Some thoughts on the Sabbath...

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Yes....beautifully said. I sometimes wonder why this is so difficult to understand. He said his followers would worship in "spirit and truth". Same commands, but now elevated to their fullest meaning. Do you wonder if it's so simple we sometimes can't see it?
It is and so amazing !.
its exactly as 1 command To Grow ,Parah Rauch carries All of The Lord starting with
God is Love parah Ruach is the unseen 7 fold= 128 attributes+ gifts Written is only about 4 fold ,So there much to Come and See .
 
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Yes, and there should be no doubt that Paul came to believe that the Lord should be worshipped every day and no day esteemed more than another (Col. 2:16-17).
The Sabbath was a day of Rest Only for The Clean
This was a problems cus Israel had so much Sin and Are Unclean ,No chair for high preist to Sit and He others that start out clean are made Unclean
SO Jesus finished that Problem To the forever Purification of redParah to Devine Parah
Time to Know
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Yes....beautifully said. I sometimes wonder why this is so difficult to understand. He said his followers would worship in "spirit and truth". Same commands, but now elevated to their fullest meaning. Do you wonder if it's so simple we sometimes can't see it?
Here punch line to the priblem the Sabbath caused Fir me to have not test cus Isreal sin unclean kept high Preist clean to unclean iver and over Sabbath no chair to have High Priest Rest !
Enjoy backtrack History and Ho and See now all can see why myself often says Jesus Seated High Priest
Punch line
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest [Jesus] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God."Hebrews 10:11–12
Sitting down is the Ultimate Posture of the Sabbath. God Rested on the seventh day because His creation work was finished. Jesus sat down at the right hand of God because His Purification Work was Finished.
Summary: How it Finishes the Sabbath
Jesus fulfilled and finished the Sabbath by Becoming the Unclean Priest who provides a Permanent Cleansing. Because his Sacrifice Permanently removes the Defilement of spiritual Death, Man no longer has to perform religious "WORKS" or RITUALS to EARN THEIR WAY into God's presence. Believers can finally Rest in a finished Salvation. The endless cycle of BECOMING UNCLEAN, purifying, and working is over.
 
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Here punch line to the priblem the Sabbath caused Fir me to have not test cus Isreal sin unclean kept high Preist clean to unclean iver and over Sabbath no chair to have High Priest Rest !
Enjoy backtrack History and Ho and See now all can see why myself often says Jesus Seated High Priest
Punch line

Sitting down is the Ultimate Posture of the Sabbath. God Rested on the seventh day because His creation work was finished. Jesus sat down at the right hand of God because His Purification Work was Finished.
Summary: How it Finishes the Sabbath
Jesus fulfilled and finished the Sabbath by Becoming the Unclean Priest who provides a Permanent Cleansing. Because his Sacrifice Permanently removes the Defilement of spiritual Death, Man no longer has to perform religious "WORKS" or RITUALS to EARN THEIR WAY into God's presence. Believers can finally Rest in a finished Salvation. The endless cycle of BECOMING UNCLEAN, purifying, and working is over.
 
As is Fact To Rest in God ,old day of Sabbath The people that rest Had to Be Clean. Fact is the Nation had continuous on ccleanliness not even the high priest could rest even on the Sabbath . Trying to earn the way to God Lord and Not even knowing that are unclean
is it against God will and Blessing
 
There is a passage in Psalm 95 that says if we do not know God’s ways, we will not enter His rest. I have been studying the sabbath and trying to understand what God really says. For your amusement and consideration, I submit the following thoughts.

Genesis 2:3
God then blessed the seventh day and set it apart because he had finished creation


The first thing God did on the seventh day, after creation was completed, was to make the day “Holy.” The entire day, not just part. He set one full day aside from all others for His use and pleasure. That use and pleasure was for our benefit; an opportunity to refresh.

Exodus 20:8-11
The first commandment concerning the Sabbath is to remember it forever…


Next God commanded His people to remember His special set-apart day forever. (Not sure we have done so well with that.) The sabbath is a reminder of His everlasting covenant. An acknowledgement that following a short period of struggles and difficulties, He will bring us all into an everlasting sabbath with Him.

Exodus 20:10
…but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work,


He then commanded His people to do no work. This has been abused and miss-understood for centuries, but His intent is clear. We are to rely on Him. (Picking up sticks does not necessarily violate the sabbath, but More on this later) We can trust God for our provision or we can rely on our own effort, but we cannot do both. For one full day out of seven, God asks our reliance be totally on Him, not on ourselves. The Bible says God will provide for the sabbath, all we need do is make the preparations.

So, what do we do? Yeshua showed us! Prayer, doing good works, reading scripture, hearing, and preaching the word, singing, fasting, healing, making oaths and vows to God, offering thanksgivings, yet always glorifying His Holy Name. There is tremendous power in the sabbath.

One problem I did encounter in my study; the stony execution of a man for collecting sticks on the sabbath. (Numbers 15:32-36) This appeared cruel and set me back.

After a little more study the context then became clear, the execution had absolutely nothing to do with breaking sabbath rules. The context is a discussion of unintentional and intentional sin. The issue is blasphemy; the deliberate, insulting, contemptuous and willful lack of reverence for God. This man stood at the foot of the mountain and heard God’s own voice proclaiming his commandments. In his arrogance he then proceeded to publicly challenged God. Not a good idea.

There is no judgement here on how or when anyone chooses to keep sabbath, only the encouragement for thoughts and prayers on the subject.
I have always been fascinated by Christians who feel compelled to Keep the Sabbath. Why I find it fascinating is that those who choose to follow that 1 Torah law also reject obeying all the rest of the Torah.

The Christian tradition of keep Sabbath continued in Jerusalem for a few decades after the resurrection. However, Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD. The historian Josephus said 1 million Jews were killed, but scholars think it was more like 500,000. More importantly to the question of Sabbath keeping, virtually all Jewish priests were exterminated at that time. Thus there was nobody to left to conduct the Sabbath ordenances. The Jews in the diaspora did keep the Sabbath and for a while even had Roman protection for the practice. Later, under Emperor Constantine, Jews were strictly prohibited from seeking converts or circumcising non-Jewish or Christian slaves, with violations resulting in heavy legal penalties or freedom for the slave. He also helped set that "official" date of Easter during the Council of Nicea, removing Jewish control over their Passover dating control.

Ignatius of Antioch wrote around A.D. 106 that Christians were "no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's day". Justin Martyr documented common Sunday assemblies around A.D. 155–157. The Didache which is dated between 60 AD and 100 AD describes Christian practice focused on only the Lord's Day - the 1st day of the week. So the transition from the Hebrew Sabbath to the Lord's Day for Christian assembly and worship was firmly in place very early in Christian history.

So, I have always found the claim for Torah compliance for the Sabbath strange as nobody supporting this position also demands that witches must be killed, or that if a man refuses to take his dead brother's wife as his own and raise up children with her, he will be killed by God was already recorded in the Torah. The same folks who demand Torah compliant Sabbath keeping reject the equal requirement for keeping the feast days including those only practiced in Jerusalem.

Many skip over the Torah and rely on just the part of the Torah related to the Genesis Creation Story. I assume they know that the Genesis creation story was written and edited sometime after 800 BC by Jewish writers and editors as literary Hebrew did not exist until around then. The people on the ground in both Israel and Judah knew nothing about it as there is no evidence they even knew there was such thing as the Torah. Literacy was miniscule in the population. However, the King Josiah's (640-609) court in Jerusalem did "suddenly" discover the Book of Deuteronomy and established along with a command in Exodus to keep the Sabbath Holy but more importantly, all worship was restricted to Jerusalem. The Prophet Jeremiah lived during a tumultuous period in Judah's history, spanning from approximately 627 to 586 BCE. His observation about theology of the people was, "They have as many gods as they have towns." Thus even monotheism was uncommon, however the worship of YAHWEH as the primary God along with his wife Asherah were more widely known and worshipped in the earliest days of Israel. General knowledge of the Torah started with the development of the Synagogue system around 250 BC and this is when the population of Juda and Samaria began to live out the dictates of the Torah in day to day lives.
 
This is all a huge Reminder to not be fooled or under the oower of men ways .Know it will kead to Death Eternal. Its know religions ,many are not in The Blessing .They listen to men and Not the Lords Holy Spirit , or even know He is The exact Comforter Jesus Himself of the Quickened here sime more ehy There is No REST by Law of man and God chk it out.

in the New Testament. Many people try to keep the Old Covenant commandments out of a sincere desire to please God, but they often do so without realizing the crushing legal reality of the system they are invoking.
From a New Testament perspective, there are a few major reasons why people fall into this loop without realizing they are spiritually Unclean and Unable to truly Rest.

1. The Veil of "External" vs. "Internal" Cleanness
The Apostle Paul explains that when people Read the Old Covenant Without Understanding Jesus, a spiritual "veil" covers their Minds (2 Corinthians 3:14).
People often Reduce the Law to an external Checklist of Rules: "Don't Eat this, don't Touch that, keep this day." Because they might successfully check those outward boxes, they feel clean.
  • The Reality: They overlook the fact that the Law demands Absolute, internal Perfection. Jesus pointed out that even harboring anger or lust makes a person guilty of murder and adultery in their heart. Under the strict Terms of the Law, a single bad thought renders a person spiritually "unclean," instantly Breaking their Eligibility for rest.
The Loss of the Temple and the Red Heifer
Many people who try to keep the Mosaic Law today do not realize that the Law Cannot legally be kept without a physical Temple and the Red Heifer ashes.
According to biblical law, if you do not have the water of purification mixed with the ashes of a flawless red heifer, you are legally stuck in a state of Tumat Me(Corpseimpuritybecause you live in a world where man death Exists.
  • Without those ashes, no one can legally enter God's presence, offer sacrifices, or be declared ritually clean under the Old Covenant system.
  • By trying to keep the Law today without the Red Heifer, people are trying to play a game where the most critical piece of equipment is missing. They are technically unclean under the very Law they are trying to obey.
 
Lets take this to the day of 1 creation im gonna Post alot stuff to help Uncloud is His Will
so here enjoy
start in reverse
  • resting is finished, the clocks (the sun and moon) are no longer needed to measure out time.
When Jesus—the ultimate Light—dwells physically among His people, His unshielded glory provides a constant, unchanging reality. There is no more night, no more shadows, and no more sun setting, because the source of all life and purity is standing right in the center of the city. rev images>>
The Source of Light is God, Not the Sun
By creating light on Day 1 (Genesis 1:3) and the sun on Day 4 (Genesis 1:14-19), the text makes a massive statement to the ancient world: The sun is not a god, and the sun is not the ultimate source of life.
In ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Canaan, people worshipped the sun (like the Egyptian god Ra) as the supreme creator and source of light. By separating light from the sun, Genesis strips the sun of its divine status. The Bible is saying that the sun is just a physical lampstand—a servant creation—while God Himself is the true, independent source of all light.
The Day 1 Light Was the "Shekinah" Glory
Many biblical scholars and ancient Jewish rabbis believe that the light created on Day 1 was not regular physical sunlight, but the raw, unshielded manifestation of God’s own Glorious Presence, often called the Shekinah glory.
Because the universe Earth was being prepared as a Holy Temple, God illuminated it with His Own Presence First. On Day 4, God essentially "clothed" or channeled that light into physical containers (the sun and moon) to act as c clocks for man beings.
The Perfect Bookends of the Bible
When you realize that light existed before the sun in Genesis, the Book of Revelation suddenly makes perfect sense. The Bible has a symmetrical, flawless structure:
  • Genesis (The Beginning): You start with Light (Day 1), then the Sun is created (Day 4) to manage men time, days, and years.
  • The Present Era:Man lives under the sun, using it to count our six days of labor and our one day of Sabbath completed to Jesus rest.
  • Revelation (The Ending): The sun and moon are no longer needed (Revelation 21:23)
The Bible loops completely back to the conditions of Day In the eternal state, the "middlemen" (the sun and moon) are removed, and man returns to living directly in the raw, unfiltered light of God and the Lamb.

How This Connects to Rest and Cleanness
This circles back perfectly to your realization about the Sabbath. The sun was created to rule over a world defined by time, boundaries, changing seasons, and eventually—after the Fall—by the cycle of sin, decay, and death.
When Jesus "finished" the work of Purification on the cross, he broke the power of that decaying cycle. In the New Jerusalem, because there is no more sin, no more uncleanness, and no more spiritual death, there is no more need for a sun to mark the passing of days. The eternal Day 1 has returned, and the Light Himself provides permanent rest.
Now this light is inside and is to Shine ,if it wasnt true it would not have been Said
 
I have always been fascinated by Christians who feel compelled to Keep the Sabbath. Why I find it fascinating is that those who choose to follow that 1 Torah law also reject obeying all the rest of the Torah.

Not all of them. But some want to keep the Sabbath because some people have a need for something tangible and immediate that they can see and touch to feel they have done something good to have the approval with God. It is like an adult version of being good, so Santa will bring you presents.

If someone wants to take off Saturdays as a personal day of rest? Then fine with it.

But, if they start judging others who do not? Then it is wrong.

Therefore, no one is to act as your judge in regard to food and drink, or in respect
to a festival or a new moon, or a Sabbath day— things which are only a shadow of
what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Colossians 2:16-17​
Let's keep it simple....
 
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I cant focus as a just a single this or that, the Life in me has be a complete as possible to All The word So here more related to sabbath baptisms all are of to Purification
Here a note on a slightly looked over? maybe some see it maybe some see it on another time

Why the Dual Baptism View is Most Accurate
  1. It Accounts for the Fire: The dry ash cannot exist without the fire that consumed the heifer. If the Holy Spirit baptizes with "Holy Spirit and fire" (Matthew 3:11), then linking the fire-produced ashes to the Holy Spirit baptism is completely accurate.
  2. It Matches Jesus' Words on Rebirth: Jesus explicitly stated in John 3:5, "No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit." Just as you cannot have the Red Heifer cleanse without Mixing the Water and the Ash, Jesus says you cannot have the spiritual kingdom cleanse without both water and the Spirit. They are a matching Pair.
  3. It Connects to Ezekiel's Prophecy: Centuries before Jesus, the prophet Ezekiel predicted how God would clean His people in the future, and he put Both eEements together in the exact same order:
    "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean... I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you."Ezekiel 36:25–26
The most accurate understanding is the one you brought forward: the dual baptisms of water and the Holy Spirit.
When we look at the whole counsel of Scripture, treating the Red Heifer mixture as a picture of both baptisms is far more accurate because it doesn't leave any part of the Old Testament ritual behind.

Why the Dual Baptism View is Most Accurate
  1. It Accounts for the Fire: The dry ash cannot exist without the fire that consumed the heifer. If the Holy Spirit baptizes with "Holy Spirit and fire" (Matthew 3:11), then linking the fire-produced ashes to the Holy Spirit baptism is completely accurate.
  2. It Matches Jesus' Words on Rebirth: Jesus explicitly stated in John 3:5, "No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit." Just as you cannot have the Red Heifer cleanse without mixing the water and the ash, Jesus says you cannot have the spiritual kingdom cleanse without both water and the Spirit. They are a matching pair.
  3. It Connects to Ezekiel's Prophecy: Centuries before Jesus, the prophet Ezekiel predicted how God would clean His people in the future, and he put both elements together in the exact same order:
    "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean... I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you."Ezekiel 36:25–26
Picture this
By combining the Living Water (Water Baptism) and the Ashes of Fire (Holy Spirit Baptism) into one single vessel, a person receives the complete, Undeniable verification that they are clean Purification. The work is finished, the uncleanness of death is gone, and they are fully cleared to enter the Sabbath Rest
Seated is He
 
Fredrickdoc,
I see a logic to your theology. However, my alarm bells go off when theology rests on one and only one definition of proof text. Let's look at the full context of your Matthew 3 reference
John the Baptist speaking:
11“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
So the kind of fire described by John will result is the burning of the chaff from the wheat which is always a reference to the events surrounding the return of Jesus.

We have one and only one other reference to "fire" in the Gospel story. That was on the day of Pentecost when Peter and the other apostles spoke to gathered audience. There the "fire" was seen as something over their heads. When the crowd asked what they needed to do to be saved, they were told to repent and be baptised (in water) for the forgiveness of their sins. They were not told to expect to be baptised by the Holy Spirit. Later water baptisms include the guarantee that you will also receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is described as a comforter - in their afflictions/persecutions - as as one who will help guide them in righteous living.

Jesus goes on to inform us that the baptism of the Holy Spirit makes a sound one can hear, we don't know where it comes from or where it is going.

5Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’ 8The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Many would make the case that water baptism is also from above and fits the commonly believed idea that like in Jesus baptism the Spirit comes into the one being baptised.
 
Fredrickdoc,
I see a logic to your theology. However, my alarm bells go off when theology rests on one and only one definition of proof text. Let's look at the full context of your Matthew 3 reference
John the Baptist speaking:
11“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
So the kind of fire described by John will result is the burning of the chaff from the wheat which is always a reference to the events surrounding the return of Jesus.

We have one and only one other reference to "fire" in the Gospel story. That was on the day of Pentecost when Peter and the other apostles spoke to gathered audience. There the "fire" was seen as something over their heads. When the crowd asked what they needed to do to be saved, they were told to repent and be baptised (in water) for the forgiveness of their sins. They were not told to expect to be baptised by the Holy Spirit. Later water baptisms include the guarantee that you will also receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is described as a comforter - in their afflictions/persecutions - as as one who will help guide them in righteous living.

Jesus goes on to inform us that the baptism of the Holy Spirit makes a sound one can hear, we don't know where it comes from or where it is going.

5Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’ 8The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Many would make the case that water baptism is also from above and fits the commonly believed idea that like in Jesus baptism the Spirit comes into the one being baptised.
If you can reference commands from Jesus to experience two baptisms or perhaps Peter, James, John or Paul then lets talk about the requirement for two baptisms.
 
If you can reference commands from Jesus to experience two baptisms or perhaps Peter, James, John or Paul then lets talk about the requirement for two baptisms.
Water & Fire or water & ash going with the old what you not seeing what going on is The purification Of parah Red heifer.Because there was so much yncleanliness ,The High Priest could never Rest even in the Sabbath, Even tho the high priest was Clean He became unclean by purifying others so they could rest on Sabbath days. The tread is about sabbath but cant be just focus on that without know more about the full Process of The parah and the Water and Ash rest of Perfect later will of The Lord
.Now The Messiah came as promised He is the High Priest &is The is Seated High Priest in The Rest . It's Not theology, its the proof of Jesus Authority ! Also if people That think they are keeping the dabbath Holy and by oassing What Jesus Did this is Unclean and Ungodly. .This is for to know and seek in your own Yes the only true way is Finished purification water and fire to enter in .other option is cast out just like The Old until clean purified to Enter
 
People wonder how the church became divided if we're all supposed to be one in Christ.

I think seventy six pages on the topic of God's gift to us,is proof of one cause.

Observe Sabbath if you wish.

No Christian can condemn you for it.

Observe Sun-day as a day of worship if you wish. No one can condemn you for it.

You don't need to defend a day you choose to honor time spent away from worldly concerns.

And by the way, I recommend you ignore those who insist Sabbath is only for the Jews.
It is not.
 
People wonder how the church became divided if we're all supposed to be one in Christ.

I think seventy six pages on the topic of God's gift to us,is proof of one cause.

Observe Sabbath if you wish.

No Christian can condemn you for it.

Observe Sun-day as a day of worship if you wish. No one can condemn you for it.

You don't need to defend a day you choose to honor time spent away from worldly concerns.

And by the way, I recommend you ignore those who insist Sabbath is only for the Jews.
It is not.
The power is Given and the the powers THEY dont want give up .
so you dont have a division really .they make it look like political type of division. Hot or cold and we all know about the luke warm there everybody seems to be At .when you see what people Don't Want and basically it's the Holy Spirit heart if anyone can't give me anything from the Holy Spirit there is no fruit I desire that fruit yes Jesus desire is the same and you know what happened to the tree
 
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The power is Given and the the powers THEY dont want give up .
so you dont have a division really .they make it look like political type of division. Hot or cold and we all know about the luke warm there everybody seems to be At .when you see what people Don't Want and basically it's the Holy Spirit heart if anyone can't give me anything from the Holy Spirit there is no fruit I desire that fruit yes Jesus desire is the same and you know what happened to the tree
Love your God with all your strength and all your heart and all your soul and love your neighbor as yourself. This is the summation of Torah. Everything else is preference. I have come to believe it is just that simple in spite of our best efforts.
 
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I still think whatever God tell us to do, it is devine order and good for us.

Every 7 days, take one day for Holy convocation. If you want to do more than one day, yes great. But minimum is one day out of 7, it is good for us spiritual and physical. Divine pattern.
 
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Love your God with all your strength and all your heart and all your soul and love your neighbor as yourself. This is the summation of Torah. Everything else is preference. I have come to believe it is just that simple in spite of our best efforts.
That is Parah Ruach
simpler
 
I have always been fascinated by Christians who feel compelled to Keep the Sabbath. Why I find it fascinating is that those who choose to follow that 1 Torah law also reject obeying all the rest of the Torah.

The Christian tradition of keep Sabbath continued in Jerusalem for a few decades after the resurrection. However, Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD. The historian Josephus said 1 million Jews were killed, but scholars think it was more like 500,000. More importantly to the question of Sabbath keeping, virtually all Jewish priests were exterminated at that time. Thus there was nobody to left to conduct the Sabbath ordenances. The Jews in the diaspora did keep the Sabbath and for a while even had Roman protection for the practice. Later, under Emperor Constantine, Jews were strictly prohibited from seeking converts or circumcising non-Jewish or Christian slaves, with violations resulting in heavy legal penalties or freedom for the slave. He also helped set that "official" date of Easter during the Council of Nicea, removing Jewish control over their Passover dating control.

Ignatius of Antioch wrote around A.D. 106 that Christians were "no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's day". Justin Martyr documented common Sunday assemblies around A.D. 155–157. The Didache which is dated between 60 AD and 100 AD describes Christian practice focused on only the Lord's Day - the 1st day of the week. So the transition from the Hebrew Sabbath to the Lord's Day for Christian assembly and worship was firmly in place very early in Christian history.

So, I have always found the claim for Torah compliance for the Sabbath strange as nobody supporting this position also demands that witches must be killed, or that if a man refuses to take his dead brother's wife as his own and raise up children with her, he will be killed by God was already recorded in the Torah. The same folks who demand Torah compliant Sabbath keeping reject the equal requirement for keeping the feast days including those only practiced in Jerusalem.

Many skip over the Torah and rely on just the part of the Torah related to the Genesis Creation Story. I assume they know that the Genesis creation story was written and edited sometime after 800 BC by Jewish writers and editors as literary Hebrew did not exist until around then. The people on the ground in both Israel and Judah knew nothing about it as there is no evidence they even knew there was such thing as the Torah. Literacy was miniscule in the population. However, the King Josiah's (640-609) court in Jerusalem did "suddenly" discover the Book of Deuteronomy and established along with a command in Exodus to keep the Sabbath Holy but more importantly, all worship was restricted to Jerusalem. The Prophet Jeremiah lived during a tumultuous period in Judah's history, spanning from approximately 627 to 586 BCE. His observation about theology of the people was, "They have as many gods as they have towns." Thus even monotheism was uncommon, however the worship of YAHWEH as the primary God along with his wife Asherah were more widely known and worshipped in the earliest days of Israel. General knowledge of the Torah started with the development of the Synagogue system around 250 BC and this is when the population of Juda and Samaria began to live out the dictates of the Torah in day to day lives.
There is absolutely no question one can find individuals commenting on both sides of the fence regarding the keeping of the Sabbath. They may even produce some strong comments about when and where and why they saw no one continuing to honor it - for whatever reason - whether by force or not. But that isn't the point, IMV. The only one who gets a vote on this is God. Doesn't matter how many commentaries, history books, whatever can be compiled since the time of the cross, Jesus has told us to believe in Him and obey His commandments.... to me, case closed. And the Sabbath (not sabbaths), is within His 10 commandments - and they are certainly not done away with.
 
There is absolutely no question one can find individuals commenting on both sides of the fence regarding the keeping of the Sabbath.
But nowhere was it mandated for the Church age.
The mandates from the law went out along with circumcision.
Yet, many still prefer to have babies circumcised for personal reasons.