How can I find out the truth about which day was oroginally the sabbath without just taking someone's word?

Question

I had someone tell me that they believe that the sabbath was on Saturday originally, not Sunday. I have always believed it was Sunday, as Sunday is the seventh day of the week since Monday is the first day of the work week.
Can you show me proof of which is which, in the Bible?

Answer 1

Here!

The Bible begins with a statement. "Elohim Yom"
In the beginning GOD = Elohim Yom. (The word Elohim has a plural connotation).

After making that mind-boggling statement The Bible continues by describing the six days of creation. Genesis 2:3 "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested (a) from all his work (b) which God created and made."

Exodus 20:11 "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."

This was given to Moses and the Israelites to show them that they should cease from their normal activities and meditate on the glory of HIS person and the wonders of His creation.

There is no evidence that "the Sabbath information" was given to Adam, to Enoch, Noah, or Abraham. Study The Bible, and other ancient historical documents - NO Sabbath rest was observed by man before Exodus 16. In Exodus 16 very specific guidelines were given to the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL for its observance.

The Sabbath is VERY SPECIAL. It is a command given to THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL by GOD. Exodus 31:16,17 "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant."

It is a sign between ME and the children of Israel forever: for in six days…….. .
Deuteronomy 5:15 reiterates…therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. What a glorious commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt!

From the above it is quite obvious that THE SABBATH was given by GOD to Israel.

IN the NEW TESTAMENT it is impossible to find any indication at all that the church observed the Sabbath. Of course, the Sabbath was utilized by the propagators of the faith to go in to, or join the Jewish community and tell them of THE CHRIST.

Colossians 2:16,17 certainly indicates that the opposite is true!
"Let no man, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day.
Which are a shadow of things to come:but the body is of Christ."

ERGO! When one is a True Christian they are NOT bound by the Sabbath Laws, OR OF ANY DIETARY LAWS - be they Vegetarianism or "thou shalt not eat meat on Friday".



When a person becomes a True Christian and believer in Jesus The Christ We receive a new life, forgiveness of all our sins, and freedom from the legalistic bondage of the law.
Piety can not be tested by whether or not we eat pork, any meats, or other foods, and, or the basis of our observances of annual or monthly Jewish festivals, or for that matter, the weekly Sabbath. To place ones self back under the law is to turn our backs on the GRACE of God! We would be guilty of trying to produce a way of redemption in which grace and the law are mixed together.
We had better look at Galatians 3:10,11 !
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written. Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
"It is finished"



Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Galatians 2:21 I do not make void the grace of God; for if righteousness come by law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Jesus Our Christ said in Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath".
He said that of the Pharisees who were putting the strict observance of a sacred day above the welfare of the people. Gods rules and regulations were designed for mans benefit, not as a yolk to be put around mans necks!

Indeed when Jesus comes back again -during the millennial age - Sabbath will be restored.
Isaiah 66:23 "And it shall come to pass that, from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before ME, saith the Lord"

When God instituted the Sabbath, He specified that is was the seventh day of the week. This has never been changed from Saturday to Sunday. It is a good thing for all mankind to rest one day a week, but it is not obligatory for non Jews to TRY AND carry out the IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT Levitical Sabbath.
Galatians 3:10 "for as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written.Cursed is everyone that continueth no in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Ephesians 2:8,9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of GOD -Not of works, lest any man should boast."



When Jesus The Christ died on the cross and HE was resurrected it marked the beginning of a new special day. THE LORDS DAY - THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
Oh what a wonderful day that was for mankind! Released from the Law! "It is Finished!"
Romans 6:14 "…ye are not under the law but under grace"
Romans 10:4 "Christ is the end of the law for righteusness to everyone that believeth."

Our LORD rose on the first day of the week. Mark and Luke and John all record the tomb being found empty on the first day of the week -Sunday.

John 20:19 "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you."

One week later, again on the FIRST DAY of the week Jesus met with the disciples again.
John 20;26 "And, after eight days, ( c ) again His disciples were inside, an d Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said "Peace be unto you."

The Church (Jesus the Christ's people) gathered in the "upper room" and were baptized with the Holy Spirit fifty days after RESURRECTION SUNDAY.

Acts 20:7 tells us "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 next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

In Corinthians 16:1, and 2 Paul tells us "Now concerning the collection of the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even to 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 gathering when I come…"

Indeed ACTS does record Paul going in to the Synagogue to teach - simply because that is where they assembled. That fact has nothing to do with directing "The Faithful" to gather.

Paul said in I Corinthians 19;20 "And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law." Paul now a Christian WAS NOT under the law!
Acts 18:4 - 7 also mentions the Sabbath - as a place of evangelizing the Jews.
These two verses are the last mention of the Sabbath in the book of Acts.

Backing up a bit in The Bible I would like to point out another "telling" verse.
Acts 15:10 "Now, therefore, why put GOD to the test, to put a yoke (d) upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"

THE SABBATH HAS NEVER BEEN CHANGED. IT IS STILL FOR THE JEWS.
SUNDAY IS NOT THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH - THERE IS NO SUCH THING.
WE, TRUE CHRISTIANS WORSHIP ON SUNDAY - THE LORD'S DAY!


My favourite Verse of The Bible regarding the "regulations" imposed on the Jewish is still being used by some "creative thinking" Clergy of today! Colossians 2:16 says" Let no man, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day, or of the new moon, or of a Sabbath day". If we were to tuck "Tithing " in to this verse we would have all of the leverage used by questionable clergy to squeeze and control their flock.



If and when some one tells you that we should all be vegetarians or not to eat a particular food please quote Romans 14:14 " I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean" Dietary restrictions, be they for ceremony or other reasons do not apply to We Christians.

Salvation is of His mercy- not our works!
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us."
Romans 4:5 "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

(a) work --- we today would phrase that - "works".
(b) rested -does not mean that he got tired - it means "arresed" stopped, simply because HE was finished the series of Creation.
(c) Jewish reckoning is that Sunday to Sunday is indeed eight days.
(d) The Law - impossible to keep fully, but a method of control use by "The Clergy".





Historical Information
Worship on Sunday - There is much evidence that Sunday was THE DAY of Christian worship before the perverted church of Rome was INVENTED.

The Epistle = (writing) of Barnabus ( AD 100) "Wherefore also we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead."

The Epistles = (writings) of Ignatius ( AD 107) a friend of Johns says " And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord's day as a festival, the resurrection day, the queen and chief of all days."
"Those who were concerned with old things have come to newness of confidence, no longer keeping the Sabbath, but living according to the Lord's day, on which our life as risen again through Him depends."

Justin Martyr (ad 145), it is said, "But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day of the week and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead."

Justin Martin in his "Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter 47 wrote "But if some, through weak-mindedness, wish to observe such institutions as were given by Moses, along with their hope in Christ, yet choose to live with the Christians and the faithful, as I said before, not introducing them either to be circumcised, like themselves, or to keep the Sabbath, or to observe any other such ceremonies, then I hold that we ought to join ourselves to such, and associate with them in all things as kinsmen and brethren."

Dionycius of Corinth (AD 170) in a writing to the Church in Rome wrote, "Today we kept the Lord's holy day in which we read your letter."

Melito of Sardis (AD 175) wrote a treatise on ----- "The Lord's Day."

Irenaeus ( AD 160-200) wrote " The mystery of the Lord's resurrection may not be celebrated on any other day than the Lord's Day and on this alone should we observe the breaking of the Paschal Feast."

Bardesanes in AD 180 wrote in his book "The Laws of the Countries" "On one day, the first of the week, we assemble ourselves together-------"

Origen (AD 185) "John the Baptizer was born to make ready the people for the Lord, the people fit for Him at the end of the Covenant now grown old, which is the end of the Sabbath." He then went on to write " It is one of the marks of a perfect Christian to keep the Lord's day."

There is much evidence that the above writings were not "doctored" by the R.C. Church in later years by any predecessors of HORT & WESCOTT. ( Those scoundrels, working for Rome, that have given us almost all of the perverted Bibles now in use.)

Even though Ellen White in her vision of April 3,1847 saw a halo of light encircling the fourth commandment - and it has become a cornerstone of the Seventh Day Adventist Group - history shows that Christians, before Constantine, worshipped on Sunday.

I have the problem solved--- I keep EVERY DAY HOLY- and Worship HIM seven days a week.

Strictly speaking the word "Shabbot" in Hebrew means "rest". On the seventh day of the week of creation GOD rested---- HE was not tired-HE does not get tires. He "rested" --- or "arrested" - that is, stopped the series of creation----because IT WAS "ALL DONE", " FINISHED", ARRESTED!

I hope all peoples who keep the SHABBOT do it properly!
Do not flush their own toilets or tear their own toilet paper! FOR THAT IS WORK!
Only walk a few paces to the place of worship (one must live very close), don't drive a car, because turning the key and steering is WORK!
DO NOT let your cat or dog run loose! The animals too must observe!
OBSERVING ANY ONE OF THE 613 LEVITICAL LAWS PUTS YOU UNDER THEM ALL!
Tithing, An exact percentage of moneys to give - Keeping the Shabbot - No labour AT ALL allowed. DO NOT USE ELECTRICITY - because a person had to "work" to deliver that service to you. And on, and on, and on ---

Look up Mark 2:27 - it states that The SHABBOT is made for man-man was not made for the Shabbot.

Answer 2

First off we are not under the Old Testament command to worship on the sabbath. The gathered on the first day of the week which is Sunday, but we can gather together any day of the week we want..
Having said that the sabbath is saturday, but to find out what day saturday is you need to go to the Old Testament and find out when God established the months and then when the Jewish months are established you can make up a Olt Testament Jewish calender and figure out which day is saturday.. I am not going to do this research for you as Christians are not under the law and I worship on Sundays but do not keep a sabbath as any day of the week..
The Jewish priest normally establishes the first day of the month as it has to do with the new moon, and the months may be shorter and have 2 more months in a year.. You realise that if you keep the sabbath you may as well become a orthodox Jew as you have to not cook and observe clean and unclean foods and have seperate plates for Kosher foods.. You will also be limited in how far you can drive and walk on the sabbath, but NO Cooking at all..
But NO I am not going to do all this research to show you. The seventh day adventist do not really keep the sabbath as it is kept in the Bible.. Christians are just not under the law and especially that commandment. It is all in the NEW TESTAMENTand not the old..
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
IF he has made a new covenant then why do you want to go back to the old one?? Are you rejecting the new one?? It is like you are saying I want to do something to earn my salvation..
Anyway this is too long already..

Answer 3

Sunday is the first day of the week, the Lord's Day. Christians put God first by worshipping on Sunday. Jesus also rose from the dead on Sunday. This also differentiated Christian worship from that of the Jews.

The old testament sabbath was Saturday, the 7th day, as the following scripture passages indicate.

Gen 2:1 So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Gen 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Exo 16:25 And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.
Exo 16:26 Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
Exo 16:27 And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.
Exo 16:28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?
Exo 16:29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

The new testament church was duly empowered by Christ to change the sabbath day, as God is the master of the sabbath, and God remains the head of his church.

Your count was just one day off.

Answer 4

If you look at a calendar, which is the first day listed? Not Mondy as you state but Sunday, the venerable day of the sun, which the day gets its name. Many will tell you the Sabbath was a Jewish day and not to be kept by Christians but I respectfully disagree with that notion as where were the Jews at Creation. Look in Genesis 2:2-3 and you find that when God finished His work He rested on the Seventh day and blessed it and made it holy. there were only two people on Earth at that time, Adam and Eve. Or at best only Adam on that first Sabbath. Where were the Jews? In Exodus 20:8-11 it states for sure which day is the Sabbath day but that is not as clear as another that is in the New Testament. Go to Luke 23:53-56 and Luke 24:1-2 and you will find the chronology of the events that we call today Good Friday and ends in the day we call Easter Sunday. Jesus died on what we now call Good Friday. I am sure you will see no questions that will deny that day in history or that He actually died on Friday. It is called the Preparation day and it says the Sabbath drew on or drew near. Those that had prepared the spices and oils for the burial did not want to desecrate the most holy Sabbath of their Lord so they rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment of God, that is the fourth commandment. Then on the First day of the week, what we now call Easter Sunday, actually the name and day is a pagan holiday, hence the name Easter from Easta, the goddess of fertility and Sunday, the venerable day of the sun, for sun worshippers. Now I ask you, can you tell me what day Jesus died on and what day He arose on? If you can tell that with any conviction, you know the proper days of the week and can benefit from the passages here. The first day of the week, the women came with the spices and oils they had prepared and He was risen. Many places in the bible states the day to be Saturday but does not name it that way but the seventh day. In Jesus time, they referred to the days as the first day, second day, and so on and knew what day it was that way. It was some time before that, that the pagans had named the days what we know of them today but it did not catch on till about the fourth century when the Catholic Church brought in a lot of the pagans into the church along with a lot of the practices of the time. Just historical fact, not meant to put down any church. YOu will find it in the Catholic encyclopedia as well as most others and in historical writings. If you want to see what all the different churches say about it as well and some other interesting facts, see the sites below. The second is the one that you can find writings of all the major churches that state what day the Sabbath is and who it was that changed the day from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week. If you can't find the part with the churches, let me know and I will be glad to send a copy of what it says. If it were not so long, 29 pages, I would post it here. Let me know if you can't find it or want me to send it to you and give me an address I can send it to. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Well, first of all, look at your calendar again. Sunday is always the first day of the week.
In the beginning of the Bible, God said He created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the 7th....He instructed us to also rest on the 7th...
But the best "proof" I see is that the people He originally gave the Sabbath to (the Jews) still keep it as it was given....from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night. A lot of them still keep it the same as their ancestors....Even Israel kind of "shuts down" to rest on Friday night until Saturday night. The Romans changed it to Sunday after Jesus died.

Answer 6

Jesus was raised on the first day of the week (Matt. 28:1). In Acts 20:7, the disciples were in the habit of meeting on the first day of the week. This is where Christians get the habit of having church services on Sunday, the first day of the week.

Which means that the Sabbath, the 7th day of the week and the day God rested (ceased His labor) in Genesis 2:2 is Saturday. It begins actually, at 6 pm (or sundown, depending on who you talk to) on Friday night and goes until 6 pm (or sundown) on Saturday night.

However, with that said, for all Christians EVERY DAY is a Sabbath for us on this side of the cross. The word "sabbath" means to cease from one's labor, and with the finished work of Christ on the cross, now we cease from our labor ALL THE TIME. We have entered into a sabbath-rest that is every second of every day, 24/7.

Hebrews 4:9-10 "There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his."

So, for Christians, EVERY DAY is the Sabbath. :o)

Answer 7

All real authorities agree that Saturday is the Sabbath. Christians worship on Sunday because they are honoring the Resurrection, and because they consider the Sabbath to be fulfilled.

Answer 8

Old Testament - Exodus

Saturday.
I do however take my "sabbath day" on Sunday.

Note, the Sabbath is for God's chosen people, Jews. As Christians we do not HAVE to honor it. But if you think about why it was given, it was so that we have a day of rest. We need it.

Answer 9

Original sabbath day was Friday. It is not in the bible because the christians made their religion to what suited them. It was not until Constantine was on his death bed that the practicing sabbath becamee sunday.

There is proof of this in many history books that are based on fact and not fairy tales.

Answer 10

in case you pass decrease back decrease than the regulation you have fallen from grace. there isn't any sabbath day for the christian, or all of them are the sabbath through fact Jesus is our relax. quit attempting to earn your salvation and locate peace by way of Jesus Christ. The regulation can in basic terms instruct you the way sinful you're. it is not a skill of salvation.

Answer 11

Since when has sunday ever been the last day of the week? :S

Sorry to bust your bubble, but sunday is the first day. Has been for a LOOOONG time. But, i believe the catholic catacysm(sp?) mentions that they moved the day of worship from saturday to sunday.