REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth Gen.1:1.
The act of creation was completed in six days. On the sixth day, God created man in His own likeness and His image. God created man a little lower than the angels. (Psalm 8:5). Man was given dominion over the fish of the sea, fowl of the air and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26).
God desired man to worship Him so He placed in the mind of man the aptitude for worship.
Sabbath keeping originated in the Garden of Eden as stated in Gen. 2:1-3, ‘Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.’
God rested from His six days of labour; not because He was tired but He wanted to institute His designated day of worship. When God wrote the Ten Commandments with His finger on the tables of stone, He included Sabbath keeping. He wanted us to know that He had given us the first six days to work and the seventh to focus on Him.
The Fourth Commandment says: Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
This commandment has not been changed by God. It will endure throughout eternity. Jesus stated in Matt. 5:18, ‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.’
The Beginning and Ending of the Sabbath
How can you know when a day begins or ends?
Gen. 1:2,5 ‘And the earth was without form and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night.
The beginning of the night is evening; this also marks the beginning of a new day. The night or darkness precedes the light of the day. The beginning of the light part of day is the morning.
A day does not begin at midnight neither in the morning when it is bright a day begins at sunset each evening. A day is first darkness then light.
According to the Scriptures the Lord’s Day is Sabbath. Mark 2:27-28 states, ‘The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.’
Historians record that Pope Sylvester (314-337A.D) popularised Sunday worship by naming Sunday the Lord’s Day. Sunday cannot be the Lord’s Day because Jesus said He was Lord of the seventh day, which is the Sabbath. After naming Sunday the Lord’s Day, they enforced Sunday worship through persecution of Sabbath keepers. The persecution was terrible; many were burned alive, skinned alive, thrown into hot liquids, fed to wild animals, tortured, endured thirst, hunger and homeless, pregnant mothers were torn apart and the premature babies murdered. Despite these acts of wickedness, the believers remained faithful to God’ Holy Commandments. They had rather obeyed God than follow the dictates of man.
How Should the Sabbath be Kept
The Sabbath is to be kept from sunset Friday evening to sunset Saturday evening. Friday is Preparation Day for the weekly Sabbath, it begins at sunset Thursday evening. On this day all food must be prepared for Sabbath. And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. (Exodus 16:23)
All necessary preparations must be put in place because the Sabbath was not designated for accomplishing our own agenda. All chores such as house cleaning, gardening, cooking, business transactions or activities of pleasure must not be done on the Sabbath.
The Sabbath is a day of reflection, meditation and for gathering spiritual strength. While the Israelites were wandering through the wilderness, God fed them daily with manna from heaven. No manna was sent on the seventh day, Sabbath; God instructed the Israelites to gather sufficient food for the sixth and seventh day. This was the only time that manna could be stored for more than one day. If manna was stored on any other day except on Sabbath it gathered worms and became stink.
JESUS, OUR EXAMPLE
Jesus is a Sabbath keeper and the Apostles whom He had left to continue the Ministry were Sabbath keepers that was why John said I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD'S DAY. HE KNEW THAT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH IS THE LORD'S DAY.
Here is proof that the Apostles continued to worship on the seventh day, Sabbath and taught others to do likewise.
Acts chapter 16 verse 13- And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Acts chapter 13 verses 14-16 -But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
Acts chapter 13 verses 44-46 - And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts chapter 14 verse one - And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts chapter 17 verse 2 -And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,”
The Change of the Sabbath
Daniel, the prophet, predicted that a powerful force would think to change times and laws. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (Dan. 7:25)
One way in which this satanic force tries to change God’s times and laws is by trying to change God’s day of worship from Sabbath to Sunday. The popular teaching that Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday morning has been used to cement Sunday worship. The Bible does not support a Sunday morning resurrection; it teaches us that Jesus was resurrected on a Sabbath evening.
These misquoted Scriptures are used to deceive the world. Some texts which are used are: Matt. 28:1, Mark 16:1, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20: 1,19; Acts 20:7; 1st Cor. 16:1,2. These texts are used to explain that the sanctity of the Sabbath has been transferred to Sunday. This is not the true explanation for these Scriptures. These Scriptures do not confirm that God endorses Sunday worship.
God showed Ezekiel how Israel had departed from His holiness and was engaged in idolatry. They were worshipping the sun. In Ezekiel chapter 8 verses 16-18 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
During his reign king Josiah began destroying idolatry and sodomites out of the land. He sought to create an environment which promoted true worship.
2 Kings 23 verses 5 and 11- And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Jeremiah chapter 8 verses 2-3 tell how God rewarded the disobedient people for their sins. At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
It is no different today, God hates idolatry; He warned us not to worship any other god except Him. Why are we worshipping the sun-god? THERE ARE NO SCRIPTURES TO SUPPORT THIS WORSHIP ONLY TRADITIONS.
In 321 A.D. Constantine passed the first Sunday law which stated, ‘Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun.’ Edict of March 7, 321 A.D. Corpus Juris Civilis Cod. Lib. 3. Tit. 12 Lex. 3 (taken from National Sunday Law, Marcussen 1999).
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The Edict of March 7, 321 AD, also known as Constantine's Sunday Law, was a law that declared Sunday a day of rest in the Western Roman Empire. The law was enacted by Emperor Constantine the Great to honor the sun god, Sol Invictus.
A careful study of history reveals that the change of the seventh day to the first day of worship is a united effort of the Catholic Church and State.
During the fourth century the Council of Laodicea in Asia Minor forbade Sabbath observance and implemented Sunday observance. Canon 21, stated that Christians should not Judaize or be idle on the Sabbath but should work. However, on the Lord’s Day they should, if possible, do no work. If they are found working, they shall be anathema from Christ. Charles Joseph Hefele. A History of the Councils of the Church vol. 2(1896 English ed.) p.316.
The Catholic Church reversed the Fourth Commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God’s word and instituting Sunday as a holiday.’ N. Summerbell. History of the Christian Church (1873) p.415.
Under the Roman rulership it was unlawful to be a Christian until 313 A.D., and until approximately 400 A.D. Sunday was not an official day of worship. Satan’s plan to officially rival God’s Day led to severe persecution of the saints. The saints however were steadfast and to a great extend maintained the Gospel of Truth.
Even sections of America accepted Sunday as the designated day of worship. The first Sunday law was passed in Virginia, U.S.A. on May 25, 1610. This is referred to as the Sunday Blue Law. There were strict penalties attached to the breaking of the law. This was not new because Sabbath keepers were violently persecuted from 538 B.C –1798 a total of 1260 year. (Rev. 12:6)
Written historical records tells us that Pope Innocent viii in 1487 while venting his anger against Sabbath keepers ordered that the malicious and abominable sects of malignant if they refuse to abjure, is to be crushed like venomous snakes.
This was a call to exterminate all those who refused to accept tradition instead of doctrine.
The significance of the Sabbath
The Catholic Church boasts, ‘We observe Sunday instead of Sabbath because the Catholic Church at the Council of Laodocia transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. The Converts’ Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 3rd Ed. P.50.
The Catholic Press reported, ‘Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observation can be defended only on Catholic principles…...From the beginning of the Scriptures there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of the weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.’ adapted from National Sunday Law.
Sunday is the mark of the Catholic’s authority to overrule God’s law. This is contrary to God’s plan.
God’s Seal
A seal is used for legal and official purposes. It is a sign of authority. There are three components to a seal.
A) The name of the ruler
B) The title which the ruler possesses
C) The domain over which the ruler dominates
The ruler expects the citizens to be supportive of any document that bears the seal. The Lord expects all humans to be supportive and abide by His laws which is His seal. The seal of God is on the forehead. In the forehead can be found the portion of the brain which contains the mind or conscience. This part of the brain is called the frontal lobe.
Hebrew 10:16 states, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them.’
The Fourth Commandment tells us the NAME– THE LORD, HIS TITLE– THY GOD, HIS DOMAIN—THE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS.
Satan knows that the Fourth Commandments points to God’s authority so he desires to corrupt the truth and put in place his counterfeit.
Ezekiel 20:12,20 tell us that the Sabbath is a sign between God and man. When we keep the Sabbath, it shows that there is a connection between us and God.
Some persons teach that the Sabbath is solely for the Jews. It is true that when God needed true worshippers He chose Abraham and his descendants to build a people who would propagate righteousness. The descendants of Abraham did not fulfill their calling but that did not stop God's plan for the redemption of the world. Jesus came and died for the world and the Gentiles who were idolaters were engrafted into the wonderful plan of salvation.
(Romans 11)
Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles (Rom. 11:13) confirmed that Christ died for the world (Romans 5:8) Christ’s death broke down the middle wall of partition and gave us the right to call God, Father.
Galatians 3: 28, tells us that there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.’
One day Jesus will put in His appearance and He will not judge us on man’s traditions. All who rejected the Sabbath and any of the other nine Commandments shall be cast into damnation. Isaiah 66:23 states, ‘And it shall be that from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord.’ In the new earth and heaven, Sabbath keeping is a must. It is a continuation of what is practised now on earth. How can one obey then what they refuse to obey now? Those who refuse to follow the Commandments of God, speak lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron. (1st Tim. 4:2)
My friends, the explanation has been given; it is now your decision as to whom you will serve. The words of God stands sure and He changes not. Malachi 3:6 tells us, ‘For I am the Lord I change not.’
Here is a quote from Jesus, Matthew 5:17-19, ‘Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, I am not come to destroy but to fulfil; For verily I say unto you: till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these Commandments and shall teach men so shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.’
Take heed, let no one deceive you, as long as you had heard you must obey or else you cannot enter the everlasting Kingdom of God. Study and ask God for understanding. It is your eternal destination that is in danger. Remember do the will of God not what is convenient to you. Please do it the Lord’s way.
Writer - A. E. Fisher
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