Original Source Material for The Sabbath

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I. What is the Sabbath?
A. Old Testament Scripture
Exodus 20:08-11
Sabbath was introduced at Creation
Exodus 13:09
Exodus 31:13
Sabbath as Sign for Generations
Exodus 31:16
Sabbath as Sign and Perpetual Covenant
Ezekiel 20:12,20
Hallowing Sabbath as Sign for Generations to know Sanctifier.
Deut 5:29
Deut 6:6-8
Sign upon your hand, frontlets between your eyes.
Deut 11: 13-20
Is 48:18
Is 56:6,7
Is 58:13
B. Popular Exegesis
Exodus 20:08-11
Sabbath was introduced at creation- before Semites or Jews existed. Can not be called "Jewish Sabbath" or "Sabbath of the Jews", can not be "Judaizing".
Was God's rest from fatigue or was it pause in contentment of the fulfillment of his glory? Can God tire?
Hebrew word "rest", Nuwach (5117 Strong's Concordance):Settle down, be confederate or Shabbat?
God was "Naphash" (Strong's Concordance 5314):"refreshed" Exodus 31:17
Exodus 31, Ezekiel 20:12,20
Sabbath as Sign ('Owth', Strong's Concordance H226: token,ensign,mark,signal) for generations may be tantamount to "Seal of God." Sign = Seal
Sabbath as "Seal of God" is seen as a direct counter to "Mark of the Beast". Last End-time battle in Revelatation will be over the Sabbath.
Seal of God must be on forehead AND hand (thoughts AND actions). The Mark of The Beast must not be on forehead OR hand (you may not act as the Fallen even if you don't believe as they do. id. est.- Do not bow to Nebuchadnezzar's golden statue just to save your neck while secretly not believing in it).
The Seal of a King/President is needed to ratify any Law; has Name, Title, Dominion. Is God's Seal the Same?
Seal/Sign of God (Sabbath Commandment) has Name (God), Title (Creator), Dominion (Everything) Ratifying/Authorizing entire Decalogue Law (10 Commandments)
Challenge to God's authority is distinction between 7th-day Sabbath or First-day Lord's day. Who is your Authority?
Exodus 31:16
Perpetual Covenant means it was observed in Pre-fall Eden, Should be observed now, will be observed in restored Kingdom.
Dies Solis is the Venerable day of the Sun (John Eadie, A Bible Cyclopedia p.561)
II. Papacy Claims Authority
Note: The Catholic church has a bit of a history of having state entities burn books, people, libraries, cities and nations that don't agree with them. This may may have led to the emergeance of enemies that would go so far as to falsify documents later posed as official Church word. Anything can be a forgery. Only linked quotes are verified. I merely present the claims that have been made.
"He (The Pope) can pronounce sentences and judgements in contradiction to the rights of the nations, to the law of God and man...he can free himself from the commands of the apostles, he being their superior, and from the rules of the Old Testament." "The Pope has power to change times and abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ"
Decretal, de Translat. Episcop, Cap
Pope Pius 1566 commanded by the Council of Trent, "It pleased the church of God that the religious celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to The Lord's Day"
Chatechismus Romanus 1867 Ch.3
"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you find not find a single line authorizing the justification of Sunday. The scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday." (p.89) "Of course the Catholic church claims that the change was her act, and the change is a mark of her ecclesiastical power"
Faith of our Fathers, 1876 Archcardinal James Gibbons
"Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the Roman (Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath."
John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review Jan 1883
The Bible says remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, "No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and keep holy the first day of the week." And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church.
Father Enright, American Sentinel June 1893
"Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of One or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible."
The Catholic Mirror Dec 23 1893
"The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church, as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the protestant world."
Catholic Mirror Sept 23 1893
"She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday...and thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, became the Christian Sunday dedicated to Jesus"
Catholic World March 1894 p.809
"Sunday is a Catholic institution and it's claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles. From the beginning to the end of Scripture there is not a single passage which warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first."
Catholic Press (Sydney) Aug 25th 1900
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath day. In keeping the Sunday, they are following a law of the Catholic Church."
Albert Smith, Arch Chancellor of the Diocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter dated February 10, 1920
"Sunday is our mark of authority. The church is above the Bible and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact"
Catholic Record Sept. 1,1923
"Not the creator of the universe in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days."
S. C Mosna "Storia Della Domenica" 1969 pp 366-7
"The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws... The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth."
Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca..., Papa, art. II, translated
III. Is this change of day in scripture?
IF the Papacy is the first Beast (Religio-Political entity) of Revelation 13, then it has all of the attributes of the little horn in Daniel 7.
The Little horn power presumes to change times & laws ~Daniel 7:25 (Obviously only God's laws matter, not man's laws). Has the Papacy changed God's times & Law?
Biblical Start of day is Sunset. Papal Start of Day is Midnight.
Council of Nicea (325 CE): Easter defined as first Sunday after full moon after Vernal equinox. Pagan holiday not to be conflated with Passover. If they coincide, Pope moves Easter.
Gregorian Calendar. 'nuff said.
IV. Was the Sabbath Abolished with the Sacrifice of Jesus? Or did Jesus reinforce the Sabbath?
IV. A. New Testament Scripture
Matthew 5:17-18
I have not come to abolish {The Law} but to fulfill it. It is binding until the end.
Matthew 24:20
Pray that your flight is not on the Sabbath.
Mark 2:27
Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath
Mark 2:28
Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath
IV. B. Popular Exegesis
Matthew 24:20
No flight on sabbath because it is Forbidden
Matthew 5:17-18
Jesus clearly sees Sabbath binding in the future, after he's gone.
V. Exegesis & Info used to justify Sunday Sabbath
Matthew 24:20
No flight on Sabbath of the future because the gates will be locked. The city will keep ALL Mosaic law until the destruction.
Nehemiah 13:19
Gates are Locked on the Sabbath
John 5:8-18
"Arise, take up your pallet, and walk." on the Sabbath refutes Sabatarian claim of Matthew 24:20-no flight on Sabbath
Luke 14:5, Matthew 12:11
Sabbatarians seem to think that rescuing an animal from a pit is more important than running for your own life.
Acts 20:7
1 Corinthians 16:2
Colossians 2:16-17
Revelation 1:10
Gal. 5:1-6
VI. Testimony of Protestants Keeping Sunday
VI. Laws, Blue and otherwise
VII. Jewish Sabbath
Literal translation of Deuteronomy 6:8 with Phylacteries/Tefillin/Shel Yad.
VIII. Books- For and Against
The Workingmen and the Weekly Rest Day1896, Shearer, J. G; Lord's Day Alliance of Canada
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