I have encountered many Christians who believe that Sunday is the true Sabbath. One of the most interesting reasons for this is because “We are in America and in America the first day of the week is Monday.”
They seem to think that they can just pick a day, any old day, and make it “their” Sabbath.
Yeah, it doesn’t work like that.
It seems as if they think that Genesis 1 says Yehovah created the United States of America.
It wasn’t quite like that. The world was around long, long before anyone set foot on our little chunk of the planet.
And they brought baggage – boy howdy, did they bring baggage!
They came seeking religious freedom and to break from the religious persecution they were enduring in Europe. [1] Unfortunately, they also brought with them pagan traditions that were already well established within the church, in early 321.
See, when those first settlers came to this land and began settling the area to eventually establish the United Colonies (It wasn’t called the United States of America until 1776 [2]) they didn’t completely do away with the pagan ways that they had grown up with. In fact, they simply carried them over to their own religious practices, blindly accepting to continue what they have always done instead of searching the scripture to find the truth.
And yes, “Sunday Sabbath” is indeed a pagan tradition that is rooted in the worship of the sun god.
Roman Emperor Constantine I, a former sun god worshipper who claimed to have “found God” and become a Christian, issued a civil decree On March 7, 321 making changing the biblical Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday. In it, he said:[3]
All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun. Country people, however, may freely attend to the cultivation of the fields, because it frequently happens that no other days are better adapted for planting the grain in the furrows or the vines in trenches. So that the advantage given by heavenly providence may not for the occasion of a short time perish.
Constantine
This decree was established in civil law but people found it to be more convenient to choose Sunday anyway. They didn’t care about its pagan roots. They didn’t care that it did not ascribe to any portion of Mosaic Law. They just blindly accepted Sunday as their Sabbath and eventually even fell away from the actual biblical prescribed observance laid out in Exodus 20:8-11:
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:8-11
This has left many modern Christians with the erroneous belief that Sabbath observance is nothing more than choosing a day to worship Yehovah. They go out to eat after church or go shopping which directly violates verse 10. They either have not been taught or they outright ignore what Sabbath actually is.
Worse than that though is the blatant violation of several verses:
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Revelation 22:18-19
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:2
We are also told time and again that Yehovah does NOT change:
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Hebrews 13:8
6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Malachi 3:6
But many of these Christians seem to completely disregard what scripture says and instead choose to follow their own gospel. Much like this:
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:6-9
The biblical Sabbath has specific requirements for its observance. It has a prescribed day, there are certain things we are to do to keep it. What’s more, it is part of Yehovah’s clock and calendar. For instance, you can’t know the true day of Shavuot or Day of Pentecost without observing the correct day for Sabbath.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Leviticus 23:15-16
Now, if you are observing the wrong day for Sabbath then you are going to observe the wrong day for Pentecost Sunday. You also have to observe Passover, but that’s another lesson for another day.
Line up the biblical 7th day Sabbath (Saturday) with the manmade Sunday Sabbath of Pagan origins. The Bible clearly defines what to do and how to observe, but the manmade version is much less structured, chaotic even, with no real order to it.
We serve a God of order. Remember that. When you see things that are supposed to be “of God” yes they lack true order and structure, they are most likely a perversion of man and not scriptural. All you have to do is read Leviticus 23 to see that all of the prescribed feast days have order and structure to them. The pagan traditions do not.
Just something to keep in mind.
Bottom line, the day you observe the Sabbath is important – and Sunday is not biblical. And no, Colossians 2:16-17 is NOT about Sabbath. It is about fasting.
Sabbath is not just a day to worship, it is a biblically prescribed day that is the fourth commandment. The day does indeed matter. It matters very much. The manner in which you observe definitely matters.
It is not about worship. It is about obedience. It is about how much you really love Yehovah.
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