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Why do some say Sabbath is on a Sunday?
We should ideally look at the Bible for answers yet, most of us may reach over and look at an old almanac. Even here you will notice that the week starts with day one as Sunday, and ends with day seven as Saturday. Luke 23: 54 “It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. 55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. Here we see Good Friday was the day of “preparation†that was followed by the Sabbath the seventh day of the week. Luke 24: 1 “On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.†Here on resurrection morning that was Sunday, the first day of the week, the women came to balm Jesus’ body. They found the tomb to be empty because as we already know, Jesus was resurrected. Ex. 20: 8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9Six days you shall labour and do all your work, 10but 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 daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.†In the early Christian church, the anti-Jewish sentiment caused Constantine to welcome the pagan and heathens into Christianity. For the success hereof, he changed the seventh-day Sabbath to the first day Sunday as the new worshipping day albeit to commemorate “sun worshipâ€. Apostasy caused that 95% of Christians bought into that new rule. The Roman Catholic Church with the pontiff at the head claimed that they facilitated this change as part of their ecclesiastical power. They use the verse below to substantiate their view. Rev. 1: 10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.†The pope maintains this is the text to support the new Sabbath of Christians despite the following verse: Mark 2: 28 “Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.†The Bible does not support this false direction and interpretation. Jesus as the Creator always acknowledged His seventh day as His Sabbath and the verse below supports his steadfastness. Heb. 13: 8J “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.†As Christ claims He does not change, it would be foreign to His character to change His behaviour. There seems to also be a legal side to changing a law. Heb. 9: 16 “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.†On Good Friday, the ninth hour, Jesus died, nothing could be added after that. He rested in the tomb in the Sabbath as His custom was, and Sunday came two days too late to be part of any Christian doctrine. However, it forms part of: Mark 7:7 “They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’†See how God knows the end from the beginning. The change of time and law was warned about as part of the adversary’s rebellion: Dan. 7: 25 “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:†In the Garden of Eden, it was a simple choice between two trees, and in the Christian era, it is a simple choice between two days right next to each other! I choose the following footsteps: 1 Pet. 1:21 “Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.â€