After beating the Sabbath topic to death, I was planning to move on to the 5th Word of God today.
But it was not to be.
There is just one more thing I had to do.
I just had to provide these few choice historical excerpts that establish without a doubt the early church did indeed keep the true Biblical Sabbath (Saturday).
“The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the apostles themselves, as appears by several Scriptures to that purpose.” Dialogue on the Lord’s Day, p. 189. London: 1701. By Dr. T.H. Morer (Church of England).
“The ancient Christians were very careful in the observation of Saturday, or the seventh day. It is plain that all the Oriental churches, and the greatest part of the world, observed the Sabbath as a festival. Athanasius tells us that they held religious assemblies on the Sabbath, not because they were infected with Judaism, but to worship Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath. Epiphanius says the same.” Antiquities of the Christian Church, Vol. II. Book XX, chap 3, Sec. 1 66.1137, 1138.
“The people of Constantinople and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria.” Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, Book 7, chap. 19.
I could go on and on but I think you’ve got the point.
The observance of God’s true Biblical Sabbath did NOT end with the apostles and the early church.
It was practiced and continues to be practiced by those believers who recognize and understand the importance of OBEDIENCE to God’s commandments.
And here are some choice excerpts substantiating that punishment was meted out to those who refused to change their practice of Sabbath observance or to recognize the “Sunday law” being promoted in the majority of the gentile Christian world.
“Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s Day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.” Catholic Church Council in Laodicea, 364AD, Canon 29.
“The inquisitors. . . [declare] that the sign of a Vaudois, deemed worthy of death, was that he followed Christ and sought to obey the commandments of God.” History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, H.C. Lea, Vol. 1.
“We are informed that some people in different districts of the kingdom, have adopted and observed Saturday-keeping. It is severely forbidden – in holy church canon – one and all to observe days excepting those which the holy Pope, archbishop, or the bishops command. Saturday-keeping must under no circumstances be permitted hereafter further than the church canon commands. Therefore, we counsel all the friends of God throughout all Norway who want to be obedient towards the holy church to let this evil of Saturday-keeping alone; and the rest we forbid under penalty of severe church punishment to keep Saturday holy.” Catholic Provincial Council at Bergen. 1435 Dip. Norveg., 7, 397.
Holland and Germany: Babara of Thiers, who was executed in 1529, declared: “God has commanded us to rest on the seventh day.” Martyrology of the Churches of Christ, commonly called Baptists, during the era of the Reformation, from the Dutch of T.J. Van Braght, London 1850, 1, pp. 113-114.
Russia: “The accused (Sabbath-keepers) were summoned; they openly acknowledged the new faith, and defended the same. The most eminent of them, the secretary of state, Kuritzyn, Ivan Maximow, Kassian, archimandrite of the Jury Monastery of Novgorod, were condemned to death, and burned publicly in cages, at Moscow, Dec. 27, 1503.”( Council, Moscow, 1503). H. Sternberf, Geschichte der Juden (Leipzig, 1873), pp. 117-122.
Sweden: “This zeal for Saturday-keeping continued for a long time; even little things which might strengthen the practice of keeping Saturday were punished.” Bishop Anjou, Svenska Kirkans Historia efter Motet i Upsala.
Europe: About the year 1520, many of these Sabbath-keepers found shelter on the estate of Lord Leonhardt of Lichtensein, “as the princes of Lichtenstein held to the observance of the true Sabbath.” History of the Sabbath, J.N. Andrews, p. 649, ed.
Rumania (1760): “Joseph II’s edict of tolerance did not apply to the Sabbatarians, some of whom again lost all of their possessions.” Jahrgang 2, 254.
Bohemia and Moravia: “The condition of the Sabbatarians (from 1635 to 1867) was dreadful. Their books and writings had to be delivered to the Karlsburg Consistory to become the spoil of flames.” Adolf Dux, Aus Ungarn, pp. 289-291. Leipzig, 1880.
After typing up all these quotes, I wonder if all of this persecution for wanting to honor God’s Holy Sabbath was somehow a partial fulfillment of what John told us in the Book of Revelations.
“The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.”-Revelations 12:17
One interesting question I think we need to ask ourselves is why would the devil be so against Sabbath-keeping?
I don’t know about you, but whatever practice makes the devil angry is something I want to wholeheartedly participate in.
So next time we’ll move on to God’s 5th Word (I hope).
CONNECTING THIS TEACHING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’
will enter the Kingdom of Heaven,
only those who do what my Father in heaven wants.
On that Day, many will say to me,
‘Lord, Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name?
Didn’t we expel demons in your name?
Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’
Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you!
Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’
-Matthew 7:21-23
Hi there do you have any teachings on hell,
Hi Jon, I do but they’re interspersed all over the place in this blog. It might best to just do a search under “hell” or “SHEOL” or “HADES” or “GEHENNA” under the search bar.
Sabbath Deceivers
Scripture twisters have this common trait. They virtually ALWAYS insert the word “REALLY” into their headers.
“What did Paul REALLY mean by Col: 2:16?”
If they are simply saying the truth – simply say the truth. No reason to insert the word “REALLY.”
The word “REALLY” is always a giveaway of a false teaching!! Akin to that is “If you CAREFULLY study…”
It is like someone saying, “Trust me! I am honest!” Right there you know there is a problem.
It means they are setting up to explain away the true interpretation of scripture so they can promote their lies.
“Don’t a bumbling simplistic idiot and actually believe the Bible means what it says. Let me explain what the Bible REALLY means!”
Think we saw that one before!
YEA, HATH GOD SAID?
Bible Believers
NO HOLIDAYS! NO HOLYDAYS! NO SABBATH DAYS! THE LORD’S DAY ONLY!
Col: 2:16: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
That verse means EXACTLY what it says. You don’t need a SABBATH DECEIVER to tell you what it REALLY means! It is wrong to promote Old Testament holydays and Sabbath days.
Lu:16:16: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Col:2:17: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
When you see a shadow coming you take your eyes off of the shadow and look to see what is making the shadow.
Sabbath Keepers are shadow chasers. They have a wrong view of the law.
Bible Believers don’t keep HOLIDAYS, HOLYDAYS, OR SABBATH DAYS!
Bible Believers ONLY HAVE 1 DAY! THE LORD’S DAY – THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK!!!
“GOD HAS APPOINTED BUT ONE DAY TO BE KEPT SACRED ABOVE ALL OTHERS; THAT IS THE LORD’S DAY. YOUR CHRISTMAS DAYS, AND YOUR GOOD FRIDAYS, AND ALL SUCH SEASONS, ARE ONLY OBSERVED BY MAN’S ORDINANCE;” – Charles Spurgeon
The LORD’S DAY IS THE ONLY SPECIAL DAY FOR CHRISTIANS!!!
Early Church & Reformation
The reformation was not really a reformation. They simply deserted the papacy and started preaching what the tiny oppressed churches had been preaching which connected all the way back to the New Testament Church. Called Waldensians etc. Do the research!!
THE TRUE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS KEPT THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK TRACING ALL THE WAY BACK INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT!!!
It is Sabbath Deceiver propaganda error that the papacy changed the Sabbath to the Lord’s Day along with all the other pagan junk introduced in AD 336.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE EARLY CHURCH INSTITUDED THE LORD’S DAY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT!!
Just a few quick quotes: (ALL BEFORE 250 AD)
• 90 AD DIDACHE: “Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day: 1. But every Lord’s day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. (Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Chapter XIV)
• 100 AD BARNABAS “We keep the eighth day [day AFTER the Sabbath] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead” (The Epistle of Barnabas, 100 AD 15:6-8).
• 100 AD BARNABAS: Moreover, God says to the Jews, ‘Your new moons and Sabbaths I cannot endure.’ You see how he says, ‘The present Sabbaths are not acceptable to me, but the Sabbath which I have made in which, when I have rested [heaven: Heb 4] from all things, I will make the beginning of the eighth day which is the beginning of another world.’ Wherefore we Christians keep the eighth day for joy, on which also Jesus arose from the dead and when he appeared ascended into heaven. (15:8f, The Epistle of Barnabas, 100 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, pg. 147)
• 150AD JUSTIN: “through Him who rose from the dead on the first day after the Sabbath, [namely through] our Lord Jesus Christ. For the first day after the Sabbath, remaining the first of all the days, is called, however, the eighth, according to the number of all the days of the cycle, and [yet] remains the first.”. (Justin, Dialogue 41:4)
• 150AD JUSTIN: …those who have persecuted and do persecute Christ, if they do not repent, shall not inherit anything on the holy mountain. But the Gentiles, who have believed on Him, and have repented of the sins which they have committed, they shall receive the inheritance along with the patriarchs and the prophets, and the just men who are descended from Jacob, even although they neither keep the Sabbath, nor are circumcised, nor observe the feasts. Assuredly they shall receive the holy inheritance of God. (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, 150-165 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, page 207)
• 150AD JUSTIN: But if we do not admit this, we shall be liable to fall into foolish opinion, as if it were not the same God who existed in the times of Enoch and all the rest, who neither were circumcised after the flesh, nor observed Sabbaths, nor any other rites, seeing that Moses enjoined such observances… For if there was no need of circumcision before Abraham, or of the observance of Sabbaths, of feasts and sacrifices, before Moses; no more need is there of them now, after that, according to the will of God, Jesus Christ the Son of God has been born without sin, of a virgin sprung from the stock of Abraham. (Dialogue With Trypho the Jew, 150-165 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. 1, page 206)
• 150AD JUSTIN: “And on the day CALLED Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.”(First apology of Justin, Weekly Worship of the Christians, Ch 68)
• 150AD JUSTIN: There is no other thing for which you blame us, my friends, is there than this? That we do not live according to the Law, nor, are we circumcised in the flesh as your forefathers, nor do we observe the Sabbath as you do. (Dialogue with Trypho 10:1. In verse 3 the Jew Trypho acknowledges that Christians ‘do not keep the Sabbath.’)
• 180AD ACTS OF PETER. Paul had often contended with the Jewish teachers and had confuted them, saying ‘it is Christ on whom your fathers laid hands. He abolished their SABBATH and fasts and FESTIVALS and circumcision.’ (1: I)-2
• 190AD CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: He does the commandment according to the Gospel and keeps the Lord’s day, whenever he puts away an evil mind . . . glorifying the Lord’s resurrection in himself. (Ibid. Vii.xii.76.4)
• 200AD BARDESANES: Wherever we are, we are all called after the one name of Christ Christians. On one day, the FIRST OF THE WEEK, we assemble ourselves together (On Fate)
• 200AD TERTULLIAN: “We solemnize the day AFTER Saturday in contradistinction to those who call this day their Sabbath” (Tertullian’s Apology, Ch 16)
• 200AD TERTULLIAN: It follows, accordingly, that, in so far as the abolition of carnal circumcision and of the old law is demonstrated as having been consummated at its specific times, so also the observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been TEMPORARY. (An Answer to the Jews 4:1, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, page 155)
• 200AD TERTULLIAN: Let him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day because of threat of death, teach us that in earliest times righteous men kept Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and so were made friends of God. .. …Therefore, since God originated Adam uncircumcised, and inobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering Him sacrifices, uncircumcised and inobservant of the Sabbath, was by Him commended… Noah also, uncircumcised – yes, and inobservant of the Sabbath – God freed from the deluge. For Enoch, too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and inobservant of the Sabbath, He translated from this world… Melchizedek also, “the priest of most high God,” uncircumcised and inobservant of the Sabbath, was chosen to the priesthood of God. (An Answer to the Jews 2:10; 4:1, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 3, page 153)
• 200AD TERTULLIAN: Others . . . SUPPOSE that the sun is the god of the Christians, because it is well-known that we regard Sunday as a day of joy. (To the Nations 1: 133)
• 200AD TERTULLIAN: TO US SABBATHS ARE FOREIGN. (On Idolatry, 14:6)4
• 225 AD The Didascalia “The apostles further appointed: On the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK let there be service, and the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and the oblation, because on the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK he arose upon the world, and on the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK he ascended up to heaven, and on the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK he will appear at last with the angels of heaven” (Didascalia 2).
• 250AD CYPRIAN: The eight day, that is, the first day AFTER the Sabbath, and the LORD’S DAY.” (Epistle 58, Sec 4)
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
• 1. The sabbath, though mentioned in Genesis 2:2-3, was not delivered to man until it was given to Israel in the wilderness (Nehemiah 9:13-14). Ellen White added to Scripture when she taught that Adam and the patriarchs kept the sabbath.
• 2. The sabbath was not given to mankind in general, but to ISRAEL ALONE as a special sign between her and God (Ex. 31:13, 17). If the sabbath had been kept by mankind from creation, it could not have been given as a special sign to Israel.
• 3. The New Testament teaches that the believer is not bound by the sabbath law. See Colossians 2:16-17.
• 4. The sabbath was a type of salvation. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his” (Heb. 4:9-10). As God rested on the seventh day from His work of creation, the believer today rests in the completed work of Christ. In order to enter into God’s rest, a person must [repent and receive] God’s work and must cease from his own work (Jn. 6:28-29). Salvation must be [received] as God’s gift.…
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6. It cannot be proven that the apostle Paul and the early churches observed the sabbath. It is true that Paul met in the synagogues on the sabbath in order to preach to the Jews assembled there, but this does not mean that he observed the sabbath. According to the Bible, the reason Paul visited synagogues on the sabbath was to preach the gospel. Paul’s desire was to preach Christ. He was burdened for his own people, the Jews. So, he went where the Jews were to preach Christ to them. Consider Acts 13:14-44; 16:13-14; 17:2-4; 18:4.
7. There is much evidence in the Bible and elsewhere that the early Christians met and worshiped on the first day rather than on the sabbath.
• On the first day Jesus rose from the dead (Mk. 16:9).
• On the first day Jesus first appeared to his disciples (Mk.
• 16:9).
• On the first day Jesus met with the disciples at different
• places (Mk. 16:9-11; Mt. 28:8-10; Lk. 24:34; Mk. 16:12-13; Jn. 20:19-23).
• On the first day Jesus blessed the disciples (Jn. 20:19).
• On the first day Jesus imparted to the disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 20:22).
• On the first day Jesus commissioned the disciples to preach the gospel (Jn. 20:21; with Mk. 16:9-15).
• On the first day Jesus ascended to Heaven, was seated at the right hand of the Father, and was made Head of all (Jn. 20:17; Eph. 1:20).
• On the first day the gospel of the risen Christ was first preached (Lk. 24:34).
• On the first day Jesus explained the Scriptures to the disciples (Lk. 24:27, 45).
• On the first day the Holy Spirit descended (Acts 2:1).
• Pentecost was on the 50th day after the sabbath following the wave offering (Le. 23:15-16). Thus, Pentecost was always on a Sunday.
• The Christians met to worship on the first day (Acts 20:6-7; 1 Cor. 16:2).
• Since those days, the vast majority of Christians have met to worship on the first day of the week. They do this in honor of the resurrection of their Savior. Christ was in the tomb on the sabbath and rose as the firstborn from the dead on the first day. The sabbath signifies the last day of the old creation (Gen. 2:2). Sunday is the first day of the new creation.
• 8. Sunday is not the sabbath. Bible-believing Christians do not observe the sabbath by assembling on Sunday. The New Testament believer is redeemed from the obligations of the Law of Moses. Romans 14:1-13 and Colossians 2:16 clearly state that believers are not to be judged in respect to holy days. The Galatians’ respect of holy days caused the apostle Paul to fear that they were not even saved! See Galatians 4:10-11, 20.
• 9. The idea that Sunday observance will be the mark of the beast is not found in Scripture. This idea came from Ellen White. It is true that the Antichrist will “think to change times and laws” (Daniel 7:25), yet nowhere does the Bible say that this will involve the sabbath or Sunday. The Bible does not reveal exactly what laws the Antichrist will change. – David Cloud
Holy Days & Holidays
The promoting of Sabbath Days, Jewish Holy Days, and/or Pagan Holidays are all wrong!!
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Gal 4:10-11
BOTH camps have serious theological errors. Pagan Holidays promote “another Jesus” Sabbath Deceivers declare Jesus a sinner who BROKE THE SABBATH!!
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had BROKEN THE SABBATH, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Joh 5:18
Sabbath Deceivers can’t have a savior because they have declared the only one who can save them a sinner!!
YOU CAN NOT FIND ONE REFERENCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH THAT THEY MET ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WEEK ALWAYS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK!
SABBATH DECEIVERS FALSELY CLAIM THIS HAPPENED LATER TO PROMOTE SUN WORSHIP. THEY NEVER PRODUCE ANY DOCUMENT OR FACTS TO BACK THAT UP – SIMPLY JUST LIES & PROPAGANDA!
WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE NOT THE PROPAGANDA!!
SABBATH DECEIVERS WILL NEVER ANSWER THOSE 5 BASIC RESEARCH QUESTIONS. THEY ONLY HAVE “MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO” SABBATH DECEIVER PROPAGANDA ABOUT SUN WORSHIP! WHICH IS A TOTAL COMPLETE NONSENSE ARGUMENT!
Has NOTHING to do with changing to Sunday for sun worship any more than Sabbath Keeper’s hanging on to their day for Saturn worship!!
Saturday: named after the Roman god Saturn
Sabbath Deceivers using a modern term for the Lord’s Day (Sunday) but a Bible term for Saturday (Sabbath) is total hypocritical.
BOTH ARE IN ERROR!!
THE SABBATH DECEIVERS HAVE THE MAJORITY OF “CHRISTIANDOME” OVER THE BARREL (or maybe over the cow!) THEY WON’T LEAVE THEIR SACRED COWS (holidays) SO THEY CAN’T DEFEND AGAINST THE SABBATH DECEIVERS SACRED COWS (Sabbath & Holy Days)!!
“The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off again on the other side.” – Martin Luther
Ex:32:5: And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
Do you see spineless Aaron’s error? He did not say, “Here is your stupid idol, go-ahead, and worship this stupid thing if that is what you want to do. NO! He made the sin many times worse by calling it a “feast to the LORD!”
There are a lot more Aarons around than there a Moses!
“And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot” Exo 32:19a
Sabbath New Testament
In Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts there are 54 verses that mention the Sabbath. Some of the references are neutral. Some are very negative. Others are simply recorded history.
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Takes only a little logic to figure this one out. The Apostle Paul was trying to evangelize the Jews. So, he went to where the Jews were – the synagogue on the Sabbath Days. That was simply history.
After the first 5 books (history) of the New Testament the sabbath is ONLY MENTIONED ONCE!!! Here is that verse!!!
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Col 2:16
Sabbath Resurrection??
The Sabbath Deceivers proclaim a Sabbath Resurrection. This argument is super weak. In fact, we are going to blow it completely out of the water.
There are true Bible Believers who defend the Wednesday crucifixion without twisting into a pretzel trying to create a Sabbath resurrection.
VIRTUALLY EVERYONE IS WRONG ON THIS ONE.
For as Jonas was THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the heart of the earth. Mat 12:40
Three FULL days and three FULL night had to be FULFILLED. The resurrection could only be AFTER this sign was fulfilled.
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and AFTER three days rise again. Mark 8:31
SABBATH DECIEVERS have to CHOP SHOP their Sabbath day to make this work for a Sabbath resurrection.
One Sabbath Deceiver said that the resurrection had to happen WELL before sunset! Don’t even question this stupid theory! WAAAY BEFORE SUNSET! Making sure somehow the Sabbath resurrection theory works. MEGA WRONG! COLOSSAL ERROR!
AFTER THREE DAYS!!
The work of rebuilding or raising up the temple is always referred to be IN or WITHIN three days. The actual resurrection AFTER THREE DAYS!!
THE RESURRECTION WAS SOMETIME AFTER THE SABBATH SUNSET!
Had to wait until the day was over it would have only been 2 FULL days! Had to be right after the sunset or there would have been a 4th night.
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and AFTER three days rise again. Mark 8:31:
AFTER THREE days puts the resurrection on the eighth day or the first day of the week. The early church was right! THE SABBATH DECIEVERS ARE WRONG!!!!
THIS IS PROOF THAT THE RESURRECTION WAS AFTER THE SABBATH!
The Lord waited until the Sabbath was OVER to arise to a NEW covenant. A BETTER COVENANT!!
BOTH CAMPS ARE IN ERROR.
THE FRIDAY DECEIVERS HAVE IT COMPLETELY MESSED UP SO THEY AT LEAST NEED TO STRETCH THINGS INTO SUNDAY MORNING. STILL A TOTAL MESS!
The FRIDAY/SUNDAY DECIEVERS HAVE ONLY 1 FULL DAY! THE SABBATH DECEIVERS NEED 2.9 DAYS TO MAKE IT WORK FOR THE SABBATH. Both theories come up SHORT!!
And Solomon DID EVIL in the sight of the LORD, and went NOT FULLY after the LORD, as did David his father. 1Kings 11:6:
AFTER THREE DAYS!!
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Mat 7:14:
HE HAD “broken the sabbath” AND ESTABLISHED A NEW AND BETTER COVENANT ON THE LORD’S DAY KEPT THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT WITH THE BREAKING OF BREAD ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK (not on the Passover).
1Co:11:26: For AS OFTEN as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. No special YEARLY day – AS OFTEN
CHRISTIAN GET A SPECIAL DAY EVERY SEVEN DAYS. Once a year nonsense can never be supported from scripture.
The Lord’s Day
THE ENTIRE BIBLE IN HARMONIZED WITH THE CREATION IN 6 DAYS. GOD RESTED ON THE 7TH (LAST DAY). MANKIND FELL. God established a Sabbath covenant with the Jewish nation.
The Jews rejected their messiah and THE LORD JESUS made A NEW COVENANT with a NEW PEOPLE. The church age was born. We are graff in Romans 11
IT TOOK A NEW DAY! IT STARTED RIGHT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND IS RECORDED THROUGHOUT EARLY CHURCH HISTORY!
Joh:20:19: Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Ac:20:7: And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
THE TERM “BREAK BREAD” IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE!!!
I SAW WHERE A SABBATH DECIEVER SAID THIS IS SIMPLY EATING A MEAL AND DOESN’T HAVE ANY RELIGIOUS MEANING!
BLASPHEMY!!!!
Mat 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and BRAKE it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
1Co:11:24: And when he had given thanks, he BRAKE it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is BROKEN for you: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.
LOOK AT THESE VERSES AGAIN!!!
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and BRAKE it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, EAT; this is my body. Mat 26:26
And when he had given thanks, he BRAKE IT, and said, Take, EAT: this is my body, which is broken for you: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. 1Co:11:24:
BRAKE AND EAT ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS AND HAVE TWO DIFFERENT MEANINGS!!
THE EARLY CHURCH CAME TOGETHER TO “BRAKE BREAD” (a religious term) ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK! NOT EAT!!!
What makes Sabbath Deceivers tick? Deception? Stubbornness? Stupidity? Spiritual blindness? Fear of man? Sloppy theology?
Sabbath Deceivers wrestle the scriptures to say that the Lord’s day actually means the Sabbath -?- what tomfoolery! Give me a break! Maybe John didn’t know how or God forgot how to spell “Sabbath!” so they substitute with the “Lord’s Day”??!!
How come the term “Lord’s Day” is not in the OLD Testament IF IT IS THE SAME AS SABBATH!!??!!
2Peter 3:16: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Ex: 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
The Sabbath has been and always will be for Israel. IT IS THEIR day. The church has a BETTER COVENANT!!
A BETTER COVENANT
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 7:11: If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Jesus was a priest after the order of Melchisedac which was OUTSIDE of the Jewish law. That is one of the deepest theology studies in the Bible.
The Lord Jesus Christ (or the disciples or the gospel writers) NEVER told anyone to keep the Sabbath and when the Lord Jesus was asked which commands to keep, quoted most of the “Ten” commandments, but AVOIDED THE SABBATH commandment!! Mat 19:18,19
JESUS NEVER TOLD ANYONE TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH. JESUS ALSO NEVER TOLD ANYONE TO KEEP THE SABBATH!!
THE JEWS WANTED TO KILL JESUS FOR BREAKING THE SABBATH.
If God wanted Christians to keep holydays he would have said, “Thou shalt KEEP THE (MONTH/DAY) AS….” in the NEW TESTAMENT.
Judaizers were a problem in the New Testament. That’s quite understandable. They had a hard time letting go of the old traditions.
Gal 2:4: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
I imagine it is kind of a gung-ho thing for Sabbath Deceivers or Deceived to accuse none Sabbath keepers of sun worship. A total complete nonsense accusation!
200AD TERTULLIAN: Others . . . SUPPOSE that the sun is the god of the Christians, because it is well-known that we regard Sunday as a day of joy. (To the Nations 1: 133)
As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew it had no bottom there,
No legs or back, but there I sat,
Ignoring little things like that!
EXACT TIME OF THE RESURRECTION
During the Sabbath He continued under the earth in the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathaea had laid Him. At the dawning of the Lord’s day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself, “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man also be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Mat_12:40) The day of the preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the burial; THE LORD’S DAY CONTAINS THE RESURRECTION. – The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians. Written around 50 AD
Tradition identifies Ignatius, along with his friend Polycarp, as disciples of John the Apostle. Later in his life, Ignatius was chosen to serve as Bishop of Antioch. He was eventually executed by Rome!
“At the dawning of the Lord’s day” was after 6:00 PM Saturday.
Jews marked time “from sunset to sunset.” Therefore, while we might assume that churches meeting on the Lord’s Day met on Sunday morning, Acts 20:7 indicates Christ’s disciples met at night “on the first day of the week”—remember poor Eutychus falling asleep late at night and falling out the window! Under the Jewish calendar churches gathered on Saturday night, not Sunday. – David Schrock
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. Mar 16:6
The stone was not rolled away for the resurrection. The stone was rolled away for the women to see the empty tomb. The resurrection was before nightfall the day before.
There is about 1 hour of daylight after a sunset!! The resurrection was sometime between sunset Saturday and total darkness of the night Sunday.
Absolutely everything is perfectly harmonized with this view. Proper interpretation of scripture and early church history totally agree!!
Sabbath keeping is total sloppy stubborn nonsense contrary to the New Testament and church history!!
Nowhere does the New Testaments say that the resurrection was on the Sabbath.
AFTER THREE DAYS!!!
Three days & three nights = 72 hours no less!!
The Bible does NOT say “ON the third day” but “THE third day.” There is a reason for this term!
“AFTER” three days and three nights fulfilled being AFTER the Sabbath sunset. The “third day” fulfilled in being BEFORE the end of the day light.
The twilight hour is the only time the resurrection could have been to fit all the different verses.
Saturday night would have been the 4th night. Sunday daybreak would have been the 4th day. A day can mean both a unit of night & day (24 hours) and daylight hours.
Gen 1:5 And God called the LIGHT DAY, and the darkness he called Night. And the EVENING and the MORNING were the FIRST DAY.
AFTER the Sabbath is still the third day. THE SAME DAYLIGHT HOURS!!!!!!!!!!
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and AFTER THREE DAYS rise again. Mar 8:31
You cannot interpret a less clear scripture to violate a clearer scripture. AFTER THREE DAYS IS AS CLEAR AS IT CAN BE!! THE REST OF THE INERPRETATIONS NEED TO FIT THIS CLEAR VERSE.
ALL PROBLEMS ARE ELIMATED IF WE START WITH THE CLEAR VERSES AND BUILD THEOLOGY ON THAT.
ALL DECEIVERS DO IS LOOK FOR ANYTHING THEY CAN TWIST AND THEN THEY GO ABOUT AND TRY TO DESTROY THE CLEAR VERSES WITH “WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS!”
Yea, hath God said?
Researching this is disgusting. You either have Sabbath Deceivers or Friday Deceivers promoting their sectarian propaganda. Almost no one is honest on this subject. Total biased non-biblical nonsense.
“WE HAVE GIVEN UP THE POPE FOR HE HAS BLUNDERED OFTEN AND GREATLY! SHALL WE SET UP INSTEAD OF HIM A MYRID OF POPLINGS FRESH FROM COLLEGE?” – SPURGEON
The Sabbath deceivers have to EXPLAIN AWAY more of the New Testament (what the Bible REALLY says) then they explain.
A Sabbath Deceiver strut back and forth on stage with a pamphlet in his hand and preached from “the program” (probably written by Ellen White) while he ranted about there not being an antichrist but an antichrist system which is the Roman Catholic church and the mark of the beast is Sunday worship!
Can’t buy or sell without the mark of the beast.
In fact, in America’s more moral day there used to be a blue law when you couldn’t buy on Sunday! STORES WERE CLOSED!!
If you took the so-called mark beast you COULDN’T BUY ON SUNDAY not vice versa!!!!! The so-called mark of the beast kept you from being able to buy!
Exactly REVERSED from Sabbath Deceiver nonsense!
Not being able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast?? How does that fit into the Sunday mark of the beast nonsense? IT DOESN’T FIT! BECAUSE IT IS A LIE!!
IT HAS TO ALL FIT TOGETHER OR IT IS A LIE!!
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 2Pe 1:20
The Mother of Abominations already had Sun Worship in place. They didn’t have to change anything!
“Civil laws requiring the observance of Sunday date back at least to Emperor Constantine the Great, who designated Sunday as a legal day of rest and worship in 321. This law, however was not specifically Christian, since Sunday was the day of the sun-god for pagans as well as the Lord’s day for Christians.” – Encyclopedia Americana
Interesting perspective, however the lack of understanding of the Jewish history, language, and basic original theology of God shows how “christian” thought and history keeps us from His truths. May He truly reveal to all with an open heart toward His ways all we need to walk in these increasing difficult times.