Sorry about the delay. I've been sick. I'm still a bit off-colour so be gentle with me.
Actually, gotime, it doesn't. For that to happen, the context would need to provide evidence of, for example, Adam and Eve keeping the Sabbath (despite there being no work for them to rest from and no lack of intimacy with God and therefore no lack of spiritual refreshing). But the evidence isn't there. If it was a day in the sense you are giving it, we would have God resting on the Sabbath and resuming his work on the eighth day (albeit not creative work, as he had completed that). There is nothing in the text that tells us that this happened either. You say that without scripture references what I say is merely my opinion.
In that case, the onus on you to provide scripture references of the kind you say I needed to give is that much greater. If you can't (and you won't be able to), what you write is conjecture. There is nothing in the text that would lead us to conclude that the seventh day was not ongoing (and you're right, יוֹם can mean day, time or year [TWOT, p.390; AHCL, pp. 302,303]), an extended period of time in which Adam and Eve enjoyed the blessing of God. And as I've said, there is no evidence elsewhere in the Bible of anyone else keeping the Sabbath until the time of Moses. That is the context.
Now, if there are passages I'm overlooking, which ones would they be?
Are you sure I missed this? Look back at what I wrote. Of course the day is holy. The mistake you're making is to think that God established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial at the conclusion of his creation. He didn't. He established it as a perpetual memorial at Sinai. This is what the Bible says - you even quote the passages for us!
Gotime, my friend, look. The meanings of words, whether English or Hebrew, are evidently not your long suit. English first. The word "remember" has more meanings than you give it credit for. One definition is "to retain in the memory; bear in mind" (Macquarie Dictionary Online / SLV). We can be told to remember something we have been made aware of a moment ago. It doesn't have to have happened in the more distant past. As for the Hebrew, not only does the word, זָכַר, have this meaning too, but also means, when used in the context of a day, "to observe, commemorate" (TWOT, 551, p.241; Biblearc). So either way you're mistaken. This is not my opinion. These are dictionary definitions.
You're repeating yourself - and adding "context" to arrive at your conclusion, as I've pointed out above.
What we're talking about though, is the seventh day. In the absence of a "there was evening and morning, a seventh day", we must conclude that the Sabbath was ongoing. Why mention the gap theory? It isn't relevant here. You seem to be clutching at anything to somehow give weight to your argument. This doesn't.
Is this the bit you mean:
"... even though the law is gone in Christ we have seen that the Sabbath was not dependant on the law but rather the law was to serve as a reminder of why the Sabbath was already holy according to the 4th commandment." ?
It was holy but it was not established "as a perpetual memorial of [God's] completed work" at creation when he blessed and hallowed it. This is totally absent from the text and is something you can't avoid. Evidence of Adam and Eve or anyone else keeping the Sabbath until Exodus 16 is nowhere to be found. Now I'm repeating myself.
Gotime, what you have written is bluster and padding. It's inflated talk. You of course have to toe the SDA line on this, arguing Fundamental Belief #6, which adds to Scripture to bolster the Adventist argument for the weekly Sabbath. And I think you're seeing the silliness of the position. Since it was made a commandment at Sinai rather than established as a memorial at creation, in your own words, "the commandment was done away with ... for those who have come to Christ."