Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
Before we move on there is something that’s worthy of consideration as we seek a better knowledge of God’s Health care plan. God teaches us by repetition and wheresoever you see in the Bible that He seems to repeating Himself over and over again, it is just that He is trying to get our attention on some very important matter. For instance, when out of all the 10 commandments only the 4th one begins with the word remember, He is saying to us that we are in danger of forgetting it, and for this reason He repeats Himself, over and over again.
Wherever possible and applicable, and at every turn or chance that God can get, He raises the number 7, as He endeavors to gain our attention on the matter of the 7th day Sabbath, so that we won’t have cause to forget. Thus, we could trace as with a pen of fire, the fact that The Lord teaches by repetition. The ark rested on Mt. Ararat in the 7th month. When Abraham and Abimelech made a covenant, seven lambs were employed.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel, he served seven years for Leah, and then he served an additional seven years after. When Jacob met Esau on his return from Laban, he bowed seven times to the ground. In pharaoh’s dream he saw seven lean cows and seven fat ones, then he saw seven fat ears of corn and seven lean ears of corn. God promised that vengeance would be taken on anyone harming Cain, seven times over.
Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!