Hi frogoon,
Thanks for your reply. I would not agree with all of that statement. While I do agree that following the practices of the Jewish faith is no longer of any value for any of us, and therefore, a 'dead' faith, the establishment of the day of the Sabbath was a command of God and not arbitrary by any means.
Throughout the hundreds of years before the fulfillment of the law in the life and death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus, the Israelites were pretty consistent in living six days and having a day of rest that was carried on from the day of the law's inception. Then, even beyond the life of the Christ here upon the earth, the Jews were still very regular in keeping to the six and one Sabbath count.
However, now a non-religious entity has stepped in to establish the 'count' of the seven days of the week and that entity, likely because many people see Monday as the first day of the week because that's the day that they start their work week, has established that Monday is the first day of the week. That means that the group that is being arbitrary, and now throwing into question how we count the days of the week, is the ISO.
This is a group of people who, some thousands of years after the inception of the law of the Sabbath, and with no regard for that law, have merely arbitrarily established as an international standard that Monday is the first day of the week. That's fine with me as far as it goes in setting the timetable for the world to count days. But, it has no bearing on the things of God. It's a point that honestly is not worth arguing to the world at large, but to someone who desires to understand the Sabbath, it's always going to be that the Sabbath begins at sundown and Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday. The next day to come, whatever the name of that day is, is the first day of the week according to God's establishing of the week of seven days.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
