I understand that the 7th day is the sabbath but how do we know what day was day 1 in creation? Did God start the first day on Tuesday or Sunday? Hope this makes sense.
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Another 7th day question....
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If you understand the seventh day is Sabbath or saturday, and there is seven days in the week, then logic would dictate that sunday would be the first... unless I'm missing something in what you're asking?
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k4c
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Matthew 28:1 Now after the Sabbath had passed it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at Jesus' tomb.
Mary came to Jesus' tomb after the Sabbath had passed, which now makes it Sunday, the first day. Even Webster's Dictionary tells us which day is the seventh day.
Webster's Dictionary
Sat·ur·day (sat′ər dā′
The seventh day of the week.
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The day following Friday and preceding Sunday.[/FONT]
Sat·ur·day (sat′ər dā′
The seventh day of the week.
[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The day following Friday and preceding Sunday.[/FONT]
Wherever you live in this world there is a seventh day in every week. Do you know which day is the seventh day? Then this is what God will hold us accountable to.
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Ok let's look at this. Adam KNEW when the first day was and would have past that down to the following generations, including NOAH. Oh, you didnt' know that Adam was alive when Noah was born. Check it out do some research, the geneologies will show this is true. I'm not saying that they knew each other but then God did consider Noah the only Godly man upon the earth and where would he have learned to obey God?
So Noah builds his boat and his family is saved from the flood and his sons and their wives produce offspring and they pass the knowledge of the creation and the days down to their progene. OOPS, Babylon.. oh no.. they've lost the knowledge of the creation and of the Sabbath.... Did they?
Genesis 26:5 "Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge (could this charge been the keeping of the Sabbath?), my statutes and my laws."
Abraham kept something that God considered important and the only things mentioned before this were: The Sabbath, the life of a man. (See the creation, seventh day and the account of Cain and Able.) We don't know what sins were perpetrated before the flood but we can only assume they were horrendous and numerous.
So say that the counting of the days were lost after Babylon. God restored them when he brought Israel out of Egypt because the Sabbath law was the first law that God restored. It is also interesting to note that the Sabbath law immediately follows all the laws pertaining to God directly and the Sabbath law has all of the features in it that would identify who God is and what he has domain over. But I get carried away. We must admit that God had to have restored the weekly count when he gave the Israelites the Sabbath law.
Since that time the decendents of the Israelites have kept the Sabbath religiously, so ask them when the Sabbath is, they will tell you it is, from even to even upon the end of the sixth day of the week, the day we call Friday and continues to the end of the seventh day of the week, the day we call Saturday.
Have I explained that well enough... Oh and a calender has nothing to do with it. They may change, but the weekly cycle has never changed.
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God did not name the days, he numbered them. Rome changed this to names using pagan dieties to name each day
Sunday (dias de solas -- day of the Sun) worship day for worshipping the Sun God
Monday - Moon Day -- day for worshipping the Moon
Tuesday - (someone fill this in for me)
Wednesday - Wodens Day (Nordic God)
Thursday - Thors Day (another Nordic God)
Friday - Freas (sp) Day (yet another Nordic God)
Saturday - Saturns Day (also known as Zues)
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:
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k4c
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All throughout Scripture we have testimony of creation week with the seventh day being the glorifying cap of God's reallity and creative power.
There is really no record of man honoring the seventh day after the fall and before Exodus but that does not mean the seventh day is not a blessed, sanctified and holy day just as God created it. When God blesses, sanctifies and calls something holy He is setting it apart for His purpose.
I believe the last six commandments are part of our created human nature but the first four have to be taught since man died spiritually.
Between the fall of man and Exodus, man's heart grew to be completely corrupt and dead towards the things of God.
Genesis 6:5-7 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
I don't believe they were honoring God's holy day at this point, in the same way, we will find people today not honoring marriage but this does not mean marriage is no longer holy and set apart in God's eyes. In the same way, just because wicked man wasn't honoring God's holy day does not mean the day is no longer a blessed, sanctified and holy day.
So now we have time moving forward from Genesis 6:5-7. God cleans the earth and starts fresh. By the time Exodus appears God has choosen a people to represent Him in the earth. The very first thing God does in Exodus 16:4:30, which was even before Mt.Sinai, is He reestablishes and restores the seventh day, which had probably been lost through the many years of man's wickedness. From Exodus 16 on we have a clear understanding of which day the seventh day is because God chose a people to light that candle once again in the earth.
Take some time and read through Exodus 16:4-30.
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Tuesday = The English name is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday. This was a loan translation of Latin dies Martis, originally associating the day with the planet Mars. The Germanic name translates Mars, the god of war, as Teiwaz (Old English Tiw). (From Tuesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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In over one hundred languages their name for the seventh day is "sabbath." Do a web search for Dr. William Mead Jones; for example: Weekly Cycle.
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