Lesson 63: The Sabbath Day

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Lesson 63: The Sabbath Day
Thursday, 08/06/2020
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A.) Saturday is the sabbath day.
01.) Exodus 20:8-11 (7th day is the sabbath day)
02.) Leviticus 23:1-3 (Sabbath of rest / Lord's feast days)
03.) Deuteronomy 5:12-15 (Keep the sabbath)
04.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Saturday - The day of the week between Friday and Sunday; The seventh day of the week.
05.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Sunday - The day of the week between Saturday and Monday; The first day of the week; The Christian analogue of the Jewish sabbath.
06.) Matthew 28:1 (Sabbath is day before 1st day of the week)

B.) What to do and not do on the sabbath day.
07.) Exodus 35:1-3 (No cooking on the sabbath day)
08.) Exodus 16:22-30 (Cook on the sixth day, not the 7th)
09.) Numbers 15:32-36 (No gathering sticks to cook)
10.) 1 Kings 17:10-14 (Gather sticks to cook)
11.) Nehemiah 13:15-22 (No buying or selling on the sabbath)

C.) Sabbath still good in the new testament
12.) Acts 13:13-15, 42-44 (Paul/Gentiles on sabbath day)
13.) Mark 1:14-15, 21 (Jesus enters synagogue on the sabbath day).

D.) Sunday?
14.) Acts 20:6-7 (Disciples break bread on first day)
15.) 1 Corinthians 16:1-8 (Paul collection for the saints)
16.) HistoryChannel.com
https://history.info/on-this-day/constantine-declared-sunday-a-holiday-321/
Constantine declared Sunday a holiday (321)
Constantine Decrees "Sun-Day" as Day of Rest on March 7, 321 AD
For the first Christians of Jewish descent, the seventh day of the week and the day of rest was the Sabbath. Like all days of the Jewish calendar, it begins in the evening and lasts until sunrise. According to our calendar, the Sabbath begins on Friday night. The first Christians of non-Jewish origin switched the day of rest and prayer to a Roman day called dies solis (day of the Sun) because according to the Gospels Jesus was resurrected on the third day after the Sabbath. Today’s Sunday corresponds to that, and they began to call that day the day of the Lord. Therefore, in many Romance languages, the name for Sunday is associated with the word Lord: French dimanche, Italian domenica Spanish domingo.

In 321, Constantine I declared dies solis an obligatory holiday for both Christians and Mithraists: “All judges and inhabitants of cities and all artists should rest on the honorable day of the Sun.” Farmers were exempted from compulsory rest in case of urgent agricultural work. Constantine thus satisfied the worshipers of the two religions, and still portrayed himself on coins as the deity Sol invictus (Invincible Sun).

17.) Britannica.com: Mithraists/Mithraism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mithraism
Mithraism
Persian religion
WRITTEN BY
Reinhold Merkelbach
Mithraism, the worship of Mithra, the Iranian god of the sun, justice, contract, and war in pre-Zoroastrian Iran. Known as Mithras in the Roman Empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries ce, this deity was honoured as the patron of loyalty to the emperor. After the acceptance of Christianity by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century, Mithraism rapidly declined.

E.) Man cannot change God's word.
18.) Revelation 22:18-19
19.) Deuteronomy 4:1-2
20.) WWCO.com/religion/believe/believe_39.html
THE ROMAN CHURCH'S ADMISSION OF CHANGING THE SABBATH
Q. What is the Third Commandment? ( Remember they renumbered! )
A. The third Commandment is: Remember thour keep holy the Sabbath day.

Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
[ The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 1951 printing, page 50. ]

Q. How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
A. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday which Protestants allow of; and therefore THEY FONDLY CONTRADICT THEMSELVES, BY KEEPING SUNDAY STRICTLY, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church."

[ Henry Tubervill, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, 1833, page 58. ]

Letter to THE CATHOLIC EXTENSION MAGAZINE
Thomaston, Georgia
May 22, 1934

Pop Pius XI
Rome, Italy

Dear Sir;
Is the accusation true, that Protestants accuse you of? They say you
changed the Seventh Day Sabbath to the, so-called, Christian Sunday:
Identical with the First Day of the week. If so, when did you make the
change, and by what authority?

Yours very truly,
J. L. Day

The Reply:

THE CATHOLIC EXTENSION MAGAZINE
180 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois
(Under the Blessing of Pop Pius XI)

Dear sir:
Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the
Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to the facts:

> (1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith
> and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath.
The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies
them in the eyes of every thinking man.

(2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith.
Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church,
as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church instituted by Christ, to teach
and guide men through life, has the right to change the Ceremonial laws of
the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to the Sunday.
We frankly say, "yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she
made many other laws, for instance, the Friday Abstinence, the unmarried
priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic
marriages, and a thousand other laws."

(3) We also say that of all Protestants, the Seventh-day Adventists are
the only group that reason correctly and are consistent with their
teachings. It is always somewhat laughable to see the Protestant Churches,
in pulpit and legislature, demand the observance of Sunday of which there
is nothing in the Bible.

With best wishes,
Peter R. Tramer, Editor

F.) Jesus' thousand years of rest
21.) Psalms 90:1, 4 (Thousand years are as yesterday).
22.) 2 Peter 3:7-9 (One day equals a thousand years).
23.) Revelation 20:1-8 (Satan bound a thousand years).
24.) Psalm 95:8-11 (Jesus's rest).
25.) Hebrews 3:7-11, 14-19 (Jesus's rest).
26.) Hebrews 4:1-11 (Seventh day equals a thousand years of rest).