The
Truth of the
Seventh Day Sabbath
1. The Seventh Day Sabbath was established by
God after the Creation. He rested, blessed and sanctified the Seventh Day (Gen.
2:1-3).
2. God rested on the Seventh Day Sabbath not
because He was tired or weary (Isa. 40:28). God rested on the Seventh Day so that He
could establish a seven day week for mankind so that man can rest on the
Seventh Day of every week (Ex. 20:8-11).
3. God blessed the Seventh Day Sabbath because
He wants to bless His people who keep it holy.
“Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who
lays hold on it; who keeps from defiling the Sabbath” (Isa. 56:2-7; 58:13-14).
4. God sanctified the Seventh Day Sabbath
because He wants His people to worship Him on that day (Lev. 23:3; Acts 15:21 ). The word “sanctify”
means to make something holy, to set
it apart for a holy use, or separate it from ordinary things. The Seventh Day Sabbath is sanctified by God
to be used for Him alone. The Seventh
Day Sabbath begins on Friday at sunset and ends on Saturday at sunset (Lev. 23:32 ).
5. The Sabbath Day is
not any one of the seven days of the week, but it is specifically the Seventh
Day - Saturday. God pointed out exactly
which is the Seventh-Day Sabbath (Ex. 16:23 -30).
6. God placed the Seventh Day Sabbath as the
Fourth Commandment. He knows that humans
will tend to forget the Sabbath, therefore He reminds His people, "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it
holy . . ." (Ex. 20:8-11). The Fourth
Commandment is closely linked to the Creation Sabbath.
7. God commands His people to keep the Sabbath
Day holy “for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the
sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day
and hallowed it.” (Ex. 20:11 )
8. God the Father is the Creator of the Seventh
Day Sabbath and when He was manifested
in the flesh as the Lord Jesus Christ He is the “Lord of the Sabbath” (Mk. 2:28). As
“Lord of the Sabbath” Jesus
Christ has complete control of the Seventh Day Sabbath regarding how it is to
be observed. He did not change the
Sabbath Day but He corrected and removed all the legalistic rules that were
invented by the false religious leaders of His time (Mk. 2:23 -26; 3:1-5).
9. As “Lord of the Sabbath” Jesus Christ set an example of Sabbath
observance. “So He came to Nazareth Galilee
10. Anticipating
the Roman invasion in A.D.70, He commanded His disciples to "pray that your flight may not be in
winter or on the Sabbath" (Mt. 24:20). This proves the early Christians in the First Apostolic Church
11. The Seventh Day Sabbath continued to be kept
by the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ after His death and burial. “And they rested on the Sabbath according
to the commandment.” (Lk.
23:56)
12 On
the Sabbath Day the apostle Paul and his fellow-workers usually worshiped in
the synagogue (Acts
13 The teaching that the Sabbath is given only to the Jews is a serious
error. Our LORD said, "The Sabbath was made for man" (Mk.
14 Although the Seventh Day remains the same but observance of the
Sabbath is no longer under the law (Rom.
15 Throughout
the entire Holy Bible there is not a single verse that states God would change
the day of worship from the Seventh Day Sabbath into another day.
Throughout His entire life on earth the Lord Jesus Christ
did not even give a little hint that the Seventh Day Sabbath would be abolished
after His death, burial and resurrection.
There is not a single word in the New Testament which
indicates the Apostles in the
The change of the day of worship from the Seventh Day
Sabbath to Sunday does not come from the One True God, the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Apostles or the
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This article is a presentation of Paul Wong
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