Week 44, Day 2: Keeping the Sabbath

Today’s Reading:  Exodus 31:1-18

Some thoughts from the reading..

We are coming to the end of the 40 day period that Moses spent on mount Sinai (Exo 24:18).  So the instructions given between chapters 25 & 31 are some of the instructions given to Moses during those 40 days.  In this chapter we are told that God has filled given certain men to do the work of making the tent of meeting and the articles to go inside.  It has been suggested that a nation of slaves would not have been used for skilled labor.  Among the slaves you would of had brick making, construction and serving of some sorts but not necessarily the slaves being taught a skilled trade like metal working.  So it is suggested that this is perhaps why God would give these men a spirit of wisdom in understanding , in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship.  They needed God’s help to be able to complete His instructions to build the tent of meeting. 

Moses is also warned about the importance of keeping the Sabbath.  It is a sign between God and them that He has sanctified them.  Any of Israel who didn’t keep this command were to be killed.  This is how important it was for them to keep the Sabbath.

Question:  Why do Christians not observe the Sabbath today?