Is the Sabbath still for today?

If you grew up keeping Sunday, you did it in good faith, surrounded by believers who loved God and called it the Lord's Day. The desire to set aside time for Him, to gather and worship and rest, is a holy desire, and the people who taught it to you were not trying to deceive you. Honor that.

And the instinct under it is sound. Human beings need rest; we are not machines; a rhythm of stopping is woven into how God made us. You are right to feel that a day set apart for Him is a gift and not a burden. That much the text affirms loudly.

You may also, though, have wondered at some point where exactly the Bible moves the day, and come up with no verse. That honest blank is worth noticing. The silence is real, and it points somewhere.

But the frame, that the Sabbath was abolished or quietly relocated to Sunday by God Himself, has no text behind it. Shabbat was set at creation, when "God blessed the seventh day and made it holy" (Genesis 2:2-3), long before Israel, woven into the fabric of the world. It is the fourth of the Ten Words: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8-11). Yeshua (Jesus) kept it and called Himself "lord even of the Sabbath," after declaring that "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27-28). Nowhere does Scripture transfer the day to Sunday; that change came later, by human and imperial authority, not by command. Put down the idea that God moved it; He never said so.

Here is the plain reading. The Sabbath is a gift, menuchah, rest, a day the world is not allowed to own you. Isaiah calls it "a delight" (Isaiah 58:13-14), not a chain. And "there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God" (Hebrews 4:9). It was made for you; you are invited to receive it, not to fear it.

Do not take it from me. Read Genesis 2, Exodus 20, and Mark 2 in order, then go looking for the verse that changes the day. Then ask: if God never moved it, on whose authority was it moved?