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NOT ALL WORK IS JUST “A JOB.”This is where the Hebrew word AVODAH (עֲבוֹדָה) gives us something important to understand....
08/16/2026

NOT ALL WORK IS JUST “A JOB.”

This is where the Hebrew word AVODAH (עֲבוֹדָה) gives us something important to understand.

Avodah can mean service, labor, work, ministry, or worship.

And throughout Scripture, this word is used for more than earning an income.

It is used for serving God.
It is used for the service of the priests.
It is used for the work of the Tabernacle.
It is used for labor performed in service to another.

📖 Numbers 18:7 — the priestly avodah
📖 Numbers 28:9–10 — Sabbath service
📖 Joshua 24:15 — “serve” YHWH
📖 Exodus 12:25–26 — the service (avodah) of YHWH

So think about the people whose occupation is built around serving and preserving human life.

🚑 EMTs respond when someone is having the worst day of their life.

🚒 Firefighters run toward danger to rescue people who cannot rescue themselves.

👮 Law enforcement officers are entrusted with protecting others and maintaining order.

🩺 Doctors and nurses use their knowledge and skill to treat the sick and preserve life.

These professions certainly can involve pay, employment, and economics.

But that isn't the whole picture.

The paycheck doesn't tell you the purpose of the service.

A person can receive compensation for something that is still fundamentally an act of service to another human being.

And Scripture tells us that loving and serving our neighbor is inseparable from our service to God.

«“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
— Matthew 22:39»

Jesus even identifies acts of service toward others as being done unto Him:

«“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
— Matthew 25:40»

That changes the way we should think about “work.”

Your occupation can be more than an economic transaction.

You can be serving people.
You can be doing good.
You can be preserving life.
You can be using your skills for the benefit of your neighbor.

And when that service is done in righteousness and love, it can become an expression of your service to God.

That is the beauty of avodah.

Service isn't automatically secular simply because you get paid for it.

The question is:

WHO ARE YOU SERVING?

Because Scripture doesn't define all “work” as the same thing.

There is melakhah — ordinary work, occupation, craftsmanship, and productive labor.

And there is avodah — service, labor, ministry, and worship.

Understanding the difference helps us understand why Scripture can command us to cease from our ordinary labor on the Sabbath while still showing us priests serving, mercy being performed, good being done, and life being preserved.

The Sabbath isn't a command to stop serving.

It is a command to stop our ordinary labor and occupation.

We lay down our own work — but we don't cease from serving God.

THIS IS MELAKHAH — מְלָאכָהWhen Scripture says:“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work [melakhah]: but the seve...
08/13/2026

THIS IS MELAKHAH — מְלָאכָה

When Scripture says:
“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work [melakhah]: but the seventh day is the sabbath…”
— Exodus 20:9–10

What exactly is the “work” we are commanded to stop?

The Hebrew word is MELAKHAH (מְלָאכָה).
It refers to work, occupation, business, craftsmanship, tasks, productive labor, and the work of our hands.

Think about the farmer working his fields.
🌾 The merchant buying and selling goods.
📦 The delivery driver transporting those goods.
🔨 The craftsman building and producing.
🏪 The business owner managing his business.
💰 The person engaging in buying, selling, and economic commerce.

This is the ordinary work by which we produce, exchange, earn, build, and provide.

And Scripture uses melakhah in exactly these kinds of contexts.

Genesis 2:2–3 — God finishes His melakhah and rests from His work.

Genesis 39:11 — Joseph's master has business/work (melakhah) to attend to.

Exodus 12:16 — no manner of melakhah on the holy day.

Exodus 20:9–10 — six days to do our melakhah, but cease on the seventh.

Exodus 31:3–5 — craftsmanship and skilled work.

Exodus 31:14–15 — melakhah is prohibited on the Sabbath.

Exodus 35:29–35 — skilled workmanship for the Tabernacle.

Leviticus 23:3 — six days work (melakhah), but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest.

Deuteronomy 5:13–14 — six days to do all your melakhah, but the seventh belongs to YHWH.

Nehemiah 13:15–22 — buying, selling, transporting goods, and commercial activity are stopped on the Sabbath.

Proverbs 22:29 — diligent work/business.

Jonah 1:8 — “What is your occupation?” — melakhah.

So when we talk about the Sabbath, the question isn't simply:

“Does this activity require effort?”
The question is:

Is this my ordinary melakhah—the work of my occupation, production, commerce, and the work of my own hands?

Because there is something profoundly spiritual about stopping it.

For six days, we plant.
For six days, we build.
For six days, we sell.
For six days, we buy.
For six days, we deliver.
For six days, we work with our hands.

But on the seventh day, we stop.

Not because the farmer suddenly becomes sinful for farming.

Not because the merchant is wicked for conducting business.

Not because earning a living is inherently wrong.

But because God commanded us to stop our ordinary work and remember that our provision ultimately comes from Him.

We can work our fields— but God gives the increase.

We can build— but God establishes.

We can earn— but God is our provider.

We can labor with our hands— but our hands are not our source.

The Sabbath interrupts the cycle of produce → sell → earn → consume → produce again and reminds us:

YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN PROVIDER.

Your livelihood does not depend entirely upon the work of your hands.

Your business does not sustain you.

Your field does not sustain you.

Your paycheck does not sustain you.

YHWH does.

And that is why the Sabbath is such a powerful act of trust.

We lay down our melakhah— and we rest in the One who provides.

And this is where the distinction between MELAKHAH and AVODAH becomes so important.
Melakhah is the ordinary occupational work that we cease from.

Avodah can describe service, ministry, worship, and service to God.

So the Sabbath doesn't mean “stop serving.”
It means “stop your ordinary labor.”

We stop working for our economic provision—
so we can remember who our Provider is.

Let Scripture define the word.
Let the word define the command.
And let the Sabbath teach us to trust our Provider.

08/13/2026

Im not SDA. I actually came from a Baptist and Assembly of God background, and while attending Sunday church, I simply started studying my Bible for myself.

The Sabbath kept appearing throughout Scripture, and eventually my family and I began keeping it—without anyone introducing us to Adventism or convincing us to do so.

Later, I researched the history of the Sabbath in the church which further solidified our conclusion to believe God, not men. (I have MANY videos on the history of the Sabbath).

It was only recently that I researched SDA and discovered that, although we share the Sabbath, we differ on many foundational doctrines: the Trinity, the Father and Son, Torah and the biblical feasts, atonement, Messiah's priesthood, the 1844 investigative judgment, Ellen G. White, and end-times theology. Most of these I don't align with across multiple Christian denominations, anyway.

(These topics are NOT up for debate in my comments, please and thank you) Videos and written studies are available on my page and website in bio.

But no, I didn't find the Sabbath in Adventism.
I found it in Scripture.

Study the Word for yourself. 🤍

“WORK” DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN THE SAME THING IN SCRIPTURE.This is one of those places where our English translations can fl...
08/12/2026

“WORK” DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN THE SAME THING IN SCRIPTURE.

This is one of those places where our English translations can flatten distinctions that are much clearer in the original languages.

When Scripture says “work,” we need to ask:

Which word? What does it mean? And what is the context?

📖 1. MELAKHAH — מְלָאכָה
Work, occupation, craftsmanship, business, task

This is the primary Hebrew word used in the Sabbath command:

«“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work [melakhah]: But the seventh day is the sabbath…”
— Exodus 20:9–10»

Melakhah is also the word used of God's work in creation:

Genesis 2:2–3

This is purposeful activity, occupation, craftsmanship, business, or work that produces something. It is the kind of ordinary work Scripture commands us to cease from on the Sabbath.

📖 2. AVODAH — עֲבוֹדָה
Service, labor, ministry, worship

Avodah comes from the Hebrew idea of serving/working and can describe labor, but it is also repeatedly used for service to God and the work of the priests and Levites.

See:

Numbers 18:7 — priestly service
Numbers 28:9–10 — Sabbath offerings
1 Chronicles 9:13 — service/work in the house of God

And this distinction matters.

The Sabbath does not mean that every form of service or ministry stops.

The priests continued their appointed service on the Sabbath.

And Messiah pointed directly to this principle:

«“Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?”
— Matthew 12:5»

📖 3. MAL’AKH — מַלְאָךְ

This is the Hebrew word translated messenger, envoy, ambassador, or angel.

Its lexical background carries the idea of being sent as a deputy/representative. Melakhah is closely related lexically and carries the idea of work, occupation, or service.

Think about the concept:

A messenger is sent to carry out the work of the one who sent him.

That gives us an important picture of biblical “work” as more than simply having a job.

📖 4. AMAL — עָמָל
Toil, labor, wearisome effort

This is a different concept again.

Amal can describe the toil and trouble associated with labor:

Psalm 90:10
Ecclesiastes 2:10–11
Ecclesiastes 3:13

This is the exhausting labor of life—not simply the neutral idea of accomplishing a task.

📖 5. ERGON — ἔΡΓΟΝ
Work, deed, action, undertaking

In the New Testament, ergon can refer to work, deeds, actions, an occupation, or something accomplished.

It is the word behind:

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works…”
— Matthew 5:16

And:

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…”
— Ephesians 2:10

So when the New Testament says “works,” that does not automatically mean “employment” or “earning money.”

Context matters.

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SO WHY DOES THIS MATTER FOR THE SABBATH?

Because we have been taught to hear the English word “work” and assume it means anything whatsoever that requires effort.

But Scripture is more precise.

There is:

ordinary occupational work
labor and toil
craftsmanship and productive activity
service
priestly ministry
good works
acts of mercy and doing good

And Scripture itself demonstrates that these categories cannot simply be treated as identical.

That is why Messiah could say:

«“It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.”
— Matthew 12:12»

The Sabbath prohibits our ordinary melakhah—but the work of God does not suddenly cease.

The priests served.
Mercy was shown.
Good was done.
The sick were healed.
The purposes of God continued.

The question isn't simply, “Am I doing something that takes effort?”

The better question is:

“What kind of work is this—and what does Scripture actually say about it?”

📖 Study the words.
Study the context.
Then let Scripture define Scripture.

08/12/2026

The Hebrew Torah doesn’t use just one word for “work”—it uses at least five overlapping ideas: melakhah (מְלָאכָה), avodah (עֲבוֹדָה), ma’aseh (מַעֲשֶׂה), amal (עָמָל), and pe’ulah (פְּעוּלָה). Each carries a little bit different meaning—labor, service, deeds, toil.

That’s why the Sabbath command in Exodus 20:10 specifically uses melakhah—not every kind of activity is prohibited, just a particular category of ordinary occupational work.

🙏 And even Yeshua shows us what “good work” looks like on the Sabbath: He healed, He taught, He delivered, and He did good!!

Matthew 12:5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

Luke 13:10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years.

Mark 3:4 hich is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?

John 7:23 If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

🔥 The priests also continued temple service in Numbers 28:9–10, showing that holy service was never considered Sabbath-breaking. Neither was offering (cooking) a meal before the Father for a Holy Convocation.

We can be so narrow minded simply reading 'work' in English and applying that to everything. But that was never the biblical concept.

This is why it is important to study the words as well as the consistent themes throughout the bible. The context of the work, matters!! Otherwise we end up adding a bunch of man made laws that the Father never intended.

See the previous video on - cooking on the Sabbath.
Visit my page to find - history of the Sabbath.
Be sure to save this video & follow for more bible studies!!

08/09/2026

Is is okay to cook or light a fire on the Sabbath?

Hot take, but yes 🔥

This law appears a singular time, not attached to any other command for the Sabbath. Does thst make it less valid? No!! But it does mean the context may not be obvious at surface level.

When you look into cross-references for 'kindling fire' over and over you will find references to God's wrath, anger, or fire being provoked.

This makes sense when you look at the whole passage of Exodus 35:2-3 and see that it immediately follows, "you shall do no work."

Israel had (still has) a disobedience problem. And coming straight out of Egypt, they were accustomed to 10 day work weeks, per the Egyptian calendar.

A few times they were caught trying to work- gathering sticks, gathering mana... this wasn't accidental, it was intentional rebellion against the Sabbath that He established multiple times.

Trying the GET AHEAD and provide for yourself instead of trusting Him enough to obey.

So He got ANGRY 🔥

We see that anger appear in Exodus 35:2 saying if anyone works he will be put to ☠️

So when we get to verse 3 about kindling a fire- the evidence points to ➡️ do not kindle the fire of YHWH by disobeying His direct command.
..Further study will take you to the offerings of fire, bread brought from one's dwelling, and acceptable meal preparations mentioned through Leviticus 23, Numbers 29, and Exodus 12:16.

The Sabbath IS a feast day ✨️ not a cold cuts and leftovers day.

08/05/2026

The gospel Jesus preached wasn't simply, "Believe so you can go to heaven when you die."

He proclaimed the gospel of the Kingdom—a call to repent, follow the King, live according to God's ways, and anticipate the restoration of all things.

Somewhere along the way, we've traded the King's message for a message centered almost entirely on personal salvation after death.

So... which gospel are we actually preaching?
Watch the Scriptures for yourself, and let them challenge what you've always been taught.

📖 "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." — Matthew 4:17

07/29/2026

If the New Covenant has already arrived in its entirety... why do we still battle sin? Why do we still have to repent, crucify the flesh, take every thought captive, and struggle against our old nature?

The prophets describe something far greater.

In the New Covenant, God's law is written perfectly on our hearts. Sin is no longer our struggle because we are completely cleansed and made whole. No more corruption. No more death. No more rebellion.

💀 Dry bones come to LIFE 🙌 Ezekiel 37

They also describe Israel being gathered from the nations and brought back into the land promised to Abraham—from the Nile to the Euphrates. The curse is lifted. The land is restored like Eden. Thorns, disease, and corrupt rulers are replaced by the righteous reign of Messiah.

When we honestly compare those promises with the world we live in today, it raises an important question:

Are we experiencing the fullness of the New Covenant... or are we living in the hope and anticipation of its fulfillment?

The good news is that the promises have not failed. The inheritance is still coming, and Messiah is faithful to complete everything the prophets declared.

‼️ This is not an issue of Mosaic covenant versus the covenant under Christ. It is an issue of what we are capable of in the flesh- what we still have to do while we're in the flesh, and what we hope for in perfected resurrected bodies.

📖 Read the prophets. Read Hebrews. Read the covenant promises for yourself. Let Scripture define Scripture.

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