What is the truth about the Sabbath Day?One very controversial subject among Christians today is Gods
Seventh Day Sabbath. Some Christians are not even aware the Sabbath is
Saturday.
The Bible tells us clearly in Daniel that a
persecuting power would change God’s laws of which it did – the Seventh
Day Sabbath became the first day Sabbath without God’s approval. The
book of Daniel also refers to this change of God’s law by this
antichrist power as reaching to the host of heaven and trampling the
heavenly sanctuary under foot. We find the same expression used in
Hebrews chapter ten in reference to wilful sin.
Hebrews
10:26-29 “For if we sin WILFULLY after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth NO more sacrifice for sins, …
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be
thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has
counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an
unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
This
verse informs us that there remains no more sacrifice for deliberate
sin and to continue in sin is to trample the Son of God under foot and
to treat Christ's work on the cross as an unholy thing despite the fact
we are now under God’s Grace. This is a warning we should take very
seriously.
This change to the Sabbath came about over
hundreds of years and by the death of millions and millions of
Christians. This is another fact that most Christians are unaware of.
Select the following to watch a typical true story of the death of a Sabbath keeper by burning. What exactly is the Sabbath day all about anyway?Our Creator God starts off the fourth Commandment with the word
“Remember.” This is because He knew it would be lost and forgotten. God
asks that we keep the Sabbath set apart for Holy purposes so we can
draw nearer to Him. The Fourth Commandment to remember the Sabbath
concludes the section of the Ten Commandments that specifically helps
define a proper relationship with God, how we are to love, worship and
relate to Him. It explains why and when we need to take special time to
draw closer to our Creator. It is also a special sign between us and
God forever, that it is Him that sanctifies us Him alone we belong to
and worship. The Sabbath, the Seventh day of the week was set apart by
God as a time of rest and spiritual rejuvenation. So why is this
Commandment so frequently ignored, attacked and explained away by so
many Christians? Could it be because the challenges to the Sabbath
Commandment are views generated by the ruler of this present evil
world? After all, this being wants us to accept these views because he
hates God’s law. He does all he can to influence us to ignore, avoid
and reason our way around it. On our calendar the Sabbath begins at
sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday evening.
Those
that keep the true Sabbath day say that it is a blessing and their
favourite day of the week. The Sabbath is quality time with family and
relaxing and fellowshipping with God and other Christians. Jesus said
we are to not only obey the Ten Commandments but teach them also yet
some people are doing the opposite. Why are these people so determined
to take this blessing from those who keep the Sabbath properly, and in
the way Jesus intended and not like the Pharisees who turned it into a
legalistic burden? What spirit is behind this? Why do so many professed
Christians try so desperately hard to avoid this special time with
their Creator God on His Holy day? The Sabbath should be our favourite
day of the week and it is for those who have searched for the Sabbath
truth and found it. God says we are to find this day a delight and a
blessing. God did not say we should call it legalism or a burden!
Isaiah
58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your
pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a DELIGHT, the holy of
the LORD, honourable; and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then
shall you delight thyself in the LORD...”
Like all the other
nine Commandments, it is a Commandment of love and thus loving God with
all your heart includes all the first four Commandments. Our God is not
a God of confusion that mixes a law that defines what love and sin is
with something that is not love or not sin. Whether we understand it or
not, to try and find reasons as to why the Sabbath is changed or ended
is no different than trying to find excuses as to why it is now
acceptable to worship idols or commit murder etc. There is another law
found in the Old Testament that was only for the Jews and had
ceremonial sabbaths but God did not place His Sabbath in this law. He
placed it in the Ten Commandments because that is where it belongs.
If
God sent an Angel to tell you that He loves you and sent His only Son
to die for you and that He wants you to spend quality time with Him on
a specific day that He blessed and sanctified, would you send the Angel
back to God with the message, “sorry God, that day is not convenient
for me” or “no God, I can't spend that time with you on your Holy day,
that's legalism” or even, “tell God that it does not have to be on His
Holy day and I will spend time with Him on that day that was used for
Sun worship that He detested instead.” Is that what we would really
say? Why is it so hard for us to rest in Jesus on His Holy day?
Many
Christians believe that there is only one or two denominations or
groups that keep the true Sabbath day when there are in fact over five
hundred Sabbath keeping denominations
that keep the true Seventh day Sabbath and that number is growing.
Whole chains of Churches are changing back after attending Prophecy
seminars run by people that have not been deceived by Satan's attempt
to keep Christians in the dark on the Sabbath truth or Bible prophecy
believing it cannot be understood. Do these hundreds of different
Church denominations with millions and millions of members know
something that we don’t? Who changed the Sabbath to Sunday?Below are statements from the Roman Catholic Church which give the
simple answer as to why most Churches now keep Sunday as the Sabbath.
Most Christians have no idea that this even happened or how it
happened. Revelation 13 tells us that Satan gave his power and
authority to the Catholic Church. Why? It was Satan's plan to have this
Church change the Sabbath to Sunday. Why did Satan do this? The Sabbath
is about who we give our allegiance to. If we obey God and keep His
Sabbath day Holy, we give our allegiance to God. If we obey the
Commandment of the Catholic Church and keep their day Holy, who do we
give our allegiance to then? The Catholic Church answers this question
below with two of their quotes. But looking deeper, who gave this
Church power so God’s true day of worship could be changed? Read Catholic Church Statements about the Sabbath for more quotes.
Does the Bible support the change to Sunday?
“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of
worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian
worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try
to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a
denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its
teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s
Challenge
www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003
“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the
Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday.
We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath
day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians
keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic]
church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9,
article “To Tell You the Truth.”
Who Made Sunday Holy?
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church
ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was
changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, not
from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the (Catholic)
Church’s sense of its own power...People who think that the Scriptures
should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day
Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.” St. Catherine Church Sentinel,
Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.
“Question - Which is the Sabbath day?
“Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer
- We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in
the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism
of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.
Whose Day of Worship is Sunday?
“They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday
holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have
no other reason...The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an
ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath
observance...The author of the Sunday law...is the Catholic Church.”
Ecclesiastical Review, February 1914.
“It is well to
remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other
Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their
observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic
Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the
Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News,
Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.
Who Do We Reverence by Keeping Sunday Holy?
“It was the Catholic church which...has transferred this rest to Sunday
in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore the
observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite
of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) church.” Monsignor
Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213.
What is Sunday? According to the dictionary/wikipedia: Sunday is the first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians.
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