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100 Amazing Facts About The Sabbath And Sunday by Divinenwa: 7:42am On Aug 22, 2020 |
WHY keep the Sabbath
day? What is the object
of the Sabbath? Who
made it? When was it
made, and for whom?
Which day is the true
Sabbath? Many keep the
first day of the week, or
Sunday. What Bible
authority have they for
this? Some keep the
seventh day, or
Saturday. What Scripture
have they for that? Here
are the facts about both
days, as plainly stated in
the Word of God:
1. After working the
first six days of
the week in
creating this
earth, the great
God rested on the
seventh day.
(Genesis 2:1.3.)
2. This stamped that
day as God's rest
day, or Sabbath
day, as Sabbath
day means rest
day. To illustrate:
When a person is
born on a certain
day, that day thus
becomes his
birthday. So when
God rested upon
the seventh day,
that day became
His rest, or
Sabbath, day.
3. Therefore the
seventh day must
always be God's
Sabbath day. Can
you change your
birthday from the
day on which you
were born to one
on which you
were not born?
No. Neither can
you change God's
rest day to a day
on which He did
not rest. Hence
the seventh day
is still God's
Sabbath day.
4. The Creator
blessed the
seventh day.
(Genesis 2:3.)
5. He sanctified the
seventh day.
(Exodus 20:11.)
6. He made it the
Sabbath day in
the Garden of
Eden. (Genesis
2:1-3.)
7. It was made
before the fall;
hence it is not a
type; for types
were not
introduced till
after the fall.
8. Jesus says it was
made for man
(Mark 2:27), that
is, for the race, as
the word man is
here unlimited;
hence, for the
Gentile as well as
for the Jew.
9. It is a memorial
of creation.
(Exodus 20:11;
31:17.) Every
time we rest upon
the seventh day,
as God did at
creation, we
commemorate
that grand event.
10. It was given to
Adam, the head
of the human
race. (Mark 2:27;
Genesis 2:1-3.)
11. Hence through
him, as our
representative, to
all nations. (Acts
17:26.)
12. It is' not a Jewish
institution, for it
was made 2,300
years before ever
there was a Jew.
13. The Bible never
calls it the Jewish
Sabbath, but
always "the
Sabbath of the
Lord thy God."
Men should be
cautious how they
stigmatize God's
holy rest day.
14. Evident reference
is made to the
Sabbath and the
seven-day week
all, through the
patriarchal age.
(Genesis 2:l-3;
8:10,12;
29:27,28.etc.)
15. It was a part of
God's law before
Sinai. (Exodus
16:4, 27-29.)
16. Then God placed
it in the heart of
His moral law.
(Exodus 20:1-17.)
Why did He place
it there if it was
not like the other
nine precepts,
which all admit to
be immutable?
17. The seventh-day
Sabbath was
commanded by
the voice of the
living God.
(Deuteronomy
4:12,13.)
18. Then He wrote
the
commandment
with His own
finger. (Exodus
31:18.)
19. He engraved it in
the enduring
stone, indicating
its imperishable
nature.
(Deuteronomy
5:22.)
20. It was sacredly
preserved in the
ark in the holy of
holies.
(Deuteronomy
10:1-5.)
21. God forbade
work upon the
Sabbath, even in
the most hurrying
times. (Exodus
34:21.)
22. God destroyed
the Israelites in
the wilderness
because they
profaned the
Sabbath. (Ezekiel
20:12, 13.)
23. It is the sign of
the true God, by
which we are to
know Him from
false gods.
(Ezekiel 20:20.)
24. God promised
that Jerusalem
should stand
forever if the
Jews would keep
the Sabbath
(Jeremiah 17:24,
25.)
25. He sent them into
the Babylonish
captivity for
breaking it.
(Nehemiah
13:18.)
26. He destroyed
Jerusalem for its
violation.
(Jeremiah 17:27.)
27. God has
pronounced a
special blessing
on all the Gentiles
who will keep it.
(Isaiah 56:6, 7.)
28. This is in the
prophecy, which
refers wholly to
the Christian
dispensation.
(See Isaiah 56.)
29. God has
promised to bless
all who keep the
Sabbath. (Isaiah
56:2.)
30. The Lord requires
us to call it
"honourable".
(Isaiah 58:13.)
Beware, ye who
take delight in
calling it the. “old
Jewish Sabbath,”
“a yoke of
bondage,” etc.
31. After the holy
Sabbath has
been trodden
down "many
generations,” it is
to be restored in
the last days.
(Isaiah 58:12,13.)
32. All the holy
prophets kept the
seventh day.
33. When the Son of
God came, He
kept the seventh
day all His life.
(Luke 4:16; John
15:10.) Thus He
followed His
Father's example
at creation. Shall
we not be safe in
following the
example of both
the Father and
the Son?
34. The seventh day
is the Lord's Day.
(See Revelation
1:10; Mark 2:28;
Isaiah 58:13;
Exodus 20:10.)
35. Jesus was Lord
of the Sabbath
(Mark 2:28), that
is, to love and
protect it, as the
husband is the
lord of the wife, to
love and cherish
her (1 Peter 3:6.)
36. He vindicated the
Sabbath as a
merciful institution
designed for
man's good.
(Mark 2:23-28.)
37. Instead of
abolishing the
Sabbath, He
carefully taught
how it should be
observed.
(Matthew
12:1-13.)
38. He taught His
disciples that they
should do nothing
upon the Sabbath
day but what was
“lawful” (Matthew
12:12.)
39. He instructed His
apostles that the
Sabbath should
be prayerfully
regarded forty
years after His
resurrection.
(Matthew 24:20.)
40. The pious women
who had been
with Jesus
carefully kept the
seventh day after
His death. (Luke
23:56.)
41. Thirty years after
Christ's
resurrection, the
Holy Spirit'
expressly calls it
"the Sabbath day,
"(Acts 13:14.)
42. Paul, the apostle
to the Gentiles,
called it the
"Sabbath day" in
A.D. 45. (Acts
13:27.) Did not
Paul know? Or
shall we believe
modern teachers,
who affirm that it
ceased to be the
Sabbath at the
resurrection of
Christ?
43. Luke, the inspired
Christian
historian, writing
as late as A.D.
62, calls it the
"Sabbath
day." (Acts
13:44.)
44. The Gentile
converts called it
the Sabbath.
(Acts 13:42.)
45. In the great
Christian council,
A.D. 49, in the
presence of the
apostles and
thousands of
disciples, James
calls it the
"sabbath
day." (Acts 15:21)
46. It was customary
to hold prayer
meetings upon
that day. (Acts
16:13.)
47. Paul read the
Scriptures in
public meetings
on that day. (Acts
17:2, 3.)
48. It was his custom
to preach upon
that day. (Acts
17:2,3.)
49. The Book of Acts
alone gives a
record of his
holding eighty-four
meetings upon
that day. (See
Acts 13:14, 44;
16:13; 17:2; 18:4.
11.)
50. There was never
any dispute
between the
Christians and the
Jews about the
Sabbath day. This
is proof that the
Christians still
observed the
same day that the
Jews did.
51. In all their
accusations
against Paul, they
never charged
him with
disregarding the
Sabbath day.
Why did they not,
if he did not keep
it?
52. But Paul himself
expressly
declared that he
had kept the law.
“Neither against
the law of the
Jews, neither
against the
temple, nor yet
against Caesar,
have I offended
any thing at all."
Acts 25:8. How
could this be true
if he had not kept
the Sabbath?
53. The Sabbath is
mentioned in the
New Testament
fifty-nine times,
and always with
respect, bearing
the same title it
had in the Old
Testament, “the
Sabbath day.”
54. Not a word is said
anywhere in the
New Testament
about the
Sabbath's being
abolished, done
away, changed, or
anything of the
kind.
55. God has never
given permission
to any man to
work upon it.
Reader, by what
authority do you
use - the seventh
day for common
labor?
56. No Christian of
the New
Testament, either
before or after
the resurrection,
ever did ordinary
work upon the
seventh day. Find
one case of that
kind, and we will
yield the question.
Why should
modem Christians
do differently
from Bible
Christians?
57. There is no
record that God
has ever
removed His
blessing or
sanctification
from the seventh
day.
58. As the Sabbath
was kept in Eden
before the fall, so
it will be
observed
eternally in the
new earth after
the restitution.
(Isaiah 66:22, 23.)
59. The seventh-day
Sabbath was an
important part of
the law of God,
as it came from
His own mouth,
and was written
by His own finger
upon stone at
Sinai. (See
Exodus 20.) When
Jesus began His
work, He
expressly
declared that He
had not come to
destroy the law.
“Think not that I
am come to
destroy the law,
or the prophets.”
Matthew 5:17
60. Jesus severely
condemned the
Pharisees as
hypocrites for
pretending to love
God, while at the
same time they
made void one of
the Ten
Commandments
by their tradition.
The keeping of
Sunday is only a
tradition of men.
40 Bible Facts
Concerning the First
Day of the Week
1. The very first
thing recorded In
the Bible is work
done on Sunday,
the first day of
the week.
(Genesis l: l-5.)
The Creator
Himself did this. If
God made the
earth on Sunday,
can it be wicked
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 4,000
years, at least.
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 thirty
years old. He
kept the Sabbath
and worked six
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. It has never been
blessed by any
divine authority.
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 no law is,
there is no
transgression.”
Romans 4:15
(See also 1 John
3:4.)
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 called
even a rest day.
25. No sacred title
whatever is
applied to it. Then
why should we
call it holy?
26. It is simply called
“first day of the
week.”
27. Jesus never-
mentioned it in
any way, never
took its name
upon His lips, so
far as the record
shows.
28. The word Sunday
never occurs in
the Bible at all.
29. Neither God,
Christ, nor
inspired men ever
said one word in
favor of Sunday
as a holy day.
30. The first day of
the week is
mentioned only
eight times in all
the New
Testament.
(Matthew 28:1;
Mark 16:2,9; Luke
24:1; John 20:1,
19; Acts 20:7; 1
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. (1Corinthians
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.
(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.)
38. That was done in
the night-after
midnight. (Verses
7-11.) Jesus
celebrated it on
Thursday evening
(Luke 22), and the
disciples
sometimes did it
every day (Acts
2:42-46.)
39. The Bible
nowhere says
that the first day
of the week
commemorates
the resurrection
of Christ. This is a
tradition of men,
which contradicts
the law of God.
(Matthew 15:1-9.)
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.
Here are one hundred
plain Bible facts upon
this question, showing
conclusively that the
seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord in
both the Old and New
Testament. |
Re: 100 Amazing Facts About The Sabbath And Sunday by Divinenwa: 10:32pm On Feb 22, 2021 |
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Re: 100 Amazing Facts About The Sabbath And Sunday by petra1(m): 11:49pm On Feb 22, 2021 |
Divinenwa: The sabbath never changed to Sunday. But the sabbath is not for Christians and secondly meerimg on Sunday started with the early Christians. Jesus endorsed it by coming to their midst on a Sunday which is called the first day of the week and also called the Lord's day |
Re: 100 Amazing Facts About The Sabbath And Sunday by Divinenwa: 12:22am On Feb 23, 2021 |
petra1:it for all worshipers God, it a special day God himself set aside |
Re: 100 Amazing Facts About The Sabbath And Sunday by petra1(m): 6:13am On Feb 23, 2021 |
Divinenwa: Jesus ended that.sabath was a shadow. Jesus is the fulfillment of sabbath. The lord of sabbath. He is the true rest . He is the sabbath. |
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