The Sabbath is a commandment for all of God's people

I believe you are taking Hosea 2:11 out of context. God is saying that he will punish Israel for being 'adulterous'. They are being adulterous by forsaking his commandments and worshiping other gods. If you read the whole chapter you get a better idea of the main idea. Israel abandoning the holy days of YHWH is said as a negative thing, just as Israel worshiping Baal is said as a negative thing.You correlate the ten commandments with a certain covenant, and I believe this to be true. I do not believe that this covenant is dead however. But let's back it up farther. The Sabbath is not part of the commandments of God given at Sinai to Israel. The Sabbath has been around long before the law; the Sabbath has been around since the dawn of creation. Genesis 2:1-3Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.We see here that from the very beginning, God established the Sabbath. The seventh day was blessed and sanctified.Now Exodus 31:16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.I believe you are an educated fellow. I'm sure you know that the word perpetual means 'forever', 'everlasting', and 'continuous'. The Sabbath is a perpetual covenant between God and the Israelites.Now you may argue that we are not Israelites, we are gentiles. To this I say that you are not Israel through blood, but through faith.What comes next is crucial to understanding this.Jeremiah 31:31-33Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.We see here that the New Covenant applies ONLY to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Therefore, if you are not part of those houses, you are not part of the New Covenant. We also see that God says he will write his law on our hearts and put it in our minds. We see nothing about a change of law or an abolishment of law, as you are suggesting. A change of covenant does not imply a change of law. We see another example of the new covenant in Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.Once again, nothing about an abolition or change in law. Rather, an enforcement of the already given law.Several covenants can exist at the same time as well. For example, God made a covenant with Noah, apart from the ten commandments that very well exists today.Genesis 9:8-11"Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:“And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”The covenant between God and Noah applies today alongside the New Covenant. You said that Christ 'ends the commandments'. If this is true, and the ten commandments are abolished through Christ, then is adultery, murder and stealing okay? Because those are also commandments of the Ten.I believe that what Paul says is true because I believe that he does NOT teach that the commandments are abolished. But if YOU believe that he teaches contrary to God's commandments, then what sense is it to obey him over God? Paul says that he didn't preach the gospel, but the revelation from God. I completely agree with this because he teaches in accordance to God's Law. But if I believed that he DID NOT teach in accordance to God's Law, as you do, I would consider him a liar and false teacher.So can you find anything that is either from the mouth of God, or from the mouth of Yeshua that teaches anything about an end to the Sabbath? I'm not compromising Paul's teachings in the least, but they do not hold authority over God's commandments.The following is an excerpt from Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine:Q. Which is the Sabbath day?A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea, (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday….Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her!—Rev. Peter Geiermann, C.SS.R., (1946), p. 50.Have you ever read the "Little House" series? They are childhood stories retold by Laura Ingalls Wilder, who grew up in the late 1800s. Here is an excerpt from Little House in the Big Woods. I want you to notice how 19th century protestants viewed Sunday. They were more legalistic about their Sunday 'Sabbath' then God wanted us to be about his seventh day Sabbath. "WHEN your Grandpa was a boy, Laura, Sunday did not begin on Sunday morning, as it does now. It began at sundown on Saturday night. Then everyone stopped every kind of work or play. "Supper was solemn. After supper, Grandpa's father read aloud a chapter of the Bible, while everyone sat straight and still in his chair. Then they all knelt down, and their father said a long prayer. When he said, "Amen," they got up from their knees and each took a candle and went to bed. They must go straight to bed, with no playing, laughing, or even talking. "Sunday morning they ate a cold breakfast, because nothing could be cooked on Sunday. Then they all dressed in their best clothes and walked to church. They walked, because hitching up the horses was work, and no work could be done on Sunday. "They must walk slowly and solemnly, looking straight ahead. They must not joke or laugh, or even smile. Grandpa and his two brothers walked ahead, and their father and mother walked behind them. "In church, Grandpa and his brothers must sit perfectly still for two long hours and listen to the sermon. They dared not fidget on the hard bench. They dared not swing their feet. They dared not turn their heads to look at the windows or the walls or the ceiling of the church. They must sit perfectly motionless, and never for one instant take their eyes from the preacher. "When church was over, they walked slowly home. They might talk on the way, but they must not talk loudly and they must never laugh or smile. At home they ate a cold dinner which had been cooked the day before. Then all the long afternoon they must sit in a row on a bench and study their catechism, until at last the sun went down and Sunday was over. Here is the website for the Little House except I quoted.http://www.gutenberg.ca...