1. A day sanctified or set-apart. (Gen. 2:1-3)
2. A day to cease from your labors, work. (Isa. 56:1-7; 58:13,14)
3. A timeless, measureless day, no evening and morning. (Gen. 1:31 to 2:3)
4. The Hebrew word is Shabbat. It means to celebrate, cause or make to fail, suffer to be lacking, take away, interruption, loss of time.
5. There are seven festival Shabbats, they are called Shabbatons [meaning special or high holiday Shabbats]:
Shabbaton 1: Matzah “Unleavened Bread day 1” - 15th of Nisan
Shabbaton 2: Matzah “Unleavened Bread day 7” - 21st of Nisan
Shabbaton 3: Shavuot “Pentacost” seven weeks from Sunday, day after normal Shabbat after Passover.
Shabbaton 4: Rosh haShanah “New Year’s new moon” - 1st of Tishri
Shabbaton 5: Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement” - 10th of Tishri
Shabbaton 6: Sukkot “Feast of Tabernacles day 1” - 15th of Tishri
Shabbaton 7: Shemini Atzeret “Eighth Day conclusion” - 22nd of Tishri
6. Every seventh year is a Shmittah “Sabbatical year”. The land is given a Shabbat.
7. On Yom Kippur of every fifty years is the Yovel “every fiftieth Jubilee year”. Everyone returns to his own property.
8. We are to cease from our ways, words, and actions. This is so God’s ways, words, and actions will be done.
Day of the Lord – Yom Skekulo Shabbat (Day that is ALL SHABBAT)
A one-thousand year Shabbat. “But of that Day and Hour no one knows…” Matt. 24:36 is not interpreted correctly, by most people.Yeshua “Jesus” was not talking about the 24 hr. day of His return. More on this on the page about Rosh HaShanah - Yom Teruah. He was also quoting Zechariah 14:6-8 about the coming of the Day of the Lord.
In that Day, Day of _____, of that Day, on that Day. It is talking about the 1,000 year Day of the Lord. The Lord wants us to know to be prepared. In Matt. 24:42, He is telling us to know by saying, “be on the alert” or awake in some translations. Then He talks about the ten virgins. Read also 1st Thess. 5:1-11. We are being prepared to meet the Lord. We are being readied for His return by being awakened or made alert.
A FEW SCRIPTURES:
Eccles. 12:1-3; Ps. 110:1-7; Prov. 16:4. Song of Solomon 3:11; Isa. 2:1-4; Isa. 4:1-3; Isa. 10:20-25; Isa. 11:10-16; Isa. 13:6-13; Jer. 17:15-18; Jer. 30:7; Zech. 12:1-14; Zech. 14:1-4; Matt. 7:22-23; Romans 2:5-6,16; 1st Cor. 1:4-8; 1st Cor. 3:11-15.
Leviticus 23:1-4 “festivals for appointments and rehearsals"
The Hebrew word for appointed times is “mo’ed”, which means “appointment, fixed time or season, a festival, assembly, the congregation, the place of meeting, a signal, to meet, to summon, to direct, to engage for marriage, betroth, gather together.”
The Hebrew word for convocations is “mikrah”, which means “something called out, address by name, public meeting, a rehearsal, a reading.”
What God was saying is this, “the Lord’s mo’edim [appointments] you shall proclaim as holy mikra’ot [rehearsals]. My appointments are these. Every Shabbat, we are rehearsing this 1000 year Shabbat that is coming when Yeshua will rule and reign. (Lev. 23:1-2)
