For the Christian sabbath keeper we have a "The Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath." It allows us to change the statutes using righteous judgement according to needs and the situation. While this I assume would not be the case in the Jewish faith. There is a freedom we have in Christ where we may indeed never get the sabbath right it will be the effort that counts and forgiveness for our sins that pardons our mistakes.
I will humble myself to say that Jews lead by example. Jesus was not Christian, he was a Jew. That is why these questions are so important to me. I can't imagine that I can go back into the womb and come out a Jew, so I must stand as I am and recognize that God is not only the God of the Jews, but He is the God of living creation whether we recognize it or not. He laid out a set of rules of how humankind should live and gave it to Moses. The information was written down and now it is part of the best selling book in the world.
And with Christ being a Jew, He was also deemed the One to bring the New Covenant of Life out of "Bondage" to Israel and Judah.
Jeremiah 31:31 " Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -- 32 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. 33 "But this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Isaiah 65:17 " For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former [Mt Sinai?] shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create "New" Jerusalem [as] a rejoicing, And her people a joy.
Perhaps Christ-ians have a different view of the heaven and earth/Spirit and Truth, than the jews do. Let us look for an example on what God promised concerning a "New Covenant". Paul himself describes the "2 covenants" and Paul was a Hebrew of Hebrews of the Tribe of Benjamin.
Gala 4:24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two Covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar -- 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children -- 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Jesus also said until heaven and earth pass away, not one JOT or TITLE would pass from
THE LAW untill was fulfilled so messianics do feel they are under the same "old" covenant Israel was/is under.
A passage which I find to be so interesting in this regard heaven and earth is Isaiah51:15,16. "But I am the Lord thy God, that
divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name. And I have put
my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may
plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people." Upon taking a closer look at the things God tells Israel that He had done for them.
(1) He says that He had, "
divided the sea,[the same word used in
Zech 14:4 splitting of the Mount] whose waves roared." i.e., He had
delivered them from Egyptian
Bondage, dividing the Red Sea that they might cross over on dry land to safety!
(2) "I have put My words in thy mouth." i.e., to Israel was given the very oracles of God. They had received the Law through Moses on
Mt. Sinai which was to act as their schoolmaster which was to ultimately bring them to their Messiah.
(3) "I have covered thee with the shadow of Mine hand." Yes, God had so graciously taken Israel under His hand, protecting them from their enemies, while at the same time, extending His providential care to suit all their needs.
(4) "I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,
Thou art my people." Yes God had so graciously created
a Covenant with Israel and they were his creation and people.
Now, in light of all the marvelous things that we have just seen that God did for Israel, look very closely now in vs. 16 and see just what these things constituted: This is very important, for this second half of that verse helps us to clearly understand all that is said before it! God said He did all those things, "that I may PLANT THE
HEAVENS, and LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE
EARTH, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people."
It appears to say here that the Lord is not alluding to the
Genesis account of His creation of the physical "heavens and earth" back at the beginning.
The "heavens and earth" that are spoken of here were created
AFTER God led them out of
bondage and through the sea. That's what this text clearly says! God did not literally plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the eath at this late date of writing. This appears to be
symbolical.
Once again, it is common for the reader unfamiliar with the apocalyptic imagery of the Old Testament/Tanach to take these words as literal events associated with the cosmic conflagration.
In Isaiah 51:5-6 God predicted the destruction of "heaven and earth." Verses 15-16 defines that "heaven and earth" as the world created when
God gave Israel the law at Sinai. In contrast to that world that would be destroyed, God's new world would stand forever, vs. 6. GOD CREATED ISRAEL'S HEAVEN AND EARTH AT SINAI, BUT HE WOULD DESTROY THAT "WORLD" TO MAKE WAY FOR THE
NEW CREATION OF CHRIST!
Isaiah predicted this in chapter 65: God would destroy "Israel/Judah", create a new people with
a new name, the Israel of God, and give them a new heaven and new earth, vs. 7ff. THESE appeart to be
COVENANT WORLDS NOT PHYSICAL WORLDS!
Jesus does not change subjects when He assures the disciples that "heaven and earth will pass away."
This is what Jesus predicted in Matthew 24 when he predicted the fall of Jerusalem: "heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall never pass away" vs. 35. Hebrews 12 speaks of the passing of the heaven and earth, established at Sinai, and the deliverance of
the unshakable kingdom of God, the church, 12:21-28. Revelation speaks of the new heaven and earth that would come when the city "where our Lord was crucified" was destroyed, 11:8; 21:1f. The Bible does not speak of the end of time. It speaks instead of the end of the Old Covenant Age of Israel and the full establishment of the New Covenant "heaven and earth" of Christ--his "church?.
"Heaven and earth passing away," understood literally, is the dissolution of the present system of the universe; and the period when that is to take place, is called the "end of the world." But a person at all familiar with the phraseology of the Old Testament Scriptures, knows that the dissolution of the Mosaic economy, and the establishment of the Christian, is often spoken of as the removing of the old earth and heavens, and the creation of a new earth and new heavens.
How my next question to you is were is your proof that THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE HEAVEN AND EARTH, in Isaiah 51:15,16 are literal? In other words where in the Bible does it say God creation two FOUNDATIONS OF THE LITERAL HEAVEN AND EARTH, literally.