You need to calm your words, sir. This is a discussion forum not a war zone.
It was man who named the days, weeks, months and so forth. It is man who determined what day of the week is the first and seventh...
A little bit of history for you...
The Ancient Greeks Named the Days of the Week After Their Gods
Sometime around the 12th century BC, the ancient Greek civilization grew in prominence, and they adopted the Babylonian system of marking time. They continued to recognize the prominence of the sun and the moon, calling two days of the week hemera helio (day of the Sun) and hemera selenes (day of the Moon).
The Romans Replaced the Names of the Greek Gods With Their Gods
Time kept on passing. In the first century BC, the Roman Empire began to emerge. The Romans used the same seven-day system as the Greeks. And they considered the Greek gods to be the same as their own gods, simply called by different names. For example, the Romans looked at the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, and were like, “Oh, that’s the same as our god of the sea, Neptune. He’s so powerful, people worship him everywhere, even though they call him by a different name.”
The Anglo-Saxons Replaced the Names of the Roman Gods with Their Gods
Time continued to march on. At the end of the 4th century AD, the Roman Empire fell, and Anglo-Saxon tribes began their conquest of Britain and Wales. One way they made a mark on the world was by renaming the days of the week yet again, after—guess who?—their gods.
Sunday, dies solis, became “Sonnandæg” in Old English. Monday changed from “dies Lunae” to Monandæg, as the Latin “luna” was swapped out for the Old English word for moon, “mōna.”
Thank you for your references quoted above. I wouldn't take the time to look them up, but they do serve well to illustrate how the post-modern church has debauched the gospel and itself.
I'm not the one making war here. It's my intent to teach those who know not the LAW and who resist God's Holy ordinance.
Your post seeks to do that which Jews failed to do and which the church attempts to do. It seeks to deny God's LAW and substitute another. Your post makes war upon God's LAW - upon God Himself.
I am referring to the Holy Bible and the ordinances set forth therein by GOD. I am NOT here to discuss secular history, pagan holidays, nationalistic rituals or secular philosophy. For the most part, these things dilute God's honest truth. If that is your intent here, then please do not presume to liken it to the Bible.
The prophet Daniel predicted that the spirit of anti-Christ would seek to do just as you are doing here:
He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. (Daniel 7:25)
All of your post seeks to
change the set times and the laws set by God in His LAW.
It is not within the mandate of man to change God's LAW. Neither the philosophers of pagan lands nor priests of the church nor even those of God's chosen people who deny it are granted authority to change it. Nevertheless we have tried.
The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in heaven and earth. (Barclay Cap. XXVII, p. 218. Cities Petrus Bertrandus, Pius V.)
The above is a quote from the Vatican, supposedly establishing its authority to rule all mankind upon the earth. The quote that follows is like it. The RCC herein attempts to change God's LAW regarding the sabbath (shabbat in Hebrew).
We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” (Rev. Peter Geiermann C.SS.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50)
God's LAW is immutable.
Neither the church, nor secular philosophy, nor aggrieved posters on the internet have the authority to change God's LAW, which defines the ONLY DAY to be set aside for worship, rest and prayer.
It has been argued that one can do those things at any other time and on any other day. Daily prayer is encouraged. Thanking God for our food at mealtime is encouraged. Appreciating God for His blessings at all times is in accord with Biblical witness. All of this is true and all of it is mandated, but the ONE DAY to be set aside for
all to gather to honor and praise God is the 7th day.
THEREFORE...
As we
return once again to the ORIGINAL POST in this thread the answer to the question is NO.
NO, Jesus did NOT predict that Christians would keep the sabbath on His return. He didn't say it because it isn't written. In all the protests made against the LAW nobody has quoted a single line of scripture to say this. They don't because they can't. It doesn't exist.
NO,
Jesus didn't predict that Christians would keep the sabbath on His return. He didn't say it because those who followed Him, who were called disciples (students) at the time, WERE JEWS. Believers weren't called Christians until the days of the Antioch church (Acts 11:46). Some scholars suggest this label wasn't affixed to believers until decades after Jesus' ascension.
All that anyone seems to want to do here is to condemn God's LAW and anyone who attempts to establish it as a benchmark for the Judeo-Christian faith.
Do you not know that denial of God's LAW is to declare war against the Most High? (James 4:4)
To attempt to subvert the LAW is the devil's work (anti-Christ, to be specific). Jews tried it many times and each time God punished them severely. Apparently its now time for non-Jews to have a go at trying to subvert and contest God's LAW. As church types
(*) attempt to destroy God's LAW, our churches commit an act of self-destruction. Indeed every theologian, RCC & protestant, argue this point with no little evidence to prove their assertions. Average church types deny it because they choose to hide their heads in the sand of forgetfulness.
Good luck with that, for you will not be arguing against another man this time. You will be arguing against the Most High. Even satan couldn't win such a battle. Opposing the LAW is a fool's errand.
if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11-12)
It is better to humble ourselves and REPENT of our SINs and wickedness which we have committed against God, by the LAW.
In doing so we will discover forgiveness and justification to be saved, by the LAW.
We will not find it any other way for it is
by the LAW that Christ fulfilled and perfected the LAW. (John 19:30)
that's me, hollering from the choir loft...
(*) I use the generic term 'church types' in my posts to identify those who disregard Biblical precepts. I am well aware that many who call themselves Christian are true followers of Our Lord and are not hypocrites as so many today prove themselves to be. It is these hypocrites and liars who have hijacked our churches for their own agenda. CHRISTIANS know this to be true.