1) What does Sabbath mean?
Rest. Leviticus 23:3 and 32.
2) What does God call His rest?
My Sabbaths. Ezekiel 20:12; Sabbath of the Lord. Leviticus 26:2; Exodus 16:25, 20:10; the Lord's holy day. Isaiah 58:13.
3) What did God call the solemn days of rest, which are part of the ceremonial law?
Sabbaths. Leviticus 23:3. Your Sabbaths. Leviticus 23:32. His Sabbaths. Hosea 2:11.
4) Who gave the Sabbath to man?
Jesus. Exodus 20:1
5) How do we know this?
Jesus said, “For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Luke 6:5.
6) If Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, then what is the Lord's day?
The Sabbath.
7) On what day was John caught up and had the vision of Revelation?
On the Lord's Day. Revelation 1:10.
8) What sign did God establish between Himself and His people?
The sanctification of the Sabbath. Ezekiel 20:20.
9) What does He require of us to be His servants?
That we sanctify the Sabbath day. Ezekiel 20:20 and Isaiah 56:6.
10) When God made the heavens and the earth, on what day did He rest?
On the Sabbath. Genesis 2:2.
11) Why did God rest?
God did not make man for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man. Mark 2:27. So He rested as an example to us.
12) Which day did God bless from the foundation of the universe?
The Sabbath day. Genesis 2:3.
13) Which commandment corresponds to the observance of the Sabbath?
The fourth commandment of God's Law. Exodus 20:8.
14) How should we keep this day?
By not speaking our words, nor intending to do our will. Isaiah 58:13. By not doing any servile work on it. Exodus 20:8-11.
15) How should we call it?
Delightful; holy day of the Lord; worthy of honor. Isaiah 58:13.
16) What does God call the breaking of the Sabbath?
Profane. Isaiah 56:2 and 6.
17) What promise did God make to those who refrain from profaning the Sabbath day?
“I will also give them, in My house and within My walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.” Isaiah 56:5.
18) What other promise does God have for Sabbath keepers, including the children of foreigners?
“I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar.” Isaiah 56:7.
19) On which days may we perform menial labor?
On the six days of the week between the Sabbaths. Exodus 20:9.
20) What work did Jesus do on the Sabbath?
Work related to His ministry. Mark 3:3 and 4; Matthew 12:9-12; Luke 6:6-11.
21) What did the apostle Paul say about the time we should work?
“Work night and day, so that you may not be a burden to your brothers.” 1 Thessalonians 2:9.
22) What work did the apostle refer to?
That which Jesus said: “Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.” John 6:27.
23) When does the Sabbath begin and when does it end?
It begins at sunset on the sixth day and ends at sunset on Saturday. Nehemiah 13:19; Leviticus 23:31 and 32.
24) What work should we not do on that day?
Menial labor. Exodus 20:9; buying, Nehemiah 10:31, 13:16-17; selling, Amos 8:5 and 6.
25) How do we know that we should not cook on that day?
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day. Exodus 35:3.
26) Which Sabbath did God say He no longer liked the congregations to gather on?
The Sabbaths of the festivals. Isaiah 1:13 and 14.
27) On which Sabbath did the disciples pick ears of corn to eat, which is why the Pharisees criticized Jesus?
On the Jewish Sabbath, a festive Sabbath. Luke 6:1.
28) How do we know that the Sabbath on which Jesus told a man to carry his bed was a festive Sabbath?
Because the Bible passage that recounts the episode begins by saying, “After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.” John 5:1.
29) How many Sabbaths were there in each Jewish feast?
Two solemn Sabbaths, in addition to the Lord's Sabbath. Leviticus 23:7, 8, 21, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, and 39.
30) What other Sabbaths were instituted by the Lord, and which are called Sabbaths by Him?
The annual Sabbath, which was kept every seven years, and on which no sowing or reaping was done. Leviticus 25:1-7; and the Sabbath of the Jubilee, the fiftieth year. Leviticus 25:8-13.
31) At what time did the land rest for two consecutive annual Sabbaths?
During the jubilee. The seventh week and the eighth year, which was the fiftieth, rested. Leviticus 25:1-5 and 10-13, 21 and 22.
32) What was the name of the day following the Passover of the people of Israel?
The Sabbath. Leviticus 23:6 and 7.
33) On what day did Jesus rise from the dead?
On Saturday. Matthew 28:1.
34) How do we know this?
"Now when the Sabbath was past, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. ... But the angel answered and said to the women, ‘He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.’" Matthew 28:1-3, 5, and 6.
35) And when does a day begin?
At sunset of the previous day. Nehemiah 13:19.
36) With regard to the Sabbath, the seventh day, what exhortation does the Holy Spirit give through the writer to the Hebrews?
"Let us fear, lest, a promise remaining before us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short of it.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall into the same pattern of disobedience." Hebrews 4:1 and 11.
37) What day does the writer refer to in chapter four of Hebrews?
The seventh day, which corresponds to the Sabbath, the day of rest. Hebrews 4:4; Exodus 20:10.
38) What day did God establish as a perpetual covenant for His people?
The Sabbath day. Exodus 31:16.
39) How do we know that it is also for us, who were once Gentiles?
God reproves partiality in the law. Malachi 2:9.
"For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. Who are we, whom he has also called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles?" Romans 2:29; 9:24.
40) What accusation does God make through the prophet Ezekiel?
That the priests hide their eyes from the Sabbath of the Lord, and thus profane the Lord in their midst. Ezekiel 22:26, last part.

Oli Prestes
Missionary