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A $5,000 cash reward is
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Bible text proving Sunday
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day
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The above advertisement
is very eye catching. It
has run for three weeks
in a small newspaper in
South Carolina. Several
people have responded to
the ad but none have claimed
the reward. One would think
finding such a verse would
be an easy task for pastors,
laypeople, or the average
Christian. But, the reward
hasn’t been paid. The verse
hasn’t been found. And it
will never be discovered.
It doesn’t exist.
One can search the entire
Bible, from Genesis to Revelation,
and not find a single verse
proving the first day of
the week as the prescribed
day of worship. Anyone that
can find a Bible verse that
proves different would be
five thousand dollars richer.
In the beginning, with the
Creation account, the seventh
day of the week was made
holy as a day of rest and
worship. The importance
of a specific day for worship
is repeated with the giving
of the Ten Commandments.
“Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labour, and do
all thy work: But the seventh
day is the Sabbath,” says
Exodus 20:8.
Now, compare this verse
to a calendar. What day
is the first day of the
week? Sunday. What day is
the seventh day? Saturday.
Any questions? The point
is pretty simple. The seventh
day of the week is the Biblical
Sabbath. The latest edition
of Webster’s Unabridged
Dictionary defines the ‘seventh
day’ as “Saturday, the seventh
day of the week.” So, how
did the church get the days
of the week mixed up? Is
there a calendar crisis?
First, the Sabbath wasn’t
changed in the New Testament.
Messiah Himself, kept the
seventh day Sabbath, “And
he came to Nazareth, where
he had been brought up:
and, as his custom was,
he went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day, and
stood up for to read,” Luke
4:16. Even the Apostle Paul
and the first believers
in the book if Acts kept
Saturday as holy, “And he
[Paul] reasoned in the synagogue
every Sabbath, and persuaded
the Jews and the Greeks,”
Acts 18:4. Notice that Jews
and Greeks were worshipping
together. Saturday isn’t
the “Jewish” Sabbath, but
the Biblical one. Seventh
day Sabbath observance is
intended for all believers.
History shows that the day
of worship wasn’t changed
by the Creator, but by man.
From creation, the Seventh
day of rest has been Saturday.
Humanity has not lost track
of time or confused which
day is which. Man can’t
pick his own personal seventh
day. Nor did the Resurrection
swap the days of worship.
The Savior gave many sermons,
but He never told us to
change the Sabbath to Sunday.
The church, be it Catholic
or Christian, has no authority
to add to or alter the Scriptures.
The truth is that nowhere
in the Bible is the day
of worship changed from
Saturday to Sunday. Instead,
the Roman Catholic Church
mandated the trade many
years ago. Mainstream Christianity
has continued in this error
ever since.
• “Prove to me from the
Bible alone that I am bound
to keep Sunday holy. There
is no such law in the Bible.
It is a law of the Roman
Catholic Church alone. Chapter
20, verse 8 of Exodus says
‘Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy.’ The Catholic
Church says not, but by
its divine power it abolishes
the Sabbath day and commands
we 'keep holy the first
day of the week'. And lo!
The entire civilized world
bows down in reverent obedience
to the command of the Holy
Catholic Church,” wrote
Father Thomas Enrich, in
the Roman Catholic journal
The American Sentinel.
• "The Church, on the
other hand, after changing
the day of rest from the
Jewish Sabbath, or seventh
day of the week, to the
first, made the Third Commandment
refer to Sunday as the day
to be kept holy as the Lord's
Day. The Council of Trent
(Sess. VI, can. xix) condemns
those who deny that the
Ten Commandments are binding
on Christians," The
Catholic Encyclopedia
• “If Protestants would
follow the Bible, they would
worship God on the Sabbath
Day. In keeping the Sunday
they are following a law
of the Catholic Church,”
Albert Smith, Chancellor
of the Archdiocese of Baltimore,
replying for the Cardinal,
in a letter dated February
10, 1920.
• "The observance of
the Lord's Day (Sunday)
is founded not on any command
of God, but on the authority
of the Church," Lutheran
Augsburg Confession of Faith.
• "The Sabbath was
binding in Eden, and it
has been in force ever since.
This fourth commandment
begins with the word 'remember,'
showing that the Sabbath
already existed when God
wrote the law on the tables
of stone at Sinai. How can
men claim that this one
commandment has been done
away with when they will
admit that the other nine
are still binding?"-
Famous Baptist Pastor D.L.
MOODY, in his book "Weighed
and Wanting," page
47.
History proves that in 321AD,
Roman Emperor Constantine
the Great passed an edict
observing the first day
of the week as the “venerable
day of the sun.” Constantine’s
law mandated worldwide Christian
worship to change from the
seventh day to the first
day of the week. Encyclopedias
show that Constantine was
a sun-worshipping ruler
who mixed pagan rites with
the true faith. He commanded
the universal church to
forsake Biblical precepts
for a new religion separate
from Judaism. This isn’t
speculation but fact. Centuries
before Messiah came, the
first day of the week was
set aside as the day to
worship the Sun. Over time
it became known as “Sun
day.” Constantine and the
Catholic Church simply adopted
this day in an effort to
“convert” the pagans.
Today, local churches meet
on Sunday because they continue
in this error. Sunday is
the Sabbath for good-hearted
and faithful Lutherans,
Baptists, and Pentecostals.
Most folks just don’t know
any better. Others say the
day of worship doesn’t matter.
Or that the Christian Sabbath
is Sunday because believers
are not “under the law.”
These arguments have no
Biblical foundation. The
day of worship and rest
was specified during Creation
and has not changed. The
scriptures are very specific.
The seventh day, Saturday,
is set apart and holy. Is
it better to keep a tradition
of man or follow the Scriptures?
Of those who know the Sabbath
truth but still honor Sunday
the Savior said, "It
in vain they do worship
me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men,”
Matthew, chapter 15:9.
“There remains a Sabbath
keeping rest,” Hebrews 4:9.
To learn more truth from
the Scriptures visit www.emetministries.com
This teaching was written
by Dani'el Rendelman, ravemet@comcast.net
