The Catholic church blended pagan and Christian doctrines together to switch the day of worship to the day of the Sun.
Here are some facts about the Sabbath:
Why keep the Sabbath day? What is the object of the Sabbath? Who made it? When was it made, and for whom? Which day is the true Sabbath? Many keep the first day of the week, or Sunday. What Bible authority have they for this? Some keep the seventh day, or Saturday. What Scripture have they for that? Here are the facts about both days, as plainly stated in the Word of God:
- After working the first six days of the week in creating this earth, the great God rested on the seventh day. (Genesis 2:1.3.)
- This stamped that day as God’s rest day, or Sabbath day, as Sabbath day means rest day. To illustrate: When a person is born on a certain day, that day thus becomes his birthday. So when God rested upon the seventh day, that day became His rest, or Sabbath, day.
- Therefore the seventh day must always be God’s Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day on which you were born to one on which you were not born? No. Neither can you change God’s rest day to a day on which He did not rest. Hence the seventh day is still God’s Sabbath day.
- The Creator blessed the seventh day. (Genesis 2:3.)
- He sanctified the seventh day. (Exodus 20:11.)
- He made it the Sabbath day in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 2:1-3.)
- It was made before the fall; hence it is not a type; for types were not introduced till after the fall.
- Jesus says it was made for man (Mark 2:27), that is, for the race, as the word man is here unlimited; hence, for the Gentile as well as for the Jew.
- It is a memorial of creation. (Exodus 20:11; 31:17.) Every time we rest upon the seventh day, as God did at creation, we commemorate that grand event.
- It was given to Adam, the head of the human race. (Mark 2:27; Genesis 2:1-3.)
- Hence through him, as our representative, to all nations. (Acts 17:26.)
- It is’ not a Jewish institution, for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.
- The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath, but always “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Men should be cautious how they stigmatize God’s holy rest day.
- Evident reference is made to the Sabbath and the seven-day week all, through the patriarchal age. (Genesis 2:l-3; 8:10,12; 29:27,28.etc.)
- It was a part of God’s law before Sinai. (Exodus 16:4, 27-29.)
- Then God placed it in the heart of His moral law. (Exodus 20:1-17.) Why did He place it there if it was not like the other nine precepts, which all admit to be immutable?
- The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living God. (Deuteronomy 4:12,13.)
- Then He wrote the commandment with His own finger. (Exodus 31:18.)
- He engraved it in the enduring stone, indicating its imperishable nature. (Deuteronomy 5:22.)
- It was sacredly preserved in the ark in the holy of holies. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5.)
- God forbade work upon the Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. (Exodus 34:21.)
- God destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. (Ezekiel 20:12, 13.)
- It is the sign of the true God, by which we are to know Him from false gods. (Ezekiel 20:20.)
- God promised that Jerusalem should stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath (Jeremiah 17:24, 25.)
- He sent them into the Babylonian captivity for breaking it. (Nehemiah 13:18.)
- He destroyed Jerusalem for its violation. (Jeremiah 17:27.)
- God has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who will keep it. (Isaiah 56:6, 7.)
- This is in the prophecy, which refers wholly to the Christian dispensation. (See Isaiah 56.)
- God has promised to bless all who keep the Sabbath. (Isaiah 56:2.)
- The Lord requires us to call it “honorable”. (Isaiah 58:13.) Beware, ye who take delight in calling it the. “old Jewish Sabbath,” “a yoke of bondage,” etc.
good job on copying and pasting your SDA Milton Wilcox facts sheet. The problem with your facts sheet is it completely ignores the New Testament. It ignores the fact that not once in scripture has any gentile outside of those joining Israel been commanded to keep the Sabbath. It ignores the fact no one was commanded to keep the sabbath up until exodus. It cherry picks and makes an attempt to overwhelm a person with old testament verses to push a covenant that is no longer. And apparently it worked on you. It ignores the following verses:
““Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah 31:31-32 ESV
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a
new moon or a Sabbath.
These are a shadow of the things to come,
but the substance belongs to Christ.”
Colossians 2:16-17 ESV
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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these,
you will do well. Farewell.””
Acts 15:28-29 ESV
“Now if the
ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which
was being brought to an end,”
2 Corinthians 3:7 ESV
“these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.””
Isaiah 56:7 ESV
And I would love for to not avoid my question. Do you practice the new moon festivals?