Jon Collins

So now there's two days to stop.

So now there's, well, and so it created a very blurry period.

And I could do a lot more homework here.

And anybody who wants to take a deep dive into this, there's a really helpful collection of essays by a whole host of scholars of Hebrew Bible studies

Second Temple Judaism and New Testament.

It's called From the Sabbath to the Lord's Day, a Biblical, Historical, Theological Investigation.

It's put together by a scholar named D.A.

Carson.

And what they're trying to track is, how did you get from Sabbath being on Friday night for Messianic Jews, who were all the first followers of Jesus, to later generations

thinking of the Sabbath rest as being fulfilled or honored by resting on Resurrection Day.

How did that happen?

And it didn't happen quickly.

It didn't happen simply or everywhere all at once.

Because the Jesus movement was pretty decentralized, and you had lots of people still honoring Shabbat, and then also doing something in house church gatherings on Sundays, maybe after their work day, gathering in the evening on Sundays.

And it became a really contentious thing in early church history, as you could imagine.

But the Apostle Paul saw all this coming,

And he actually worked out in a few different house church communities, the churches of Rome and of Colossae and Galatia, where he talked about, hey, different ones of you are going to treat different days as sacred and holy.

He's surely referring to the Sabbath.

And he trusted that the Spirit of God would guide individuals and communities to use wisdom and to honor the days that they felt they needed to honor

to honor Jesus.