Does the Bible say the Sabbath would end or continue (Hosea 2:11, Matthew 24:20, Isaiah 66:23)?
InferredNo single verse settles it; the conclusion is assembled across texts and leans one way.
The three passages together lean toward the Sabbath continuing rather than ending, Hosea 2:11 is a judgment on unfaithful Israel (not a universal abolition), Matthew 24:20 presupposes the Sabbath is still practically in force at a future crisis, and Isaiah 66:23 explicitly places Sabbath worship in the eschatological age. No single verse states "the Sabbath is ended," and no same-authority text revokes the command, but the question of who is bound by it and how it applies in the present age involves an inference step the texts do not fully resolve.
The highest-authority texts, God's own words in Isaiah 66:23 and Exodus 20:8–11, and Jesus' own words in Matthew 24:20, all treat the Sabbath as a continuing reality, not a concluded one. The inference step is whether the Sabbath command given at Sinai and extended to foreigners in Isaiah 56 binds all people in the present age, or whether Paul's lower-authority letters modify its application for those outside the Sinai covenant.
What scripture leaves unaddressed: The texts do not resolve whether the Sabbath command, though continuing in force through the eschatological age (Isaiah 66:23), binds those who were never under the Sinai covenant, and whether Paul's instructions in Colossians 2:16–17 and Romans 14:5–6 modify its practical application for non-Israelite believers in the present age.
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