"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in" (Matthew 23:13). When we practice the Sabbath properly, that is to say, lay aside our work and toils, our buying and selling, our concerning ourselves with the acquisition of money or provision, we actually go through a spiritual door (or portal) that leads out of this world into the Kingdom of Heaven, into a place, for a day, where the judgment on Adam, that is to say, that he would work and toil to pull his food from the earth by the sweat of his brow (Genesis 3:17-19), doesn't apply.   On the Sabbath, we are in a place of rest as the Father was on the 7th day of His creation week. A place where we can understand more fully the words of Jesus when He said to, "...seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you" (Matthew 6:33), ...