Why does the Sabbath Start on the International Date Line?

Bob S · Sep 4, 2021

guevaraj said:
Sister, man-made teachings are what happens when God has something complicated to tell us and we don't understand it. The church will understand in due time according to the prophecy of the Angel below. I know God helped our church understand the longest time to make this correction by holding an incorrect hour for more than 8 years before doing the Bible study to learn more. God prepared our church to understand His Sabbath. Note that the angel speaks positively that we will "understand, but not yet, not yet". It is difficult to correct a tradition, especially one that has been around for so long! We understood "what even is" but we have not understood "when it is": even falls in the middle of the first day and not as supposed was at the beginning because the Sabbath in Israel is not as supposed a day of the week.

I saw that it is even so: “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.” Said the angel: “Take the word of God, read it, understand, and ye cannot err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find what even is, and when it is.” I asked the angel if the frown of God had been upon His people for commencing the Sabbath as they had. I was directed back to the first rise of the Sabbath, and followed the people of God up to this time, but did not see that the Lord was displeased, or frowned upon them. I inquired why it had been thus, that at this late day we must change the time of commencing the Sabbath. Said the angel: “Ye shall understand, but not yet, not yet.” Said the angel: “If light come, and that light is set aside or rejected, then comes condemnation and the frown of God; but before the light comes, there is no sin, for there is no light for them to reject.” I saw that it was in the minds of some that the Lord had shown that the Sabbath commenced at six o'clock, when I had only seen that it commenced at “even,” and it was inferred that even was at six. I saw that the servants of God must draw together, press together. (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, Page 116)

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

Hi Jorge, instead of bickering over when the Sabbath starts, why don't you investigate to whom the Sabbath was given. God has never required gentiles to observe any day. So, why are you so fixated on when it starts when it has never been a requirement for us to keep in the first place?

guevaraj · Sep 4, 2021

Bob S said:
the start of your Sabbath was moved from Sinai to the International Date Line. New Zealand now starts the Sabbath that before the IDL was recognized the Sabbath started in Israel.

Brother, happy Sabbath! The Sabbath has never moved, it has always started on the International Date Line since the creation week. The Sabbath began at creation week when God made the seventh day holy. The Sabbath has never started on Mount Sinai or in Israel. United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

guevaraj · Sep 4, 2021

Bob S said:
Hi Jorge, instead of bickering over when the Sabbath starts, why don't you investigate to whom the Sabbath was given. God has never required gentiles to observe any day. So, why are you so fixated on when it starts when it has never been a requirement for us to keep in the first place?

Brother, those before Jesus "whose corpses lay in the wilderness" could not have entered what was still future. We must enter the "rest" in which they had not entered for 40 years by oath due to their disobedience. The only "rest" available to them as for us is the "rest" on the Sabbath.

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed him? So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest. (Hebrews 3:17-19 NLT)

The "rest" they could have entered into as we "can" is the Sabbath "rest".

For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” (Hebrews 4:3-4 NLT)

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge

Why does the Sabbath Start on the International Date Line?