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Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« on: March 16, 2008, 08:36:29 PM »
SABBATH VS. SUNDAY: THE REST OF THE STORY

'Deception': Christians war over worship day
Centuries-old clash continues over disputed commandment



Two thousand years after Jesus walked the Earth, Christians are at war with each other concerning – as strange as it may sound – a day of the week mentioned in the Ten Commandments.

The issue boils down to: "When is God's Sabbath?" In other words, what is His holy day of rest?

Most Christians today think it's Sunday, when the majority of churches hold services.

But others confidently say it's Saturday, calling Sunday worship "the most flagrant error of mainstream Christianity," believing Sunday-keepers are victims of clever deception.

Some high-profile evangelical pastors such as California's Greg Laurie say it's simply "wrong to set Saturday apart as a special day for worship." 
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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 08:44:00 PM »
While many in the church continue to sleep, some are wide awake and understand that this subject is now in the news. The last great battle before Jesus returns is based on God's Law. The Ten Commandment Law is the only thing given to us that was written by the hand of God. Soon, all will have to decide if they are going to obey the law of man or the commandments of God. Unable to set aside the fourth commandment, church leaders are now deciding they must turn to the state to enforce their false dogma, their false "sabbath", the sun day. All who have spiritual discernment are now facing the issue squarely. Will they persecute their Christian brethren who will not submit to the doctrines of man and break the commandment of God? Not if they are truly born of the Spirit.

Brothers and sisters, this article is on the homepage of a website that is frequented by a large number of thinking Americans. The Sabbath subject is coming front and center and is right on schedule as we prepare for the soon coming of Jesus!
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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2008, 01:37:01 AM »
Thanks for the article, I must say, this might actually do more good than harm. As it is bringing the issue to the mind of many readers...

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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2008, 11:36:55 AM »
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/

This is their front page and this is the main issue there with added information. I took time to read it all on the other page and even though they do a great job of showing both sides, because of their long and well done part on where the change of the Sabbath came from, they indeed showed more for the true Sabbath. They even have a place there to vote on the issue. So far 1026 say Sunday and well over 700 say the true Sabbath. That is not much of a lead when you think of how many go to church on Sunday. The Issue is indeed coming forth. If this keeps up all will know enough to keep the true Sabbath if they are a true follower of the Lord Jesus.
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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2008, 04:17:07 PM »
Thanks, Br. Richard for posting this info.  Here are excerpts from Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 349-368, The Observance of the Sabbath, that should be of interest to all.

"... As the Sabbath was the sign that distinguished Israel when they came out of Egypt to enter the earthly Canaan, so it is the sign that now distinguishes God's people as they come out from the world to enter the heavenly rest.  The Sabath is a sign of the relationship existing between God and His people, a sign that they honor His law.  It distinguishes between His loyal subjects and transgressors.

"...The Sabbath is a golden clasp that unites God and His people.  But the Sabbath command has been broken.  God's holy day has been desecrated.  The Sabbath has been torn from its place by the man of sin, and a common working day has been exalted in its stead.  A breach has been made in the law, and this breach is to be repaired.  The true Sabbath is to exalted to its rightful position as God's rest day....

"...The Sabbath question is to be the issue in the great final conflict in which all the world will act a part.  Men have honored Satan's principles above the principles that rule in the heavens.  They have accepted the spurious sabbath, which Satan has exalted as the sign of his authority.  But God has set His seal upon His royal requirement....God has called us to uplift the standard of His downtrodden Sabbath.

"...All through the week we are to have the Sabbath in mind and be making preparation to keep it according to the commandment.  We are not merely to observe the Sabbath as a legal matter.  We are to understand its spiritual bearing upon all the transactions of life.  All who regard the Sabbath as a sign between them and God, showing that He is the God who sanctifies them, will represent the principles of His government.  They will bring into daily practice the laws of His Kingdom.  Daily it will be their prayer that the sanctification of the Sabbath may rest upon them.  Every day they will have the companionship of Christ and will exemplify the perfection of His character.  Every day their light will shine forth to others in good works."   --Ellen White.

God's Law Immutable, pp. 433-450 in The Great Controversy, by the same author should be read, as it contains a wealth of information on the subject....

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is withink thy gates: 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."  Exodus 20 8-11.

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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2008, 02:36:57 PM »
Letters to the editor from the same website - World Net Daily. This was inevitable ...

    
An answer to the Saturday vs. Sunday debate - by an ex-SDA

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59346
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Re: Sabbath is Becoming an Issue!
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2008, 02:34:22 PM »
Quotes from the Sabbath School Quarterly, April 15, 1890, "Prophecy" on Daniel, when the Sunday Laws were red hot in their infancy.


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NOTE B.—"Let a man be what he may, Jew,
seventh-day observer, or some other denomina
tion, or those who do not believe in the Christian
Sabbath—let the law apply to everyone, that there
shall be no public desecration of the first day of
the week, the Christian Sabbath, the day of rest for
the nation. They may hold any other day of the
week as sacred, and observe it, but that day which
is the one day in seven for the nation at large, let
that not be publicly desecrated by anyone, by of
ficer in the government, or by private citizen, high
or low, rich or poor."—Dr. McAllister, editor
Christian Statesman.


NOTE C.—At the Lakeside National Reform
Convention of 1887, one said during the discussion
of the Sunday-law question, "There is a law in
the State of Arkansas enforcing Sunday observance
upon the people, and the result has been that
many good persons have not only been impris
oned, but have lost their property and their lives."
To this Dr. McAllister replied, " It is better that a
few should suffer than the whole nation should lose
its Sabbath
."

  For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Psalm 119:89