BarneyFife
Well-Known Member
You'll wait forever. There is ample evidence that the weekly cycle has never changed. According to Merriam-Webster (not God or Jesus or Thomas Kinkade) the word "Saturday" literally means "The seventh day of the week," but it wasn't even used before the 11th century. So it is not possible to find the words "Saturday is the last day of the week" in writings that were produced a millenium before the word "Saturday" existed. Hopefully, God will forgive you for what appears to be willful ignorance of His requirements. You can call this "judging," you can engage in all the deliberate, passive-aggressive obtusity you like. Sabbath-keepers are here not to condemn, but to exhort and warn. Your interaction with forum members will not determine anyone's eternal destiny. The Lord looks upon the heart, and we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.I'm still waiting for someone to tell me where God (or Jesus) say Saturday is the last day of the week.
How can we be sure that Saturday is the Sabbath? Simple. By a variety of proofs that all converge on the same truth. First the Jews themselves who faithfully observed the Sabbath from generation to generation must KNOW more than any other, and they observe Saturday!! Second, the commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 makes plain "THE seventh day is THE Sabbath", and whenever the word "THE" is used it is specific and not general. Thus God did not require the Sabbath to be "a" seventh day, but rather "THE" seventh day each week, and on almost every calendar around the world (with seven days in each week) it is plain that Sunday is the first day of the week and Saturday is THE seventh day. And just like any anniversary or birthday, it is fixed, but in this case weekly. You couldn't change the fixed date of your wedding anniversary, or the fixed date of your birthday, so why change the fixed weekly memorial of creation? See Genesis 2:1-3 and Exodus 16:1-30 with Acts 13:42-44. Thirdly, almost all of Christendom accepts that Jesus was crucified on "Good Friday", which was three days before Jesus resurrected three days after on what the Bible plainly calls "the first day of the week"!! And everybody almost calls it "Easter Sunday". The day after Good Friday was clearly the seventh day occurring before the first, and it is Saturday!! The whole of Christianity knows which is the first day of the week, and they know too which day comes before that in a seven day week...its Saturday!! Finally, in many languages of the world, the seventh day or Saturday is called "Sabado", as in Spanish, reminding which day was THE Sabbath!! Now if so many facts converge on the same day, Saturday, only abject stubbornness could harbor doubt!! SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH, BECAUSE IT IS THE SEVENTH DAY!!