A friend asked me last night, "So whats the deal with Sabbath?"
Well the Sabbath is the day God told us to rest and reflect on all He has done. It is a time for us to commune with Him and time for us to spend with our families, both blood and church.
"Why Saturday?"
Saturday is the seventh day of the week.
"How do you know that?"
The easiest reference is Matthew 28:1 (See also Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20)
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." -King James Version
"After the day of worship, as the sun rose Sunday morning, Mary from Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb" -God's Word Translation
"After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb." -New International Version
"After the Sabbath, as Sunday morning was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb." -Good News Translation
Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday. The two Marys had brought spices to prepare Jesus' body, but they had to wait a day because it was the Sabbath. Arriving at the tomb near dawn on Sunday morning (or the first day of the week) Mary found that Jesus' body was gone because he was already risen. Friday, Saturday, Sunday....on the third day He rose. I find it rather interesting that even in death Jesus observed the Sabbath and rested on Saturday.
That is the deal with Saturday Sabbath. Truth.
If a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia (newadvent.org):
The seventh day of the week among the Hebrews, the day being counted from sunset to sunset, that is, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
Sunday
"..... St. Ignatius (Ep. ad Magnes. ix) speaks of Christians as "no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also Our Life rose again". In the Epistle of Barnabas (xv) we read: "Wherefore, also, we keep the eight day (i.e. the first of the week) with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead"."
And from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (vatican.va):
The day of the Resurrection: the new creation
2174 Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week."104 Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath,105 it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica) Sunday:
2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:107
The day of worship was changed by the Catholic Church. Now explain this to me....if God wanted us to worship on the eighth day after Creation instead of the seventh, don't you think He would have said so? Genesis does say on the seventh day he rested, right? And He does say, " Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy", right?
I'll repeat:
If a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie. Believe in the truth.
Well the Sabbath is the day God told us to rest and reflect on all He has done. It is a time for us to commune with Him and time for us to spend with our families, both blood and church.
"Why Saturday?"
Saturday is the seventh day of the week.
"How do you know that?"
The easiest reference is Matthew 28:1 (See also Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20)
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." -King James Version
"After the day of worship, as the sun rose Sunday morning, Mary from Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb" -God's Word Translation
"After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb." -New International Version
"After the Sabbath, as Sunday morning was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb." -Good News Translation
Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday. The two Marys had brought spices to prepare Jesus' body, but they had to wait a day because it was the Sabbath. Arriving at the tomb near dawn on Sunday morning (or the first day of the week) Mary found that Jesus' body was gone because he was already risen. Friday, Saturday, Sunday....on the third day He rose. I find it rather interesting that even in death Jesus observed the Sabbath and rested on Saturday.
That is the deal with Saturday Sabbath. Truth.
If a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia (newadvent.org):
Sabbath
(Hebrew shabbath, cessation, rest; Greek Sabbaton; Latin Sabbatum).The seventh day of the week among the Hebrews, the day being counted from sunset to sunset, that is, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
Sunday
"..... St. Ignatius (Ep. ad Magnes. ix) speaks of Christians as "no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also Our Life rose again". In the Epistle of Barnabas (xv) we read: "Wherefore, also, we keep the eight day (i.e. the first of the week) with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead"."
And from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (vatican.va):
The day of the Resurrection: the new creation
2174 Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week."104 Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath,105 it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica) Sunday:
- We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day [after the Jewish sabbath, but also the first day] when God, separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the dead.106
2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:107
- Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.108
The day of worship was changed by the Catholic Church. Now explain this to me....if God wanted us to worship on the eighth day after Creation instead of the seventh, don't you think He would have said so? Genesis does say on the seventh day he rested, right? And He does say, " Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy", right?
I'll repeat:
If a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie. Believe in the truth.
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