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GOD'S HOLY SABBATH DAY

Bells Ringing

Which day is the Bible Sabbath ? Many honestly and truly believe it is the First Day of the week commonly called Sunday ! Which Day did Jesus say is the Sabbath and which day did Jesus keep ? Did He change the day ? We will explore this question in the following pages and find the Bible answer !

James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), in a signed letter.

"Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day -Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes . Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!

"Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons"



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Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed., p. 174.

"Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?

"Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her-she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."



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John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies (1 936), vol. 1, P. 51.

"Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law, that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is now entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days."



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The Sunday Problem , a study book of the United Lutheran Church (1923), p. 36.

"We have seen how gradually the impression of the Jewish sabbath faded from the mind of the Christian Church, and how completely the newer thought underlying the observance of the first day took possession of the church. We have seen that the Christians of the first three centuries never confused one with the other, but for a time celebrated both."



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Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written by Melanchthon, approved by Martin Luther, 1530; as published in The Book of Concord of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Henry Jacobs, ed. (1 91 1), p. 63.

"They [Roman Catholics] refer to the Sabbath Day, as having been changed into the Lord's Day, contrary to the Decalogue, as it seems. Neither is there any example whereof they make more than concerning the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great, say they, is the power of the Church, since it has dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments!"



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The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893.

"The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."



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Catholic Virginian Oct. 3, 1947, p. 9, art. "To Tell You the Truth."

"For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the[Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible."




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Friend;

Does the Catholic Church really possess the power to change God's Laws ? They boast that they do and that most professing Protestants agree with them because they accept the change from the Bible Sabbath , Saturday, the Seventh Day of the week, to Sunday the first day of the week. The Catholic Church boldly asserts that it has power to change God's Law , do You really believe that ?

Shall we accept the supposed authority of the Popes, or the authority of God's Holy Word ? At Creation , God, instituted two special events for the human family.

First: God instituted the marriage of men and women
to bring forth children in their own image,
which was the image of God, to the Glory of God
and the populating of the newly created earth.

Second: God instituted the Seventh Day Sabbath, a memorial
of His created work. A Day for His Children to
Remember that all their eyes beheld, and all the
privileges they had came from the hand of a loving
and merciful Creator.

All through the history of the Old Testament, God's faithful children kept the Seventh Day Sabbath, this fact no one can deny ! When Jesus came, He too kept the Seventh Day Sabbath ! The Bible says:

"And He (Jesus) came to Nazareth, where He
had been brought up: and, as His custom was
He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day
and stood up for to read."
Luke 4: 16.

IN the days of Christ His followers knew of only one Sabbath that was to be kept every 7th Day. There were several ceremonial Sabbaths connected with the yearly feasts but only one weekly Sabbath. In Isaiah 66:23 it says we will keep the 7th Day Sabbath in the New Earth !
Did God change it from the crucifixion to the second coming of Christ and then is going to change it back again ? Of course not, God never changes and He never needs to, and never will change His Laws. But an enemy, the "agent of Satan" has "thought to change God's Laws" and boasts that they did change the Sabbath from Saturday the 7th Day to Sunday the first day of the week ! But Friend, no one has the authority to change God's Law, NO One, not even the
Popes .!

But this attempt to change God's Law was long ago prophesied in the Bible , did you study that prophecy yet ? It is found in the book of Daniel the prophet in the Old Testament. Notice what God says :

"Thus He said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down , and break it in pieces.

"And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

"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:...."

Notice it says he would "think" to change times and laws" !
This power who followed the division of the Pagan Roman Empire into ten kingdoms, would "subdue three king" in its rise to power. Check it out for yourself friend, history records that the Bishop of Rome was given the city of Rome by Emperor Constantine who moved the "seat" of his kingdom to Constantinople ! Thus was the beginning of what is known to this day as the Roman Catholic Church. From the year 538 AD to 1798 AD the Catholic Church ruled the lands of Europe. The Vatican power has "changed times and laws" and the majority of the professed Christian world follows her lead ! But , does God accept these changes to His Holy Law ? NEVER !

The Pope "thinks" he can change God's Laws. Did God make a mistake that He needs a sinful , evil, man to correct them ?
The Pope claims he is "The Vicar of The Son of God" that he is "God on Earth"., and was given this power to alter God's Laws ! What does God Say:

"My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that
is gone out of My lips" Psalm 89: 34

What are the Words of God's Covenant ?

"When I was gone up into the mount,to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the Covenant which the Lord made with You ......And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with You....." Deut. 9: 9-10.

The Ten Commandments are the words of God's Covenant !
He says He will never change them; how dare a sinful mortal ever think or try to change them ! God's Holy Law can not and is not changed; the Catholic Church is in opposition to God, and is Antichrist personified; the visible agent of Satan!

The Sabbath Commandment is the SEAL of God's Law. It Identifies God as CREATOR & King of the Universe. Without this SEAL we know not which god we worship ! Which god do You worship ? Six days God worked in creating this planet and on the SEVENTH DAY He rested, He said :

REMEMBER : THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but THE SEVENTH DAY is the SABBATH of THE LORD THY GOD : in IT thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in SIX days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the Seventh Day: : wherefire the LORD Blessed the SABBATH DAY and hallowed it," Exodus 20: 8-11,

Look at your calendar Friend. The first day is called; Sunday, second; Monday, third; Tuesday. fourth; Wednesday, fifth; Thursday, sixth; Friday, SEVENTH = SATURDAY !
Saturday is the seventh day and is GOD's HOLY SABBATH DAY !
God has not changed it; in fact we will keep it through the eternal ages in the New Earth :

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