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The Origin of the Sabbath
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Part 4

Is Saturday Still Saturday?

The Julian Calendar was established and in use in the Roman Empire forty years before the birth of Jesus. We now use this very same calendar today, except there has been one change: Ten days were dropped from it back in 1582! However, this did not affect nor alter the weekly cycle!

October 1582
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
  1 2 3 4 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 31
31 22          



“Friday” still followed “Thursday,” and “Sunday” still followed “Saturday”! Even nowadays, when we add a day for Leap Year, it does not change the order! The “Saturday” of today is the same “Saturday” of Jesus ‘ Day!

It may come as a surprise, but the 7-Day Week was almost unknown among ancient cultures. It comes from antiquity, through the Jews, who preserved it when surrounding nations, desecrated it! Even the Egyptians had no 7-Day Week, which was why the Jews had to be reminded” of it when their Egyptian captivity ended. The “Day” comes from the rotation of the planet, The “Month” from the moon circling the Earth, and the “Year” from the world going around the sun. However, the “Week” comes only from one place: God’s command to honor the 7th-Day Sabbath!



Part 5

Bible Facts Concerning “Sunday”

How “Holy” is Sunday in the Bible?

1)      The very first thing recorded in the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. The Creator Himself did this. If God worked on this day, how can it be sin for us to work on Sunday?

2)       God commands men to work upon the first day of the week. (Exodus 20:8-11) Is it wrong to obey God?

3)       None of the Patriarchs ever kept it.

4)       None of the Holy Prophets ever kept it.

5)       By the express command of God, his holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for at least 4,000 years.

6)      God Himself calls it a “working” day. (Ezekiel 46:1)

7)      God did not rest upon it.

8)      He never blessed it.

9)      Christ did not rest upon it.

10)   Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was 30 years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked 6 days in the week, as all admit. Hence, He did many a hard day’s work on Sunday.

11)   The Apostles worked upon it during the same time.

12)   The Apostles never rested upon it.

13)   Christ never blessed it.

14)   Divine authority has never blessed it.

15)   It has never been sanctified.

16)   No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it; hence, it is no transgression to  work upon it. “Where there is no law, there is no transgression.” (Romans 4:15)

17)   The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it.

18)   No penalty is provided for its violation.

19)   No blessing is promised for its observance.

20)   No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?

21)   It is never called the Christian Sabbath.

22)   It is never called the Sabbath Day at all.

23)   It is never called the Lord’s Day.

24)   It is never even called a rest day.

25)   No sacred title whatever is applied to it.

26)   It was simply called “First day of the week.”

27)   Jesus never mentioned it in any way, never took its name upon His lips, as far as record shows.

28)   The word “Sunday” never occurs in the Bible at all.

29)   The Father, Christ, nor the Holy Spirit or inspired men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a Holy Day.

30)   The first day of the week is only mentioned only 8 times in all the New Testament. (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2,9, Luke 24:1, John 20 1,19, Acts 20:7, I Corinthians 16:2)

31)   Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.

32)   Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on that day. (1 Corinthians 16:2)

33)   In all the New Testament, we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this was a night meeting, Saturday night! (Acts 20:5-12)

34)   There is not intimation that they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.

35)   It was not their custom to meet on that day.

36)   There was no requirement to break bread on that day.

37)   We have an account of only one instance in which it was done. (Acts 20:7) (Acts 2:46 says they broke bread daily!) (Notice also: Acts 20:7 mentions nothing about wine, so they must not have held a full communion service!)

38)   Jesus celebrated it on Thursday evening (Luke 22), never on Sunday.

39)   The Bible nowhere says that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus! (Romans 6:3-5)

40)   Finally, the New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the Sabbath Day or any sacredness for the first day.

There you have it, 40 Bible facts concerning Sunday, the day the Bible refers to as “The first day of the week”! The question we need to ask is this: If the Bible never authorized “Sunday” as the weekly day of worship, who did?

Before I answer this extremely important question, I want you to again review those 40 points. Each and every one of you should be reading your Bible to verify everything that I or anyone else tells you concerning God’s Holy Word!

If you are going to believe in Jesus Christ, you have to spend time in His Word! In addition, realize that the Bible is the inspired Word of God!

God’s Word is truth; it is as eternal as God Himself is! Accordingly, whoever turns against God’s Word commits a grievous error…



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