One such argument against the continuing application of the Sabbath for believers in the New Testament era focuses on its purported role exclusively as a sign of the covenant between God and the nation of Israel (“It will be a sign between me and the Israelites” Exod. 31:17) during the old covenant historical era from Sinai to Jesus’s initiation of the new covenant at the Last Supper. But this ignores three very important points, the first being that the Sabbath was instituted at
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