Source: Giuseppe Lami/ANSA
Posted on 04/11/2021 6:12:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Giuseppe Lami/ANSA
One of the saddest things I saw on Easter Sunday was Amazon delivery trucks on the road. Having to work on Sunday is bad enough, but Easter?
Amazon drivers face many other challenges as well. MSN.com reports (4/4/21) that the E-commerce giant finally acknowledged that some of their drivers are under stress where they can’t even take proper bathroom breaks. But enough about Amazon.
Violating the Sabbath principle is not healthy for society nor for us as individuals. God rested after His creation. He commands us to rest for a day a week.
Sunday as the Lord’s Day is even found in the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 7 specifies: “If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.”
In other words, says Dr. Daniel Dreisbach of American University, an author on the influence of the Bible on our founding fathers: “The President is given ten days in which to consider whether to veto a bill or not, Sundays excepted…excluding the Lord’s Day.”
God made the Sabbath---a day off---for our benefit. We violate the principle to our own detriment.
I remember seeing years ago a documentary segment on CNN where they interviewed Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, and they gave him a hard time for being closed on Sunday. He said that he did this to honor God’s command. But he noted that a side benefit arose from this. The company was able to attract some of the best and brightest personnel in the fast food business to work for them. The company has risen to be the third-highest grossing food chain in America, despite being closed 52 days a year more than its competitors.
Throughout history, various leaders honored the Sabbath principle. For example:
•Church historian, Philip Schaff, in History of the Christian Church, wrote of British King Alfred’s legal reforms: “His code is introduced with the Ten Commandments and other laws taken from the Bible…it protects the laboring man in his Sunday rest.”
•Abraham Lincoln issued his “Order for Sabbath Observance,” November 15, 1862: “The President, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.”
•Explorer Captain John Cook, notes author Desmond Wilcox, honored the Sabbath: “On Sundays, Cook's usual captain's inspection was always followed by a religious service. Cook appeared on deck and the drum beat the retreat. Men fetched stools from below and brought chairs for the officers. The bell was tolled and the church pendant was hoisted at the gaff. Cook conducted the service on the quarterdeck, with a Bible and a prayer book in front of him, placed on a cloth draped over the compass box. A lesson was read, a hymn sung.”
Not all governments have appreciated the gift of the Sabbath. Walter Grab, author of The French Revolution, writes: “At the suggestion of the deputy Romme, the Convention voted on 5 October 1793 to abolish the Christian calendar and introduce a republican calendar . . . . Weeks were replaced with periods of ten days (decades) so that the Christian Sunday would disappear.” Napoleon later restored the Christian calendar, including the “Christian Sunday.”
My dad once told me about an executive he knew who died relatively young, presumably from overwork. The man was so busy that he would take his Christmas cards with him that he had received the previous winter to the beach the next summer in order to try and keep up with his correspondence.
Dr. Richard Swenson, a medical doctor and author of Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, notes, “Life is a journey, but it is not a race. Do yourself a favor and slow down….God never intended for time to oppress us, dictating our every move.”
The early Christians worshiped Jesus on Sunday because that’s when He rose from the dead. Every Sunday is a reminder of Easter Sunday. It’s sad enough to see commerce on Sunday; it is sadder to see it on Easter Sunday itself.
The Sabbath is a gift from the Creator---a day of rest, for our benefit. We cast it aside at our own peril.
Only one slight problem....The only Sabbath mentioned in the bible, blessed and sanctified for holy use, made by our Savior and Creator of the world, is the 7th-day-Sabbath. Any other day kept holy would be an abomination.
This does NOT belong in “News/Activism”. Put it in the “Religion” forum.
Amen.
And anyone worshiping on Sunday is effectively taking the “mark of the beast,” right?
Any other day kept holy would be an abomination.
So then, how do we reconciled the above? Do we have a contradiction in God’s word?
Could it be to focus on the intent of the day of rest?
no, you explain to me the “contradiction”. Not a quick past on what some one else says.
Either read it or don’t. I DON’T CARE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. However, it does a terrific job of explaining...ready for it?
...that Paul is talking about converts still keeping parts of the CEREMONIAL law in meats (foods) and days/feasts (not the 7th day Sabbath), etc..
The contradiction is your translation. The word holy is not a proper translation from the greek.Also the passage is talking about fasting, not worshiping on Sabbath. BTW, find a scripture where the Ten Commandments were done away with or where Sabbath was changed to sunday.
In all humbleness may I suggest getting a KJV and a Strongs concordance so you can fully understand what those two verses are talking about and what they are saying.
So, don't confuse it with Sunday. Next we will hear how the Disciples hid Easter Eggs for the little kids.
***Having to work on Sunday is bad enough, but Easter?***
Many of us in the REAL WORLD had to work on Saturday and Sunday. That is how your electric system works, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the power plants.
It was good pay. Regular time plus time and a half. I had no problems working for those who did not want to work that day. Other times I was off on Sunday and in church.
There are those who honor the 7th day of creation.
Today we honor the Sunday Resurrection.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
King James Version
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Does God close his ears six days a week, opening them ONLY on Saturday? Not hardly.
Come out of her my people...
“There are those who honor the 7th day of creation.
Today we honor the Sunday Resurrection.”
Who told you to replace the Sabbath? Oh yeah, Constantine in the 3rd century. He called it “The venerable day of the Sun”.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
4th Commandment-Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Why do you suppose our God told us to remember the Sabbath? Did He think we would forget?
Christians do not worship a DAY. We worship a risen Savior.
Mark 16:9
Verse Concepts
[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.
John 20:1-2
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
Matthew 28:1
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Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.
Mark 16:1-2
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him. Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
Acts 20:7
Verse Concepts
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.
1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also. On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.
Revelation 1:10
Verse Concepts
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,
Genesis 1:5
Verse Concepts
God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Leviticus 23:11
Verse Concepts
He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Mark 16:1
Verse Concepts
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
Mark 16:2
Verse Concepts
Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
John 20:19
Verse Concepts
So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be with you.”
Luke 24:1
Verse Concepts
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
John 20:1
Verse Concepts
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.
1 Corinthians 16:2
Verse Concepts
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/The-First-Day-Of-The-Week
You did not answer any of the questions I posed. If you study scripture long enough and pray for truth you will find it.
Christians do not worship a DAY. We worship a risen Savior.
Our risen Savior is also our Creator and he has given us a commandment to keep the 7th day Sabbath as a memorial to His creative power.
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