How do we truly know what day of the week the sabbath falls?

Answer 1

Excelent question!

I'll quote from this webpage:http://www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath_questions.asp:

We Can't Locate the True Seventh Day
This is a fallacy that has comforted many in their disobedience of the fourth commandment. It just is not true. Here are four positive proofs which identify the true Sabbath today:

1. According to the Scriptures, Christ died on Friday and rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. Practically all churches acknowledge this fact by observing Easter Sunday and Good Friday. Here is the Bible evidence: "This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on." Luke 23:52-54.

Here is proof that Jesus died the day before the Sabbath. It was called "the preparation day" because it was the time to get ready for the Sabbath. Let us read the next verses: "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Verses 55, 56.

Please notice that the women rested over the Sabbath "according to the commandment." The commandment says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath," so we know they were observing Saturday. But the very next verse says, "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared. ... And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre." Luke 24:1, 2.

How clearly these three consecutive days are described for us. He died Friday, the preparation day, commonly called Good Friday. He rested in the tomb on the seventh day, Sabbath, "according to the commandment." That was Saturday. Then on Sunday, the first day of the week, Easter Sunday to many, Jesus arose from the grave.

Anyone who can locate Good Friday or Easter Sunday will have absolutely no difficulty finding the true Sabbath.

2. The calendar has not been changed so as to confuse the days of the week. We can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here. Pope Gregory XIII did make a calendar change in 1582, but it did not interfere with the weekly cycle. Our present Gregorian calendar was named after him when he made that small change in 1582.
What did Pope Gregory do to the calendar? Before 1582 the Julian calendar had been in effect, instituted by Julius Ceasar about 46 B.C. and named after him. But the Julian calendar had calculated the length of the year as 365 1/4 days, and the year is actually eleven minutes less than 365 1/4 days. Those eleven minutes accumulated, and by 1582 the numbering of the calendar was ten days out of harmony with the solar system. Gregory simply dropped those ten days out of the numbering of the calendar. It was Thursday, October 4, 1582, and the next day, Friday, should have been October 5. But Gregory made it October 15 instead, dropping exactly ten days to bring the calendar back into harmony with the heavenly bodies.

Were the days of the week confused? No. Friday still followed Thursday, and Saturday still followed Friday. The same seventh day remained, and the weekly cycle was not disturbed in the least. When we keep the seventh day on Saturday, we are observing the same day Jesus kept, and He did it every week according to Luke 4:16.

3. The third evidence for the true Sabbath is the most conclusive of all. The Jewish people have been observing the seventh day from the time of Abraham, and they still keep it today. Here is a whole nation - millions of individuals - who have been counting off time meticulously, week after week, calendar or no calendar, for thousands of years. Could they have lost track? Impossible. The only way they could have lost a day would have been for the entire nation to have slept over an extra 24 hours and for no one ever to tell them about it afterwards.
There has been no change or loss of the Sabbath since God made it in Genesis. The origin of the week is found in the creation story. There is no scientific or astronomical reason for measuring time in cycles of seven days. It is an arbitrary arrangement of God and has been miraculously preserved for one reason - because the holy Sabbath day points to the creative power of the only true God. It is a sign of His sovereignty over the world and over human life; a sign of creation and redemption.

Is this not the reason God will preserve Sabbathkeeping throughout eternity? We read in Isaiah 66:22, 23: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 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."

The Sabbath is so precious to God that He will have His people observe it throughout all time to come in the beautiful new earth. If it is so precious to Him, should it not be precious to us? If we are going to keep it then, should we not keep it now?
In an age of false gods, of atheistic evolution, and traditions of men, the world needs the Sabbath more than ever as a test of our loyalty to the great Creator-God and a sign of our sanctification through His power.

4. Proof number four lies in the fact that over one hundred languages of the earth use the word "Sabbath" for Saturday. For example, the Spanish word for Saturday is "S‡bado," meaning Sabbath. What does this prove? It proves that when those hundred languages originated in the long, long ago, Saturday was recognized as the Sabbath day and was incorporated into the very name of the day.


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God bless you!

Answer 2

The Sabbath was given as a memorial of creation. It was given for all mankind, not just the Jews. There were no Jews in the garden of eden. God specially blessed the seventh day, not the first or any other day. He made it holy by His presence. It is a day of communion with our Creator. If the Sabbath could be changed to another day, that would mean that the Law of God could be changed. If the law could be changed, then Jesus did not have to come and die for sin which is the transgression of the law.

We can be absolutely certain which day Sabbath falls on because during the 40 years in the wilderness, God rained manna from heaven to sustain the Israelites 6 days per week. On the Sabbath, no manna fell. There have been Jews that keep the Sabbath ever since. Therefore, we can be certain that Saturday, the seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

God has made an appointment to meet with His people on this special day each week, to remember Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things, to worship Him, and to fellowship with like believers. God made the appointment. Who is man to change it to another day? The Sabbath hours are sacred and holy because God draws nigh to His people on that day. Sadly, many miss this opportunity to meet with God Almighty.

The word for Saturday means Sabbath in over 180 languages. Saturday is the Sabbath, a day of rest and restoration of relationship with God.

Answer 3

Simple, when God gave the commandments regarding the keeping of the Sabbath, He clearly stated (although not necessarily in written form) what day that was. After that, it's just a matter of 1-2-3-4-5-6-SABBATH....rinse and repeat.

Answer 4

The LORD GOD gave the Sabbath to the Jews as a day of rest. That now falls on the Saturday.
As for the followers of Christ, there should be neither a place of worship nor a day of worship. "GOD is Spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4: 24. Jesus Christ says that not even the Temple Solomon built in Jerusalem or any mountain is now a place of worship. John 4:21. Physical structure cannot serve as a place for spiritual worship. You require a spiritual structure for that.

The purpose of Jesus Christ is to make each one of us a Temple in which GOD lives by His Spirit. If He lives inside you worship Him all of the time and everywhere.

Answer 5

It is what you make it. Sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. So, Saturday, Sunday, Friday.....take your pick. Jesus did not care if his disciples did what was called 'work' on the sabbath, therefore I don't think the arguement is worthwhile.

Answer 6

You know what...God doesn't care which day you choose to worship Him. As long as it ends with "y."

Work your six days and rest on the sabbath.

Answer 7

we dont, sabbath is a day set aside for god. if you want a more technical day it would be our saturday, as our week goes sunday through saturday, saturday ending our definition of a week, where god rested on the 7th day.

Answer 8

I though you just picked a day. It has to be a specific day. Like if the Jews moved from Friday to Wednesday, they all burn in hell???

Answer 9

if your Jewish it's Saturday starting on the eveing on Friday right? When your a Christian or Catholic you have it on Sunday. Us Christians have Church on Sunday's because Jesus rose from the dead on the third day.

Answer 10

From the Jewish Calendar. It can be compared with Roman one.