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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens (Genesis 2:1-4)The seventh day of...

Full Question Until recently, I always thought Catholics worshiped on the Sabbath, and that the early Church moved the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Is this true? Answer This is a common misunderstanding. Catholics do not worship on the Sabbath, which according to Jewish law is the last day of the week (Saturday), when God rested from all the work he had done in creation (Gen. 2:2-3). Catholics worship on the Lord’s Day, the first day of the week (Sunday, the eighth day); the day when God said "Let there be light" (Gen. 1:3); the day when Christ rose from...

President Shimon Peres on Sunday congratulated Yitzhak Tshuva, the controlling shareholder of the Tamar natural gas field which was first put into use Saturday, for pumping the gas into Israel four years after the deposit was first discovered — adding, however, that the pumping should not have begun on the Sabbath. Peres spoke with Tshuva and praised the “momentous deed” he had done “for the sake of Israel.” However, at a meeting Sunday with Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Peres said he was sorry that the pumping had begun on a Saturday, “of all days.”

As usual, none of my five siblings or their families go to Holy Mass on Sunday. A Commandment is a Commandment, in the New Covenant assembling to worship God on Sunday is divine law. Does anyone else have family who skip Church on Sunday? Our nation is going further and further away from God. Are we seeing the beginning of God's just judgment? ~ ~ ~ * Hidden in Scripture, message from Mary: the dire effect of violating Sabbath * July 20, 2012 We all know the requirement to attend Mass every weekend. Few realize, however, how seriously Heaven takes...

What should religious doctors do if a gentile is injured in a car accident on Shabbat and is rushed to the hospital? According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, this does not warrant violating the sanctity of the Sabbath. During a class on Sabbath halacha relating to religious physicians, the spiritual leader of Shas said that while doctors are expected to do everything in their power – even if it requires violating the Sabbath – in order to save Jews whose lives are in danger, the same does not apply for gentiles. "If a gentile were to get injured in a car...

You Have Left Your First Love Dean C. Haskins But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Rev. 2:4 You have probably heard this verse numerous times in your life, and, like me, were given an explanation of its meaning that was something like this—that the passage is speaking of “losing one's original zeal and fervor for the things of the Lord.” Now, don't misunderstand me; I know that can happen in one's life. However, is that really what John was saying about the vision he had on the island of Patmos? Before delving into...

FORT WORTH — They twisted in limbo too long, fought too hard to keep the chance to play, to lose the game. So the Robert M. Beren Academy Stars left no doubt. The small Houston Orthodox Jewish school rolled through the state semifinal it needed a lawsuit to get to play in, beating Dallas Covenant 58-46 Friday afternoon at Fort Worth Nolan High School. And now the hoops dream that fueled the players to stick up for their religious beliefs is so close. One game away. Thirty two minutes from a state title. Beren will play in the TAPPS 2A...

Christian Children’s Worker Who Was Forced to Resign Loses Case by Peter Wooding, ASSIST News The London-based Christian Legal Centre expressed disappointment when an employment tribunal ruled that 57 year-old children’s worker Celestina Mba was not constructively dismissed from her job after she was forced to resign in 2010. Ms. Mba worked for almost three years at the Brightwell Children’s Home in Morden, in London, a respite home for children with disabilities including autism. She has been a Christian since she was a young girl and has never worked on a Sunday. According to the Christian Legal Centre Ms. Mba...

A classroom in a special education school in Ashdod has served as a makeshift synagogue on Sabbaths for 40 years running. Throughout those years, not one Sabbath prayer was missed. Until this last Sabbath. And that was what saved the congregants from a Gaza missile that struck the synagogue's courtyard Saturday. Netanel Mor Yosef, a member of the congregation, explained to Arutz Sheva: "The synagogue is active, but only on the Sabbath, for the past 40 years. Not a single Sabbath prayer session was ever missed until this week. Then synagogue's gabbai (treasurer-manager) underwent an operation during the week and...

Noach 2011 While we normally consider Noach and his generation to be a prime example of how a society can so easily lose it all, there are additional and highly significant lessons and applications very relevant to our times. We are now still feeling the effects of the 'chamas', ‘the ‘me first’ philosophy, which led to the unscrupulous practices by so many, all too long, especially in the financial world. The ongoing grassroots ‘social protests’ for no special reason, which have spread across North America, are reason enough for concern. The decay from the top has had a ripple effect...

Next in order of events is the Sabbath. Jesus foretold that He would be dead for three days and three nights and according to our calendar, there is not enough time. Apparently there is more than one Sabbath that occurred during that time.These are the passages that record the events that occurred over the Sabbath; Matthew 27:57-66 , Mark 16:1-2 , Luke 23:50-56 , and John 19:40-42 . Matthew 27:57-66Jesus Is Buried 57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58He went to Pilate and asked for...

Have you ever wondered why one of the Ten Commandments seems null and void – notably the one calling on believers to observe the Sabbath? Ask your pastor or priest and you will probably hear it's because Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday... (or because the disciples broke bread on Sunday morning--after a daylong sermon that extended into the night hours the preceding Sabbath Day) And then there's the little problem of this switch of worship days not being mentioned in the Bible – and the historical fact that most Christians continued observing the Sabbath for hundreds of years...

The Pack is back.  And so is the Steel Curtain. Probably a hundred million people will be watching Pittsburgh and Green Bay in the Super Bowl, with the Steelers hoping to upend the favored Green Bay Packers and gain their seventh championship ring.  Some will watch for the game, others for the halftime show.  Expensive, slick and sometimes funny commercials will be at center stage. A few viewers will be intrigued by the controversy surrounding quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger. Where will Christians be sitting when they watch the extravaganza?   One church in Dallas, where the big game will be held,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he relaxes every Saturday by reading the Bible with his 15-year-old son -- who recently won a national Israeli Bible competition and came in third in the international quizzing contest. Netanyahu revealed this fascinating piece of information near the end of CNN's 'Larry King Live' show in answer to Larry King's question on whether, as Israeli PM, Netanyahu ever gets time to relax. ...

American Minute for April 12th: Less than two months after Lincoln was inaugurated President, the Civil War began APRIL 12, 1861, with Confederate troops in Charleston, South Carolina, firing upon Fort Sumter. The Confederate Army was unstoppable, twice winning battles at Bull Run, Virginia, just twenty miles from Washington, D.C., forcing the Union troops to retreat to the fortifications of the Capitol. It was not until the Battle of Gettysburg, over two years into the war, that the tide began to turn. President Lincoln confided to Noah Brooks: "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming...

I've never posted on here. Hope I do this right. The health care amounts to taking all our freedom's. Go to ER with a gun shot wound/Gun control, knife wound/knife ban. I'm so enraged that we aren't being listened to by the very people we elected. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) voted for health care. Call's herself a moderate. Moderate. I think not. I will never, ever vote for a demoRat ever again. Not in our County or State. Never! I almost can see what the Jew's and Polish must have felt. All I'm seeing left for any of us...is to organize...

Desecrating the Sabbath to protest desecrating the Sabbath. Scenes of rioting, rock throwing, and violence have rocked a Jerusalem district. No, this time it's not crazy jihad supporting Arabs acting on cue from Arafat or the Mufti for the jihad supporting media. This time it is misguided anti-zionist, anti-Israel Jews! Some of these misguided Jews have even spit in the faces of Israeli police and called them "Nazis". They are so upset about the opening of a parking lot on the Sabbath to alieviate real problems caused by a severe parking shortage in the city. Hmm... "What man is there...

Desecrating the Sabbath to protest desecrating the Sabbath. Scenes of rioting, rock throwing, and violence have rocked a Jerusalem district. No, this time it's not crazy jihad supporting Arabs acting on cue from Arafat or the Mufti for the jihad supporting media. This time it is misguided anti-zionist, anti-Israel Jews! Some of these misguided Jews have even spit in the faces of Israeli police and called them "Nazis". They are so upset about the opening of a parking lot on the Sabbath to alieviate real problems caused by a severe parking shortage in the city. Hmm... "What man is there...

Was the Sabbath kept before God gave the Ten Commandments? It is the purpose of this study to examine the records of Scripture and history to determine once and for all whether it is true that the Bible Sabbath was not observed between Adam and Moses, or whether the real truth is that there is considerable evidence of Sabbath­keeping in the books of Genesis and Exodus before the giving of the Ten Commandments. In addition to Scripture, we shall call as witnesses many authors, men who were not at all biased in favor of the seventh day, but whose...

Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author of the Baptist Manual, wrote the following which was taken from a photostatic copy of a notarized statement by Dr. Hiscox: “There WAS and IS a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was NOT Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath WAS TRANSFERRED from the Seventh to the First day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of...