Why I don’t keep Sunday
I have mentioned numerous times
that we speak a hard and difficult message on very controversial topics. Well I would have you to know, you won’t be
disappointed with this message. This is
a very controversial message and actually I have tamed it down. You will either go away after reading this
message with new truth and much pondering and decision making to do or you will
go away offended.
I’m sorry for having to speak such
hard words as you will hear today, and yet in the same breath, I will not
apologize for doing so for the lack thereof is why today’s Church has become
apostate and rebellious and this nation is in such a mess and pit of despair. The subject of this message is one in which most
in today’s world and even most in the Sunday Churches are clueless on.
We shall be reading from the 10
commandments. But we are going to zero
in on the 4th commandment.
Exodus chapter 20:8-11 “Remember the
Sunday, to keep it holy. Six days shalt
thou labour, and do all they work: But the 1st day is the Sunday of
Yahweh thy Elohim:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,
nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor
they stranger that is within they gates.
For in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the 1st day:
Wherefore Yahweh blessed the Sunday and hallowed it.”
OOPS! I have misquoted these verses. But most all of Churchianity
are essentially doing the same and are changing the Sabbath to the Sunday
without any biblical precept to do so. Well
let’s read it again and this time I shall read it correctly and truthfully. Look
closely now.
Exodus 20:8-11 “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 Yahweh thy Elohim: 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 within thy gates:
For in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
We got into a short debate a few
weeks back on this very subject. We were
not asking for the debate although we were wrongly accused of doing so. Our accuser was the one who was trying to debate.
But anyhow, just at the moment
that our accuser realized that she could not prove her point, she said her
Pastor warned her not to talk to people like us. And then it finally happened. One of the greatest
compliments that could ever be given.
She and her Pastor called us a cult.
Well I politely thanked her and then told her to look up the definition
of a cult.
From the Merriam Webster
Dictionary we have the meaning of a cult:
First two meanings:
1: a formal religious worship
2: a system of religious beliefs
and its body of adherents
Let’s just stop there for a
moment. Thus far, both of the first two
meanings of the term “cult” could apply to anyone with any form of religious
beliefs. In fact, by definition, if you
consider yourself a follower of Jesus Christ and if you meet with others who
believe like you do to worship together and even on the Sunday, you are then a
member of a cult!
But I knew what she and her Pastor
were trying to portray in us with the next definition of a cult which is where
the real compliment comes. Definition #3:
a religion regarded as unorthodox
Now to understand what unorthodox
means, we must first understand what it means to be orthodox. The term orthodox means to be mainstream, to be traditional and to conform to the majority
view. So the mainline Sunday keeping
Churches are in the mainstream. They are
very traditional and most definitely are conformists to the religious views of
the majority.
Therefore to be unorthodox would
mean to be out of the mainstream. To have nontraditional religious views and to be nonconformists to
the views of the majority. I therefore
declare unto the readers of this message, that I’m unorthodox and happily glad
to be so! And I consider it a compliment
when someone would recognize me to be so.
For the scriptures plainly and openly teach that the majority of those
who consider themselves as professing Christians are just not going to get into
the coming Kingdom! Why? Because they are living a lawless lifestyle, such as keeping Sunday
in place of the Sabbath.
Now if you observe the Sunday as a
day of worship and Church attendance, if you eat pork and other biblically
declared unclean foods, if you observe the pagan religious holidays along with
many other such like things, then you are orthodox. You go along with the mainline thought. You go along with the majority. You go along with the many. You are also in a cult!
But now people like me on the
other hand, don’t keep Sunday, I keep the BIBLICAL 7th day Sabbath. Why do I keep the 7th day
Sabbath? Because it is Biblical! We just
read it from Exodus 20 and it did not say Sunday in the text. I don’t eat pork and other unclean things, I eat what the BIBLE declares as fit for human
consumption. I don’t observe the pagan
non-biblical holidays that the worldly Churches are keeping, but instead I
observe the BIBLICAL holydays. Such Biblical
beliefs, although based firmly and truthfully upon the scriptures also makes me
a member of a cult in the eyes of the mainline Churches! All because I’m not
orthodox. I don’t go along with
the crowd.
The Apostle Peter declared in one
place that God’s people are to be a peculiar people. We are called out to be different, oddballs,
not normal. In other words unorthodox. Most consider me not normal, and odd. And yet by their very own words they are
confirming that I’m one of God’s people in that I’m peculiar and different than
the majority of professing Christianity who are not very peculiar in their
traditional lifestyles
Let me tell you something. Yahshua and His
disciples were also unorthodox in their day.
They didn’t go along with the traditional religious views of their day
either. I can guarantee you that if Messiah was walking upon this earth today
with His disciples; the mainline Sunday Churches would be calling them a
cult! I can be 100% for sure of
this. He would be called unorthodox by
the Sunday Churches. Why? Because He would be keeping
His own commandments and not the traditions and doctrines and commandments of
the Sunday Church. In fact if He
or His disciples or the great Prophets, if they were here today, they would
probably be thrown into prison or killed for what they would do or have to say
about the condition of today’s sinful, lawless Church and this nation.
You see in our day to be orthodox
is to reject the commandments and instead keep the traditions and doctrines of
men that have no basis from the scriptures.
How about you? Are you keeping
the commandments of God or the commandments of men? It is very easy to know. If it is in the Bible as a command, it is a
command from God. If it is not in the
Bible as a command, then it is of men.
Very simple!
Mark 7:6,7 “He answered and said unto them, Well hath
Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from
me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments
of men.”
And so we hear it everywhere these
days. On TV, on the radio in most Church
services, people praising Jesus with their lips and yet Messiah openly says
here that they are hypocrites if they are trying to worship Him thru the
doctrines and commandments of men. Even
though they honor Him with their praises, He says that their hearts are far
from Him. They just plain don’t want to
obey Him. Their heart goes after their
idolatry. Messiah says here that their
worship of Him is in vain by teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.
And that is exactly what we see
today. Sunday keeping is not a
commandment of God. Nowhere can you find some new commandment in the scriptures
to begin keeping the 1st day of the week instead of the 7th.
It is a doctrine and a commandment of
men plain and simple. This is not a
difficult thing to understand. If you
cannot find a commandment for Sunday keeping, then it is a commandment of men,
not of God. So prove me wrong, can you
find a commandment to keep Sunday in place of the 7th day Sabbath?
Messiah says that if we try and
worship Him through such non-commandments, then our worship of Him is in
vain. It means nothing, counts as
nothing in His sight, worthless worship.
He doesn’t even recognize it. You
could go to Church every Sunday your entire life and yet all of it is in vain
because you are trying to worship God through traditions and doctrines that He
just does not recognize. Not my words,
but the Word of Messiah as He spoke them and it has been written down for us to
plainly see today.
If you think that Sunday keeping
is a commandment, then show me where it is written! But I can save you the time, it is not written! Nowhere within the pages of our Bibles do we
find a commandment to keep the Sunday and to replace the 7th day
with the 1st day. I admonish you to try and prove me wrong about
Sunday keeping. Go ahead and do it, if
you think you can. Prove me wrong and I
will repent, prove me right and what shall you do?
Mark 7:9
“And he said unto
them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own
tradition.”
Straight from the Lord’s mouth he
has nailed today’s Sunday Churches to the wall with this verse. They have rejected His commandments so that
they can keep their traditions. They
have rejected the 7th day Sabbath so that they might keep their
Sunday. Let’s just read that verse over
again and say it pertaining to today’s message.
Mark 7:9
“And He said unto
them, Full well ye reject the Sabbath day of God, that ye may keep your Sunday
tradition.”
The term Sunday is not the name of
a day given by our Lord. He only named
one day of the 7 day weekly cycle and that day was what our Lord called the
Sabbath. The other six days of the week
were just given numbers. The day we all
call Sunday is the 1st day of the week. As Heathen cultures began to have an effect on
the calendars, the days of the week were all given names. Since most pagan beliefs rotate around the
worship of nature, and specifically the astrological movements of the earth,
the moon, the sun and the other planets and cosmic objects, the days of the
week were each then given names of these objects.
Each day of the week went by a
pagan god or goddesses name which was usually a member of the solar
system. For example, Monday was
originally called the Moon day and Saturday was the Saturn day. You can look these things up on your own for
all of the days of the week. But how about Sunday?
Now what in the world could Sunday be named after in Heathen, Pagan
culture? If you guessed the Sun then you
are correct. It is the Sun Day. It is the day of the Sun. Of all the objects in our sky, the Sun and
the Moon were the most worshipped in paganism.
Now understand that Satan is the
great counterfeiter. He has a
counterfeit for just about everything that our God has produced. His Sunday is the counterfeit to God’s
Sabbath. Just think for a moment what
this world would be like without the closest star we see in our sky that we
call the Sun. Without the Sun, there
would be no life as we know it on this planet.
It would be a barren junk of frozen icy rock. The Sun provides us with light. Without light, the plants and animals that
exist on this beautiful and marvelous planet could not survive, including you
and I.
The Sun also gives us warmth. This was greatly cherished in ancient times
before they had modern heating systems as we do today. During the cold of winter they so desired for
the warmer seasons of the year. Around
the time of what today is called Christmas, which is actually the Christ-Mass,
another pagan counterfeit holiday of Satan, the days of the year began to
become short. The Sun just barely cuts
across our southern sky in late December.
Making the days the shortest of the year. As the days began to gain in length, to the
Pagan, it was as though the new sun was being born and coming back to
them. It is no accident that Satan
created a false holiday proclaiming that Christ was born in late December
coinciding with the birth of the Sun God as the days began to lengthen.
As we shall see shortly, during
the days of the Holy Roman Empire of ancient times, Satan amalgamated
Christianity with paganism. The worship
of the Sun was merged with the worship of the Son of God. Most in Christianity, thinking that they are
worshiping the Son of God are actually worshiping the Sun God thru their
religious traditions and customs. Thus
idolatry! Another of
the 10 commandments that the Sunday Church is disregarding.
This is most evident through the
typical customs and observances of counterfeit holidays such as Christmas, New
Years Day, Lent, Easter and of course our topic today, the Sun Day. All of these counterfeits to God’s true Holy
days are wrapped up in Sun Worship at their origins. Easter for instance comes from the worship of
the East star. What star do we see
rising on our horizon in the east each morning?
That same star is also a big part of a Sun Day sunrise service on each
Easter Sunday morning. There is actually
scripture that shows this being done and it is considered to be the greatest
abomination unto God. We shall talk
about that in a message next year when Easter comes.
But most of the religious holidays
that we see observed in our world have pagan roots as their origins. Not Biblical roots. These are heathen, pagan customs only candy
coated with biblical terms and stories to make them seem Christianized. This is a great deception from Satan the
devil. But since the amalgamation of
heathen customs into the Church took place so many years ago, the peoples of
our times don’t have a clue as to where their customs and beliefs originated
from. They honestly think what they do is
Biblical.
Satan will continue this attack
upon the true faith of God’s people, it will not let up, the
contention between the true 7th day Sabbath and the Sunday will
continue until Christ returns and sets the minds of mankind straight.
But you just wait,
the Roman Church will once again force mankind to keep the Sunday. They are already attempting to put the laws
into place and since the Protestants, (falsely called so) believe in their
Sunday keeping, they will go right along with the Mother Church.
Until then, we have modern
calendars that begin the week on a Monday, making Sunday the 7th day
of the week. That is pure deception
paving the way for what is to come. We
all have gotten caught up in the weekend thing.
I still catch myself sometimes leaving work on a Friday and wishing my
fellow workers a great weekend. Haven’t
you all done the same thing? In other
words have a great weekend, meaning to see you all after the weekend on Monday. Brethren, that is just wrong. But that is where our modern thinking has
gotten us. Mankind thinks that Saturday
and Sunday are the weekend, making Monday the 1st day of the week, and
make us believe then that Sunday is the 7th day.
There are some Catholic writings
that actually remove and replace commandments.
They have removed in some of their writings and even in their Bibles the
commandment against idol worship, since they worship statues of Mary and other
Saints. This makes the 4th
commandment of Sabbath keeping move back to the becoming the 3rd
commandment. So to Catholics, the 3rd
commandment is our 4th commandment.
They are not ashamed to admit they have done so, for they believe they
have been given the authority to do so. But
listen to some quotes from some of their writings”
Q. What
is the third Commandment?
A. The third Commandment is "Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath
day."
Q. What
are we commanded by the third Commandment?
A. By the third Commandment we are commanded to keep the Sunday holy.
Now when
we read from Exodus chapter 20, didn’t we find that the 4th
commandment commands to keep the 7th day holy? Not Sunday!
Here is another one of their writings from the Catholic Church:
Q. What is the third Commandment?
A. The third Commandment is: Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
Q. How are we to worship God on Sundays and holydays
of obligation?
A. We are to worship God on Sundays and holydays of obligation by hearing Mass,
by prayer, and by other good works.
The
following also boldly states that Sunday is the day commanded to be kept holy
by the Catholic Church:
Q. Say
the Third Commandment.
A. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
Q. What is commanded by the Third Commandment?
A. To sanctify the Sunday.
So it is quite obvious that from their own teachings that the Catholic doctrine is to teach
that the Sabbath day is Sunday, of which we have proven to be erroneous in past
messages and will once again do so in the near future. Nowhere can we find a scripture that states
that God has sanctified the Sunday, made it holy or set it apart for holy use
and time. Yet behind the scenes it is
quite interesting what the leaders of Catholic and Protestant Churches have to
say about this subject, yet they teach their followers the opposite.
Baptist:
"We believe that the law of God is the eternal and
imperishable rule of His moral government." Baptist
Church Manual.
"The first four commandments set forth man's
obligations directly toward God.... The fourth commandment sets forth God's
claim on man's time and thought.... Not one of the ten [commandments] is of
merely racial significance.... The Sabbath was established originally [long
before Moses] in no special connection with the Hebrews, but as an institution
for all mankind, in commemoration of
God's rest after six days of creation. It was designed for all the descendants
of Adam." Adult Quarterly, Southern Baptist Convention
series, Aug. 15, 1937.
"There was and is a commandment to keep holy the
Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday.... It will be said however,
and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the
seventh to the first day of the week.... Where can the record of such a
transaction be found? Not in the New Testament -
absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath
institution from the seventh to the first day of the week.
"To me [it] seems unaccountable that Jesus, during
three years' intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon
the Sabbath question.... never alluded to any transference of the day; also
that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.
"Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into
use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the
Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with
the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted
and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to
Protestantism!" Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author
of The Baptist Manual (still in print), in a paper read before New York
ministers' conference held Nov. 13, 1893.
Catholic:
Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the
Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
They openly and unashamedly admit to doing so! And the Protestants go right along with her
in this deception.
Martin
Lutheran:
"I
wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should reject the law
of Ten Commandments.... Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity, abrogate
sin also." Martin Luther, Spiritual Antichrist, pp. 71,72.
"They
[the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord's day, contrary to the decalogue, as
it appears, neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of
the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church,
since it dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments." Martin Luther,
Augsburg Confession of Faith, Art. 28, Par. 9.
I have many, many quotes from all different kinds
of ministers and Protestant that say the same thing,
and yet they teach their congregations the exact opposite.
So when and where did this change from the 7th
day Sabbath to Sunday begin? Although Satan was planning these changes
even during the days of ancient Israel and there are recorded scriptures
showing them going into Sun Worship and abandoning the Sabbath. But shortly after the last Apostles had left
the scene, the great deception that has lasted even down into our time is still
present.
Let’s just see what the Apostle Paul had to say about this.
Acts
20:29-31
“For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the
space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”
Paul knew that a great deception was going to take
place shortly after his death. And
history bares it out. Within a short
time after the death of the last Apostles there arose a time in which Satan
flooded the religious world with his false doctrines.
There came what is known as the dark ages. It was during that period of time, the common
man was left in the dark concerning the truth of God’s Word. You had to go to the religious leaders to get
the truth. Out of this came the great
whore church in Rome and out of her came her protestant daughters. But on the other side of the veil of the dark
ages immerged an entirely new Church with different beliefs and doctrines that
were just not so at the time of the Apostles and the early Church. That is where we are today. With different doctrines
and beliefs that do not witness with the Apostles and the early Church of the
scriptures.
Revelation
17:1-6
“And
there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with
me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto
thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters: With whom the kings
of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have
been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication. So he carried me away in
the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns. And the woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication: And upon her forehead
was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I
saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”
In the scriptures a whore or a harlot symbolically represents someone or
a group of peoples who have not remained true to the Great God of the universe,
but rather have gone whoring themselves with the ways of the world and
specifically after false gods.
This great whore has committed fornication with the kings of the earth. I read sometime back that the Catholic Church
actually has its own representative to the United Nations. So she has had a
relationship with the kings of the earth.
We saw also in verse 2 that this whore has made the inhabitants drunk off
of the wine of her fornication. And so
for almost 2000 years as this whorish entity was rising to power, she has
spread her false doctrines and today’s world are blind drunk off of her ways
including the Catholic faithful and the Protestants.
She is seen in this scripture riding upon a beast which represents
government. This whore Church has had
great influence over the governments of this world.
We read in verse 5 that she is the mother of harlots. In other words there were little whores who
were born out of her. The protestant
Churches were born out of the Catholic Church and so they protested the Pope
and the Churches doctrine. Yet they
continued in much the same doctrine as did their mother. And to this day, take out the Pope, the Mass
and Mary worship, the Protestant Churches are
essentially keeping the same false doctrines as does the Catholic church.
But these false doctrines have at their roots the mystery religions of
ancient Babylon, sun worship that came from Nimrod and Semaramis
his wife who upon dying took possession of the Sun and the moon according to
the mystery religion of Babylon. So the
doctrines of today’s religious world are heaped in the ancient traditions of
Babylon.
But this great whore and her daughters are seen in verse 6 being drunk off
the blood of the Saints. During the
middle ages, millions of God’s people were martyred for keeping the faith and
not submitting to the edicts of the whore.
It was called the inquisition. A
great blood letting is yet to come as the greatest
time of tribulation is yet prophesied.
Just a short time after the
death of the apostles, Christians were living in a Pagan world. Pagan Rome kept
Sunday as their day of religious observance since they were Sun worshippers. Persecution
upon Christians began to be so harsh that they began observing Rome’s Sunday to
escape the harshness of persecution. The
Christians were also moved to change the Sabbath day as a way of distancing themselves
from the Jews. The Government of Pagan Rome persecuted the Jews at that time of
history so it was safer for Christianity to be considered as a separate
religion rather than to be associated with Judaism.
Emperor Constantine was an open Pagan
sun-worshiper. He declared that Sunday
was to be a day of rest throughout the entire Roman Empire. This is his command:
"On the venerable day of
the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all
workshops be closed…….”
The Church Council of
Laodicea ordered that religious observances were to be conducted on Sunday,
not Saturday. Sunday became the new Sabbath. They ruled: "Christians
shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day."
This became a command,
that they had to work on the Sabbath and rest on the Sunday. Sunday keeping is at the heart of the
Antichrist system. How can I make such a
bold statement? Well let’s just explore.
The term Antichrist is only
found in the little books of 1st and 2nd John.
Oddly enough the term antichrist is not found at all within the pages of
the book of Revelation. Most talk about
“The Antichrist” as a singular individual to one day come upon the world scene
and institute the dreaded mark of the beast.
But let us just see what the scriptures have to say.
1John_2:18
“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that
antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know
that it is the last time.”
Now if there were many
antichrists in John’s day, just how many more are there in our day? But who are the antichrists?
1st John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of Elohim: because many false prophets are gone
out into the world.”
So there will be many false
teachers or preachers that are gone out into the world. The term “many” in this verse is #4183 in the
Greek section of the Strong’s concordance and one of it’s meanings is “Mostly.” So most of the time when we turn on the TV,
the radio, read a piece of Christian literature, or even sit in a Church
service, most of the time we will be subjected to a false preacher. That is why John exhorts us to test the
spirits because most of them are false.
1st John 4:2,3 “Hereby know ye the Spirit of Elohim: Every
spirit that confesseth that Yahshua
Messiah is come in the flesh is of Elohim: And every spirit that confesseth
not that Yahshua Messiah is come in the flesh is not
of Elohim: and this is that spirit of antimessiah, whereof ye have heard that it should come and
even now already is it in the world.”
The term “antimessiah”
or antichrist means to be an opponent of Christ or to be an opposite of Christ. Now listen closely: To be of the spirit of antichrist one would
adhere to doctrines and commandments that are opposite of what Messiah taught
and lived. Now when John said that when
one confesses that Messiah has come in the flesh, he wasn’t just talking about
how the great God of Israel came into the form of a human being after the
flesh. There are scriptures that show
that even the demons confess that Christ had come in the flesh, but we know for
sure that they are of the spirit of antichrist.
No, when John said those words,
it was as though he was pounding upon his chest and saying that Messiah had
come in the flesh, in this flesh, in his flesh, in my flesh. Has He come in your flesh? If so then you will observe and do and live
and keep the same doctrines and commandments that He kept. We make a confession of our faith not just by
our words, but by our actions. Have you
ever heard the saying that actions speak louder than words?
Titus 1:16 “They profess that they
know Elohim; but in works they deny him, being abominable,
and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”
So a person could literally walk
around 24/7 confessing and professing with their mouths that Christ has come in
the flesh, that they know Him and have a relationship with Christ, but by their
works they deny Him. Very similar words
that we read earlier from Mark chapter 7 wherein Messiah was quoting from
Isaiah how that the hypocrites would show forth much praise with their lips,
yet their hearts are far from Him.
So the antichrist spirit will
not confess by their deeds that Messiah has come in their flesh. They will be found living a lawless
lifestyle. They will disregard the
commandments of Yahweh and instead keep the false commandments of men. The Spirit of Antichrist is a spirit of
rebellion to the ways of God.
1st John 2:6 “He that saith
he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even
as he walked.”
In other words if we are going
to claim that we are Christians, we will then walk as Christ walked. Friends Messiah kept the commandments. Jesus kept the 7th day Sabbath. He did not observe the Sunday nor did His
disciples after Him.
If you walk contrary to the way
that Messiah walked and yet still call yourself a Christian, then you are
disregarding the 3rd commandment by taking His name in vain. Just another of the 10 commandments that the
Sunday Church rejects.
If Messiah disregarded the
Sabbath then he would have been a sinner and an antichrist himself. He also would have needed a Savior for His sins. So if we are going to walk as He walked,
will we be keeping Sunday as some special day of worship or will we be found
keeping the 4th commandment the 7th day Sabbath?
Can you find a scripture wherein God ever rested on the 1st
day of the week?
Can you find a scripture wherein the prophets and patriarchs
ever honored the first day of the week as a rest day?
Have you read from our Bibles that God ever blessed or
sanctified Sunday?
Ever a place in the bible that
Christ or His followers tells us to honor the 1st day of the week as
a rest day, a day of worship or as the weekly Sabbath day?
Can you find anywhere in the scriptures where the 1st
day of the week was ever blessed by anyone to be set aside as a day to be
honored?
Can you find one law of scripture that enforces the keeping
of the 1st day of the week or a statement declaring it to be a sin
for not keeping the 1st day of the week? Sunday Churches say you need to be in Church
on Sunday. They think you are a sinner
if you don’t.
Can you find one text of scripture forbidding work to be
done on the Sunday?
Can you find one text of scripture a penalty for not keeping
the 1st day?
Can you find a Bible text showing a blessing for observing
Sunday?
Can you find any Biblical regulations as to how the 1st
day should be kept?
Can you find one text of scripture that calls the 1st
day a weekly Sabbath?
Can you find one verse in the Bible that calls the 1st
day the Lord’s day?
Can you find a place in scripture that ever gives the 1st
day a sacred title?
Can you find one text of scripture wherein Christ ever
mentioned that day? You would think that
if it would be some special holy day for the Church, that Jesus would have at
least mentioned it one time!
Can you find a single scripture showing us that the 1st
day of the week was observed as a holy day because of the resurrection of
Christ? You cannot, because we have
proven from the scriptures that He arose at the ending of the Sabbath not on
Sunday morning!
Can you find an example in scripture showing us that keeping
the 1st day of the week had become a custom of the early Church?
The scriptures prophecy of a
time in which there will come one of the antichrists and a system of
antichrists that will persecute the saints and will change God’s commandments.
Daniel 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: and they
shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”
What is a time period within the law that has been
changed? It is the Sabbath day removed
and replaced with the Sunday. Now they
just think that changed it, but the Sabbath still stands as a great commandment
of Yahweh. This is also mentioned in
Isaiah 24 wherein the curse is coming upon the inhabitants of this world
because they have changed the ordinance of the Sabbath to the Sunday and due to
doing so, a great curse is coming upon the inhabitants of the earth.
Nowhere in the Bible is Sunday blessed, sanctified or
commanded by God as a day of weekly worship. It is a made up day of worship
that is not Christian in origins. It is just not Biblical at all.
But the Pope and the Catholic doctrine gives themselves the authority to make changes to the law of
God. They honestly believe they have the
authority to change the laws of God, fulfilling what we have just read from
Daniel chapter 7.
Rev 13:16 “And he
causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is
wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it
is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six”.
The term “MARK” in this verse in #
5480 from the Strong’s concordance of Greek words in order to understand it’s meaning. Mark #5480 “A badge of servitude” Remember that this Mark is a badge of servitude. It is a sign as to who you serve. Who your allegiance is to? With this in mind, let us
continue now with some more quotes from the Catholic Church leadership and from
their writings. Listen to what they say here and even the Pope himself.
“We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of
the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate,
it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth
place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God….. dissolves, not by
human but rather by divine authority....I am in all and above all, so that God
Himself and I, the vicar of God, hath both one consistory, and I am able to do
almost all that God can do...Wherefore, no marvel, if it be in my power to
dispense with all things, yea with the precepts of Christ.” —
Decretales Domini Gregori
ix Translatione Episcoporum,
(on the Transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed.,
1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Decretales, col. 205 (while Innocent III was Pope).
“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in
Heaven and earth.” — Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay,
Chapter XXVII, p. 218, “Cities Petrus Bertanous.”
“We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty.” — Pope
Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894.
“The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ,
but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden under the veil of human flesh.” —
Catholic National, July 1895.
Listen now to what else they have to say:
"Sunday is our MARK of authority...The [catholic]
Church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is
proof of that fact." Catholic Record (September 1, 1923)
“Of course the Catholic church claims that the change [i.e.
Sabbath to Sunday] was her act, and the act as a MARK of her ecclesiastical
authority in religious things.” — H.F. Thomas, Chancellor to Cardinal Gibbons.
If you claim to be Protestant, a true Protestant and claim
that you go only by the Bible as your only guide then on what basis do you
worship on Sunday? You have only the
Tradition of the Catholic Church, and it's claim of
authority to change the laws of God to rest your case upon. You are pitching to
the side the
only day the Bible sanctifies and you are replacing it with a day authorized
ONLY by the word of Roman Catholic Tradition. If you have respect for Sunday
observance, then you are essentially Catholic!
So which authority do you acknowledge: the Word of God that commands seventh day
Sabbath worship or the Tradition of the Catholic Church which commands Sunday,
first day worship?
Just listen to what Moses says
while speaking of the Ten Commandments and what he told God’s people of that
day. There are a number of such
scriptures that show us that God Himself has a mark of servitude that He also
places upon His people. Let’s just see
the difference between Satan’s mark and that of God’s mark.
Deut. 6:5-8
“And thou shalt
love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou
shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes.”
Deut 11:18 “Therefore shall ye
lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign
upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”
You see God has a Mark of
servitude. Fixing or binding the words
of God’s Ten Commandment law in our hearts and minds with being a sign upon our
hands and forehead. The term “sign” in these verses is #226 in the Strong’s
concordance of the Hebrew language and it literally means a “mark!”
We are going over now to the New Testament and we are going to see the basis for the New Covenant. Where does God now write His law under the New Covenant? Most Sunday keeping preachers don’t want to preach on this verse out of Hebrews, for it destroys their beliefs that the law has been done away with.
I can easily show you sometime and from Christ’s own words that
under the new covenant, God’s laws are actually more binding upon a Christian
than they ever were upon our ancient brethren during the days of Moses. If we disregard the law of God, that makes us
practicing sinners. But that is another
message for another day.
Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with
them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my
LAWS into their HEARTS, and in their MINDS will I write them;”
The Mark of the Beast may very
well end up being a computer chip of some kind or whatever is
the most advanced tracking and recording technology of the day. But spiritually the mark has all to do with
worship and allegiance. The true
Biblical Sabbath is a badge or a Mark of servitude to the one true God. And so the Sunday is a badge or a Mark of
servitude to Satan and the Beast system.
After all a Mark
on the forehead. What is in our forehead? It is our brains, it is where we think. It is proven that the front part of our brain
is where thought takes place. A mark on the hand.
With the mind we think and with the hand we do. Again, it has to do with who you will
obey. Who is your allegiance to? Our hands are put into action by the thoughts
of our brain. God’s Mark, we will serve
Him and keep His commandments. Satan’s
Mark, we will serve him and keep His commandments. Plain and simple. The mark of the beast is the climactic
ending to this ongoing issue of worship and the entire world is going to have
to decide once and for all who they are going to worship.
Exodus 31:13 “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel,
saying, Verily my sabbaths
ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Yahweh that
doth sanctify you.”
31:16,17 “Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep
the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of
Israel for ever: for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”
The Sabbath covenant was to be a
sign or a mark between God and His people for a never ending and everlasting
covenant. It was to be a distinguishing
mark between them and everyone else. Sunday is the badge of servitude to the
dragon’s beast system. It is the Mark or the sign of who a person is serving. Sabbath is the badge of servitude to the one
true God. Sabbath is the Mark or the
sign of who a person is serving, in their thoughts and in their actions.
And friends, brethren, family,
that is why I keep the 7th day Sabbath and why I don’t keep the Sunday!
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