“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day Elohim finished His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. So Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it Elohim rested from all His work that He had done in creation.” Genesis 2:1-3

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your Elohim. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day and made it holy.” Exodus 20:8-11

The Catholic Mirror September 9, 1893– “We deem it necessary to be perfectly clear on this point — The Bible — the Old Testament — confirmed by the living tradition tradition of weekly practice for 3383 years by the chosen people of God, teaches, then, with absolute certainty, that God had, Himself, named the day ‘To be kept holy to Him’ – that the day was Saturday, and that any violation of that command was punishable with death.”

Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine Third Edition — Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea, transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Don’t you find it interesting that the one commandment that specifically states, “REMEMBER” is the very commandment that has been abandoned by the majority of professing believers in Jesus? Some will say every day is Sabbath in Jesus. Others still not of Catholic faith directly but indirectly as they follow many of its traditions hold to a Sunday Sabbath. John Wesley, although he observed Sunday, said, “But, the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, he [Christ] did not take away. It was not the design of his coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which never can be broken . . . Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind, and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other.” There are various opinions on why Wesley spoke so highly of the Sabbath but yet observed Sunday. But by the boldness of his statement one would think we ought to honor the true Sabbath. What is the true Sabbath? Well, as quoted above for 3383 years (roughly 3514 years now) the chosen people of Elohim have observed Saturday or its equivalent as the Sabbath Day.

Throughout history there have been calendars with 10, 12, and 13 months. Some of the earliest were the Sumerian calendar, followed by the Egyptian, Assyrian and Elamite calendars and more recently switched from a the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. In these various calendars, months have different names, days are labeled differently as well, but with the exception of the Egyptian calendar (and a few localized regional calendars) they had one thing in common, they were based on 7 day periods. It’s almost as if all things had a common origin. Perhaps they did— “IN the Beginning Elohim created…and on the seventh day He rested.”

Clovis G. Chappell, another Methodist, in his —Ten Rules for Living— wrote, “The reason we observe the first day instead of the seventh is based on no positive command. One will search the Scriptures in vain for authority for changing from the seventh day to the first.”
Dwight L. Moody in his writing, Weighed and Wanting, wrote— “The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word ‘remember,’ showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tablets of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?”

i write this for your consideration, for you to begin to ask the question and to be a Berean and search the whole of Elohim’s Word for the answer. What does Elohim have to say about the Sabbath? Yahoshua, said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law [Torah = Instruction] until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:17-19

So what is the spirit behind the change? There is an answer found in Scripture. Daniel writes, “He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.” 9Daniel 7:25) This is the working of the Lawless one, the son of perdition, the anti-Messiah. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 warns, “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore Elohim sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Josephus, a Jewish historian, Priest, and member of the Pharisees, born roughly four years after the death and resurrection of Yahoshua had a unique perspective of the early believers and the sect of Judaism known as the Nazarenes. In Josephus’s discourse concerning Hades, he writes, “And now, if you Gentiles will be persuaded by these motives, and leave your vain imaginations about your pedigrees, and gaining of riches and philosophy, and will not spend your time about subtleties of words, and hereby lead your minds into error, and if you will apply your ears to the hearing of the inspired prophets, [the prophets being referred to here is those of the Torah and the Tanakh] the interpreters, both of God and of His Word, and will believe in God, you shall both be partakers of these things, and obtain the good things that are to come, you shall see the ascent into the immense heaven plainly, and that kingdom which is there; for what God hath now concealed in silence (will be then made manifest) what neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him.”

In my next post we will look at Saint Augustine and look at a passage from his journal, Saint Augustine Confessions. i would write it here but this post is already too long. Let me leave you with this, ask yourself this question, if you ask someone to remember something that requires an action, when you say “remember” what is your expectation?

You are loved,
cj