurd! We never see this contradiction in the Bible. (Thankfully!) We do, however, see an examples in David of a cermonial law being usurped without judgment, chastisement, etc. (This is why we conclude that cermonail laws are not binding on all men at all times since God Himself saw fit to show that mercy is more important.)
So, a moral law can never be repealed, usurped, etc with God’s approval. We do see cermonial laws being usurped with God’s approval. We also see the Sabbath being usurped by a ceremonial law with God’s approval. From this, we can conclude that God Himself considers the Sabbath to have some element of a ceremonial aspect to it. In other words, it is not 100% moral like serving only one God, abstaining from idolatry, etc.
If the Sabbath is, in part, a ceremonial law, it is not binding on all men at all times and The Lord of the Sabbath can change the administration of that law as He sees fit. By declaring that He desires mercy and not sacrifice, Jesus was declaring that a legal observance of the Sabbath was no longer required.
Because Jesus rose on the first day of the week (John 20:1), the early Christians began to gather on that day (Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2). Now, nearly 2000 years later, most professing Christians maintain that tradition.
Grace and peace,
Matthew
I agree this is a very interesting topic. So many people are seeking the answers. I still have
questions. The Bible teaches that God doesn’t change but yet in a round about way we are taught He has changed in certain areas. We must trust that He will teach us all things.
I am also interested in a response to Ivett’s question!
I struggled with this subject also. But I have never asked a pastor who was able to answer to my satisfaction why we didn’t keep the Sabbath. When I began to study more closely the requirements of actually keeping the Sabbath, I hit another wall. Even if your going by the Bible, and not Jewish tradition, it would still be extremely difficult to keep this law. And if we keep the Sabbath according to the law, why not eat kosher, use the mikvah, etc etc. And if we’re keeping all these laws, we might as well convert to Judaism, which is a step backward.
Didn’t Paul address this in Romans 3:30? ( since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised by faith) among other scriptures throughout the NT?
After hearing Michaels very straightforward and solid explanation of this issue, it dawned on me – I was failing to understand a scripture that my kids have been reciting since they were tiny. Matthew 5:17 Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
I think Ima (above) overlooked that very important point as well. Jesus fulfilled our need for redemption. We no longer have to make blood sacrifices for our sins, or follow the very specific laws throughout the Old Testiment to be redeemed. But we are not exempt from the other 9 commandments because they are summed up in Matthew 22:37-40 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind… and You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang ALL the Law and the Prophets.
We no longer have to work, work, work to please God. We are saved by Grace, justified by Faith, and the Holy Spirit living within us is our guide on how to carry this out daily.
i think a better question is, as christians shall we strive to obey the ten commandments? not that they would be our salvation. that they would be honored, that we not carry on in sin. not of our own strength. but as evident fruit of what Christ has done in our hearts?
I’m not going to blame the man…it’s stupid deception’s fault that this message on sabbath is so sad…It is the broad teaching of nearly all of Christianity. Narrow is doing thigs God’s way — the way it was intended from the beginning…All I’m going to say is that sabbath was part of CREATION way before it was ever considered a commandment. It is a sin to NOT keep sabbath, not the other way around. It is a sin to commit adultery, not the other way around. Etc. Ooohhhh…I could say so much, but I will refrain. Like most Christians who have been taught a different doctrine than what Jesus taught, this man’s teaching is one and the same, and the scriptures he uses are used out of context, easily debunked by many sources, and used without a good understanding of biblical history and culture.
SAD 
We left the “church” and are worshipping Christ daily. We do not believe we are compelled by Scripture to maintain and contribute to a 501c3 organization, churches to be exact. We are generous with our money to those in our neighborhood who need help. Will listen to people such as Mike Pearl and others who are not preaching from revisionist versions of the Bible. Why in the world would be want to attend church?
Michael Pearl calls “keeping the Sabbath day holy ” “sinning.”
Paul kept it (Acts 25:8) (Acts 28:17). Was Paul sinning?
Ananias of Damascus, whom the Lord Jesus chose to lay hands on blinded Saul of Tarsus, was a Sabbath keeper. (Acts 22:12-13).
Jesus kept the Sabbath day holy. Was Jesus sinning?
Jesus commanded EVERYONE to do whatever was taught, in Moses’ authority, “in Moses’ seat.” (Matthew 23:1-3. Were the scribes teaching the ten commandments? Yep. They just weren’t doing them right. So was Jesus telling everybody to sin?
My Bible says, “The disciiple is not about his Master, nor the servant above his Lord…It is enough that the disciple be as his Master and the servant as his Lord.” Matthew 10:24-25.
This doesn’t mean Michael shouldn’t BE holy all seven days. It just means we don’t have authority above Jesus to make holy what He has left common. We must not add unto the words of God, lest He reprove us, and we be found to be a liar. – Proverbs 30:5-6