About the "seventh day" Sabbath...?

Question

Did you realize that in Europe calendars begin with Monday as the first day of the week, and in the US they begin with Sunday. So you can't use a calendar to figure out which is the "seventh" day! God didn't make the calendars, people!

Um, no, I AM thinking of European calendars because I am in Germany right now looking at my calendar that begins with Monday. But thanks.

Answer 1

if arabic calendars begin with saturday , europe calenders begin with monday and the us calender begin with sunday then it is not strange if you find a country begins with thursday!!!!!!

Answer 2

Your question supposes that Christians be conscious Sunday as even though it were a sabbath day. this isn't actual. Sunday became the usually occurring day for accumulating mutually for communal worship and prayer which isn't what a sabbath changed into for. The sabbath turned right into an afternoon of relax the position one prevented paintings even as very last at domicile. not absolutely everyone have self assurance Sunday must be dealt with like the old covenant sabbath as an afternoon of relax. those who have self assurance so are in basic terms flawed and ignorant on the concern. What replaced were the covenants and in no way days. .

Answer 3

The Bible does not speak of specific days such as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. The Bible does refer to the fact that on the seventh day "God rested". How does anyone "know" what day of the week God began his "creation", and why is it so important to know what day "he rested". The Bible says "on the seventh day he rested".
I'm sure God was pretty tired after doing all the things the Bible reports that he did in six days. I would be tired, too. But the Bible doesn't direct anyone to rest on a specific named day: the Bible only says that God rested on the seventh day.

Calendar changes can be made any time. For many years, the U. S. recognized Washington's birthday and Lincolns birthday on specific days. Now, we celebrate President's Day.

Answer 4

In Europe or at least in Spain, we begin the week on Monday since times of Constantino, who was a Roman Emperor, who ruled in 325 after Christ, he was the first Emperor to become Christian, but he had a great influence of the ancient religion in which they adored to the Sun, so he made the day of God both, Saturday and Sunday (because Sunday, represents de day of the Sun...) and in the year 538, finally the Day of God is replaced definitively by the Sunday using also the fact that Jesus resuscitated in Sunday...

Answer 5

yeah, I've noted that some "new" calendars start with Monday as the first day of the week. But as long as I know, it has always been sunday the first day of the week, even in the calendar.

Besides, in Exodus 20:8-11, God clearly identifies the seventh day as the Sabbath. He says, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or your daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy".

The word "Sabbath" means "rest"

Sabbath was not given to Jews only. Let's note it that God says, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy". The Sabbath as the seventh day was declared holy by the Lord since the creation of the world, even before any jewish came to existance. "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done" (Genesis 2:2,3). Jesus said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27-28). Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath: "He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom" (Luke 4:16). Paul also kept the Sabbath: "As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures" (Acts 17:2). "Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks" (Acts 18:4).

There are a lot more bible verses refering to the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week kept by the prophets, apostles, early christians, and even Jesus Himself. It would be next time.

Well, God bless you, my friend!

Answer 6

Umm, look at the Jews. They have kept the seventh day and that was always and forever will be Saturday. And European calenders do not start on Monday, you are thinking about Latino calenders. And I am not being bias, I am an Atheist. It is common sense. The Hebrew calender is thousands, and thousands of years old. it is probably the oldest calender in use today. And according to their calender, the seventh day is Saturday.

Answer 7

What a way to stir up nuts and lies. Christian worship STARTED on Sunday, in commemoration of the Resurrection which it celebrates. The lies that claim the catholic church changed it need to do a little research. Several first and second century writers make it clear that Christians met on the "first day of the week" or Sunday.

CHAPTER LXVII -- WEEKLY WORSHIP OF THE CHRISTIANS.

And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits... Justin Martyr, 156 A.D.

...Many Jewish Christians ALSO went to synagogue services and kept the sabbath, not as a religious rite, but as a time to meet with others who knew the true God. Paul routinely did this: Acts 17:1 Paul and Silas passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They came to Thessalonica. A Jewish synagogue was there. 2 Paul went into the synagogue as he usually did. For three Sabbath days in a row he talked about the Scriptures with the Jews.

Answer 8

First use the Hebrew calendar!

2nd it does not matter what day is the first or last day of the week!

The Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday and ends at sundown of Saturday!

Answer 9

God made the Sabbath for the people not the people for the Sabbath,In the scriptures the Sabbath had been changed multiple times.Its the spirit of the law not always the letter,especially with all the different time zones

Answer 10

I did know that - I lived in Europe for eight years, but you sure can keep the same Sabbath Jesus did; the Jews have not missed one Sabbath since long before Jesus came, and they are still keeping that same day today.

"'And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men*--the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.' He said to them, 'All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.'" (Mark 7:7 - 8 NKJV)

It is interesting because God did command a particular day and did not allow people to keep any day they wanted. While in the wilderness after fleeing Egypt, the Hebrews were sent manna from Heaven. This manna fell six days a week but did not fall on the Sabbath. God knew what day the Sabbath was, the Hebrews knew it, and the Jewish people of today still know it. They keep the same day today that their ancestors did when God sent the manna.

"On the sixth day the people gathered twice as much food -- four quarts for every person. When all the leaders of the community came and told this to Moses, he said to them, "This is what the Lord commanded, because tomorrow is the Sabbath, the Lord's holy day of rest. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil today. Save the rest of the food until tomorrow morning." So the people saved it until the next morning, as Moses had commanded, and none of it began to stink or have worms in it. Moses told the people, "Eat the food you gathered yesterday. Today is a Sabbath, the Lord's day of rest; you will not find any out in the field today. You should gather the food for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day. On that day there will not be any food on the ground." On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather food, but they couldn't find any. Then the Lord said to Moses, "How long will you people refuse to obey my commands and teachings? Look, the Lord has made the Sabbath a day of rest for you. So on the sixth day he will give you enough food for two days, but on the seventh day each of you must stay where you are. Do not go anywhere." So the people rested on the seventh day. The people of Israel called the food manna. It was like small white seeds and tasted like wafers made with honey." (Exodus 16:22 - 31 NCV)

You can search the New Testament, and even the entire Bible for that matter, and you will not find one place that the Sabbath law has been revoked. What you will find is that the apostles and early church did keep the Sabbath, and Jesus expected His followers to be keeping the Sabbath some 60 years after His death.

"At that time, how terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or have nursing babies! Pray that it will not be winter or a Sabbath day when these things happen and you have to run away, because at that time there will be much trouble. There will be more trouble than there has ever been since the beginning of the world until now, and nothing as bad will ever happen again." (Matthew 24:19 - 21 NCV)

"They continued their trip from Perga and went to Antioch, a city in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down." (Acts 13:14 NCV)

"While Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people asked them to tell them more about these things on the next Sabbath." (Acts 13:42 NCV)

"On the next Sabbath day, almost everyone in the city came to hear the word of the Lord." (Acts 13:44 NCV)

"On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the river where we thought we would find a special place for prayer. Some women had gathered there, so we sat down and talked with them." (Acts 16:13 NCV) (This is most interesting because Paul kept the Sabbath even when there was not a group of Jews to keep it with or a church to keep it in. He was in Philippi, and there were very few Jews there)

"Paul went into the synagogue as he always did, and on each Sabbath day for three weeks, he talked with the Jews about the Scriptures." (Acts 17:2 NCV)

"Every Sabbath day he talked with the Jews and Greeks in the synagogue, trying to persuade them to believe in Jesus." (Acts 18:4 NCV)

Check the Ten Commandments; they tell us the reason we should keep the Sabbath.

"The reason is that in six days the Lord made everything -- the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in them. On the seventh day he rested. So the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." (Exodus 20:11)

That reason still stands today. The Sabbath has nothing to do with the nation of Israel but everything to do with creation. God did not command the Sabbath because he wanted the Israelites to be different; He commanded it because He created it in the first week. God tries to give us a gift, and we say that it is a burden and we do not want it.

As for the Lord's Day, It is interesting to see what the Bible says about the Lord's day.

"Eat the food you gathered yesterday. Today is a Sabbath, the Lord's day of rest;" (Exodus 16:23 NCV)

"This is what the Lord commanded, because tomorrow is the Sabbath, the Lord's holy day of rest." (Exodus 16:25 NCV)

"but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God." (Exodus 20:10 NCV)

"So the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath day" (Matthew 12:8 NCV)

"So then, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." (Mark 2:28 NCV)

"Then Jesus said to the Pharisees, 'The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath day.'" (Luke 6:6 NCV)