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A moment of prayer
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THE WORST FALSIFICATION IN HISTORY
Worshipping the sun
DISGUISED
SUN
WORSHIP
What abomination did the prophet Ezekiel see in vision?
Ezekiel 8:15-18
"And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 8:15-18
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel 8:15-18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.”
Who tried to introduce pagan rites into Christianity?
Growth of Christianity
Constantine
Edict of Tolerance · Milan · 313 A.D.
Sunday = Sonntag
Sun day
From Paganism to Christianity
Constantine was just an emperor,
so how was the observance
of Sunday introduced into the church?
"The Convert's Catechism �of Catholic Doctrine"
Question: What is the day of rest?
Answer: Saturday is the day of rest.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Synod of Laodicea (336 A.D.), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
DOES GOD ALLOW HIS LAW TO BE CHANGED?
What will happen to anyone who attempts to change God's law?
Revelation 22:19
"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
What is not
permitted
to be done
with God’s Holy law?
Ecclesiastes 3:14
"I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
Did Jesus change the law of God or the rest day?
Matthew 5:17-18
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
According
to Daniel's prophecies,
what would a human power try to do with the law of God?
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.”
Seal of
Divine authority
Seal of
Human authority
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
According to the Bible: Exodus 20:3-17
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORDwill not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. 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 the LORD thy God: 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 the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
According to the catechism
1. am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.
2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain
3. Remember to keep holy the LORD'S Day.!
4. Honor your father and your mother.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
According to the Bible: Exodus 20:3-17
5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
According to the catechism
5. You shall not kill.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
DO THE EIGHT BIBLE TEXTS THAT MENTION THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
MENTION A CHANGE OF THE DAY OF REST ?
“In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.”
Nothing says about a change
"And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."
Nothing says about a change
"Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."
Nothing says about a change
"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them."
Nothing says about a change
"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre."
Nothing says about a change
Why did the disciples gather on the first day of the week mention any change of the day of rest?
"Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you."
Nothing says about a change
Why did Paul extend a service at Troas, on the night of the first day of the week? What did he do the next day at dawn?
"And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight."
Nothing says about a change
In advising to set aside an offering for the poor in Jerusalem, did Paul tell the brethren to gather or simply to set the money aside?
"Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come."
Nothing says about a change
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.”
Nothing says about a change
THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE BIBLE TEXT THAT SHOWS THAT THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK SHOULD BE OBSERVED.
(The Faith of our Fathers, 1917 ed, pp. 72, 73).
Smith and Cheatham, �Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, art. Sabbath.
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of the Baptist Manual , From an article read at the Conference of Ministers in New York, on November 13, 1893.
SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING THE SABBATH
How do we know
that today's Sabbath is the same that
God established at creation?
Haven't
there been changes to the calendar?
If we look at a Christian, Oriental, Muslim, Coptic or Jewish calendar we shall see that the years change, but the Sabbath remains the same. In the Jewish calendar the year 5780 is equivalent to our year 2020.
On Thursday October 4, 1582, people went to bed at night and woke up on Friday, October 15. The weekly cycle remained unchanged.
Manna
Jesus
What kind of Sabbath did Paul refer to in Colossians 2:16, 17;
to the ceremonial rest days, which were
a shadow of Christ,
or the seventh day?
In the ceremonial law, written by Moses in a book (Deuteronomy 31:24-26), there are seven annual celebrations, which took place the first and seventh month. These celebrations (Passover, the feast of unleavened bread, first fruits, Pentecost, feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and feast of Tabernacles) were also called Sabbaths or rest days. They had nothing to do with the fourth commandment (Leviticus 23:38, 39). They were a shadow or symbol of Christ and His ministry.
Is this issue so important?
Is it not
the same to keep another day?
Can we trust our opinion?
Proverbs 16:25
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Most people observe Sunday;
can so many people be wrong?
Who will be lost?
Matthew 7:21
" Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
CONCLUSION
What does the Bible call those who restored the Sabbath as the day of rest?
Isaiah 58:12
"And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
What does the Lord call the Sabbath, and what blessings do we receive on that day?
"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:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
Isaiah 58:13-14
Thank you,
Lord,
for giving
me clarity
The next Topic: �"The two dimensions of love"
How to be and make happy with the principles of love given by Jesus Christ same.
GOD BLESS YOU!
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