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
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“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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