Posted on 08/18/2025 6:56:09 AM PDT by vespa300
In addition, certain yearly festivals, or ceremonial sabbaths, falling on specified days of the month and connected with the Mosaic sacrificial services, were introduced. These prefigured the gospel provision of salvation through the coming "Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). But the Decalogue, sealed with the lip and finger of God,
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was lifted above all Jewish rites and ceremonies. This is evident from the fact that the Sabbath was established before man sinned, and therefore before he had any need of a Redeemer. It was not a part of the ceremonial regulations occasioned by the entrance of sin, and which were annulled by the death of Christ (Col. 2:17). Thus the. Ten Commandments and the gospel in figure, in inseparable union, were affirmed to Israel of old.
So the Sabbath, established in Eden, was kept by patriarch, prophet, and people of God throughout the centuries of pagan darkness. And when Christ came, at His incarnation, He likewise observed the seventh day as the Sabbath (Mark 6:1, 2; Luke 4:16, 31), and was "Lord also of the sabbath" (Mark 2:28)—the Creator who had established the original seventh-day Sabbath of creation week.
He also fulfilled, in antitypical reality, the Old Testament types of redemption—dying as the "Lamb of God," a vicarious, completely efficacious, and atoning death for man, on the specified fourteenth (or Passover) day of the first month. The Saviour died, we believe, on the sixth day of the week. Then, after remaining in the tomb over the seventh-day Sabbath, Christ rose triumphant over death on the first day of the week. The typical ceremonial system ceased when Christ completed His great redemptive act. But the Decalogue and the gospel-in-actuality remained as the Christian's continuing guide, one setting forth the standard, and the other providing the enabling power for its observance.
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The texts in the New Testament specifically mentioning the first day of the week (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1, 2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7, 8; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2) cannot rightly be construed as enjoining the observance of Sunday, or as transferring the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day.
The seventh-day Sabbath continued to be kept by Christ's followers for several centuries. But along with the Sabbath there was a growing observance of what was known as the festival of the resurrection, celebrated on the first day. This was observed at least from the middle of the second century (see Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, V. 22). And the first recorded observance was at Rome (Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. 67).
Thus these two observances—the Sabbath and the "festival of the resurrection"—came, in time, to parallel each other. In the fourth century the apostatizing church—first, at the Council of Laodicea (in canon 29)*—anathematized those who continued to "Judaize," or rest on the seventh day of the week, and decreed the observance of the first day in its stead (Hefele, History of the Councils of the Church, vol. 2, p. 316). Thus ecclesiastical custom was first enforced by church council action.
Seventh-day Adventists believe that this very change was predicted in Bible prophecy, in Daniel 7:25. The church in Rome led out in bringing about the change to Sunday. Thenceforth Sunday was observed by most Christians, before, during, and following the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. The Sabbath, however, still continued to be observed by some in various parts of Europe and elsewhere. _______ *The canons of the provincial Council of Laodicea were incorporated into the law of the church by action of the general Council of Chalcedon, 451, and thus became obligatory for all churches.
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The revival of seventh-day Sabbath observance was largely brought about in the seventeenth century by the Seventh Day Baptist movement in Britain and on the Continent. Seventh-day Adventists began the promulgation of the Sabbath truth about 1845-46 in America.
We believe that the restoration of the Sabbath is indicated in the Bible prophecy of Revelation 14:9-12. Sincerely believing this, we regard the observance of the Sabbath as a test of our loyalty to Christ as Creator and Redeemer.
Seventh-day Adventists do not rely upon their Sabbathkeeping as a means of salvation or of winning merit before God. We are saved by grace alone. Hence our Sabbath observance, as also our loyalty to every other command of God, is an expression of our love for our Creator and Redeemer.
So beautifully stated. Especially where it says the Sabbath belongs God. It is his. He is it’s author, he is it’s maker, he is it’s protector.
In the very heart of the 10 commandments. Jesus said later...it was “made for man.” Amen.
Later.
they also dont eat pork , following jewish law and traditions
___they also dont eat pork , following jewish law and traditions___
Yet another Bible Scholar who thinks Jews were around at creation when God made the sabbath....for man.
There is no scripture stating that God changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday; but a fair reading of the scriptures shows that: (1) gentiles have liberty to meet on Sunday; and (2) God can be worshipped by his people on ALL days of the week, at any time, and in any place (even in jail).
Just what is behind their doctrine is simply rebellion against the one true church which Jesus established, with the authority that He conferred on His apostles, and passed on through apostolic succession, and known as the authority of the Roman Catholic church.
Sunday, The Lord's Day.
From the first century Didache, possibly written prior to Revelation: "But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure"
Just my belief based on the very earliest of Church teachings and Scripture which generally speak for themselves and don't need much interpretation, it interprets itself.
I have a copy of “From Sabbath to Sunday” by Samuele Bacchiocchi, hardback from 1977 copyright. It has the author’s signature in blue ink.
Does anyone know if this signature is part of the printing or is it real?
I did not pay very much for it.
Settle the argument.
Show us a calendar from the time of Creation.
Hah!
I thought so.
There weren’t even auto parts stores back at the Creation.
It is well known that God started creating on a Wednesday, which would make Tuesday the true Sabbath.
What’s next? Telling us that Christmas didn’t happen on December 25th?
That Labor Day was on a Thursday?
If you fit the last week of Jesus’s life on earth on a timeline, it only fits that Jesus rose from the tomb on Saturday.
He was crucified on a Wednesday and had to be rushed into the tomb by sundown, as at sundown, the beginning of the next day began the Passover Sabbath Day.
As Thursday was a Sabbath Day, Mary could not purchase the herbs and spices, she had to wait until Friday.
At sundown on Friday began the regular weekly Sabbath. Thus she could not go to the tomb on Saturday. (Two sabbaths that week)
Mary went to the tomb on Sunday morning, and Jesus was gone as “He had risen.” Note the words in the scriptures are past tense, “Had Risen.”
Just as Jonah, Jesus would be in the tomb.
3 days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
3 nights, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Thus Jesus was not in the Tomb Saturday night or prophesy would not be fulfilled.
It would appear that Jesus rose Saturday at sundown.
“There is no scripture stating that God changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday; but a fair reading of the scriptures shows that: (1) gentiles have liberty to meet on Sunday; and (2) God can be worshipped by his people on ALL days of the week, at any time, and in any place (even in jail).”
I think that is accurate.
The Sunday observance for Catholics (writ large — this was the Eastern Church) can be traced back to the Council of Laodicea, held around 363–364 AD in Phrygia, Asia Minor, specifically cannon 29.
Prior, and during that time, Saturday sabbath observance was commonplace for Christians. Indeed, this being non-Roman, it took some time for the idea to catch on and spread.
Generally speaking, it was an effort to distance the Church from Jews, with other cannons stating it was unlawful to accept gifts or whatnot from Jewish family related to a Jewish holiday (e.g., no Hanukah gifts or whatever).
John 10:30 [Jesus said] “I and My Father are one.”
Incorrect - check my post #8
I have a copy, but no signature.
No, my post is correct and well documented in Church history.
Now, you are correct that there were varying practices among locales, and many accepted your beliefs, but no one day (as between Sunday and Saturday) was particularly dominant.
it only fits that Jesus rose from the tomb on Saturday.
On the road to Emmaus, Sunday after the Passover on Saturday...
King James Bible LUKE 24:
“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, TODAY US THE THIRD DAY since these things were done.”
Thanks for this bit of education about Seventh-day Adventists.
Passover on Saturday does not fit the timeline facts.
Luke 24. On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
The first day of the week is Sunday.
7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Thursday, Friday, and risen on Saturday, the third day.
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