How Did The Sabbath Day Change From The 7th Day To 1st Day Of The Week?

[bro.tan]

Every Sunday millions upon millions of people all over the world attend church services. To most it's an automatic occurrence and they have never given their actions a second thought. It probably would seem blasphemous for these people to change their day of worship. After all, this is the way of the world and has been so for some time. Nevertheless, the bible say that Satan have deceived the whole world (Revelation 12:9).

Many people fail to realize that Sunday is the first day of the week. This ignorance is due to the fact that Monday is the first work/school day in most countries. However, Sunday is actually the first day of the week and Saturday is the seventh day. Any calendar, dictionary or encyclopedia will prove this fact.

Some will argue that it's impossible to know which day is which. They believe the days have changed over time. However, the bible speaks of a seven day week and we still live according to this rule today. This is no accident. Past nations have even tried to shorten and lengthen God's weekly institution, but of course they failed. Man has also come up with names (after pagan gods) for the days, but it is no coincidence that each day is still known by it's perspective number (1-7). God has not allowed the days of the week to be altered over the centuries. Even during the sixteenth century when the world adopted our present calendar, the Gregorian, the days of the week did not change.

Others will say that it really doesn't matter what day you attend church. "You should worship God everyday" or "everyday is the sabbath day," they will zealously proclaim. Well, why has the world set aside Sunday as it's day of worship (there is a reason, which we will discuss later) instead of any and every day? Sure you should do good and think about God everyday, but everyday cannot be the sabbath day. God in his wisdom knew that man would be consumed with his daily activities. Therefore, he set one day aside for man to come together and worship him. The sabbath begins at sundown Friday and last until sundown Saturday. (Each day starts in the evening, instead of at midnight, "and the evening and morning were the fifth day" Genesis 1:23). The entire bible stresses that it is of utmost importance that we observe (attend church) the Lord's sabbath, the seventh (7th) day. It really does matter.

[bro.tan]

Man realizes the importance of setting one day aside to worship God. Nevertheless, he has tried to change God's set time and law of Sabbath worship. "And he shall speak great words against the most High...and think to change times and laws..." (Daniel 7:25). This change went into effect on March 7, 321 A.D., by Emperor Constantine of Rome. Constantine, "...enjoined Sunday rest from labor, except agricultural" (Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 21, 1945). It is even recorded that Constantine used violence to enforce his new law, because the seventh day sabbath was still being observed by true servants of God. Now if it would seem blasphemous for people to change their day of worship today, how do you think God felt when man changed his?

Many religious leaders realize that the days of the week have not changed. They claim that the sabbath day changed from the seventh day (Saturday) to the first day (Sunday) in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus. This theory, along with Constantine's law, is the reason why most of the world has adopted Sunday as the new sabbath. Nevertheless, not one preacher or Constantine has ever substantiated this claim with the holy bible.

Another common theory is "Saturday is the Jewish sabbath and Sunday is the Christian sabbath." However, the bible speaks of only one sabbath, the seventh day, and it is called The Lord's Sabbath. "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; Ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings" (Leviticus 23:3). There was no Christian or Jew when God instituted his sabbath. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested..." (Genesis 2:3). Adam and Eve (created on the sixth day) were the only people around when God rested on the seventh day.

This day continued to be special to God and over two thousand years later he ordered man to observe it (Exodus 20:8-11). Yes the Lord truly intends for man to follow the example he set by honoring the seventh day. Therefore, he included it in his "ten commandments." Observing the sabbath is just as important as "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal" (Exodus 20:13,15). You cannot delete, change, or choose to obey one law over another. "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (James 2:10). Remember, they are not called the nine commandments. Though he has tried man cannot change the law of the Almighty and "Judgment day" will prove this.

Jesus warned us about breaking the commandments of God to honor our own traditions (Matthew 15:3-6). This is what we are doing by observing Sunday worship instead of God's fourth commandment. We claim to be worshipping the Lord, but Jesus declared, "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:9). Honoring the seventh day is a commandment of God from the beginning, while honoring the first day is a commandment of man from 321 A.D. Choose Life and live.

[bro.tan]

Just like adultery, dishonoring the sabbath was punishable by death (Exodus 31:14-15 and Numbers 15:32-36). There is no way we will escape if we ignore it. Honoring the sabbath is an everlasing sign for true worshippers of God. "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever..." (Exodus 31:17). True sabbath worship sets us apart or sanctifies us from the rest of the world.

Many think the sabbath is only for Israel. However, God is the God of all people. I ask you is "thou shalt not kill" only for Israel? NO! The Lord chose to reveal all of his laws to Israel, that through Israel they might be revealed to the whole world. Therefore, God's sabbath is for everybody to observe, "Also, the sons of the stranger (non-Israelite), that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, everyone that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it...even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer..." (Isaiah 56:6-7). So just as any and everyone will get punished for breaking the sabbath, any and everyone will get blessed for observing it.

During the days of the apostles the Gentiles recognized that they had to observe the seventh day sabbath. "And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath day" (Acts 13:42). These people did not try to come up with their own sabbath, but instead honored the Lord's sabbath which he had given to Israel. Later, Paul not only persuaded the Jews, but the Greeks also "every sabbath" (Acts 18:4). Therefore, the apostles and the newly converted Gentiles all observed the seventh day sabbath. As we have already pointed out it was not until the 4th Century A.D. that the Gentiles changed the sabbath to Sunday. However, if the sabbath had changed after the resurrection of Jesus, Paul and those who were first called Christians would not have continued to observe it. "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures" (Acts 17:2). In all the traveling that Paul did he still found time to keep the sabbath and other holy days.

[ex cathedra]

 sabbath day's or even the rest of the laws do not apply  to  us  who are Lutheran. ,their for the  jews God brought out of egypt as the commandment's  in exodus say  .God never brought  Lutherans  out of egypt he brought the jews of that day out of egypt .  we Lutherans mostly  come from place like Germany Iceland Norway Sweden Finland or Apache land  or Africa .

start reading the bible in context please.

Jesus is our sabbath rest .  so go chase after jewish commandment meant only for the jews taken out of egypt if you want to. Because they cant save you from your sins as Jesus has done.

The only good the 10 commands have for us is the  3rd use.

were above the laws of God since Jesus finished them perfectly for our sake -------------your religion teachers your not  .
so these Laws you try to live out  will kill you!

Why not instead trust that Jesus who is God  already has completed them perfectly for you to .

then you wont be told by some law abuser  what your sabbath day must be.



wels net questions and answers on this subject

http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1519&cuQA_qaID=1&cuTopic_topicID=261


An Analysis of Adventist Arguments for a Seventh Day Sabbath

http://www.wlsessays.net/node/1233

[mjrhealth]

Does it matter one little bit. do you think God should care over such a small matter. I set everyday as a day of worship, why should we give one day to God and keep the rest to ourselves, should not all our days be given to Him, should He not be foremost in all that we do, He deserves no less than all of us.

in His love

[Wycliffes_Shillelagh]

It didn't.  The Sabbath is still the 7th day of the week.  We just go to church on Sunday, which lets us rest on Saturday, which was the whole point of the day to start with.

[Richard]

Call it what you what you want, but I can tell you why we gather to break bread and talk about the gospel of Jesus Christ on the first day of the week - we are trying to follow the example of the early church.

"On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight."
Acts 20:7

[SolaFida]

If your focus is on what day of the week to worship and you get all frothy at the mouth about it then your focus is on the wrong thing and your energoes spent on nothing.  The Pharisees were good at that and it was counted as nothing to them.

Look to God, focus on who He is and what He has done and what His message is, not on the little things that can be interpreted in many ways and ties people up in "laws".  We were not freed from the law only to be subject to it again.  The law was fulfilled in Christ and it is He that we should worship.

[larry2]

These things are called bondage, and beggarly elements.

Galatians 4:9-10
9   But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10  Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Colossians 2:14-17
14   Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15   And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16   Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Hebrews 4:1-11
1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8  For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
In Jesus' name - larry2

[ex cathedra]

sabbath saturdays  were only  the shadow of the better thing to come.

others can run off to saturday for rest if they want to.

But as for Lutherans

we flee to Jesus

Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.



Colossians 2:16-17

 16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

[bro.tan]

sabbath day's or even the rest of the laws do not apply  to  us  who are Lutheran. ,their for the  jews God brought out of egypt as the commandment's  in exodus say  .God never brought  Lutherans  out of egypt he brought the jews of that day out of egypt .  we Lutherans mostly  come from place like Germany Iceland Norway Sweden Finland or Apache land  or Africa .

start reading the bible in context please.

Jesus is our sabbath rest .  so go chase after jewish commandment meant only for the jews taken out of egypt if you want to. Because they cant save you from your sins as Jesus has done.

The only good the 10 commands have for us is the  3rd use.

were above the laws of God since Jesus finished them perfectly for our sake -------------your religion teachers your not  .
so these Laws you try to live out  will kill you!

Why not instead trust that Jesus who is God  already has completed them perfectly for you to .

then you wont be told by some law abuser  what your sabbath day must be.



wels net questions and answers on this subject

http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1519&cuQA_qaID=1&cuTopic_topicID=261


An Analysis of Adventist Arguments for a Seventh Day Sabbath

http://www.wlsessays.net/node/1233

The only good the 10 commands have for us is the  3rd use.

Lutherans or no Lutherans what did James say about not keeping the whole law.

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

2:11 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.


1John  3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.


(Ex 20:8-10) (v.8) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
(v.9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
(v.10) “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God”.

Paul said in romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

The scripture are from Genesis to Malachi

[bro.tan]

Does it matter one little bit. do you think God should care over such a small matter. I set everyday as a day of worship, why should we give one day to God and keep the rest to ourselves, should not all our days be given to Him, should He not be foremost in all that we do, He deserves no less than all of us.

in His love

Jesus said in 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.



2John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

[bro.tan]

If your focus is on what day of the week to worship and you get all frothy at the mouth about it then your focus is on the wrong thing and your energoes spent on nothing.  The Pharisees were good at that and it was counted as nothing to them.

Look to God, focus on who He is and what He has done and what His message is, not on the little things that can be interpreted in many ways and ties people up in "laws".  We were not freed from the law only to be subject to it again.  The law was fulfilled in Christ and it is He that we should worship.

What law do you think we where free from?

[bro.tan]

These things are called bondage, and beggarly elements.

Galatians 4:9-10
9   But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10  Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Colossians 2:14-17
14   Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15   And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16   Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Hebrews 4:1-11
1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8  For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
 
In Jesus' name - larry2

Those verses you quote have nothing to do with not keeping the sabbath day.
In Galatian 4 you quote Paul was talking about the animal sacrifical law.
You quote colosians 2...., but not the whole chapter or verse 8 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Verse 16 which consist of going
back to the scriptures leviticus 23rd chapter.....When the last time you kept a Holyday,
or any feast day of the lords. Sunday is not an Holy day, it the first day of the week. That
verse is for people who keep the laws in leviticus 23rd chapter.

Last...you quote Hebrew the 4 chapter...which Paul is taking about another in the future.
(quote the prophet David) verse  4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. This is taking about the milliumium period, in revelation 20th chapter, but that is another lesson of another time. Mean while Paul and the apostles still kept the sabbath day on the seventh day of the week to there death.

[larry2]

bro.dan - 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.

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

larry2 - I'm glad to hear you keep all the law 100% of the time; Jesus did that, but I have never met anyone else that did. As touching the law Paul said he was a Pharisee, the rich young man claimed that doing all also, but those two didn't realize as you do that the law stretches far, far past human ability to do that for the law was a ministration of death. Congratulations.

In Jesus' name - larry2