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51. There is no record that God has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the Seventh day. This is impossible, since it is part of the Creation week. (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:5,6.)
52. God’s last-day church is described as keeping the Seventh-day Sabbath and all Ten Commandments. (Rev. 14:7, 12.)
53. As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, and all through history even till today, so it will be OBSERVED ETERNALLY after God
makes a NEW HEAVEN and NEW EARTH! (Isaiah 66:22-23.) 54. Jesus was the Word of God made flesh. He kept the Sabbath holy. In fact, Jesus was a living Ten Commandments. He was the Lamb without spot and blemish. He wants His last day church to be just like Himself— without spot or wrinkle and keeping the true Bible Sabbath—before He comes the Second time. (John 1:14; Psalm 40:8; John 1:29; Luke 4:16-18; Ephesian 5:25-27.)
BIBLE FACTS CONCERNING THE FIRST DAY
55. GOD MADE THE WORLD IN SIX DAYS and RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY. The Sabbath means rest from labor. God could have created the world in five, four, three, two, or one day(s), but the next day would have been the Sabbath. Because God would need at least one day to create the world, IT IS THUS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK TO EVER BE A SABBATH.
56. God commands men to work upon the first day of the week. (Exodus
20:8-11.) Is it wrong to obey God?
57. By the express command of God, His holy people have used the first day of the week as a common working day for over 6,000 years. (Exodus
20:8-11.) The Creator Himself did this. (Genesis l: l-5.) If God worked to make the earth and light on the first day, which we call Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?
58. God Himself calls it a “working” day. (Ezekiel 46:1.)
59. Sunday has never been blessed or sanctified by God or Jesus.
60. God did not rest upon it. Neither did Jesus keep it.
61. No patriarch, prophet, apostle, or any of God’s people ever kept Sunday, except maybe Jezebel and Baal worshippers. (1 Kings 18:12; 19:18; Rev.
2:20-23.) 62. Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence He did many a hard day's work on Sunday.
63. The apostles worked upon it during the same time.
64. No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it, hence it is no transgression to work upon it. “Where no law is, there is no transgression.” Romans 4:15 (See also 1 John 3:4.)
65. The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it. No penalty is provided for its violation.
66. No blessing is promised for its observance.
67. No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?
68. It is never called the Christian Sabbath. It is never called the Sabbath day at all.
69. We can know for sure that the Seventh-day Sabbath is Saturday by reading Luke 23:50-56; 24:1-3. Jesus was crucified on Friday the “preparation” day—the day to prepare for the holy Sabbath. On that day, the sixth day of the week, He cried, “It is finished.” Christ’s work for us was perfectly finished—just as it was at the end of the sixth day of Creation. Jesus then rested in the grave on the Sabbath day. On the first day of the week He rose again to resume His labors. 70. The Word of God never calls Sunday the Lord’s day. 71. The Word of God never calls Sunday a rest day. 72. No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?
73. It is simply called the “first day of the week”—one of the six days of labor.
74. In fact, God call’s on all mankind to REMEMBER the true Sabbath day, knowing that men would forget (Exodus 20:8.) and that an evil force would “think” to change it. (Daniel 7:25.)
75. Jesus said, In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.” (Matthew 15:9.) The keeping of Sunday is only a tradition of men. Therefore, Sunday worship is in vain.
76. In fact, Paul says that "The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." (Romans 8:7.) Do you have the carnal mind or the mind “filled with the Holy Spirit”? (Romans 8:8-14.)
77. Jesus never-mentioned Sunday in any way. He never took its name upon His lips, so far as the record shows.
78. After the death of the Testator, the covenant could not be changed. (Hebrews 9:15,16.) Jesus died on Friday. Sunday keeping is three days too late.
79. In fact, IF the Seventh-day Sabbath or any part of the Ten Commandments could have been changed, Jesus would not have had to die for us on the cross! (Matthew 1:21; 5:17,18.)
80. The Bible predicted that Jesus would rise “on the morrow after the Sabbath” 1500 years before it happened. (Leviticus 23:10,11; 1 Corinthians
15:20,23.)
81. Over 1500 years before it happened, the Bible predicted that the Holy Spirit would fall “on the morrow after the seventh Sabbath” (7X7 + 1 = 50) fifty days after the resurrection. On this day the Holy Spirit would descend to write God’s law on the fleshy tables of the 120 clean hearts according to the New Covenant promise. (Leviticus 23:15,16; Acts 2:1; Hebrews
10:15,16..)
82. Sunday was the day the pagans worshipped the Sun. It was a pagan holy day. The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible at all.
83. Neither God, Christ, nor any inspired human ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.
84. The first day of the week is mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts
20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2.) Six of these texts refer to the same specific first day of the week after Jesus rested in the grave on the Sabbath and rose again on the first day to resume His labors. It was a fulfillment of Leviticus
23:10.11.
85. Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on the first day.
(1Corinthians 16:2.)
86. In all the New Testament we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this was a night meeting ON SATURDAY NIGHT—THE EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY. (Genesis
1:5,8,13,19,23,31; Acts 20:5-12.)
87. There is no intimation that they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.
88. It was not their custom to meet on that day.
89. There was no requirement to break bread on that day. We have an account of only one instance in which it was done—in the night—after midnight. (Verses 7-11.) Jesus Himself celebrated it on Thursday evening (Luke 22), and the disciples did it every day (Acts 2:42-46.)
90. The Bible nowhere commands men to observe the first day of the week to commemorate the resurrection of Christ. This is a tradition of men, which contradicts the law of God. (Matthew 15:1-9.) IT IS BAPTISM BY IMMERSION THAT COMMEMORATES THE BURIAL AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS. (Romans 6:3-5.)
91. Finally, the New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the Sabbath day or any sacredness for the first day.
92. The prophet Daniel points to the Little Horn power—a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church system—that would “think to change [God’s] times and laws.” (Daniel 7:25.) David said, “The law of the LORD is perfect.” (Psalm 19:7.) How can you think to change something that is perfect?
93. Sunday was first enforced in 364 AD at the Council of Laodicea, bringing in the Dark Ages of enforced Sunday worship. Notice that Sunday keeping came over 4400 years after the ancient Biblical Sabbath!
94. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BOASTS THAT SUNDAY KEEPING IS THE MARK OF HER AUTHORITY:
“Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geiermann, The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 1957 edition. “Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. …And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, Nov. 1, 1895. “The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.” Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1893.
95. We are warned not to worship the Beast or the Image of the Beast. (Rev.
14:9-11.) Worship is spiritual. This worship is something opposed to the Ten Commandments (Rev. 14:12.) Worship has to do with the first four commandments of God and has to do with the day of worship. (Rev.
14:7.) The Mark of the Beast will be enforced Sunday worship.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND “PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” (Amos 4:12)