How the Day of Worship was changed
from the Seventh Day Sabbath to Sunday
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 on Saturday to Sunday or any other day.
The Sabbath Day has always been the seventh day of the week.
Throughout His entire life on earth that includes the forty days after His resurrection, 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
Article: Minister offers $1 million reward for Bible verse that states Sunday is holy
One expert who has spent his career
researching and explaining the Sabbath debate is Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, a
retired theology professor at
Bacchiocchi says the Church of Rome, which grew into the Roman Catholic Church, had
great influence in promoting Sunday observance.
"The Church of the capital of
the empire, whose authority was already felt far and wide in the second
century, appears to be the most likely birth-place of Sunday observance,"
he writes in his book, "From Sabbath to Sunday: A historical investigation
of the rise of Sunday observance in early Christianity."
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
The Fourth Beast
changed the Day
of Worship
from the Seventh
Day Sabbath to
Sunday
Daniel’s prophetic interpretation informs us about the “fourth kingdom . . . . the God of heaven will set up a
kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to
other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
forever.” (Dan.
2:40-45) The “fourth kingdom” refers to none other than the Roman Empire that had
enormous civil ruling power during the same time when the spiritual Kingdom of
God was established by the Lord Jesus Christ (Jn.
18:36-37; Acts 1:6-8; 14:22; Mt. 12:8; Rom. 14:17; 1 Cor.
4:20).
Daniel continues
his interpretation of “The fourth beast shall
be a fourth kingdom on earth” (Dan.
“He shall
speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the
Most High, and shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand
for a time and times and half a time.” (Dan. 7:25)
The Roman Emperor Caligula committed the great sin of the ‘Antichrist’ when he commanded everyone
throughout his empire to worship him as a god.
Because of his claim to a deity, two temples were built for him in 40
A.D. . The Jews and the Christians
refused to obey him. Hence there arose
more religious persecutions, one succeeding another. The Emperor Vespasian stormed and sacked
Daniel prophesied the fourth beast “shall intend to change times and law.” In the Ten Commandments the Seventh Day Sabbath is
the only commandment that relates to time.
This fourth beast from the
“All things whatsoever that
it was duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord's day.”
Eusebius's Commentary on
the Psalms, in Migne, Patrologia
Graeca, Vol. XXIII, col. 1171
WHAT DID SYLVESTER, BISHOP
OF
He officially changed the
title of the first day, calling it the Lord's day.
Historia Ecclesiastica,
by M. Ludovicum Lucium,
cent. 4, cap.10, pages 739, 740, edition Basilea, 1624
WHAT DID THE COUNCIL OF
Canon
29. Christians shall not Judaize
and be idle on Saturday [Sabbath], but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day they shall especially honor. A History of the Councils of the Church,
Charles Joseph Hefele, Vol. II, page 316
HOW LATE DID CHRISTIANS
KEEP THE SABBATH?
Down even to the fifth
century, the observance of the Jewish Sabbath was continued in the Christian
church.
Lyman Coleman's Ancient
Christianity Exemplified, chapter 26, sec.2
HOW GENERALLY DOES THE
HISTORIAN SOCRATES, WHO WROTE ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE FIFTH CENTURY, SAY THE
SABBATH WAS OBSERVED BY THE
Although almost all
churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of
every week, yet the Christians of
Socrates's
Ecclesiastical History, book 5, chapter 22
The One True God,
Creator of heaven and earth and also the Seventh Day Sabbath, and Jesus Christ
who is the Lord of the Sabbath, the Apostles and the First Apostolic Church,
did not change the day of worship from the Seventh Day Sabbath to Sunday; it
was the Fourth Beast of the Roman Empire that made the change.
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