20:8-11
We then come to the Sabbath. The seventh day was to be a day of rest for everyone in your household. This included the servants, both male and female, visitors and livestock. And it was a Sabbath to the Lord. We should also remember that Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27,28). It is to our advantage to rest on the Sabbath. It is a time when we rest from our efforts, knowing and rejoicing in the fact that our well-being depends upon the Lord, and He is completely trustworthy. 20:11 points back to Genesis. Some see this as support for the literal six day view of creation. I disagree with that. I tend to favour a framework type interpretation of Genesis 1, and within that framework God established the principle that we need to rest on the seventh day.
20:12
This is described as the first commandment with a promise (Eph 6:2). Respect for parents is a fundamental aspect of obeying God. The family is the fundamental building block of society, it is also a bulwark against tyranny. This is why Marxism and Cultural Marxsism work so hard to destroy the family. Look over the last fifty or sixty years in the West and note how the family has been devalued. For a society to be strong it needs strong families.
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