So many changes have taken place since my childhood and young adulthood.
From the 1940's through and including the 1980's it was unheard of in almost all denominations to teach that the Sabbath of the Lord, the Seventh Day, has been changed to the first day of the week according to the Biblical calendar.
Even though we worshiped on Sunday, it was no question ever that the Seventh Day of Creation d represented the day given each of us as a special day to remember how all began.
It seems the vote of the majority has taken the place of the Word of God. This is very sad, for that majority. May all be blessed with the peace of Jesus, Yeshua, who believe God before the majority vote.
Hi Jaumel,
Seek and ye shall find are the keywords here. I grew up in the 60s as well and yes, there was never any way to find out things like you can nowadays. In present times though, the light is given to all to see clearly if they only look.
Because of the internet “the Gospel is preached to the whole world” in any language, anytime of day or night at people's fingertips within seconds. They don't even need to own a Bible to find out. But millions can't be bothered. have a lukewarm "Laodicean" way of doing things, as they don't seem interested in the truth. Presumably, God is going to puke them out of his mouth as they are neither hot nor cold. As Bob Dylan said, "you can stand for the Devil or you can stand for the Lord but you gotta stand for something". Even if they do not read or research Scripture or the internet for the Truth, the Jews still celebrate the Sabbath which should be an indicator its the correct day and many languages should raise a red flag on what the Sabbath is (Spanish/Sabado and Italian Sabato) etc. Reading Scripture should also raise a red flag on this because "they thought to change times and seasons".
It doesn't take much research to find out that the Sabbath was changed by the Catholic Church as it states it clearly in their own historic literature, despite this going against Scripture.
They ignore Scripture and state this instead.
''The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. (They say).
“And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things” (H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons).
Compare this to
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5)
This is similar to the “rapture” of those that believe in the Hollywood version of the “Left Behind” series. When in fact, the Rapture doctrine was invented by John Nelson Darby in 1830 from Portsmouth, England. Even worse, is the “Last Disciple” series, claiming that the Second Coming had already happened under Nero. It is most unfortunate that over 60 million people bought this book in the first year of its publication.
There seems to be a trap here - a dangerous trap for the lazy who do not seek out the truth and blindly go on the Broadway (which seems right to a man) but actually leads to the wrong place indeed.
I guess the reason is, those that do not seek the truth but rely on second hand information or even “run with the crowd” will never check out the truth, even though it is easy to see it there plain and simple. Once the truth is found, it leads to other red flags and should make any true believer question whose flock they belong to.
There will be many false prophets indeed but seek and ye shall find.
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