Saturday Sabbath Keepers only..?

Question

Please tell me where you worship, if you do attend a church, and what church it is.
Tell me why you know Saturday is God's true Sabbath.. ( I believe it also, and I'm a Christian )
Tell me if you believe God instituted it only for those who are Jewish?
Please tell me anything else related to the Biblical statement that it is a "sign" between God and His people.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I am a Seventh Day Adventist. Here are some reasons why I believe in the Sabbath and that it is not only for the Jews:

On what day did Jesus customarily worship?


When Jesus was here on earth, He worshiped on the Sabbath.
"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." Luke 4:16.

Answer: Jesus' custom was to worship on the Sabbath.

Who made the Sabbath and when?


God made the Sabbath at the time of Creation.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." "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 made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Genesis 1:1; 2:2, 3.

Answer: God made the Sabbath at the time of Creation, when He made the world. He rested on the Sabbath and blessed and sanctified it (set it apart for a holy use).

But haven't the Ten Commandments been changed?


Jesus says it is easier for heaven to pass away than for God's law to change.
Jesus says: "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16:17. God says: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Psalms 89:34. Notice, the Ten Commandments came from His lips. Exodus 20:1 says, "And God spake all these words, saying ... [the Ten Commandments follow in verses 2-17]."

Answer: No, indeed! It is utterly impossible for any of God's moral law ever to change. All Ten Commandments are binding today.

God commanded it:
"Blessed is the man ... that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it." "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, ... every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer ... for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." Isaiah 56:2, 6, 7, emphasis added.

Apostles taught it:
"And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath." "And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God." Acts 13:42, 44, emphasis added. "And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks." Acts 18:4.
The apostles taught the Gentiles to keep the Sabbath holy.


Answer: The apostles in the early New Testament church not only obeyed God's Sabbath command, but they also taught the converted Gentiles to worship on Sabbath. Never once do they refer to Sunday as a holy day.

But wasn't the Sabbath changed to Sunday at Christ's death or resurrection?


The Sabbath was not changed to Sunday at the time of Jesus' resurrection.


Answer: No, there is not the remotest hint that the Sabbath was changed at Christ's death or resurrection. The Bible teaches just the opposite. Please carefully review the following evidence:

A. God blessed the Sabbath.
"The Lord blessed the sabbath day and hollowed it." Exodus 20:11. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Genesis 2:3.

B. Christ expected His people to be still keeping the Sabbath in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem was destroyed.
Knowing full well that Jerusalem would be destroyed by Rome in A.D. 70, Jesus warned His followers of that time, saying, "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day." Matthew 24:20, emphasis added. Jesus made it clear that He intended for the Sabbath to be kept even 40 years after His resurrection. In fact, there is no intimation anywhere in the Scriptures that Jesus, His Father, or the apostles ever (at any time, under any circumstances) changed the holy seventh-day Sabbath to any other day.

C. The women who came to anoint Christ's dead body kept the Sabbath. Jesus died on "the day before the sabbath" (Mark 15:37, 42), which is now called Good Friday.
The women prepared spices and ointments to anoint His body, then "rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56. Only "when the sabbath was past" (Mark 16:1) did the women come "the first day of the week" (Mark 16:2) to continue their sad work. They found "Jesus was risen early the first day of the week" (verse 9), commonly called Easter Sunday. Please note that the Sabbath "according to the commandment" was the day preceding Easter Sunday, which we now call Saturday.

D. Christ's follower, Luke, wrote two books of the Bible--Luke and Acts. He says that in the book of Luke he wrote about "all" of Jesus' teachings (Acts 1:1-3). But he never wrote about Sundaykeeping or a change of the Sabbath.

Answer 2

Hon, I admire your steadfastness to the Sabbath. Personally I would go. Since all the food and everything has already been paid for there is no reason not to go. The people who will be serving are obviously not Sabbath keepers. They are there to do their job and only that. The Lord knows your heart and the difficult decision you are making. Don't you think that He would want you to be with your sister so you can repair your relationship? I don't know if you are a Seventh Day Adventist (I am) or Jewish, but once all preparations are done and paid for a head of time then you can go ahead and eat with everybody else. Remember the servers are not Sabbath keepers. They are just doing their job. I know that's a repeat, but this is something you need to remember about the Sabbath and non-Sabbath keeping peoples. God Bless.

Answer 3

The Christians of Seventh Day Adventist Church keep the Saturday Sabbath. There may be other Christians also in this world who keep the Saturday Sabbath.

Read the verses from the Holy Bible

Eze 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.

Exd 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exd 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.

Deu 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

Isa 56:2 Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Isa 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath

Jhn 9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Act 13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

The Bible shows that Sabbath was kept by all people in the Bible even in the days of Jesus and his apostles.

Pray to God that all believers in Jesus Christ remember to keep the Sabbath holy

May God bless you. In Jesus name. Amen.

Answer 4

I see myself as a "seven-day advent", and saturday is the true sabath, God has not instituted it for only the jews, that law has been instituted since the beginning of creation, and WILL be the final test between true christians and the deceived. Non sabath keepers will ultimately be the ones who "worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand," - Rev 14:9

Answer 5

I believe this, however I do go to church on a Sunday for the following reason:
I sing in a church choir, and this is my employment, so this is working for me. I do absolutely nothing on a Saturday. I pray, have a bit of worship and play with my daughter and read to her, and we have family time. Thats why I go to church on a sunday, because Sundays is hard work for me, I go to church in morning, cook roast dinner, then go to church again in the evening! its hard work!

Answer 6

Where does the bible name Saturday as the Sabbath day? Nowhere. For all we really know, Tuesday could be the real Sabbath day. All that matters is that one day out of seven is set apart for leisure and prayer.

Answer 7

EZEKIEL 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.

Answer 8

Everyone who has studied the Bible knows that Saturday is the Sabbath day because God said for 6 days you shall work and on the 7th day you shall do no work and Saturday is the seventh day of the Jewish week. The Sabbath day was a sign between God and the Israelites because it was pointing to Jesus where people find rest from all of their dead works of the law that God laid on them to do to be justified before the Lamb of God nailed the law to the cross. As to keeping the Sabbath, I'm like Jesus. I serve full time in ministry.

John 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Besides which, I don't follow the false prophet Ellen White's distortions of God's truth.

Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 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: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The Sabbath law was pointing to the rest believers find in Christ.

Hebrews 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world......9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

People who belong to legalistic religions will never enter the true Sabbath rest of Christ because they don't believe in the sufficiency of Christ's finished work on the cross. They have fallen from grace like the Galatians and are seeking to be justified in God's eyes by keeping the ceremonial laws that were pointing to Jesus.

Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Romans 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

If you are fully convinced in your own mind that keeping the Sabbath is a way for you to personally honor the Lord then honor the Lord in that way. Just don't think that it adds one iota to the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross in regards to your salvation.