• Exodus 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
• Exodus 16:29 See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Exodus 35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

It is very easy to get the wrong interpretation of scripture. In 31:14 they were commanded to put a violator out from their midst. Four chapters later it commands a violator to be put to death.

Which is it? Banished or death? How do we come to a proper understanding when scripture seems to be a contradiction in instruction itself. How do we clarify God’s intentions?

• Genesis 2:2 ; 2:3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

God the Father lives in the eternal realm. What God has done in creating everything for all eternity is a finished work. Because God rests from all His work in the eternal, nothing that God has done can be undone. His Sabbath Rest is an eternal rest.

John 5:19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

The Son was sent to be a witness in time of what the Father had completed in the eternal. We live in time. Jesus admits He can do nothing himself. It is the Father that does the miracle.

When Jesus healed on the Sabbath, it was God the Father that did the miracles. Since the Pharisees could only see and know Jesus as a man, they accused Him of working on the Sabbath and condemned Him to death. The error was in condemning God the Father for doing the work. One might say that accusing God the Father for doing His own will is a form of heresy.

Here is the lesson. Do not accuse God for our inability to understand rightly.