Who owns the Sabbath? Man or Jesus [YHWH]? Jesus (YEHOSHUA) does as YAHWEH in flesh. Isaiah 58:13

For the Son of man is Lord [YAHWEH, κύριος] even of the sabbath. Matthew 12:8 DRB

Who owns the words in the Bible? If it's Jesus, why would men want to change His Word? Satan tried but we know that he is awaiting execution with all his acolytes.

In the Jewish Bible, before the Advent of the Masiyah YHWH (Luke 2:11), the Tetragrammaton YHWH God claims ownership of the Sabbath, "my holy day", according to Isaiah 58:13.

We read in the book of Genesis that ELOHIM rested after His works of Creation. YHWH ELOHIM reminded the Israelites that they must keep His Sabbath Day holy and He told them about the rationale for its observance (Exodus 20:8-11).
Note that YHWH gives us six days but that He claims the seventh day for Himself.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:  Isaiah 58:13 ASV

Exodus 20:8-11 ASV
(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 a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
(11)  for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


YHWH God rails throughout History against the flagrant violation of His day and has been overjoyed with any believer (Israelites or Pagans) who keep it (Read Isaiah 56). The very existence of the city Jerusalem hanged on the observation of the Sabbath day, according to Jeremiah 17:19-27. Jerusalem would have been the eternal hub of worship if the Jews kept the Sabbath as Jesus wanted the Jews to do.

Who claims the sabbath day as His in the NEW TESTAMENT? YAHWEH God did in the Old Testament. However ...

In the New Testament, JESUS claims also sole ownership of the Sabbath.

Jesus did a lot of things that the Jewish people saw as instances of breaking the Law of Moses. However, Jesus pointed to them that the Sabbath day is His and, as such, is very aware of what may and may not be done during the Sabbath day.

For the Son of man is Lord (κύριος, Jehovah) even of the sabbath.  Matthew 12:8 DRB

Matthew 12:8 ASV
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

Mark 2:28 ASV
so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.

Luke 6:5 ASV
And he said unto them, The Son of man is lord of the sabbath

Keep in mind you that Jesus does not say that the Sabbath day belongs to His Father or to YHWH ELOHIM. Hence, Jesus is YAHWEH, the owner of the Seventh Day of rest.

What is the inference from the identity of the Owner of the Sabbath Day?

The only conclusion from the ownership of the Sabbath is that Jesus is none other than YAHWEH ELOHIM in flesh.

The 7th day sabbath commemorates the Creation. We know that before Jesus was born, the Sabbath day is claimed by YHWH God in the Book of Genesis.

Even though some would want to read a verse in the Bible where it is written that Adam and Eve kept the Sabbath in order to keep it also, it is illogical that we can picture them doing work on the first Sabbath or isolating themselves and awaiting somewhere, waiting that Jesus (God) was done with His resting (sabbath thing). 

The 7th day Sabbath survived the flood because Jesus (God) reminded the Israelites to observe the day. In case they would not know the reason, Jesus told them why in Exodus 20:8-11.

Some claim that the sabbath concerned the Jews only. True in part (Numbers 15:13-16). However, Jesus (God) invited and adopted all the men of Antiquity who joined the Israelites to comply with His will (Isaiah 56:1-8) and promised those foreigners a better place than the Israelites.
Is it possible that the Gentile believers may not keep the Sabbath day while the Israelites kept it? There is no record that anyone living in Israel was exempt from keeping the 7th day Sabbath. Foreigners and the citizens of the land were to keep the sabbath, according to Numbers 15:13-16 and Jeremiah 17:19-27.

Knowing that the seventh day is the memorial day of the Creation and that it belongs to YHWH ELOHIM who holds it dear to His heart, can it ever be logical to teach or reason that God could one day trade up His day for one of the six days of men to transfer the Creation memorial day to another day saying, for example, that in the first day He finished the creation works and rested on it? That is dumb (Ephesians 5:17). But dumbness, fallacy, sophism, or false reasoning fuels apostasy and the establishment of the false Christian religions (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).

The only conclusion, by inference, from the iteration of ownership of the Sabbath by Jesus is that Jesus is YHWH God incarnated, that is, in flesh and blood.

The Gospel of John presents Jesus as the God (John 1:1) Creator of all things (John 1:3). The Gospel of Luke also says that Jesus was born as MESSIAH YHWH ( Christ [the] LORD in English) in the Hebrew language (Luke 2:11).
And since Jesus claims ownership of the Sabbath day, therefore, Jesus is YHWH ELOHIM.

Mark 2:27-28 Darby
(27) And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath; (28) so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.

John 1:1-3 DRB
(1)  In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.
(2)  The same was in the beginning with God.
(3)  All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

Luke 2:11 DRB
(11)  For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord [MESSIAH YHWH], in the city of David.

Because today [a] Savior, who is Christ [the] Lord [YHWH], was born to you in [the] city of David. Luke 2:11 LITV

Isaiah 56:1-8 LITV
(1) So says Jehovah: Keep justice and do righteousness, for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed. (2) Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing every evil. (3) And do not let the son of the foreigner speak, he who joins himself to Jehovah, saying, Separating Jehovah separates me from His people; and not do let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dried tree. (4) For so says Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths and choose things I am pleased with, and take hold of My covenant: (5) I, even I will give to them in My house and in My walls a hand and a name better than sons and than daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off. (6) And the sons of the alien who join themselves on Jehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant: (7) even them I will bring to My holy mount and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on My altar, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples, (8) states the Lord Jehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Israel; I will yet gather beside him his gathered ones.

The Sabbath day does not belong to men for men to have the power to change it to another day, but it belongs to YHWH who is known in flesh under the Hebrew name YHOSHUA MESSIAH YHWH (Jesus Christ [the] Lord].

Updated on 8/17/2025

It is a lie that Jesus is our rest or our sabbath day, because the word 'rest' in the Greek text is not 'sabbaton, σαββατων'. 2 Peter 2:1-3

Jesus gives rest, not sabbath

Matthew 11:28 ASV
(28) Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Jesus does not give sabbath to our souls

Matthew 11:29-30 ASV
(29) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
(30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

2 Peter 2:1-3 ASV
(1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
(2) And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
(3) And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

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REPETITION OF WARNING:
If we are missing just ONE commandment in our belief system, we will not be saved because we are not without sin, that is, we are not holy. The grace of Jesus is for the holy ones, according to Ezekiel 33:13-20.

Ezekiel 33:13 ASV
(13)  When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath committed, therein shall he die.
Read also Romans 2:12-13

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