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Sabbath Part 2

Last Updated 7/12/03

Refuting The Confusion Of Babylon

The Sabbath is seen as another oppressive law that YHVH only gave to the Jews. For those who keep it they are seen as those trying to gain salvation through works and falling under the law see "Under the Law" for the true definition.

These same people however see Sunday keeping (a MANMADE TRADITION) as somehow holy, righteous, and doing good because they love Elohim. Why is it that they look at those who keep the commanded day any different? Why is it that a tradition is seen as holy and righteous but a Commandment is seen as burdernsome and Jewish?

It is obvious that Sunday keeping is but a tradition. There are NO Scriptures authorizing Sunday keeping or a nullification of the Sabbath. Therefore that means that Sunday keeping was created from the mind of a MAN and not YHVH or even Yeshua. There were those who began to keep Sunday and see the Sabbath as a Jewish thing prior to the main man responsible for the change. However the main person responsible for the official change was Constantine himself.

What do people think the Scripture talks about the changing of times and laws? Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. Understand people, nullifying the Sabbath and changing it for Sunday worship without authorization from the Author of the Sabbath is thinking to change the law.

There are no Scriptures at all that justify the nullification of the Sabbath. Only Mystery Babylon supposes that it can do so upon her own will. I challenge anyone to find me a verse that directly (without Babylon mystery confusion added) states that YHVH's people can disregard the Sabbath. Colossians 2:16 and Romans are already disqualified as I have already shown the error of using those verses for proof. I will now refute the following popular reasons:

1. I keep the Sunday because Yeshua resurrected that day.

The first problem with this statement is that it has nothing to do with nullifying a Commandment. Nowhere is it warranted in Scriptures that a Sunday resurrection equals the disregarding of a Commandment. The concept is nowhere to be found in the writings of the Apostles. The second problem with this statement is that there is no evidence for a Sunday resurrection. The Scriptures say that the women visited on the "first of the week" and the timetable does not allow for a suppposed Good Friday & Resurrection Sunday scenario.

I personally lean to a Saturday evening resurrection.  I deal with the timing issue in the upcoming article "Sunday Resurrection?".  The clear point is that the Sunday theory is bogus.  There's nothing to prove a Sunday morning resurrection in Scripture.  Yeshua was already risen prior to the "first of the week".  Yeshua resurrected on the Sabbath as can be seen when one works out the chronology.

Besides all that, even if the resurrection had taken place on Sunday (which is not true) there is still no justification, authorization, sanctification or anything else of Sunday worship. With that the above verses are disqualified as proof text to prove Sunday worship.

2. "I keep all days holy so it does not matter."

I hear this one all the time. The problem with this statement is that it has NOTHING to do with YHVH and His COMMANDMENTS. What defines keeping something holy besides the definition that Yahweh gives it? Yahweh stated this:

Exodus 20: 8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;  but the seventh day is a sabbath unto YHVH thy G-d: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:  for in six days YHVH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YHVH blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

So we have that you MUST remember the Sabbath day in order to keep it holy. So how do you remember or memorialize this day? YHVH spells it out right in his word, you will do as He did. Its amazing that we memorialize special days based on what somebody or what some group did by doing certain things on that day in tribute. Memorializing the Sabbath based on what OUR CREATOR did somehow is seen as an negative thing. He spells out exactly how to pay tribute to this day and people reject it for the most insane man made reasons/traditions.

You honor Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day, Armed Forces Day and pay tribute by whatever means the day calls for but you reject memorializing the GREATEST day to ever be memorialized, the day YHVH rested HIMSELF. How is it done away with through the philosophy of Babylon? Some Catholic still laugh to this day about Protestants keeping that which has nothing to do with Scriptures but everything to do with the Babylonian system they adhere to.

3. "I worship G-d everyday."

Just as with the previous statement, this idea has nothing to do with negating the Sabbath. YHVH did not ask you to just worship him anyway you want. The same goes with the Sabbath, He did not say "Oh just worship me however you feel on my Sabbath." NO He said to rest as he rested, something that carries a FAR MORE POWERFUL Spiritual parallel to it than most even know about.

4. Mark 16:9 says he rose on Sunday.

First, this scripture does not say that as already shown above. Secondly, the major problem with translating is the insertion of pronunciation marks. Commas were added by the translators where they felt they should be place just as they did with verse and chapter numbers. We have the following:

Normal Version

Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Corrected Version: Note how this also flows smoothly with the fact that no other accounts give a time of his resurrection but they do give account of the timing that the women went to the tomb and his appearances.

Now when he was risen, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Even if one refuses to see it this way you still again have NO AUTHORIZATION from your MASTER to nullify a day He Commands to MEMORIALIZE and KEEP. Is HE your MASTER or is He just a sideshow to whatever traditions you want to hold above Him who created you?

5. The Lord's day is Sunday!

Where is such a concept found?  This is a PRIME example of reading doctrine back into the text instead of reading the text to form a doctrine.  There is nowhere in all of Scripture that ties the Meshiach or G-d to Sunday.  However there are a great deal of passages attaching both Elohim and the Meshiach to the Sabbath day very clearly.  I don't care what anyone says the day is.  The question is what does the Scriptures say about a set-apart day.  Is there anywhere in which Elohim Himself moves His blessings from the Sabbath to Sunday?  The answer, nowhere.

6. What day does it matter if I consider it the Sabbath?

This is a new one I've heard and I'm sure I'll hear it more and more in the future.  Usually what follows this logic is the matter of whether or not Friday night to Saturday night is the true seventh day?  Could it be that another day is?  Or it's hey why should I follow what's been set up as the seventh day of the calender week?

I'll like to state that it is strange.  Just so happenly people who use this logic keep Sunday as their Sabbath.  Well just so happenly this is the very same day that pagan Constatine and his coharts decided to use to nullify the Sabbath.  This was done intentionally to mix paganism (Mithra worship Sun-g-d) with the faith.

I sure would not want to have anything to do with the very same day that was chosen intentionally against what they then knew was the Sabbath day without question.  Why is it that Sunday is the only day defended?  I would almost ganrauntee that if it was not for the pagans changing the day to Sunday, no one in their right mind would be keeping it today with any kind of logic. 

Think about it, if everyone was keeping the Sabbath day no one claiming the faith would have said to themselves "hey I believe Sunday is the day".  They would have followed along with the tide.  My conclusion is that this logic is nurtured (can only exist) by a blatant blasmephy by Constantine, his coharts, and many others who were followers or players in getting the day to become Sunday.  There's so much information available showing that Sunday was not the day those of the true faith worshipped on.  The best witness is that of Scriptures themselves.

Now many will inform me that each day of the week was named after a g-d.  That is indeed true with the Romans, but it is the worship of Mithra (sun g-d) that infiltrated the Xtian faith the most above all the rest.

Please reconsider your evaluation of this matter truthfully and sincerely.  Get rid of the modern terminology, modern reasoning, sermons, preachers, doctrines, traditions, emotions, and anything else that you may accidently insert into scripture as you examine these text dealing with the Sabbath.  I pray if anything you were sparked to at the least study the issue again.  May YHVH be with you in your studies and may you be in YHVH as you study.

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