Is Sunday Law Coming?

[Freth]

Is Sunday Law Coming?

What follows is evidence of precursors pointing to a coming Sunday law.


Blue Laws

Encyclopedia Britannica records that blue laws were enacted to encourage Sabbath observance—but on Sunday. Sunday isn't the Sabbath. It never has been.

In the United States blue laws are still being enforced. My home state of Ohio restricts the sale of certain items on Sundays, like alcohol. It has been that way since I can remember (in my lifetime of 53 years so far).


The Pandemic

During the pandemic some countries enacted Sunday rest mandates and curfews. Some of which may still be in place. The mandates that were implemented during this time shows us how quickly things can change.


Project 2025

Full disclosure, I consider myself to be a conservative. As a former actively political conservative, I would've gotten behind organized party action to forward conservatism. As a Seventh-day Adventist and a Bible believing Christian, I can't get behind the implementation of a so-called Sabbath day of rest—on Sunday, no less.

What's the problem?

• They've already made it clear that it will be exclusionary to seventh-day Sabbath keepers.
• They're essentially looking to mandate a day of rest.

European Parliament

Nine members of European Parliament have expressed their support for Sunday rest initiatives.

(Only 5 videos can be embedded per post so I've set the rest as plain text below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLg20JbUtXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYtFjs8r1Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIiL7t2tvLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTcKQwuDwv8


Green Sabbath Project

The Green Sabbath is an initiative to have a Sabbath day of rest or "weekly earth day" (day unspecified) for the earth to recover.

Welcome to the Green Sabbath Project! Our main focus is education and advocacy. Our mission is to spark a mass movement of observance of a weekly day of rest -- shabbat, sabbath, a green sabbath or a weekly earth day -- on which impact on the environment is minimized as much as possible.

Laudato Si

In Laudato Si, Pope Francis calls for a Sunday rest over the Sabbath, and associates it with the common good and the climate.

On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims “man’s eternal rest in God”. [168]

Footnote 168 points to the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2175:

2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ: Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.

Should Christians Be Concerned?

Naturally, seventh-day Sabbath keeping Christians are concerned, but should Sunday keep Christians be concerned?

In my mind I imagine the average Christian looks at all of these things as beneficial to the Christian; i.e. not a problem at all. After all, most Christians embrace Sunday, so why not be in support of it?

In the least, the mandating of a day of rest enjoins church and state. What happens when church and state unite? Persecution and death. That should scare any Christian.

Will these initiatives, pushing for Sunday rest, become Sunday law?

 

[SabbathBlessings]

I know you posted this video in your post as a link but here it is again a little easier to find.

We are going into unprecedented times. Government wants to control what we think and how we worship, but God gave us free will because it’s not love If it’s forced, that is another spirit who wants forced worship and has counterfeited everything God made holy and good Isa 14:14. God said the Sabbath is the seventh day Exo 20:10 Sunday is not God’s day of rest. Exo 20:8-11 The seventh day is the Sabbath, thus saith the Lord because He is our Creator of Heaven and Earth Exo 20:11, He is the God who sanctifies us Eze 20:12 its best to let God be God and us be His humble servants. Isa 56:1-6 living by His every Word Mat 4:4.

 

[reddogs]

Well, lets see how the elections go and if Christians choose one over the other.

 

[germo155]

What means Sunday law, there isn't anything in Gods word

 

[Freth]

What means Sunday law, there isn't anything in Gods word

You're right, there is no justification for Sunday law or Sunday sacredness in scripture, and yet it is elevated above the Sabbath.

As for Sunday law not being in God's word, let's look at Bible prophecy.

Bible Prophecy

Daniel 7 describes four beasts which are successive kings/kingdoms. The first three beasts are identified as Babylon, Medo-Persia and Grecia in scripture. The fourth beast then is Rome. The ten horns are the divided kingdoms of Rome. This isn't new knowledge, it was determined by the Reformers. The little horn came up among the ten.

Daniel 7:8-9 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.​

Daniel 7:23-25 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 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: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.​

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The little horn:

• Came up among the ten kingdoms of the fourth beast (divided Rome).
• Having a mouth speaking great things; blasphemies.
• Plucking up three of the first ten horns by the roots; subduing three kings.
• Would think to change times and laws. Not man's times and laws, God's times and laws.
• Having power for a time + times + the dividing of time. (360 + 720 + 180 = 1260 prophetic days -> years).

Revelation picks up where Daniel leaves off, describing the same little horn as a beast that rises out of the sea.

Revelation 13:1-5 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.​

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The sea beast:

• Was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies (matching Daniel 7).
• Has the same characteristics of the four beasts of Daniel 7.
• Received a deadly wound that would be healed.
• Forty two months = 1260 days; the same prophetic period.

The time prophecy of the little horn/sea beast was fulfilled between 538 AD and 1798 AD.

• He spoke great things and blasphemies.
• The saints were given into his hand; persecution and death of Christians.
• He thought to change God's times and laws. The origin of Sunday sacredness, which is found nowhere in the Bible.

The little horn received a deadly wound in 1798 AD, but that wound is prophesied to be healed. As the little horn was receiving its deadly wound, the second beast, the earth beast, was rising in the New World. It is described as having two horns like a lamb and speaking like a dragon.

Revelation 13:11-17 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.​

The earth beast will exercise all of the power of the sea beast (which is the little horn continued) and cause all to worship the beast and receive his mark.

God's Times and Laws

What then is the prophecy referring to concerning times and laws? Look to the first recording of time in Genesis 1.

Genesis 1:1-7 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.​

• On the first day, God implemented night and day, and observed the first 24 hour day.
• For six days God created all things.
• God rested on the seventh day, sanctifying it.

God deliberately set an example for the 7 day week, set the sun, moon and stars in the sky and synchronized it to the seven day week, solidifying the fact that He designed man to have six days of work and a seventh day of rest, a holy day. We find out later from Jesus that the Sabbath was made for man (a part of the complete creation which cannot be separated from it) and that because of this fact He is also Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:27-28).

From the outset God set forth a holy day, the seventh day Sabbath, with purpose, for man. Man has no authority to think to change times and laws. God's law doesn't change.

Sunday Laws or Blue Laws

Sunday (or "blue") laws started being implemented in the United States as early as 1610 in the colony of Virginia, having been derived from Europe. i.e. Proof of prophecy fulfilled; think to change times and laws.

Today, blue laws exist around the world, not for the seventh day Sabbath instituted at creation, but for Sunday.

Today, there is a world-wide movement for sanctioned Sunday rest (as was shown in the OP).

Conclusion

• In creation we can see God's clear intention for man, setting aside a holy day, the seventh day Sabbath.
• In history we can see the fulfillment of the 1260 year time prophecy, and the implementation of man's times and laws.
• In scripture we can see the importance of the seventh day Sabbath as a perpetual covenant for man, while there is a complete absence of Sunday as anything sacred or a Sabbath day.
• In current events we can see the changing of times and laws coming to its final conclusion, pointing to the future mark of the beast as described in Revelation.

 

[reddogs]

What means Sunday law, there isn't anything in Gods word

Here is a good explanation..

 

[germo155]

Well orthodox tells you that u need he's church in order to know Christ.. and so on and son..

 

[reddogs]

Well orthodox tells you that u need he's church in order to know Christ.. and so on and son..

Need to read the Bible line by line and precept by precept and see what it unveils..

 

[Freth]

Well orthodox tells you that u need he's church in order to know Christ.. and so on and son..

Jesus stated that the way to the Father is directly through Him. There is no other mediator.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.​

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Paul, being an ordained preacher and apostle, stated the same.

1 Timothy 2:5-9 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.​

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Jesus concerning scripture.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.​

Paul states that all scripture as profitable for doctrine, reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness... that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3:14-17 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.​

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Nowhere in these statements does it say that the church is required in order to know Christ.

 

[Freth]

Sunday Law in the Catechism

The following quotes (inset) are copied and pasted directly from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, pp. 548-549. Formatting added for emphasis.

The call for Christians to seek recognition of Sundays as legal holidays.

2188 In respecting religious liberty and the common good of all, Christians should seek recognition of Sundays and the Church’s holy days as legal holidays. They have to give everyone a public example of prayer, respect, and joy and defend their traditions as a precious contribution to the spiritual life of society. If a country’s legislation or other reasons require work on Sunday, the day should nevertheless be lived as the day of our deliverance which lets us share in this “festal gathering,” this “assembly of the first born who are enrolled in heaven.”​

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The acknowledgement of the seventh day Sabbath.

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2189 “Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Deut 5:12). “The seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord” (Ex 31:15).​

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The statement of replacement of the seventh day Sabbath with Sunday.

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2190 The sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ.​

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2191 The Church celebrates the day of Christ’s Resurrection on the “eighth day,” Sunday, which is rightly called the Lord’s Day (cf. SC 106).​

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The replacement language (in place of the fourth commandment).

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2192 “Sunday . . . is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church” (CIC, can. 1246 § 1). “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass” (CIC, can. 1247).​

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2193 “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound . . . to abstain from those labors and business concerns which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord’s Day, or the proper relaxation of mind and body” (CIC, can. 1247).​

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2194 The institution of Sunday helps all “to be allowed sufficient rest and leisure to cultivate their familial, cultural, social, and religious lives” (GS 67 § 3).​

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2195 Every Christian should avoid making unnecessary demands on others that would hinder them from observing the Lord’s Day.​

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Scripture gives no authority to man to replace any commandment of God. In fact, it warns against it with dire consequences.

Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.​

James 2:10-12 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.​

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Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.​

 

[HIM]

Well orthodox tells you that u need he's church in order to know Christ.. and so on and son..

God's Word says we need God to know CHrist and His Church

 

[BobRyan]

I know you posted this video in your post as a link but here it is again a little easier to find.

We are going into unprecedented times. Government wants to control what we think and how we worship, but God gave us free will because it’s not love If it’s forced, that is another spirit who wants forced worship and has counterfeited everything God made holy and good Isa 14:14. God said the Sabbath is the seventh day Exo 20:10 Sunday is not God’s day of rest. Exo 20:8-11 The seventh day is the Sabbath, thus saith the Lord because He is our Creator of Heaven and Earth Exo 20:11, He is the God who sanctifies us Eze 20:12 its best to let God be God and us be His humble servants. Isa 56:1-6 living by His every Word Mat 4:4.

The title in that video appears to be in error.

The sunday laws are not about forcing people to worship on Sunday - they are about forcing places of business to be closed.

We often have worship services on Sunday for prayer meeting, evangelism , VBS etc branch Sabbath school outreach etc - it is not a sin to worship on any particular day of the week.

The "problem" is the case where observing the Bible Sabbath is "forbidden".

Even 2024 does not propose that. But they take the decided turn of connecting civil law to worship practices and that can get ugly fast - by the things that later follow it.

This is similiar to WCTU promoting prohibition against alcohol - and also promoting Sunday legislation. Adventists were told to join WCTU on the prohibition item but not the Sunday legislation item.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

The title in that video appears to be in error.

To be honest I am not a fan of the person who produced the video. I only reposted because of the live clips like on 2025 saying there is no place for Sabbath-keepers in their movement

The sunday laws are not about forcing people to worship on Sunday - they are about forcing places of business to be closed.

Initially

We often have worship services on Sunday for prayer meeting, evangelism , VBS etc branch Sabbath school outreach etc - it is not a sin to worship on any particular day of the week.

The "problem" is the case where observing the Bible Sabbath is "forbidden".

Even 2024 does not propose that. But they take the decided turn of connecting civil law to worship practices and that can get ugly fast - by the things that later follow it.

This is similiar to WCTU promoting prohibition against alcohol - and also promoting Sunday legislation. Adventists were told to join WCTU on the prohibition item but not the Sunday legislation item.

This is what EGW said what the law turns into:

The dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected. In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet's words: "The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Revelation 12:17.—Great Controversy, p. 592.

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

some countries also are thinking of a six day work week, more and more I see this on the internet it could have repercussions on the true sabbath day also.

Greece is bringing in a 6-day work week. Could Canada follow? - National | Globalnews.ca

Greek workers began a 48-hour work week starting Monday, a move that union representatives from across industries have termed “barbaric."

globalnews.ca