The Holy Sabbath Day
Let me start out by saying that I know that God has His people in all different denominations. I am not pointing out people who go to church. I am pointing out the people who have corrupted the church, and the system they run it by. I do not point this information out to be hateful or mean. I do this in the hopes that people will investigate for themselves what the Bible says about these matters. Not what a person says, but what the Bible says. God speaks very clearly for Himself in His Word. If what I am saying is not out of the Bible, don’t listen, but if it is, and it is in context with the surrounding scripture, what the Bible teaches, what the Ten Commandments teach, and what Jesus Teaches, then I hope you will hear.
God created, God rested.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Why?
Exo 20:11 “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 LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it”
Ok, so the Sabbath is about Gods authority as the creator. That is clear enough. So what? What does that have to do with salvation? “wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it”
This has everything to do with salvation.
Are you leaving Jesus Christ out of the equation? No Way! He is the beginning and end of our salvation. Now listen up close.
What does it mean that God blessed it and hallowed it?
H1288 – “blessed”
בָּרַךְ
bârak
baw-rak'
A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration)
H6942 “hallowed”
קָדַשׁ
qâdash
kaw-dash'
A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
Total KJV occurrences: 171
God blessed and hallowed only one day and that is the 7th day which is Saturday. He blessed no other day and hallowed no other day.
We can certainly agree that God is the only one who can make something holy or clean, right? Right. That’s why God came in the flesh and died for our sins, because no person can make something clean from the stain of sin. Only God. OK, moving on.
God set aside the 7th day for a holy purpose. Let’s take a look.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
God created, God rested is the main theme of this verse above. It spotlights God as the creator.
Let’s look at the meaning of sanctified from the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
H6942
קָדַשׁ
qâdash
kaw-dash'
A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
Total KJV occurrences: 171
Ok, so now it is safe for us to say that God most assuredly set the 7th day apart from the other days for a holly purpose. Isn’t that so? OK, so the question is, how important is this as far as salvation goes, isn’t that right?
So far we are building a good case for the 7th day Sabbath being set aside for some special purpose, but what? The short story is there are a number of purposes for the holy Sabbath of Gods Ten Commandments. One is for us to literally take a break! He created us to take that day off. It is also a day that is holy, so we can literally come closer to God worshiping Him on that one day He set aside for a ….(HOLY purpose)….. If we direct our thoughts and actions on that day to Him and honor Him as the Creator, we gain a special blessing. But don’t take my word for it. Check into the scriptures prayerfully. God will show you. He speaks very clearly for himself in His Word.
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
This is a last day’s event. According to that verse, we should be searching with utmost urgency to find out how to worship “him that made” made what? “heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.” This verse is one of the three angel’s messages, but that’s not the focus here. The focus is who he is telling us to worship, and how specific he gets. “Worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” Sound familiar? Where was the scripture with language very similar to this? What God created? When did He rest from it?
Exo 20:11 “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 LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” God created, God rested.
So in the end times as Revelations shows, one of the three angels shouts out for everyone to worship the God who created, and how can we do that? Seems to me he showed us by doing it Himself. We can only keep something holy that is already made holy by God, on one day, the one and only day God made holy, set apart for a holy purpose, the one day that will seal His people, the one day that God himself rested to leave us an example! , the 7th day/Saturday/Sabbath, and there is going to be another church or churches not resting or worshiping God the creator but will worship after the commandments of men. Mat_15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar_7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
So there are some worshiping Jesus who are doing it in vein. Is that what He just said? It is. How so? Why will it be in vein? Because they are “teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ”
"Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950):
Practically everything Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church... The Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible and observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.
Louis Gaston Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1874): 213:
Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is a homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church.
The Catholic Mirror (September 23, 1893):
The Catholic Church, for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...
The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who can find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the seventh to the first. Hence their appellation, "Seventh-day Adventists."
Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, Kansas City, MO:
It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the 1st day of the week. And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the Council of Laodicea, AD 364, anathematized those who kept the Sabbath and urged all persons to labor on the 7th day under penalty of anathema.
Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, lecture at Hartford, KS, Feb 18, 1884:
I have repeatedly offered $1000 to any one who can furnish any proof from the Bible that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep...The Bible says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” but the Catholic Church says, “No, keep the first day of the week,” and the whole world bows in obedience.
Cardinal John Newman,An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine(London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1878): 373:
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons…are all of pagan origin and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.
Catholic Record (September 1, 1923):
The [catholic] Church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.
Pope Leo XIII, Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae (The Reunion of Christendom), June 20, 1894:
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
“Pope,” Ferraris’ Ecclesiastic Dictionary:
The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God.
Our Sunday Visitor (April 18, 1915): 3:
The letters inscribed in the Pope’s miter are these: VICARIUS FILLII DEI, which is the Latin for, “Vicar of the Son of God.”
Letter from C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons on October 28, 1895:
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act…And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
American Catholic Quarterly Review (January 1883):
Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.
Catholic American Sentinel (June 1893):
Sunday...It is a law of the Catholic Church alone...
S.C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica (1969): 366-367:
Not the Creator of the Universe in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church “can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days.”
“The Question Box,” The Catholic Universe Bulletin (August 14, 1942): 4:
The (Catholic) Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her Founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter, the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.
Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity (New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1928): 145:
The Church made a sacred day of Sunday…largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance.
John A. O'Brien, The Faith of Millions: the Credentials of the Catholic Religion Revised Edition (Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1974): 400-401:
But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non-Catholics, who claim to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon and explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away—like a boy running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair.
This change from Saturday to Sunday Sabbath was prophesied about in Daniel 7. The great reformer Philipp Melanchton knew this truth five centuries ago. He wrote this:
He changeth the tymes and lawes that any of the sixe worke dayes commanded of God will make them unholy and idle dayes when he lyste, or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke dayes agen, or when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye...They have changed God’s lawes and turned them into their owne tradicions to be kept above God’s precepts.ii"
http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Sabbath_Sunday_Catholic_Church
Let me start out by saying that I know that God has His people in all different denominations. I am not pointing out people who go to church. I am pointing out the people who have corrupted the church, and the system they run it by. I do not point this information out to be hateful or mean. I do this in the hopes that people will investigate for themselves what the Bible says about these matters. Not what a person says, but what the Bible says. God speaks very clearly for Himself in His Word. If what I am saying is not out of the Bible, don’t listen, but if it is, and it is in context with the surrounding scripture, what the Bible teaches, what the Ten Commandments teach, and what Jesus Teaches, then I hope you will hear.
God created, God rested.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Why?
Exo 20:11 “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 LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it”
Ok, so the Sabbath is about Gods authority as the creator. That is clear enough. So what? What does that have to do with salvation? “wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it”
This has everything to do with salvation.
Are you leaving Jesus Christ out of the equation? No Way! He is the beginning and end of our salvation. Now listen up close.
What does it mean that God blessed it and hallowed it?
H1288 – “blessed”
בָּרַךְ
bârak
baw-rak'
A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration)
H6942 “hallowed”
קָדַשׁ
qâdash
kaw-dash'
A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
Total KJV occurrences: 171
God blessed and hallowed only one day and that is the 7th day which is Saturday. He blessed no other day and hallowed no other day.
We can certainly agree that God is the only one who can make something holy or clean, right? Right. That’s why God came in the flesh and died for our sins, because no person can make something clean from the stain of sin. Only God. OK, moving on.
God set aside the 7th day for a holy purpose. Let’s take a look.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
God created, God rested is the main theme of this verse above. It spotlights God as the creator.
Let’s look at the meaning of sanctified from the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
H6942
קָדַשׁ
qâdash
kaw-dash'
A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
Total KJV occurrences: 171
Ok, so now it is safe for us to say that God most assuredly set the 7th day apart from the other days for a holly purpose. Isn’t that so? OK, so the question is, how important is this as far as salvation goes, isn’t that right?
So far we are building a good case for the 7th day Sabbath being set aside for some special purpose, but what? The short story is there are a number of purposes for the holy Sabbath of Gods Ten Commandments. One is for us to literally take a break! He created us to take that day off. It is also a day that is holy, so we can literally come closer to God worshiping Him on that one day He set aside for a ….(HOLY purpose)….. If we direct our thoughts and actions on that day to Him and honor Him as the Creator, we gain a special blessing. But don’t take my word for it. Check into the scriptures prayerfully. God will show you. He speaks very clearly for himself in His Word.
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
This is a last day’s event. According to that verse, we should be searching with utmost urgency to find out how to worship “him that made” made what? “heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.” This verse is one of the three angel’s messages, but that’s not the focus here. The focus is who he is telling us to worship, and how specific he gets. “Worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” Sound familiar? Where was the scripture with language very similar to this? What God created? When did He rest from it?
Exo 20:11 “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 LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” God created, God rested.
So in the end times as Revelations shows, one of the three angels shouts out for everyone to worship the God who created, and how can we do that? Seems to me he showed us by doing it Himself. We can only keep something holy that is already made holy by God, on one day, the one and only day God made holy, set apart for a holy purpose, the one day that will seal His people, the one day that God himself rested to leave us an example! , the 7th day/Saturday/Sabbath, and there is going to be another church or churches not resting or worshiping God the creator but will worship after the commandments of men. Mat_15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar_7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
So there are some worshiping Jesus who are doing it in vein. Is that what He just said? It is. How so? Why will it be in vein? Because they are “teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ”
"Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950):
Practically everything Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church... The Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible and observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope.
Louis Gaston Segur, Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day (London: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1874): 213:
Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is a homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) Church.
The Catholic Mirror (September 23, 1893):
The Catholic Church, for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...
The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who can find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the seventh to the first. Hence their appellation, "Seventh-day Adventists."
Catholic Priest T. Enright, CSSR, Kansas City, MO:
It was the holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the 1st day of the week. And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the Council of Laodicea, AD 364, anathematized those who kept the Sabbath and urged all persons to labor on the 7th day under penalty of anathema.
I have repeatedly offered $1000 to any one who can furnish any proof from the Bible that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep...The Bible says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” but the Catholic Church says, “No, keep the first day of the week,” and the whole world bows in obedience.
Cardinal John Newman,An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine(London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1878): 373:
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons…are all of pagan origin and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.
Catholic Record (September 1, 1923):
The [catholic] Church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.
Pope Leo XIII, Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae (The Reunion of Christendom), June 20, 1894:
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
“Pope,” Ferraris’ Ecclesiastic Dictionary:
The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God.
Our Sunday Visitor (April 18, 1915): 3:
The letters inscribed in the Pope’s miter are these: VICARIUS FILLII DEI, which is the Latin for, “Vicar of the Son of God.”
Letter from C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons on October 28, 1895:
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act…And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
American Catholic Quarterly Review (January 1883):
Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.
Catholic American Sentinel (June 1893):
Sunday...It is a law of the Catholic Church alone...
S.C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica (1969): 366-367:
Not the Creator of the Universe in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church “can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days.”
“The Question Box,” The Catholic Universe Bulletin (August 14, 1942): 4:
The (Catholic) Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her Founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter, the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.
Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity (New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1928): 145:
The Church made a sacred day of Sunday…largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance.
John A. O'Brien, The Faith of Millions: the Credentials of the Catholic Religion Revised Edition (Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1974): 400-401:
But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn't it curious that non-Catholics, who claim to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon and explicit text in the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away—like a boy running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair.
This change from Saturday to Sunday Sabbath was prophesied about in Daniel 7. The great reformer Philipp Melanchton knew this truth five centuries ago. He wrote this:
He changeth the tymes and lawes that any of the sixe worke dayes commanded of God will make them unholy and idle dayes when he lyste, or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke dayes agen, or when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye...They have changed God’s lawes and turned them into their owne tradicions to be kept above God’s precepts.ii"
http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Sabbath_Sunday_Catholic_Church
