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Wat Maak Die Sabbat Heilig?

Wat Maak Die Sabbat Heilig?

In November 2024 was ek bevoorreg om vir die vierde keer na Australië te reis en ‘n reeks lesings aan te bied. Gedurende my tyd daar kon ek ‘n lewendige gesprek met ‘n plaaslike leraar oor God se wet voer. Gedurende daardie gesprek het die vraag na vore gekom oor wat die Sabbat heilig maak. Ek het toe vir die leraar gesê – en as hy hierdie blog lees, wil ek hê hy moet weet – dat ek ons geestelike bespreking regtig waardeer het omdat my gedagtes dit deurgewerk het en sulke besprekings is deel van dit wat my help groei, verskillende perspektiewe ondersoek, dieper in die Woord delf en my begrip bevorder. Ek hoop ons gesprek was ewe voordelig vir hom.

Waarop ons verskillende sienings neergekom het, was dat die leraar die standpunt ingeneem het dat die Sabbat heilig is omdat God dit as heilig verklaar het. Dit is heilig gemaak deur God se uitvoerende optrede as soewereine Heerser van die Heelal aan die einde van die skeppingsweek om dit deur sy verklaarde woord af te sonder.

Maar hierdie verduideliking het my nie goed gepas nie, want my begrip en werklikheid, is dat God die Skepper is en dat sy wette ontwerpwette is, die protokolle wat in die werklikheid ingebou is, soos die wette van fisika, gesondheid en die morele wette. Wat ek verstaan wat die leraar sê, is dat die Sabbat heilig is, nie as gevolg van een of ander inherente aspek van sy skepping nie, nie iets wat in die Sabbat ingebou is deur God se optrede wat dit objektief onderskei nie, maar omdat God sy soewereine reg as Skepper en Heerser gebruik het om ‘n edik, ‘n beslissing, ‘n proklamasie te maak, ‘n afgekondigde verklaring.

So ‘n aksie is die tipe gesag, metodes, maniere en wet wat deur geskape wesens gebruik word, die kunsmatige gebruik van posisie, van amp, van mag, om iets willekeurig af te sonder omdat die heerser so gesê het, nie omdat dit so is nie.

Byvoorbeeld, om te verklaar dat groen ligte “ry” beteken en rooi ligte “stop” beteken, is ‘n arbitrêre gebruik van gesag om een kleur van ‘n ander te onderskei, nie deur iets inherent aan die twee kleure nie, maar deur ‘n eksterne reël wat deur die regerende owerheid verklaar word en dan deur eksterne geregtelike proses afgedwing word. Dit is die wet van wesens, opgelegde reëls met eksterne strawwe.

My siening van die Groot Stryd, die oorlog tussen God en Satan, gaan nie oor wie mag het nie, maar oor of ons God met sy krag kan vertrou. Satan het eers vertroue in God ondermyn deur te beweer dat God regeer deur die gebruik van opgemaakte reëls en eksterne straf vir reëloortreding. Met ander woorde, Satan het beweer dat God se wette nie anders funksioneer as ‘n skepsel se wet nie, en daarom funksioneer God uiteindelik soos ‘n skepsel, wat reëls oplê en mag gebruik om reëloortreders te straf.

So die Sabbat is ‘n groot toetssaak – is al God se wette werklik ontwerpwette, protokolle wat in die werklikheid ingebou is, of is sommige van sy wette arbitrêr, bloot opgemaakte reëls wat deur God opgelê is deur sy verklaring dat dit so is?

Die leraar wat die standpunt ingeneem het dat God se verklaring dit heilig maak, verwys na die skeppingsweek en God se afsondering van die sewende dag:

Teen die sewende dag het God die werk voltooi wat hy gedoen het; so het hy op die sewende dag gerus van al sy werk. En God het die sewende dag geseën en dit heilig gemaak, omdat Hy daarop gerus het van al die skeppingswerk wat Hy gedoen het (Genesis 2:2, 3 NIV 84).

Die leraar se interpretasie van hierdie gedeelte is dat God se optrede die optrede is van ‘n heerser wat ‘n verskil afdwing deur sy woord of gesag.

Maar beskou die volgende bewyse in die skeppingsverhaal, toe God ‘n ander verklaring gemaak het:

Die HERE God het gesê: “Dit is nie goed vir die mens om alleen te wees nie. Ek sal ‘n helper maak wat vir hom geskik is” (Genesis 2:18 NIV 84).

Was dit goed vir die mens om alleen te wees totdat die Here dit gesê het? Was dit eers toe die Here gesê het dit is nie goed nie, dat dit nie goed geword het nie? Of het die Here dit gesê omdat daar iets ontbreek het en Hy nog nie heeltemal sy skeppingswerk voltooi het nie – en dit was in werklikheid nie goed om dit onvoltooid te laat nie? Het God se verklaring dit so gemaak, of was dit reeds so, en dus het God, wat altyd die waarheid praat, verklaar dat dit so is?

Die kwessie wat ek ontknoop is: Wat kom eerste – die werklikheid, hoe dinge is, of God se mondelinge beskrywing, of verklaring, van hoe dinge is? Met betrekking tot die Sabbat, was dit heilig die oomblik toe God dit geskep het? Was daar iets omtrent die skepping daarvan, iets wat daarin ingebou is of deur die skepping daarmee geassosieer word, wat dit objektief onderskei het van alle ander dae – en God se mondelinge verklaring daaroor die werklikheid van wat reeds waar was, aangekondig het, of was dit dat God se mondelinge beskrywing dit so gemaak het?

Diegene wat volgens die menswetlike model werk, dink outomaties dat God se mondelinge stellings die wetlike edikte is wat dit so maak. Terwyl diegene wat God se wet as ontwerpwet sien, sy stellings verstaan as aankondigings van waarheid, van hoe dinge werklik is.

By die Wederkoms, wanneer Jesus die “skape” van die “bokke” skei, verander sy optrede, sy oordeel, sy aankondiging sommige in skape en sommige in bokke, of skei Hy hulle op grond van die werklikheid, op wie hulle gekies het om te word? (Matteus 25:31-33).

In die laaste dae word verklaar:

Hy wat onregverdig is, laat hom nog steeds onregverdig wees; hy wat vuil is, laat hom nog vuil wees; hy wat regverdig is, laat hom nog regverdig wees; hy wat heilig is, laat hom nog heilig wees (Openbaring 22:11).

Is dit dat hierdie verklaring veroorsaak dat sommige onregverdig en vuil is en ander regverdig en heilig, of beskryf hierdie verklaring wat reeds is?

Beskou hierdie Bybelkommentaar, wat die skrywer se siening van Lucifer se rebellie in die hemel beskryf, hoe Lucifer bewerings gemaak het oor gelykheid met Jesus en die onregverdigheid van hoe Lucifer behandel is; dit is God se antwoord:

Die Koning van die heelal het die hemelse leërskare voor Hom geroep, sodat Hy in hulle teenwoordigheid die ware posisie van Sy Seun kon uiteensit en die verhouding wat Hy met alle geskape wesens onderhou het, kon toon. Daar was geen verandering in die posisie of gesag van Christus nie. Lucifer se afguns en wanvoorstelling en sy aansprake op gelykheid met Christus het ‘n verklaring van die ware posisie van die Seun van God nodig gemaak; maar dit was van die begin af dieselfde. Baie van die engele was egter verblind deur Lucifer se misleidings (Patriarge en Profete, bll. 36, 38, beklemtoning myne).

Het Jesus ten volle en gelyk God geword slegs toe en omdat God dit gesê het, of het God dit gesê omdat Jesus in werklikheid ten volle en gelyk God was en nog altyd was? Wanneer God verklaar dat iets so is, maak sy verklaring dit so, of was dit reeds so, en God, wat waarheid is, sal spreek of verklaar dat dit so is omdat dit die waarheid is, omdat dit so is?

En dit is waar van God se wet. God se wette is ontwerpwette, die protokolle waarop die werklikheid gebou is, wat voortspruit uit sy wese, wat alle dinge onderhou. God se mondelinge beskrywing van sy wet bevestig dit nie. Hy stel dit omdat dit is hoe dinge is, soos Hy die werklikheid geskep het om te bestaan en te funksioneer.

Die Sabbat geheilig

Is die Sabbat dus heilig omdat God dit gesê het, dit heilig verklaar het, of het God dit heilig verklaar omdat dit heilig was?

Die Bybel sê God het die Sabbatdag geseën en geheilig – wat beteken dit? Beteken dit dat God dit geseën het deur ‘n wetlike verklaring te maak en ‘n opgelegde wet te maak wat eksterne afdwinging deur opgelegde strawwe vereis? As dit is wat God gedoen het, dan sou dit nie ‘n seën gewees het nie, maar ‘n vloek, want dit is hoe Satan se koninkryk werk; wat Satan se aantygings teen die regering van God sou ondersteun het eerder as om dit te weerlê. Nee, God het nie ‘n regsreël, ‘n opgelegde wet gemaak nie.

God het die Sabbat geseën en geheilig deur aksie, gedrag en skepping – deur die werklikheid. Die Sabbat is gemaak, geskep, ingebou in tyd deur die God wat ruimte en tyd beheer, wie se wette die basis is van die werking van alle werklikheid. En die Sabbat is geskep in die konteks van ‘n oorlog teen God se heerskappy. Die Sabbat was afgesonder van die ander ses dae, nie toe God krag gebruik het nie, maar toe Hy opgehou het om mag te gebruik, toe Hy gerus het, toe Hy geweier het om die wet af te dwing deur die gebruik van krag en in plaas daarvan al sy skepsele vry gelaat het om self te dink en te besluit!

Die Sabbat was geskep aan die einde van die skeppingsweek van hierdie planeet en word deur God bevestig, gemaak, geskep en gebou met die openbaring van waarheid, liefde en vryheid – toe God geweier het om eksterne mag te gebruik om Lucifer te straf, om Satan te dwing om te gehoorsaam, toe God geweier het om op die manier van ‘n skepsel te werk. Die Sabbat is dus heilig, gemaak en geskep as ‘n teken, bewys, openbaring en demonstrasie van God se karakter van liefde en ontwerpwetmetodes. Dit bestaan omdat God bestaan en omdat God liefde is – en liefde bestaan slegs in vryheid. Dus, om dieselfde redes het God dit nodig gevind om die ware posisie van Jesus te verklaar, het God ook die werklikheid van die gewydheid, heiligheid en seën van die Sabbatdag verklaar, want in ses dae het God geskep maar op die sewende dag het Hy gerus! Die Sabbatdag is spesiaal, afsonderlik, afgesonder maar nie deur God se verklaring nie; dit is so deur God se optrede in sy skepping – want dit openbaar die heerlikheid en heiligheid van God. Die Sabbat is nie heilig omdat God dit heilig verklaar nie; nee, Hy verklaar dit heilig omdat dit heilig is!

God kies nie mag en krag as die eienskappe waarin Hy roem nie. Nee, God roem in sy karakter van liefde. Die Bybel sê nie “God is krag” al is Hy almagtig nie; die Bybel sê dat “God liefde is”! (1 Johannes 4:8).

God het gedemonstreer dat die eienskap waaraan Hy verkies om geken te word, nie krag is nie, maar sy goedhartigheid, liefde, barmhartigheid, sagmoedigheid en selfopofferende karakter. Toe God vir Moses sy heerlikheid gewys het, het Hy gesê,

“Die HERE, die HERE, die barmhartige en genadige God, lankmoedig, oorvloedig in liefde en getrouheid, behou liefde vir duisende en vergewe goddeloosheid, rebellie en sonde” (Eksodus 34:6, 7 NIV 84).

Salomo se tempel is geseën deur die Shekinah-heerlikheid van God se teenwoordigheid op die dag van sy toewyding (2 Kronieke 5:13), maar die Bybel vertel ons dat Herodes se tempel heerliker was, ten spyte daarvan dat dit so gering was in vergelyking met Salomo s’n, dat die oues wat die fondamente van Herodes se tempel gesien het, gehuil het (Haggai 2:7-9; Esra 3:12). Hoe kan die kleiner tempel heerliker wees? Omdat Jesus in die voorhowe van Herodes se tempel geloop het! En God identifiseer Jesus, wat onbaatsugtig, sagmoedig en nederig is, as die meer glorieryke manifestasie van Homself as die glans van sy eie Shekinah. God roem in sy karakter van liefde, en liefde werk slegs in vryheid.

Op dae een tot ses van die skepping leer ons dat God magtig en die Skepper is, maar dag sewe word deur Hom afgesonder as die dag wat Hy sy karakter van liefde openbaar, die dag wat Hy sê sy dag is omdat dit die dag is wat Hy gerus het. Weereens, God identifiseer nie krag as die eienskap waarin Hy persoonlik roem nie. Nee, God roem daarin om liefde te wees, en liefde bestaan slegs in vryheid. Die Sabbat word dus afgesonder deur God se bevestiging met sy karakter toe Hy geweier het om mag te gebruik om ‘n rebellie te onderdruk. En God het die Sabbat vir mense geskep; Hy het vooraf geweet dat ons vasgevang sou word in ‘n oorlog oor ons harte en verstande, ‘n oorlog waarin mag en krag as reg beskou sou word. Maar God sê vir sy gelowiges deur die geskiedenis, “Onthou die Sabbat – onthou dat Ek gerus het; onthou dat alhoewel ek die Skepper is, gebruik ek nie my krag om te dwing, te forseer of te straf nie; Ek gee julle ware vryheid, so onthou elke week die vryheid wat julle het wanneer julle terugkeer na liefde en vertroue in My, want dit is deur my te vertrou, my lief te hê en my metodes van waarheid, liefde en vryheid te kies, alles bevestig in die Sabbat, wat julle vrees verwyder, julle skuld reinig, julle nuwe harte en regte gesindhede gee, en julle ‘n heilige volk maak wat My verteenwoordig.”

God wil hê sy mense moet getrou aan Hom wees, soos Job, Daniël en die drie vriende wat nie voor die goue afgod sou buig nie, maar sulke getrouheid, liefde en lojaliteit kan nie verkry word deur God deur opgelegde reëls te gebruik met dreigemente van eksterne straf nie. Sulke liefde, toewyding en lojaliteit vind slegs plaas deur die ontwerpwette van God – waarheid, liefde en vryheid (Sagaria 4:6). Al hierdie tipe vriende van God (Johannes 15:15) is diegene wat die opgelegde wetsleuens wat skepsele verwerp en teruggekeer het om God as Skepper te aanbid en so gevestig geraak het in die waarheid dat hulle nie beweeg kan word nie. Hulle is die lojales, die getroues, die regverdiges wat ten volle oortuig is in hulle eie verstand (Romeine 14:5).

In sy voorkennis, het God die behoefte van die mensdom geken, geweet hoe diep ons sou val vir die opgelegde wetlike regstelsel en, voor die val van Adam en Eva, mense ‘n spesiale gawe gegee het, ‘n bewys, reg in tyd ingebou en wat nie verwyder kan word nie – die sewende-dag Sabbat is ‘n teken, ‘n bewys, dat God liefde is en dat Hy ons ware vryheid gee. Dit is ‘n herinnering dat God die een is wat ons heilig maak deur sy metodes van waarheid, liefde en vryheid, wat ons terugwen tot liefde en vertroue.

Ek moedig jou aan om die opgelegde-wet-leuens te verwerp en terug te keer na die aanbidding van God as Skepper, te erken dat die Sabbat heilig is omdat dit beklee is met die ontwerpwet-aspekte van God se karakter van liefde – waarheid, aangebied in liefde, terwyl ons vry is om ons eie keuses te kan maak. En alle ware “Sabbatsonderhouers” is diegene wat God se lewende wet op hulle harte geskryf het en God se lewende wet uitleef in hoe hulle ander behandel; Hulle bied die waarheid in liefde aan en laat ander altyd vry om self te besluit.

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