The 7th day Sabbath is the only day which the Lord specifically sanctified (set apart for holy use) and blessed.
Genesis 2:3 “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
What He has blessed, is blessed forever. No man can take away that blessing.
Numbers 23:20 “Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.”
Nowhere in the New Testament is it written that God de-sanctified the 7th day and sanctified the first day, Sunday. Not a single verse, kept in context, says that Sunday is the Lord’s Day. In fact, He says His 7th day Sabbath is His Holy Day.
Isaiah 58:13 “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:”
Sunday keeping in the Christian world started on March 7, 321ad through Constantine. Not by command of Christ, but by man’s invention. To replace Sabbath with Sunday is to keep man’s traditions, not God’s Word.
Mark 7:13 “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
Rejecting God’s holy Sabbath and keeping Sunday instead … is obeying and serving the Catholic Church, not the will of God.
“The Catholic church,” declared Cardinal Gibbons, “by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.” Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Official organ of Cardinal Gibbons)
Question – Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer – Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question – Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer – We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd ed.
“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 command you to keep 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, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., History of the Sabbath, p. 802
