The Seventh Day Is A Good Sign For Christians

[WalterandDebbie]

Friday 2-2-24 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Shevat 21 5784, 44th. Winter Day

Some people are convinced that Sunday, the first day of the week, is the Biblical Sabbath. Others believe that Saturday, the seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath.

Let’s take an in-depth look at this topic and examine the facts about what day is the Sabbath of the Bible. According to the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath is located on the seventh day of the week. Exodus 20:8-10 says the following, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.” At creation God also rested and declared the seventh day holy (Genesis 2:1-3).

Is the seventh day the Sabbath?​

The New Testament is in agreement as to which day is the seventh day of the week. One of the most straight-forward references is found in Luke 23:53-56 & Luke 24:1, and describes Joseph of Arimathaea taking the body of Jesus down off the cross. “Then he took it [the body of Jesus] down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock, where no one had ever lain before. That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near. And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.”

Therefore, according to the Bible, the Sabbath day can be pinpointed as the day before the first day of the week. Today, we call this day Saturday or the seventh day of the week.

Browse: Who changed the Sabbath to Sunday?

Preparation day or sixth day = Friday

Sabbath day or seventh day = Saturday

Resurrection day or first day = Sunday

Which day is the first day of the week?​

Many have asked the question, my calendar begins on Monday, doesn’t that make Sunday the seventh day of the week? It is true that many calendars begin on Monday, but some calendars around the world begin on Friday, Saturday or Sunday as well. The answer to this can be found by studying the linguistics or meaning of each day’s name, rather than only looking at the order of the days printed on paper. Any human can change the order of a printed calendar, but it is a lot harder to change every language in the world.

Browse: Was the real Sabbath day lost because of a calendar change?

Consider the Greek language in which the New Testament was written. According to the Bible, the day before the Sabbath was called the preparation day or “paraskeue" in the Greek language. Even today, thousands of years later, the sixth day of the week, called "Friday" in the English calendar, is still called “Paraskeue" in the modern Greek calendar. Therefore the day that comes after Friday is the Sabbath day.

Sabbath around the world​

Looking at over 100 languages around the world, the seventh day of the week is translated as “Sabbath”. Here is a short list of languages and their translations: (Arabic: Sabet, Czech: Sobota, Indonesian: Sabtu, Italian: Sabato, Latin: Sabbatum, Portuguese: Sábado, Russian: Subbota, Spanish: Sabado).

What does the English language say about the Sabbath? Webster’s dictionary defines the Sabbath as the following: “Seventh day, Saturday, the seventh day of the week.” (Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, unabridged 2nd ed.)

Consider this—no language contains a correlating link between the word “Sabbath" and the first day of the week. In fact, not even one language designates another rest day besides the seventh day. This confirms the fact that those who used the original languages understood the meaning of the Sabbath and which day it fell upon.

Love, Walter And Debbie

 

[quietthinker]

The Seventh Day Is The Sign For Christian​

A sign is a pointer, a proclamation, it is not the reality. Do we change or remove the sign? No no no; we observe it and take note.
The questions are, what does it point to and how does it do that?

 

[RedFan]

What's at stake here? As long as every seventh day is dedicated to the Lord, why would it matter whether the count started on, say, a Wednesday?

 

[WalterandDebbie]

The Seventh Day Is The Sign For Christian​

A sign is a pointer, a proclamation, it is not the reality. Do we change or remove the sign? No no no; we observe it and take note.
The questions are, what does it point to and how does it do that?

Hello quietthinker, How are you all? We have edited the post, you can take a look if you want to, Thank you.

Love, Walter And Debbie

 

[Scott Downey]

Hello quietthinker, How are you all? We have edited the post, you can take a look if you want to, Thank you.

Love, Walter And Debbie

This is bad fruit teaching about the sabbath. Reason is sabbath keepers condemn the huge majority of Christians, like 99.9% of all Christians who have ever lived for the last 2000 years to HELL as they say they ae devil worshippers who receive the mark of the beast for worshipping God on Sunday instead of Saturday.

Sabbath School

sabbath-school.adventech.io

Right there you know this is false teaching. This is why they hold onto the sabbath keeping so strongly.
They are not neutral about this particular day, as in its ok for some believers to meet on and keep Sunday as a day of worship.

They teach all Sunday worshippers are condemned to hell as they follow the devil, receive the devil's mark and they do not belong to Christ.
The truth is Sabbath keeping is a work of the law, and no one is justified before God by keeping the law.

Additional Reading: Selected Quotes from Ellen G. White​

Why are men not interested to know what constitutes the mark of the beast and his image? It is in direct contrast with the mark of God. . . .

John was called to behold a people distinct from those who worship the beast and his image by keeping the first day of the week. The observance of this day is the mark of the beast. . . .

. . . To receive this mark means to come to the same decision as the beast has done, and to advocate the same ideas, in direct opposition to the Word of God. Of all who receive this mark, God says, “The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.”. . .

If the light of truth has been presented to you, revealing the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and showing that there is no foundation in the Word of God for Sunday observance, and yet you still cling to the false sabbath, refusing to keep holy the Sabbath which God calls “My holy day,” you receive the mark of the beast. When does this take place? When you obey the decree that commands you to cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working day, you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God. . . .

But the seal of the living God is placed upon those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath of the Lord.—Ellen G. White Comments, in The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, pp. 979, 980.

 

[Scott Downey]

Hello quietthinker, How are you all? We have edited the post, you can take a look if you want to, Thank you.

Love, Walter And Debbie

Here again that same false teaching from a different sabbath keeper website.

The Mark of the Beast

Will we trust God in the basic areas of life—food, clothing, and water—or compromise, accepting the mark of the beast to save our physical live

www.sabbath.org

They will go through long dialogues, lots of word's in explanation of their belief, and the end result is the excerpt I quote here.

Excerpts,
God made the Sabbath, then, to identify himself to His people; that His people worship the Creator. But it also identified His people to Him.

Sunday-keeping is the day—the sign or the mark—that identifies those who are devoted to, those who worship, those who are branded, and owned by Satan the Devil.