"..to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." [JAMES 4:17]
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." [JAMES 2:10]
"He that is not with me is against me." [MATT 12:30]
"Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." [MATT 5:17]
"For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and My Words, of Him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come in His own glory." [LUKE 9:26]
Today's Christian churches feel it's permissible to ignore the Lord's Sabbath Day commandment. Does the Bible say to worship on Sunday? No. There are, in the new testament only 8 texts that mention Sunday, "the first day of the week."
Now, can we trust that Saturday is still the "seventh day of the week?" Good point. Have our calendars gotten fouled up and out of order over the several past centuries? There has been only one major change in the calendar, and that was the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. The Julian calendar allowed too many leap years; as a result the calendar was out of sync with the solar system.
The Romans gave us our modern calendar. Only one change has been made. In October of 1582, 10 days were dropped, but this did not affect the weekly cycle. "Friday" still followed "Thursday," "Sunday" still followed "Saturday." |
OCTOBER 1582 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4* 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31Even using other calendar systems where the date is adjusted, only the numerical date was altered. Never the order of the days of the week, nor did we ever skip over a day. ..think of the confusion it would cause worldwide! So, the Seventh Day of the week still remains "the seventh day of the week." Even when we add a day for leap year, it doesn't change the order. In 105 languages in use today, the word for Saturday has its root meaning "Sabbath." For example, the Latin Sabbatum, the Greek Sabbaton, the Russian Subbota, the Italian Sabbato, the Spanish Sabado. The history of the Jews, who have consistently kept the Sabbath from the Exodus event and still keep the Sabbath on Saturday today, indicates clearly which is the seventh day. During the Exodus, God by a double miracle of the manna clearly revealed which was the seventh day. Once every day a certain portion of manna would fall. There was always enough for everyone every day, but not to be kept for the next day -- it would rot. However, on Friday a double portion of manna fell and people had enough for two days, whereas on Saturday, no manna fell. For fourty years God performed this double miracle every week to thoroughly establish wich day was the seventh. The Jews have kept that same seventh day until thie present time. [EXO 16] What further Biblical evidence is there that the seventh day is Saturday? Jesus died on Good Friday. The day that He died is called in scripture "the day before the Sabbath." [MAR 15:42] The next day was Sabbath. The disciples rested on the Sabbath day, according to the commandment. [LUK 23:56] Following the Sabbath came Sunday. Jesus rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. The Bible says that the day He rose was the "day after the Sabbath." [MAR 16:1,2] Incidently the word 'Sunday' is never mentioned in the Bible. It is always refered to as the day after Sabbath or as the first day of the week. "Christianity" teaches that our only hope is to believe in Jesus, and Jesus has told us not to break even a single one of His commandments. So, "offend in one, and you are guilty of all." Like it or not, every Christian who worships on Sunday is honoring the Papacy, not Christ. Honoring "the beast," not God.
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