A Refutation to The Irrefutable Sabbath Facts

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A Refutation to The Irrefutable Sabbath Facts

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1.   The Sabbath Law does not RESTRICT the Sabbath to the seventh day "of the week"

Wrong!

Sabbath Concept started from the fact that God rested on the Seventh Day of the Creation Week.( Genesis 2:1-2)

God specified the seventh day of the week to be sanctified ( Exodus 20:10)

2. The Sabbath law CANNOT be restricted to the Seventh day "of the week" or else God would be condemned as violating it, as he applies it to FIXED DATES and other days of the week. He applies it to other periods than 24 hours - Lev. 23-25.

Wrong!

Lev 23 specifies 7 Feasts of the LORD on specific days.

For the Born-Again Believers everyday of the week, 7 days a week throughout the life are the Sabbaths in Christ Jesus.

However, as for the gathering and for celebration, unless you can gather together and celebrate the Sabbath every day of the week, you must follow the choice of the day by God.

Do you gather together at the church every day of the week without working throughout your life?

3. Hence, the proper interpretation of the Sabbath Law must be BROAD enough to incorporate all APPLICATIONS by God Himself. This denies, repudiates any RESTRICTION of the Sabbath Law to the seventh day "of the week.

Wrong!

That may be your law!

God specified a day of the week which is the seventh day of the week. That’s God’s style.

4. However, application to the seventh day "of the week" does not violate the Sabbath Law as it is BROAD enough to INCLUDE that application.

Wrong!

You are sounding like a Law-Giver, judging or modifying the Law.

if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹² There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?(James 4:11-12)

5. The "week" is a by product of the seven Creation days and our division into weeks must be derived from these seven days at the beginning BECAUSE neither the lunar or solar year is divisble by seven and so the only explanation for divisions into "weeks" is the creation seven days.

Yes!

The Concept of a Week is based on the Sabbath! Because one week is from one Sabbath to another Sabbath, resulting in the same word for Week and Sabbath

6. There had to be a practical weekly application of the Sabbath that was consistent prior to the cross and all evidence points to the fact that at least among the Jews the weekly sabbath was their seventh day "of the week" or Saturday.

Yes!

Disciples and the Women from Galilee took the rest according to the Commandments even after the Crucifixion ( Luke 23:56)

7. God changed the weekly day of Sabbath keeping from the Jewish seventh day "of the week" to the Christian resurrection day or "first day of the week" (Psa. 118:24/Acts 4:10-11/Heb. 4:9-10; Rev. 1:10; Acts 2:1; 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1-2; John 20)

Wrong! Extremely Wrong!

Many True Christian Believers are trapped in this fallacy.

Pslam 118:24 : This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

This never tells us that Sunday became the day of worship! How can people invent a new theology to pervert the Words of God?

Acts 4:10-11Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

These verses tell us that Jesus Christ who was rejected by Jews became the Corner Stone. They never tell us the Day of Worship has been changed from Sabbath to Sunday!

Please do not twist or pervert the Words of God!

Heb 4:9-10 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Where is the statement that the Day of Worship has changed from Seventh day to the First Day?

Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Lord’s Day means the Sabbath, the Seventh day (Saturday) because:

Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Sabbath ( Mark 2:28)

Sabbath was called Sabbath of LORD ( Ex 20:10, 31:13, Lev 19:3, 19:30, 23:3, 23:38, 26:2 Isaiah 56:4 Ezekiel 20:12, 20)

This means that Sabbath was called Sabbath of Jehovah.

Jehovah is translated as Lord in New Testament. ( Do you need the evidences? Check OT quoted in NT!)

Acts 2:1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place

Pentecost could be any day of the week! Leviticus 23:15 tells us about the Calculation of Omer, and it was counted from the Passover Sabbath, not the Regular Weekly Sabbath, because if it is counted from after the Weekly Sabbath, sometimes there could be a gap of 5 days between the High Sabbath(Passover Sabbath and the Regular Sabbath). Sadducees calculated in the way that the Pentecost fall under Sunday all the time, but the Biblical Truth tells us that Pentecost could be any day of the week! Please do not misunderstand this and pervert the mostly emphasized Sabbath commandment based on the false interpretation.

Acts 20:7

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Jewish Day starts from the evening ( after Sunset because God created the universe from the night time). Therefore the evening of the first day of the week is the evening of Saturday according to the Gregorian Calendar.

Therefore it was the evening of Saturday, not the Sunday when Paul was preaching.

Next day which was Sunday, Paul and his party departed for journey ( Acts 20:11)

Sunday was a day of Journey!, not the day of Worship!

Remember this. The Assembly in Troas was having a Habdala which means the Believers Feast like a Potluck and the Early Church used to have the BreadBreaking after the Potluck and they had the Lord’s Supper many times a week ( Acts 2:46)

But what this confirm‎s is that Early Church travelled on Sundays!

Your own evidence rejects your own claim!

1 Cor 16:1-2

 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

First, Paul was talking about the Special Donation for Jerusalem, not the regular donation.

Secondly, Paul is asking the Believers to Save that donation AT HOME, not at the Church~!

Read the Greek:

16:2  κατὰ μίαν σαββάτων ἕκαστος ὑμῶν παρ᾽ ἑαυτῷ τιθέτω θησαυρίζων ὅ τι ἂν εὐοδῶται ἵνα μὴ ὅταν ἔλθω τότε λογίαι γίνωνται

Para eauto means < at himself> or < at his own>

From the context, it means that one should save the money by himself or herself, which means saving money at HOME!.

John Nelson Darby translated properly as follows:

On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

In order to save money at HOME on the first day of the week, you must stay at HOME, not come to the church!

This verse teaches you that you are WRONG! And rejects your own Claim!

John 20 :

 The whole chapter reports that Jesus was resurrected and taught the disciples and ate with them. Jesus never taught them the Sabbath was changed to Sunday!

This whole chapter also disprove the claim that Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday!

Believers still kept the commandment of Sabbath even after the Death of the Lord ( Luke 23:56). Then how did they suddenly changed their faith silently?

Did they gather together on Sundays commemorating the Resurrection  of the Lord?

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1 Cor 11: 26

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Did Early church commemorate the Death of Jesus Christ or His Resurrection?

Early Church gathered to remember the Death of Jesus shedding the Blood at the Cross,  on every Sabbath Day!

Read Acts 13:14, 13:42( Why didn’t Paul invite any to his meeting on Sundays?), 13:44, 16:13 ( Paul’s custom was to have prayer meeting on Sabbaths, not on Sundays!) , 17:2,  18:4.

Why there is no Sunday meeting shown on New Testament? Show me any!

8. The first day "of the week" Christian Sabbath is the "Lord's day" (Rev. 1:10) and commemorates a greater and better work than the original but now sin cursed creation - the work of redemption and a new sinless heaven and earth yet to come. This is precisely why in all the Sabbath days that charaterize the Messianic Feasts in Leviticus 23 such days fall on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 50th day (after 7 regular sabbaths or 49 days) 50th year (after 7 regular Sabbath years or 49 years).

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Rev 1:10 – already refuted read the above. Lord’s Day was Sabbath, the seventh day of the Week.

Redemption was done on Passover Day, not on Sunday!

Therefore Paul teaches the Corinthians

< Therefore let us keep the feast( Passover), not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. >

We celebrate the Passover every week by having Lord’s Supper!

We cannot say that the Early Church gathered to celebrate the resurrection on Sundays, but the Truth is that they gathered on Saturday to celebrated the Death of Jesus on each Sabbath, the Lord’s Day.

Polycarp( Apostle John’s Disciple) testifies that they gathered on Saturdays

This is precisely why in all the Sabbath days that charaterize the Messianic Feasts in Leviticus 23 such days fall on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 50th day (after 7 regular sabbaths or 49 days) 50th year (after 7 regular Sabbath years or 49 years).

Wrong!

That is the Sadducees interpretation of Leviticus 23:15.

Pentecost can be any day of the week, as I already explained in the article No 7.

Sadducees perverted the Bible. Pentecost is counted from the Passover Sabbath ( High Sabbath), not the regular Sabbath( Weekly Sabbath)

9. All Mosaic Sabbatical laws have been abolished (Col. 2:16) and the "Lord's Day" (Rev. 1:10) is a day set apart for the Lord's House, to observe the Lord's Supper and the Lord's Worship, and is thus a day or rejoicing and gladness as a testimony of Christ's resurrection to the world - Psa. 118:24.

WRONG!

You are making the Lord Jesus Christ a Liar since Jesus said in Matthew 5:17-19.

 Col 2

16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

How could you pervert the statement of verse 16 to < Sabbath Law has been abolished>?

Only the Sacrificial Law has been abolished because Jesus fulfilled them already!

Jesus paid the traffic Ticket for you, then is the Traffic Law abolished ?

As for Sabbath, behave properly so that no other people find fault with you! Does this mean that Sabbath was abolished ?

Psalm 118:24 never mention that the Sabbath has been changed from Saturday to Sunday.  It talks about the Great Work of World Redemption done by Lord Jesus.

10. It is the common day of worship from the first century until Constantine and Constantine did not invent it but simply followed the common practice and made it a STATE holiday as he made Catholicism a STATE church.

Wrong!

Inside the Bible, the day of worship was never changed.

On Every Sabbath, the ShewBread was renewed and laid on the Table ( Lev 24:8)

On Every Sabbath Lamb without blemish was sacrificed ( Numbers 28:9-10)

In that way, OT people worshipped God with the shadow of Jesus Christ Sacrifice.

Now in NT period, people remembered the Death of Jesus Christ on every Sabbath.

Before Constantine, only a few apostate churches may have gathered on Sundays in Rome and Alexandria,

Constantine made the Holy Day of Sun god to be the imperial Holy Day for all the people and officers on March 7, 321.

Then the Pope Sylvester( 314-335)  endorsed Constantine after that.

Laodicean Council declared the Anathema to the Sabbathkeepers in 363 AD.

This means that there were many Sabbathkeepers even by that time. Otherwise, the Council of Laodicea didn’t have to declare the Anathema to the Sabbathkeepers.

The persecution of the Sabbathkeepers continued even until 6 th Century.

There were many Sabbathkeepers among the Waldensians.

Today, the Sabbathkeepers are many groups such as Messianic Jews, Church of God, SDA, Seventh day Baptists, etc