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Wielding the Sword of the Spirit

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of

the Spirit, which is the word of God ..." Ephesians 6:17.

Amos 8:11 "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send afamine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but ofhearing the words of the LORD:"

As prophecied, most Christians refuse to open Bibles today to verify whattheir pastors say. In this age of convenience they have been conditioned totrust the pastors without question. This prophecied lukewarmmindset, asRevelation 3:16 calls it, has given rise to false preachers all around theworld. These wolves in sheeps clothing can easily lie to their congregationsknowing with absolute confidence that the majority of their victims willnever check up on them. As for the small number of Christians that doinvestigate their false message using the Bible, they are quickly kicked outof the churches so as to prevent the truth from spreading. To keep thoseremaining in the church happy, they now preach prosperity messages onhow to gain wealth, amusing sermons, and even rock music mixed withGospel lyrics to keep the people entertained. As prophecied, they then usefalse doctrines that all the world agrees with to make their flock feel they


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are safe and doing the right thing with the thought that since everyoneelse believes in this way it must be right. Case in point, one of the oldest

and most successfully evangelized false doctrines has to be the so calledSunday sabbath. In this tract we will look at the verses they claim aresaying the Sabbath has been changed from the seventh day to the first dayof the week.

CLAIM #1 Acts 20:7 And upon the first [day] of the week, when thedisciples came together tobreak bread, Paul preached unto them, ready todepart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

This meeting was held at night. If you read on you also find in the next

verse it mentions the "many lights in the upper chamber. Later in verse11 it also states after they ate, Paul talked a long while, even till break ofday.The question then is, are they saying this a church service becausethey broke bread, and since it was on the first dayit must mean theSabbath was changed? Problem with that thought is, inActs 2:46 it saysthat they normally continued "daily breaking bread from house tohouse."Since they define this is a church service, this must be the formatthe church must emulate today. IfActs 20:7 is the definitive proof weneed to validate Sabbath being changed from the seventh day to the first

day of the week, then all Sunday keeping churches must... Hold church at NIGHT

Hold church EVERY NIGHT

Hold church TILL THE BREAK OF DAY

CLAIM #2 I Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first [day] of the week letevery one of you lay by him in store, as [god] hath prospered him, thatthere be no gatherings when I come.

There is absolutely no reference whatsoever of a public meeting, or churchservice mentioned here for when Paul arrives. Some declare this to be achurch service because Paul is gathering what they call tithes. But if youread past the verse they give out of context, you find the word liberalityis actually used to describe this offering in verse #3 of that same chapter.That word defined is monetary giftin Strongs Bible Concordance.(#5485) Also notice Paul is asking for that to be given from what "Godhath prospered"in the passage given to sanction Sunday as sabbath. I ask,is this normal tithing practices of a church service to give from what God


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has prospered which is now stored in savings? Is not Luke 18:12 ratherplain wherein it says, "I give tithes of all that I possess."

Biblical truth is, it's not a church service because first and foremost it'snever declared as such. Nor is it tithing that Paul is gathering, which forsome reason they claim makes it a church service. Paul was gathering whatwe call love offerings today. Finally, if the entire passage is read incontext its discovered the passage is actually about Paul stopping by onhis way to Jerusalem to pick up financial relief for the Christians in financialdistress in Jerusalem. (SeeRomans 15:26, &Acts 11:26-30which alsoconfirm this as fact.)

CLAIM #3 Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, andheard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

Some use this verse to declare Sunday is now Sabbath simply becauseJohn uses the term "the Lord's day."Truth is, the Scriptures already definethe seventh day Sabbath as the Lord's day thousands of years prior inIsaiah 58:13 wherein we find the Lord calling, "the sabbath, my holyday;quite bluntly. Even Jesus Himself stated in the New TestamentScriptures in Matthew 12:8 that, the Son of man is Lord even of theSabbath day.

Many forget the very first thing recorded in the Bible itself is work beingdone on Sunday in Genesis 1:1-5. God in point of fact commands all mento work upon the first day of the week in the heart of the TenCommandments in Exodus 20:8-11. He specifically says in verse nine ofthat Commandment that, "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:"Is it wrong for us to obey God? Did not the apostles state inActs 5:29that, we ought to obey God rather then men.God calls Sunday a workday in Exodus 23:12; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2, Leviticus 23:3,Deuteronomy 5:13, Ezekiel 46:1 and Luke 13:14 as well.

"...as a solar festival, Sunday was the sacred day of Mithra; and it isinteresting to notice that since Mithra was addressed, as Dominus, 'Lord,"Sunday must have been 'the Lord's Day' long before Christian times." -ThePaganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, p136

The term "The Lord's day"was first coined by John in the book ofRevelation for the New Testament Christian church, yes. But the Pagans ofold used that term to describe their "lord's day" as well. When Constantine


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demanded all Christians keep Sunday holy in 321AD, he also called it the"lord's day" at that time. The warped history being preached by pastors

today, wherein they changed what John referred to as "Sabbath" to whatthe Pagan's referred to as "Sunday" proves the Vatican was involved in thisprophecied end time agenda. For they have admitted time and time againthe following for all the world to see.

"The [Catholic] Church took the pagan philosophy and made it the bucklerof faith against the heathen. She took the pagan Roman Pantheon, templeof all the gods, and made it sacred to all the martyrs; so it stands to thisday. She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday.The sun has worshipers at this hour in Persia and other lands . . . Hencethe Church would seem to say, 'Keep that old pagan name [Sunday]. Itshall remain consecrated, sanctified.' And thus the pagan Sunday,dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus"--William L. Gildea, "Paschale Gaudium," in The Catholic World, 58,March, 1894, p. 809 [A Roman Catholic weekly].

As prophecied by Daniel 7:25, this church has most assuredly tried tochange the times and lawsof the Creator God.

CLAIM #4 Mark 2:23-28 "And it came to pass, that he went through

the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went,to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why dothey on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? And he said unto them,Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was anhungred, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house ofGod in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread,which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them whichwere with him? And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man,and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the

sabbath."

Some have recently started using this passage to say the Sabbath is nolonger valid because Jesus broke it, or disregarded it when He was walkingamong us. First of all, nowhere in this passage does it say Jesus abolishedor broke the Sabbath. What it does say here is the Pharisees assumedJesus and the apostles were breaking the commandment by picking corn toeat. Yet Jesus proves with Scriptural facts regarding King David, whom theJews respected, that He and His apostles were not breaking Sabbath at all.


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Jesus clearly corrected the false teachings of the Pharisees here. If it wasok for David to relieve his hunger and the hunger of those with him by

eating bread that had been consecrated and set apart for holy use, then itwas perfectly ok for the disciples of Christ to satisfy their hunger byplucking the corn on Sabbath day as well. Both David and the Apostleswere in Gods employment. Basic reality dictates the temple priests, andeven pastors today, perform greater labors on each Sabbath as they doGods work, do they not? The same type of labor in secular business wouldin fact be considered sinful. However, the work of the priests was in theservice of God. The labors they performed each Sabbath pointed to theredeeming power of Christ. Their labor was in perfect harmony with the

object of the Sabbath day so as to get the work done that brought soulsinto the truth. But now, Christ Himself had come, and was walking amongthem. As all Christians will agree, the disciples, were employed by God todo a holy and sanctified work. They were merely doing that which wasnecessary for the achievement of their Heavenly appointed work onSabbath day. Jesus confirmed this truth by stating He is Lord of theSabbath.Seeing how His apostles followed and emulated Him, this provesthey are employed to do His work and therefore free from guilt. Justbecause the Pharisees didnt see them as men employed by God doesnt

make it true.Jesus or His apostles didnt break the Sabbath here at all. Biblical truth is,sin is the transgression of the lawaccording to 1John 3:4. In otherwords, breaking the Law of God is how sin is committed. Commandment#4 concerns the Sabbath day. To say Jesus broke Sabbath, is to say Jesussinned by breaking Gods Law. This is exactly what the Pharisees are tryingto declare here because they hated Him and His message. Yet as Christianswe know Christ never sinned. Truth is, if He did commit sin, He wouldnever have been that spotless Lamb of God, and Saviour to you and me.

Jesus proved in Mark chapter two that the Pharisees were in errorregarding a sin they invented about plucking corn on Sabbath day forGospel workers. Yes, it would be sin for those that harvested corn for aliving if done so on the Sabbath. But Jesus and His apostles were notemployed as farmers. They were simply hungry men employed of God.

By the way, for those who assume it is ok to break Sabbath by using thispassage, you are in reality trusting the word of a non-believing Pharisee,who was just corrected and exposed as in error by Jesus Christ Himself. In


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they can in no way be considered the weekly Sabbath when 5 are keptwithin 15 days.

By the way, this is not the only reason the sabbaths in Colossians 2:14-17 cant possibly be weekly Sabbaths. When you read Leviticus 23:23-38 you will notice it talks about the meat and drink offerings mentioned inthe same way they are spoken of in Colossians 2:14-17. If these annualsabbaths are the same as the Sabbath mentioned in the Law of God, then Imust ask all that use this passage to preach Sunday as the ChristianSabbath to please share with me where in the Ten Commandments theysee "meat, drink, holydays, or new moonsas we see Colossians chapter 2speaking of. I must also ask if they do believe this verse preaches such a

thing, why dont their Sunday keeping churches honor meat, drink,holydays, or new moonstoday?

The Law of God is not the same as the law of Moses that Leviticus andColossians are obviously referring to here. Moses law, or commandmentscontained in ordinances ended at the cross as Ephesians 2:15 proved.

And Gods Law stands forever as Luke 16:17 proclaimed.

Hebrews 9:1,10 says, "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinancesof divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. Which stood only in meats and

drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them untilthe time of reformation."

CLAIM #6 Galatians 4:9-11, "But now, after that ye have knownGod, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak andbeggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Yeobserve days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest Ihave bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Some believe this is speaking of Sabbaths because the word "days"in a

way that suggests religious observance. However, again we find that theweekly Sabbath is not mentioned here at all. If this is read in context wefind that Paul knew how the Galatians were at one time Pagans, andtherefore used to ritualistic forms of worship. The Jewish converts toChristianity, like those in the book of Colossians, wanted to continue onwith their feast days. Their legalistic form of worship appealed to theGalatians because of their Pagan roots, and had to be dealt with by Paulbecause he hoped to prevent what we now see happening today. Liketodays feast day movement, they sought to mix the annual Sabbaths into


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New Testament church worship. This carnal law was only until the time ofreformationas we learned earlier. By causing the Galatians to fall for this

error they were able to eclipse the atoning work of Christ on Calvary justas the enemy of souls planned. By observing these days and monthstheywere declaring their own abilities, rather then Christs sacrifice suitable forsalvation. But the truth is its "Not of works, lest any man should boast."(Ephesians 2:9) This is also why Paul was concerned his preaching tothem was a labour in vainbecause they were showing signs of desiringto be in bondage to the annual sabbaths Jesus already declared werefinishedat the cross. If you notice, this is the same method of twistingthe false preachers used with Colossians 2:16-17. Therefore the same

method of revelation can be used to expose it. Where I ask in theCommandments does it speak ofdays, months, times, & yearsas wesee it doing in Galatians? Since it doesn't, this passage cant possibly bespeaking of the Sabbath.

CLAIM #7 Romans 14:5 "One man esteemeth one day aboveanother: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fullypersuaded in his own mind.

Again, nowhere in this passage does it say we should keep Sunday as

Sabbath. This is again speaking of the annual holy-days that some of theJews still felt compelled to keep. Most Gentile converts to Christianity werenot compelled to keep such feast days. Many of the Jews had difficulty ingiving up their life long traditions. A good way to compare this with todaysChristian church is where some keep Pagan holidays like Christmas andEaster, where others prefer not partake in such celebrations andmerrymaking. If they truly see no wrong in this act, we are not to judgethem. We can try to warn them of course, but thats where our job ends.Thats why it clearly states, Let every man be fully persuaded in his own

mindhere. We cannot force any man to believe anything we believe. Bythe way, if you read all of Romans 14, you will discover the true topic andfind it was again taken completely out of context.

God never rested on the first day of the week. He never blessed it, nor didHis Son Jesus ever acknowledge the first day of the week in any way shapeor form. The Apostles never rested on it either. In fact, the New TestamentChristians were never recorded as being at rest on the first day of theweek in any historic reference, or bible Scripture known to man. If thosethat believe such things would have researched their own church history


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they would have found that in 321AD Constantine made the Pagan Sundaysabbath law of the land. Historic fact is, all Christians kept Sabbath for

hundreds of years after Jesus ascended. Think about that fact for amoment. Had you known that, you would have known before your pastorsspoke that every verse ever used to suggest the Apostles were part of, oreven alive during the Sabbath to Sunday change was a bold faced liebecause it was never suggested to be changed until 321AD, hundreds ofyears after they died. When 321AD came, only those Christians that fearedRoman rule and failed to trust God kept Sunday as sabbath. The lyingpreachers of today would have you believe the Sabbath was changedduring the time the Bible was penned. Historic, and biblical fact is, they

lied.You cannot find one single line of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation thatproclaims Sunday to be blessed, sanctified, made holy, or even enforced!Think about that for a moment. NO LAW was ever made by the God ofcreation to enforce the first day of the week. Romans 4:15, says"...where no law is, there is no transgression."You cannot commit sinunless there is a law being broken. Would not our Lord and Saviour at leastgiven us one simple verse to proclaim Sunday as the Sabbath if in fact Hemeant to do such a thing? Why should we as His followers consider

something holy that He never considered to be holy? The reality here isthat it is simply called. "The first day of the week"in all Scripture fromGenesis to Revelation.

One more thing should be mentioned here. Many do claim that the dayJesus rose from the dead is the reason all should keep Sunday holy.However, the Word of God is quite clear about how we as Christians are toacknowledge the death and resurrection of Christ. It is not as all theSunday preachers suggest by going to church on Sunday. It is done by

baptism.Romans 6:3-5, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized intoJesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried withhim by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the deadby the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shallbe also in the likeness of his resurrection:"


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In other words, when you go under the water, you symbolize andacknowledge His death and burial. When you come out of the water, you

symbolize and acknowledge His resurrection. Merely stepping into a churchon the day He arose each week simply cannot do this. In fact, if His deathand resurrection was really the reason for going to church on Sunday, whyis it no one goes to church every Friday? Isnt that the day He died?

A $10,000.00 CHALLENGESome years ago I posted on the ministry website a challenge for allpastors, preachers and even bible studying Christians to find a verse thatdeclares God changed the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week tothe first day of the week. If they were able to send the verse, I promised

(and still do) to send them $10,000.00 cash! Since then I have receivedquite a few attempts from people using the verses I shared in this tract.Not a single pastor, preacher, or bible teacher have ever been able to findthat verse. What most people are unaware of is, all of the religious leadershave already agreed in writing there is no such verse in the Bible wherein itsays God changed the Sabbath from the day seven to day one. ThisSunday sabbath is nothing more than a "TRADITION OF MEN." (Mark 7:8)

Think about this as well. The Lord thy God worked on that day when He

started creation. He even worked on this day when He rose Jesus from thedead 2000 years ago. Biblical and historic fact is, He actually rested andleft His Son in the tomb on the Sabbath day. Even the New TestamentChristian women who went to anoint the body of Jesus, stopped in theirtracks and decided not to anoint Him because the Sabbath was drawingnear. Luke 23:56 tells us that those women, rested the Sabbath dayaccording to the commandment

Without getting too technical. It's easy to see that the Lord's day is in factthe 7th day. This same God that said in Malachi 3:6For I [am] the Lord,

I change not... also said in Psalms 89:34 regarding this covenant that weshould not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.TheSabbath is important because the LORD made heaven and earth, thesea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore theLORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.(Exodus 20:11) And IChronicles 17:27 says ...it shall be blessed for ever.

If your church uses the scriptures shared here to say Sunday is theSabbath, then the Lord plainly says in Revelation 18:4 that you should


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Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, andthat ye receive not of her plagues.

After all is said and done, if you just read this entire tract, you know thatyou just discovered Biblical evidence that absolutely every single verseevery used to claim Sunday is the Sabbath was done so in a deceptivemanner to make Scripture appear to say something it never said. Some willask why have all the churches done such an evil act as this? In Daniel 7:25we find it prophecied that a beast would think to changethe Sabbath soas to get all the worldto wonder after him as Revelation 13:3 predictshappens right before the end of the World. Look around. Do you see itfulfilled? All Christian churches now keep Sunday as Sabbath, even though

you now know for a fact there is not a single verse in the Christian Bible towarrant such change as this. In case you missed the hint as to who it isthat changed the Sabbath earlier. Perhaps the following will help.

The first states:

Question Which is the Sabbath day?Answer Saturday is theSabbath day. Question Why do we observe Sunday instead of

Saturday?AnswerWe observe Sunday instead of Saturday because theCatholic church, in the Council of Laodicea (364 A.D.) transferred thesolemnity from Saturday to Sunday (Peter Geiermann [a RomanCatholic priest], The Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine,second edition, p. 50).

[We have] disposed of every text to be found in the New Testamentreferring to the Sabbath (Saturday), and to the first day of the week(Sunday); and [here] shown conclusively from these texts, that, so far, nota shadow of pretext can be found in the Sacred Volume for the Biblicalsubstitution of Sunday for Saturday. Catholic Mirror, Sept. 16, 1893


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Question: Do you have any other way of proving that the church haspower to institute festivals and precepts?Answer: Had she not such

power she could not have done that which all modern religionists agreewith her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the firstday of the week, for the observance of Saturday, a change for which thereis no Scriptural authority (Stephen Keenan,A Doctrinal Catechism).

In corroboration ofA Doctrinal Catechism,The Catholic Mirror,whichwas the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore,Maryland, USA, over which the eminent Cardinal Gibbons presided, stated,

The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of aProtestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturdayto Sunday." (1893, p. 29)

In fact, a few Christians in the mid-second century had adopted the paganday of the Roman Empire in order to escape confusion with Jews duringperiods of anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire. Justin Martyr in 155 wasthe first to mention this practice, but it was not a general practice inChristendom and was based upon fear of persecution, not Scripturalmandate.

In corroboration ofA Doctrinal Catechism,The Catholic Mirror,whichwas the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore,Maryland, USA, over which the eminent Cardinal Gibbons presided, stated,

The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of aProtestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturdayto Sunday." (1893, p. 29)

In fact, a few Christians in the mid-second century had adopted the paganday of the Roman Empire in order to escape confusion with Jews duringperiods of anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire. Justin Martyr in 155 wasthe first to mention this practice, but it was not a general practice inChristendom and was based upon fear of persecution, not Scripturalmandate.


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The Catholic Mirror states its conclusion emphatically.

Hence the conclusion is inevitable; viz., that of those who follow the Bibleas their guide, the Israelites and Seventh-day Adventists, have theexclusive weight of evidence on their side, whilst the Biblical Protestant hasnot a word in self-defence for his substitution of Sunday for Saturday.Catholic Mirror, Sept. 9, 1893.

We must remember that every book of the New Testament was writtendecades after the death of Jesus. Eight times the first day of the week(Sunday) is mentioned (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John

20:1,19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). Not once is it referred to asthe Lords Day. Not once! The first six of these texts simply state thatChrist rose from the dead on Sunday. The passage in 1 Corinthians merelyadmonishes the Christians to gather their offerings on Sunday.

Many Protestants, seeking to escape the Roman Catholic taunt that theacceptance of Sunday sacredness is an implied acceptance of the claimedpapal authority to institute ecclesiastical festivals and precepts (laws) notfound in Scripture, grasp atActs 20:7as the Biblical support of theirSunday worship.

Let us examine this passage of Scripture:

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together tobreak bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow;and continued his speech until midnight (Acts 20:7).

There is no question that the believers met on Sunday. Unquestionablythey "broke bread" on the Sunday. This fact has frequently been used as

evidence that a communion service was held and thus Sunday must havebeen held sacred by Paul and the believers at Troas. This matter meritsinvestigation.

Paul, the biblical record states, "continued his speech until midnight" (Acts20:7). At about this time a tragedy occurred when a young man,Eutychus, fell asleep and fell from the window of the third loft and waskilled (v. 9). Paul went downstairs and, through the power of God,Eutychus was restored to life (v. 10). Undoubtedly this procedure took


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some minutes, and it was the very early hours of the second day of theweek (Monday) when Paul returned upstairs to the room where he had

been preaching. It is pertinent to the matter under discussion to recordthat which occurred on that early Monday morning:

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten,and talked a long while, even till break of day,so he departed (Acts 20:11).

Thus Scripture testifies that Paul "had broken bread" on Monday morning.Yet no Christian uses this fact to support Monday sacredness. The fact that

bread was broken also on Monday morning seriously diminishes the use ofActs 20:7as evidence of Sunday sacredness.

But this is not all. What does the term "to break bread" mean? Once moreScripture comes to our aid as its own interpreter:

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breakingbread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness andsingleness of heart (Acts 2:46).

Notice what this text reveals. Firstly, the early Christians, filled with thepower of Pentecost, broke bread daily. So whatever the term "to breakbread" meant, it provides absolutely no basis for selecting one of the sevendays of the week as the special day of worship, for bread was broken on alldays of the week.

Secondly, we have in this passage, clear evidence of the Biblical meaningof the term "to break bread." In other Scripture verses, this meaningincludes the participation in the communion service. But plainly, this

Scripture states, in qualifying this breaking of bread, that "they did eattheir meat with gladness and singleness of heart." The word "meat" asused in the 17th and 18th centuries simply meant "food."

But there is yet another matter that requires our attention as we seek tounderstand this matter. If the day upon which the communion service wasconducted indicated the timing of Sabbath observance, then surely wewould follow Christs example and keep holy the day on which He institutedthis ordinance. Since the first Lords Supper was held on the evening


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before Christs crucifixion, such a concept would lead us to observeThursday as our day of worship. No Christian follows such an absurdity.

ThusActs 20:7as a valid support for Sunday sacredness falls on threecounts 1) the breaking of bread was a daily matter; 2) the Scripturalmeaning of the term was to enjoy a meal; and 3) Christ instituted theLords Supper on a Thursday evening. In citing these three irrefutablefacts, we have not mentioned that the Jewish day commenced, not atmidnight, but at sunset. Thus long before midnight, by Jewish (andScriptural) reckoning, Paul had been preaching on the second day of theweek, Monday. Manifestly, the use ofActs 20:7does not present a strong

case for Sunday sacredness and, indeed, is quite invalid as a Scripturalargument for Sunday observance.*

Once more, we would remind each reader that at no time do the Biblicalwriters refer to the first day of the week as the Lords Day. Constantly theyrefer to the Sabbath, never once referring to it as the former Sabbath or inany other way indicating that the seventh day of the week no longer heldvalidity as Gods holy day. That would be remarkable if Christs deathaltered His law since, as we have stated, every book of the New Testamentwas written decades after Christs death. Indeed, the seventh-day Sabbathis mentioned in the New Testament no less than 60 times.

There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but thatSabbath Day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with someshow of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to thefirst day of the week.Where can the record of such a transaction befound? Not in the New Testament absolutely not.Of course, I quitewell know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as areligious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers, and other sources.

But WHAT A PITY that it comes branded with the mark of paganism, andchristened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned bythe papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!Dr. Edward T. Hiscox (author of the Baptist Manual), SourceBook, pp. 513,514.

Centuries of the Christian era passed away before Sunday was observed bythe Christian church as the Sabbath. History does not furnish us with aSINGLE PROOF or INDICATION that it was AT ANY TIME so observed


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previous to the Sabbatical edict of Constantine in 321 A.D. Sir WilliamDomville, of the Church of England, The Sabbath or An

Examination of the Six Texts, p. 291.

So some have tried to build the observance of Sunday upon apostoliccommand, whereas the apostles gave no command on the matter.Thetruth is, as soon as we appeal to the Litera scripta (the literal writing) ofthe Bible, the Sabbatarians have the best of the argument. ThePresbyterian At Work, editorial, April 19, 1883.

It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday,

we are not keeping the Sabbath. The Sabbath was founded on a specific,divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance ofSunday.There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest thatwe incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday. Dr.W. R. Dale (Congregational), The Ten Commandments, pp.106,107.

The observance of the Lords day (Sunday) is founded not on anycommand of God, but on the authority of the church. AugsburgConfession of Faith (Lutheran).

The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a humanordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish adivine command in this respect, far from them and from the early apostolicchurch to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. JohannNeander (Episcopalian), General History of the Christian Religionand Church, p. 186.

Sunday observance, as the author of the Baptist Manual,Dr. Edward

Hiscox, stated, is based upon no better principle than

it comes branded with the mark of paganism, christened with the nameof the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by papal apostasy, andbequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism (Source Book,p. 514).


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"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbathto Sunday) was her act...And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiasticalauthority in religious things." -H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of CardinalGibbons. Nov. 11, 1895

"Sunday is our MARK of authority. . .the church is above the Bible, and thistransference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact" -CatholicRecord of London, Ontario Sept 1,1923.

The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. TheCatholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day,

and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entirecivilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of theholy Catholic church! -Fr Enright, C.S.S.R. History of the Sabbath, p.802

"Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which allmodern religionists agree with her; --she could not have substituted theobservance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance ofSaturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scripturalauthority." -Rev. Stephan Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, "On theObedience Due to the Church," chap. 2, p. 174. (Imprimatur, JohnCardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.)

"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on thatday from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this lawamong the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read theBible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single lineauthorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce thereligious observance of Saturday, a day which we neversanctify." -James

Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73."Is not yet too late for Protestants to redeem themselves. Will they do it?...will they indeed take the written word only, the Scripture alone, as theirsole authority and their sole standard? Or will they still hold theindefensible, self contradictory, and suicidal doctrine and practice offollowing the authority of the Catholic church and wear the SIGN of herauthority? Will they keep the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day,according to Scripture? Or will they keep the Sundayaccording to the


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Empire...This astrology originated in Egypt, where Alexandria now soloudly proclaimed it to all... 'The day of the sun' was the Lord's day,

the chiefest and first of the week. The evil and fatal Saturn's day wasthe last of the week on which none could celebrate a feast.. DagligeLiv i Norden, Vol.XIII, pp.91,92

"This Sunday law constituted no real favoratism to Christianity..... Itis evident from all his statuatory provisions that the Emperor duringthe time 313-323 with full consciousness has sought the realisation ofhis religeous aim: the amalgamation of heathenism and Christianity."-Dr. A.Chr. Bang - Kirken og Romerstaten (The Church andthe Roman State) p.256. Christiania, 1879

T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, Feb. 18,

1884. "I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove tome from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. Thereis no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Churchalone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.'The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I abolish theSabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of theweek.' And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverentobedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church."

"The seventh-day Sabbath was...solmenised by Christ, and primitive

Christians, till the Laodicean Council did in a manner quite abolish theobservations of it." - Dissertation on the Lord's Day pp. 33, 34,44

"Because the Third Commandment (which is really the fourthcommandment but Catholicism does away with the secondcommandment so they do not have to acknowledge their idolatrywhich to them makes the Sabbath the third~kh) depends upon theremembrance of God's saving works and because Christians saw the

definitive time inaugurated by Christ as a new beginning, they madethe first day after the Sabbath a festive day, for that was the day onwhich the Lord rose from the dead."- Pope John Paul II-DIESDOMINI-Dies Hominis v.18, May 31, 1998

"The distinction of Sunday from the Jewish Sabbath grew everstronger in the mind of the Church, even though there have beentimes in history when, because the obligation of Sunday rest was soemphasized, the Lord's Day tended to become more like the Sabbath.Moreover, there have always been groups within Christianity which


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observe both the Sabbath and Sunday as "two brother days"."-(v.23)Pope John Paul II-DIES DOMINI-Dies Hominis, May 31,

1998 "The ancient Christians were very careful in the observation of

Saturday, or the seventh-day...It is plain that the Oriental churches,and the greatest part of the world, observed the Sabbath as afestival...Anthanasius likewise tells us that they held religiousassemblies on the Sabbath, not because they were infected withJudaism, but to worship Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, Epiphaniussays the same." -Antiquities of the Christian Church, Vol II,Book XX

Stephen Keenan- A Doctrinal Catechism Third Edition "Question:

Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power toinstitute festivals of precept? "Answer: Had she not such power, shecould not have done that in which all modern religionists agree withher-she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, thefirst day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventhday, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."

Daniel Ferres- ed., Manual of Christian Doctrine (1916)"Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command

feasts and holy days? "Answer. By the very act of changing theSabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and therefore theyfondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, andbreaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.'

The Catholic Press said, "Sunday is a Catholic institution, and itsclaims to observation can be defended only on Catholic principles . . .From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage thatwarrants the transfer of week public worship from the last day of theweek to the first."- CATHOLIC PRESS, (Sydney, Australia), Aug.

25, 1900. James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-

1921), in a signed letter."Is Saturday the seventh day according tothe Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday thefirst day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day -Saturday- for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ changethe day'? I answer no!" Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons"


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"The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changedthe day from Saturday to Sunday."- The Catholic Mirror, official

publication of James Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893. Catholic Virginian Oct. 3, 1947- "To Tell You the Truth." "For

example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostlesordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. Wehave the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy theSabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today mostChristians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the[Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible."

"They despise our sun-god, Did not Zoroaster, the sainted founder of

our divine beliefs, institute Sunday one thousand years ago in honourof the sun and supplant the Sabbath of the Old Testament. Yet theseChristians have divine services on Saturday. - O'Leary, The SyriacChurch and Fathers, pp 83,84

Episcopalian- Bishop Seymour, -Why We Keep Sunday. "Wehave made the change from the seventh day to the first day, fromSaturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy CatholicChurch."

Alexander Campbell,- The Christian Baptist, Feb. 2, 1824,

"'But,' say some, 'it was changed from the seventh to the first day.'Where? when? and by whom? No man can tell. No; it never waschanged, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone throughagain: for the reason assigned must be changed before theobservance, or respect to the reason, can be changed! It is all oldwives' fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventhto the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personagechanged it who changes times and laws ex officio - I think his nameis Doctor Antichrist.'

"Examining the New Testament from cover to cover, critically, we

find the sabbath referred to sixty-one times. We find too, that theSaviour invariably selected the Sabbath (Saturday) to teach in thesynagogues and work miracles. The four Gospels refer to theSabbath fifty-one times. In one instance , the Redeemer refers toHimself as 'Lord of the Sabbath' as mentioned by Matthew and Luke,but, during the whole record of His life, while invaribly keeping andutilizing the day, (Saturday), He never once hinted at a desire to


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change it. "- The Catholic Mirror Nov. 25 1893. J. CardinalGibbons.

"...with the Bible alone as the teacher and guide in faith and morals.

This teacher most emphatically forbids any changes in the day forparamount reasons. The command calls for a 'perpetual covenant'.The day commanded to be kept by the teacher (The Bible) has neveronce been kept (by the Protestant or Catholic churches), therebydeveloping an apostasy from an asumedly fixed principle, as self-contradictory, self-stultisfying, and consequently as suicidal as it iswithin the power of language to express." - The Catholic MirrorNov. 25, 1893, Cardinal Gibbons

"The Sabbath is a part of the decalogue - the Ten Commandments.

This alone forever settles the question as to the perpetuity of theinstitution . . . . Until, therefore, it can be shown that the wholemoral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand . . . . Theteaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath."Presbyterian T. C. Blake, D.D., -Theology Condensed.

DENOMINATIONS slightly outside of Rome (The Catholic Church) thatADMIT the Seventh Day Sabbath was NEVER changed by God...

Anglican: Nowhere commanded to keep the first day"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the firstday at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we arenowhere commanded to keep the first day. The reason why we keepthe first of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same

reason that we observe many other things, - not because the Bible,but because the church, has enjoined [commanded] it." IsaacWilliams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, Vol. 1, pp 334,336.

Anglican/Episcopal: The Catholics changed it "We have made thechange from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday toSunday, on the authority of the one holy, Catholic, Apostolic Churchof Christ." Episcopalian Bishop Symour, Why we keep Sunday.


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Baptist: Sunday Sabbath not in the scriptures "There was and is acommandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day

was not on Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show oftruimph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the Seventh to theFirst day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions.Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studiedfor many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction befound? Not in the New Testament - absolutely not. There is noscriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from theSeventh to the First day of the week... "I wish to say that thisSabbath question, in this aspect of it, is the gravest and most

perlexing question connected with Christian institutions which atpresent claims attention from Christian people; and the only reasonthat it is not a more disturbing element in Christian thought and inreligious discussion is because the Christian world has settled downcontent on the conviction that some how a transference has takenplace at the beginning of Christian history. "To me it seemsunaccountable that Jesus, during three years' discussion with Hisdisciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question,discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false

glosses [of Jewish traditions], never alluded to any transference ofthe day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no suchthing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, whichwas given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever thatHe had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did theinspired apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches,counseling and instruction those founded, discuss or approach thesubject."Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early

Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the ChristianFathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes brandedwith the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of a sungod, when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, andbequeathed as a sacred legacy to protestantism!" Dr. Edward Hiscox,author of The Baptist Manual. From a photostatic copy of a notarizedstatement by Dr. Hiscox.

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seventh day Sabbath to the Christian first day observance" WilliamOwen Carver, The Lord's Day in One Day p.49

CHURCH OF CHRIST: "Finally, we have the testimony of Christ onthis subject. In Mark 2:27, he says: 'The Sabbath was made forman, and not man for the Sabbath.' From this passage it is evidentthat the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Paleyand Hengstenberg would have us believe, but for ..... that is, for therace. Hence we conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from thebeginning, and that it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one ofthose primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of all

men. "-Robert Milligan, Schetne of Redempiten, (St. Louis,The Fethany Press, 1962), p.165.

Church of England: No warrant from scripture for the change of theSabbath from Saturday to Sunday "Neither did he (Jesus), or hisdisciples, ordain another Sabbath in the place of this, as if they hadintended only to shift the day; and to transfer this honor to someother time. Their doctrine and their practise are directly contrary, toso new a fancy. It is true, that in some tract of time, the Church inhonor of his resurrection, did set apart that day on the which herose, to holy exercises: but this upon their own authority, andwithout warrant from above, that we can hear of; more then thegenerall warrant which God gave his Church, that all things in it bedone decently, and in comely order." Dr. Peter Heylyn of theChurch of England, quoted in History of the Sabbath, Pt 2,Ch.2, p7

Congregationalist: The Christian Sabbath' [Sunday] is not in theScripture

"The Christian Sabbath' [Sunday] is not in the Scripture, and was notby the primitive [early Christian] church called the Sabbath."Timothy Dwight, Theology, sermon 107, 1818 ed., Vol. IV,p49 [Dwight (1752-1817) was president of Yale Universityfrom 1795-1817].

Dr. R. W. Dale- The Ten Commandments" . . . it is quite clearthat however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are notkeeping the Sabbath - - . . the Sabbath was founded on a specific


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Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligationto observe Sunday .... There is not a single sentence in the New

Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating thesupposed sanctity of Sunday."

Disciples of Christ: It is all old wives' fables to talk of the 'change ofthe sabbath'"If it [the Ten Commandments] yet exist, let us observe it... And if itdoes not exist, let us abandon a mock observance of another day forit. 'But,' say some, 'it was changed from the seventh to the first day.'Where? when? and by whom? - No, it never was changed, nor could

it be, unless creation was to be gone through again: for the reasonassigned [in Genesis 2:1-3] must be changed before theobservance or respect to the reason, can be changed. It is all oldwives' fables to talk of the 'change of the sabbath' from the seventhto the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personagechanged it who changes times and laws ex officio, - I think his nameis "Doctor Antichrist.'"Alexander Campbell, The ChristianBaptist, February 2, 1824, vol 1, no. 7

Episcopal: Bible commandment says the seventh day "The Biblecommandment says on the seventh-day thou shalt rest. That isSaturday. Nowhere in the Bible is it laid down that worship should bedone on Sunday." Phillip Carrington, quoted in Toronto DailyStar, Oct 26, 1949 [Carrington (1892-), Anglican archbishop ofQuebec, spoke the above in a message on this subject delivered to apacked assembly of clergymen. It was widely reported at the time inthe news media].

Lutheran: They err in teaching Sunday Sabbath But they err in

teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old TestamentSabbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day had to bekept by the children of Israel.....These churches err in their teaching,for scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in placeof the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to thateffect" John Theodore Mueller, Sabbath or Sunday, pp.15, 16

"We have seen how gradually the impression of the Jews Sabbathfaded from the mind of the Christian church, and how completely the


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newer thought underlying the observance of the first day tookpossession of the church. We have seen that the Christian of the first

three centuries never confused one with the other, but for a timecelebrated both."The Sunday Problem, a study book by the Lutheran Church(1923) p.36

"They [Roman Catholics] allege the change of the Sabbath into theLord's day, as it seemeth, to the Decalogue [the tencommandments]; and they have no example more in their mouthsthan they change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the Church's

power to be very great, because it hath dispensed with the preceptof the Decalogue."The Augsburg Confession, 1530 A.D. (Lutheran), part 2, art7, in Philip Schaff, the Creeds of Christiandom, 4th Edition,vol 3, p. 64 [this important statement was made by the Lutheransand written by Melanchthon, only thirteen years after Luther nailedhis theses to the door and began the Reformation].

"They [Roman Catholics] refer to the Sabbath Day, as having been

changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it seems.Neither is there any example whereof they make more thanconcerning the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great, say they, is thepower of the Church, since it has dispensed with one of the Tencommandments!"

Augsburg Confession of Faith,art. 28; written byMelanchthon and approved by Martin Luther, 1530; aspublished in The Book of Concord of the Evangelical LutheranChurch Henry Jacobs, editor (1911), p.63

Lutheran- Dr. Augustus Neander, The History of the ChristianReligion and Church (1843)"The festival of Sunday, like all otherfestivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far fromthe intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in thisrespect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Church, totransfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday."

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"But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the OldTestament Sabbath and therefore must be kept as the seventh day

had to be kept by the children of Israel .... These churches err intheir teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first day ofthe week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the NewTestament to that effect."

Methodist: Jesus did not abolish the moral law - no command to keepholy the first dayThe moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforcedby the prophets, He Jesus did not take away. It was not the design

of His coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which cannever be broken...Every part of this law must remain in force upon allmankind and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place, orany other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature of man,and their unchangeable relation to each other." John Wesley,Sermons on Several Occasions, Vol.1, No. 25

"It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Noris there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe

that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we seethat He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesuschanged the Sabbath base it only on a supposition."Amos Binney,Theological Compendium, 1902 edition, pp 180-181, 171[Binney (1802-1878), Methodist minister and presiding elder,whose Compendium was published for forty years in manylanguages, also wrote a Methodist New Testament Commentary].

"Take the matter of sunday. There are indications in the new

testament as to how the church came to keep the first day of theweek as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christiansto keep that day or to transfer the Jews Sabbath to that day."-Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate July 2, 1942 pg. 26

Clovis G. Chappell- Ten Rules For Living- 'The reason weobserve the first day instead of the seventh is based on no positivecommand. One will search the Scriptures in vain for authority forchanging from the seventh day to the first."


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John Wesley- The Works of the Rev. John Wesley "But, themoral law contained in the ten commandments, and enforced by the

prophets, he [Christ] did not take away. It was not the design of hiscoming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which never can bebroken .... Every part of this law must remain in force upon allmankind, and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place,or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature ofGod and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to eachother." (Wesley was a Methodist)

"The Sabbath instituted in the beginning and confirmed again andagain by Moses and the Prophets, has never been abrogated. A partof the moral law, not a part or tittle of its sanctity has been takenaway."- New York Herald 1874, on the Methodist EpiscopalBishops Pastoral 1874.

Moody Bible Institute: "Sabbath was before Sinai""I honestly believe that this commandment [the Sabbathcommandment] is just as binding today as it ever was. I have talkedwith men who have said that it has been abrogated [abolilshed], but

they have never been able to point to any place in the Bible whereGod repealed it. When Christ was on earth, He did nothing to set itaside; He freed it from the traces under which the scribes andPharisees had put it, and gave it its true place. 'The Sabbath wasmade for man, not man for the Sabbath' [mark 2:27]. It is just aspracticable and as necessary for men today as it ever was - in fact,more than ever, because we live in such an intense age. (Moody wasalso a Methodist)

"The [Seventh-day] Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been inforce ever since. This Fourth Commandment [Exodus 20:8-11] beginswith the word 'remember,' showing that the Sabbath had alreadyexisted when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. Howcan men claim that this one commandment has been done away withwhen they admit that the other nine are still binding? Dwight.L.Moody, Weighed and Wanting, 1898, pp.46-47 [D.L. Moody,(1837-1899) was the most famous evangelist of his time, and


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founder of the Moody Bible Institute].

"This Fourth is not a commandment for one place, or one time, butfor all places and times."D.L. Moody, at San Francisco, Jan. 1st, 1881.

Presbyterian: Sunday kept the Gentiles happy"Sunday being the first day of which the Gentiles solemnly adoredthat planet and called it Sunday, partly from its influence on that dayespecially, and partly in respect to its divine body (as they conceivedit) the Christians thought fit to keep the same day and the same

name of it, that they might not appear carelessly peevish, and bythat means hinder the conversion of the Gentiles, and bring a greaterprejudice that might be otherwise taken against the gospel" T.M.Morer, Dialogues on the Lord's Day

"Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has beenrepealed, the Sabbath will stand. ... The teaching of Christ confirmsthe perpetuity of the Sabbath."-T. C. Blake, D.D., TheologyCondensed, pp. 474,475.

PENTECOSTAL: "'Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn't the Bibleteach us that Saturday should be the Lord's Day?'... Apparently wewill have to seek the answer from some other source than the NewTestament."-D5~~d A. Womack, "Is Sunday the Lord's Day?" ThePentecostal Evangel, Aug. 9,1959, No.2361, p.3.

SEVEN DAY ADVENTISTS:...the Lord has clearly defined the road to the city of God; but thegreat apostate has changed the signpost, setting up a false one--a

spurious sabbath. He says: "I will work at cross purposes with God. Iwill empower my delegate, the man of sin, to take down God'smemorial, the seventh-day Sabbath. Thus will I show the world thatthe day sanctified and blessed by God has been changed. That dayshall not live in the minds of the people. I will obliterate the memoryof it. I will place in its stead a day bearing not the credentials ofheaven, a day that can not be a sign between God and his people. Iwill lead the people who accept this day, to place upon it the sanctifythat God placed upon the seventh day. Through my vicegerent I will


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exalt myself. The first day shall be extolled, and the Protestant worldshall receive this spurious sabbath as genuine. Through the non-

observance of the Sabbath God instituted, I will bring his law intocontempt. The words, 'A sign between me and you throughout yourgenerations,' I will make to serve on the side of my sabbath. Thusthe world will become mine. I will be ruler of the earth, prince of theworld. I will so control the minds under my power that God's Sabbathshall be an object of contempt. A sign? I will make the observance ofthe seventh day a sign of disloyalty to the authorities of earth.Human laws shall be made so stringent that men and women will notdare to observe the seventh-day Sabbath. For fear of wanting food

and clothing, they will join with the world in transgressing God's law;and the earth will be wholly under my dominion."

The man of sin has instituted a false sabbath, and the professedChristian world has adopted this child of the papacy, refusing to obeyGod. Thus Satan leads men and women in a direction opposite to thecity of refuge; and by the multitudes who follow him, it isdemonstrated that Adam and Eve are not the only ones who haveaccepted the words of the wily foe. {RH, April 17, 1900 par. 5}

The enemy of all good has turned the signpost round, so that itpoints to the path of disobedience as the path of happiness. He hasinsulted God by refusing to obey a "Thus saith the Lord." He hasthought to change times and laws. -Ellen G. White {Review andHerald, April 17, 1900 par. 4 & 5}

ENCYCLOPEDIA: "Sunday was a name given by the heathen to thefirst day of the week, because it was the day on which they

worshiped the sun, ... the seventh day was blessed and hallowed byGod Himself, and... He requires His creatures to keep it holy to Him.This commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation." -Eudle's Biblical Cyclopedia, 1872 ed., p.561

Exodus 20:8-11, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Sixdays shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day isthe 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


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maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all

that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORDblessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

Hebrews 4:4,8,9 "For he spake in a certain place of the seventhday on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all hisworks. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he notafterward have spoken ofanother day. There remaineth therefore a

rest to the people of God."

For Abraham, circumcision became both a sign and seal of the faithrelationship that he possessed with God. In essence, circumcision was amark or token that distinguished Abraham and his offspring from thesurrounding nations. Romans 4:11 demonstrates that sign and sealare interchangeable words. Why is this significant? Ezekiel 20:12 says,

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a SIGN (Heb. Oth:Distinguishing Mark) between them and Me, that they might knowthat I amthe LORD who sanctifies them. Ezekiel 20:20 says, HallowMy Sabbaths, and they will be a SIGN between Me and you, that youmay know that I amthe LORD your God. In these scriptures we havein sight the fact that the Sabbath was to be a signa distinguishing markof two issues:(1) A sign of the sanctification that Gods people are to receive, and(2) a sign of the supremacy of God over all things. In fact Exodus 31:17emphasizes that the Sabbath is a sign of God as the Creator forever: It isa sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for insix days theLORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day

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THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT

1. What is the first word of the fourth commandment?"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Exodus 20:8. This is theonly commandment prefaced by the word "remember." When God gavethe Sabbath He knew its value and He also knew that it would bedisregarded by many. He knew how the devil would do everything possibleto lead men to forget the Sabbath. He knew that men in time would ignorethe binding obligations of this commandment. For these reasons God callsspecial attention to this commandment and urges by the use of the word"remember" that it be kept in mind. It is not to be forgotten.

2. What is God's reason given in the commandment for observingthe Sabbath?The reason given is the example of God. "Six days shalt thou labour, anddo all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:...for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,... and rested the seventhday." Exodus 20:9-11.

3. Must a man work six days of every week? May he never take avacation?The commandment does not end with the command "Six days shalt thoulabor" but it goes on and says "and do all thy work." Exodus 20:9.Note: If the work can be done in less than six there is no question. Thepoint is we are to get our work done in six days. And we must never shirkour responsibility while enjoying wholesome recreation. Getting our workdone in six days would always make the Sabbath available for rest andcommunion with God.

4. How is the Sabbath to be kept?

"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure onmy holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD,honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor findingthine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words." Isaiah 58:13.Note: God's Sabbath day is holy. We must not trample it underfoot. We arenot to do our own pleasure on it. We are not to pollute it (Ezekiel20:13,21).


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5. What is the chief demand of the Sabbath commandment?"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Exodus 20:8. Note:

Cessation from our gainful employment is commanded but this is not all.The day is to be kept holy. Man is to cease "from his own works, as Goddid from his." Hebrews 4:10. When a person ceases from his own workshe will cease from sin. It is only such a person who can keep the Sabbathas God expects. This commandment does not suggest idleness on theSabbath for there are proper activities which are in keeping with its spirit.

THE SABBATH AT SINAI

Attention is next focused on the Sabbath in the experiences of Israel inEgypt and at Mount Sinai. The institution of the Sabbath and God'sobservance of the Sabbath are recorded in Genesis 2:1-3.

1. What was Pharaoh's complaint to Moses?"The king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, letthe people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaohsaid, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them restfrom their burdens." Exodus 5:4,5.Note: Pharaoh accused Moses of making the people rest. Why did theystop working? The word used in the Hebrew for rest is the word for theSabbath rest. Moses was calling for a Sabbath reform.

2. After God brought Israel out of Egypt what conditions did Godlay down if they expected His continued protection?"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wiltdo that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments,and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee,which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth

thee." Exodus 15:26.

3. In the raining of bread from heaven what was God going toprove?"Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven foryou; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that Imay prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." Exodus 16:4.


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4. What instruction did God give relative to their food on the daybefore the Sabbath?

"And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrowis the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will baketo day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over layup for you to be kept until the morning." Exodus 16:23.Note: All the baking and cooking for the Sabbath was to be done the daybefore. Then on the Sabbath read what Moses said to them in Exodus16:25,26.

5. Did all the people do what God had said through Moses?

"And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on theseventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said untoMoses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?"Exodus 16:27,28.

6. Was the Sabbath a new institution and was God's lawsomething they were unfamiliar with?The words ofExodus 15:26 are similar to those spoken to Abraham manyyears previously when God had said: "Because that Abraham obeyed myvoice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and mylaws." Genesis 26:5.Note: In arranging that the manna should fall six days and none on theSabbath God taught Israel two important lessons: to depend on God and toobey Him.

Conclusion

The Sabbath was commanded in God's law and proclaimed on Sinai. Priorto this God had given Israel a visual demonstration of His regard for theSabbath. One purpose for the Sabbath commandment was so that Israel

would have time to instruct their children in the ways of the Lord. Thekeeping of this commandment affects the keeping of all the others.

THE SABBATH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

Did God give the Sabbath on Mount Sinai for the Jews only and not forChristians? If so, then the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" as well asthe others were for the Jews only. All of these commandments would be


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for JEWS if the Sabbath is for Judah. The Bible says, "The sabbath was

made forMAN." Mark 2:27.

1. What was the regulation in Israel during their wildernessjourney regarding breaking the Sabbath?The general law which had to do with the breaking or any of thecommandments read, "But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously,whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth theLORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because hehath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment,that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him." Numbers

15:30,31.Note: The marginal reference for "presumptuously" reads with a "highhand." And it has the meaning of knowingly, obstinately, or defiantly. Thisway of dealing with those who broke the law applied to any of thecommandments. At this time Israel was a theocracy which meant thechurch and the government were one and God was the direct ruler. Hence,moral as well as civil violations were punished directly. This helps us to seeGod's attitude toward sin and what the ultimate judgment on sin will be.

2. Was Sabbath breaking as serious as breaking any of the othercommandments?"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a manthat gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found himgathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all thecongregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared whatshould be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall besurely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stoneswithout the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp,

and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commandedMoses." Numbers 15:32-36.Note: It was not merely for gathering sticks on the Sabbath that the manwas punished; it was "because he hath despised the word of the LORD."Numbers 15:31. His gathering of the sticks showed his contempt for God.Moses, however, put the man in a "ward" until a decision should be made.Much was at stake. Would the Sabbath take its place with the othercommandments? God gave the decision. The Sabbath was as important as


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the other commandments. What a lesson for us! May we never speaklightly of or defiantly break God's Sabbath!

3. For what did Ezekiel say God had given the Sabbath?"Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, andbrought them into the wilderness. And I gave them my statutes, andshewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me andthem, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them."Ezekiel 20:10-12.Note: There is great significance in Ezekiel's statement that the Sabbath is

a sign of sanctification. Breaking the Sabbath is a symptom which revealsan attitude toward all the commandments. It is a rejection of or rebellionagainst God. The proper observance of it is the sign of obedience to God.

4. What was one reason Judah was taken into captivity forseventy years?"Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on thesabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Neither carry forth aburden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, buthallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they obeyednot, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they mightnot hear, nor receive instruction. And it shall come to pass, if ye diligentlyhearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gatesof this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no worktherein; Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princessitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, andtheir princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and thiscity shall remain for ever. And they shall come from the cities of Judah,and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, andfrom the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringingburnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, andbringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. But if ye will nothearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden,even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will Ikindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces ofJerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." Jeremiah 17:21-27.


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5. Subsequent to their return from Assyrian-Babylonian captivity,what was the attitude of God's people toward the Sabbath?

"In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath,and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs,and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on thesabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they soldvictuals. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and allmanner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, andin Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said untothem, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? Didnot your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and

upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning thesabbath. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began tobe dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut,and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: andsome of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden bebrought in on the sabbath day. So the merchants and sellers of all kind ofware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. Then I testified againstthem, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again,I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the

sabbath. And I commanded the Levites that they should cleansethemselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify thesabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spareme according to the greatness of thy mercy." Nehemiah 13: 15-22.Note: Nehemiah did not force those outside the walls to keep the Sabbath.He simply exerted his responsibility to keep them away and to let themknow they could not do business in the city on God's holy day. ForcedSabbath keeping is never after God's order. Since it is a sign ofsanctification, without a life of holiness the Sabbath is an empty ceremony

that can never substitute for genuine sanctification.

ConclusionAfter the Babylonian captivity was over the Jews began to realize that theirfailure to keep the Sabbath had been one of the causes of their calamities.So after Nehemiah's time no more did they make the Sabbath a commonworking day. But their mistake now was as seriously fatal as their formermistake. They began to consider the Sabbath a means of salvation instead


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of a sign of sanctification. The Sabbath is of little value without the realityof holiness.

THE SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Jesus said, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for thesabbath." Mark 2:27. It was to be a blessing to the human family. Jesusshowed by His manner of observing the Sabbath that it is lawful to do wellon the Sabbath day. Read Matthew 12:10-12; Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-5;Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6; John 5; John 9. Nowhere in the NewTestament is there the least indication that God's holy Sabbath day was set

aside. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus left no doubt as to His positionrelative to the Ten Commandments. Read Matthew 5:17-19.

1. Did Christ have anything to do with making the Sabbath?"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing madethat was made. " John 1:3. Read Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2.Note: Since Christ was the active agent in creation the Sabbath was madeby Him at the end of creation week. Read Genesis 2: 1-3.

2. Upon which day did Christ worship?

"He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom

was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up forto read." Luke 4:16

3. Did Christ expect the Sabbath to be abolished?He recognized it would still be in existence long after His ascension, at thetime of the siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, for He said to His disciples, "Butpray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day."Matthew 24:20.

4. Which day comes before the first day of the week?"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of theweek, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."Matthew 28:1.

5. Which day of the week did the women keep after thecrucifixion?"And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the


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sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56. Note: TheSabbath day "according to the commandment" is the seventh day. (Read

Exodus 20:10). Jesus' disciples rested the sabbath day according to thecommandment.

6. What was Paul's example - which day did he observe as theSabbath?"But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, andwent into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. . . And whenthe Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought thatthese words might be preached to them the next sabbath. . . And on the

sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont tobe made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resortedthither."Acts 13:14,42; 16:13.Note: It was Paul's custom to attend religious services on the Sabbath.

7. What did Paul do on the working days as compared to theSabbath?"And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought:for by their occupation they were tentmakers. And he reasoned in thesynagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks."Acts18:3,4.Note: Paul's manner as well as Christ's custom was to worship on theseventh-day Sabbath.

8. On which day was John in the Spirit?"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice,as of a trumpet." Revelation 1:10.Note: This expression "Lord's Day" points to the seventh-day Sabbath inboth the Old and New Testaments. He says, "But the seventh day is the

sabbath of the LORD thy God." Exodus 20:10. In Isaiah 58:13 He callsthe Sabbath "my holy day." The Lord's day is the day of which Christ isthe Lord, He says He is Lord of the Sabbath day. (Matthew 12:8; Mark2:28). Read Exodus 20:11.

ConclusionChrist did all He could to restore to Israel the Bible Sabbath as it had beengiven to them. It was intended to be a blessing rather than a burden.Christ attempted to show that the Sabbath's real purpose was doing good,


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healing the sick, and performing acts of mercy. The book of Hebrewsmentions the seventh-day Sabbath. "God did rest the seventh day from all

his works." Hebrews 4:4. "He that is entered into his rest, he also hathceased from his own works, as God did from his." Hebrews 4:10. Godcalls His people into a spiritual rest, a rest from their own works, a ceasingfrom sin. The keeping of the Sabbath is a symbol of this rest. Goddemands holiness of life. Of this the Sabbath is a sign. Let us not reject thesign, much less reject that for which it stands.

SUNDAY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

The Sabbath and the first day of the week are both mentioned in the NewTestament. However, the names of the days such as Saturday or Sundayare never mentioned because at the time the New Testament was writtenthese names had not yet been given to these days. Each time the Sabbathis mentioned it has reference to the seventh day or Saturday. Each timethe first day is mentioned it has reference to the day known now asSunday.

1. How many times is the first day mentioned in the NewTestament?The first day of the week is mentioned eight times but at no time is itcalled the Sabbath. Here are the eight texts:

Matthew 28:1Mark 16:1, 2Mark 16:9Luke 24:1

John 20:1John 20:19

Acts 20:7I Cor. 16:2

2. Which text records the only religious meeting in the NewTestament that was held on the first day of the week?"And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together tobreak bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow;and continued his speech until midnight."Acts 20:7.Note: This meeting was held in the evening for there "were many lights inthe chamber" and Paul not only preached till midnight but he continued"even till break of day." In the Bible the day was reckoned from sunset tosunset. Strictly speaking a meeting held in the evening of the first day of


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the week would be what is known as Saturday night (Gen.1:5,8,13,19,23,31; 2:2,3; Lev. 23:32; Heb. 4:4-11).

Notice these points:a. This is the only record of the disciples breaking bread on the first day.b. They broke bread every day of the week according toActs 2:46.c. The account of this meeting says nothing about the Sabbath.d. This was a special meeting held because Paul was about to leave on a

journey.e. The meeting is mentioned by Luke because of the restoration of a youngman who fell and was killed.f. The meeting was held on Saturday night.

3. Is there a text where Paul says a collection should be taken inthe church on Sunday?There is a text which says, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, asI have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the firstday of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hathprospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." I Corinthians16:1 ,2.Note: Notice that neither church nor meeting is mentioned as Paul exhorts

the saints to lay by on the first day a sum proportionate to the prosperinghand of God. Each was to lay "by him in store." This would mean byhimself at home and he was to keep it until it was called for. Paul wasencouraging systematic giving. This text does not support Sundaysacredness. Paul did not mention a public collection. He is not speaking ofa church service. This was not a "regular" weekly collection, but was aspecial gift being made up by Gentile churches for the poor saints atJerusalem. Paul was taking the gifts with certain representatives from eachgroup who would present the token of love. Read 1 Corinthians 16:3,4;

Romans 15:24-28. This is also referred to again in 2 Corinthians 8: 1-4and 2 Corinthians 9:1-5.

4. According to Matthew what is the relationship between theSabbath day and the first day of the week?"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of theweek, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."Matthew 28:1. Note: Matthew mentions two days: the one is called theSabbath; the other is called the first day of the week. The Sabbath comes


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before the first day. No change of the Sabbath is even suggested. TheGospel of Matthew is generally supposed to have been written about thirty

years after the crucifixion and Matthew still calls the seventh day theSabbath.

5. What is the testimony of Mark concerning the first day of theweek?Mark mentions the first day twice. He says, "And when the sabbath waspast, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, hadbought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very earlyin the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at

the rising of the sun. . . Now when Jesus was risen early the first day ofthe week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had castseven devils. " Mark. 16:1,2,9.Note: The same first day is mentioned in verses 2and9.Verse 9 merelyaffirms Christ arose on the first day and met Mary Magdalene.Verse 2tells that the women came to anoint Christ on the first day and that theSabbath was past when they started on this errand. Mark indicates that theSabbath comes just before the first day. They would have furtherembalmed Christ's body on the first day, a service they did not even

attempt to do on the Sabbath.

6. How does Luke make the distinction between Sabbath andSunday clear?"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they cameunto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, andcertain others with them." Luke 24:1.Note: This is the same event recorded by the other writers with someadded information. Read Luke 23:54-56. The Saturday after Christ wascrucified his disciples rested "according to the commandment." Theyworked on the preparation day, Friday, and on the first day of the week,Sunday, but they rested on the Sabbath day, Saturday.

7. Why did the disciples assemble together on the evening of thefirst day?The last two places where the first day is mentioned is in John 20:1,19which says, "The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, whenit was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from


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the sepulchre... Then the same day at evening, being the first day of theweek, 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."Note: In the first verse John merely repeats what the other evangelistshave written. Verse nineteen points out that the disciples assembled andthat the doors were shut and bolted "for fear of the Jews." They were notthere to celebrate the resurrection even though they knew He was not inthe tomb. They did not believe He had risen.

Conclusion

Every text in the New Testament that mentions the first day of the weekhas now been considered. Not one of them is favorable to the first day ofthe week as the Sabbath. But there is in these texts strong evidence forthe sacredness of the seventh-day Sabbath. It is interesting to notice thatwhen the Bible mentions the first day of the week that it usually does so bycontrasting it with the Sabbath. Sometimes the text in Revelation 1:10which says, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me agreat voice, as of a trumpet" is used as having reference to Sunday.However, nowhere in the Bible is the first day referred to as being

the Lord's day. Much to the contrary, the Lord's day is the seventh day.Read Mark 2:28. We can believe only what God's Word says. "Yea, let Godbe true, but every man a liar"Romans 3:4.

THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH

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