A Day of Rest

TimeWatch Editorial
February 05, 2016

It is interesting to note that there are many today who make absolutely no distinction between Sabbath and Sunday in their desire to call the world to honor a day of rest. The most disturbing part of it is that these individuals appear to knowingly want to hide the difference between the two days of worship. The well known argument that Saturday is no longer the Sabbath because Sunday is now considered the “lord’s day” since Jesus rose from the grave on that day is incredibly weak and unfounded. There is no Biblical support for the argument, and no Biblical example of the keeping of it. But beyond that, there has been no “keeping Holy” of the first day of the week, by any of those who constantly seek to proclaim this false argument.

There is no admonition by any of these proponents that one keeps Sunday holy, beginning at the setting of the sun on Saturday and continuing until the setting of the sun on Sunday. If as their flawed theology includes the position, that “no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:” then why keep a Sabbath at all? After all no man is allowed to judge you regarding any kind of food that you eat or any alcohol you might imbibe, because God has now instructed that “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” Perhaps, the worship on the “lord’s day” has nothing at all to do with the fourth commandment, which is quite specific.

“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 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.” Exodus 20: 8-11

If that is the commandment to be kept, then even if it were kept on a Thursday, should not the detail of the commandment still apply? But this is not the case as it applies to Sunday. No-one seems to keep this Sunday Sabbath as the commandment instructs. Perhaps then the reason is that the law was nailed to the cross:

“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;” Colossians 2: 12-14

If the law was nailed to the cross, then that would explain a number of things. First, no need to keep any day holy, which is what is done on Sundays, second it explains why adultery and fornication is no longer an issue to be spoken to in the church, third it would also explain the automatic forgiveness that is granted to recurring covetousness, lying, and destruction of character.

The Papacy, recognizing the conflict of their tradition with the word of God, shortened the fourth commandment. “Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.” That’s it, no further detail. You have to recognize people who have the gumption to change the law of God. But that is not all. They completely removed the second commandment so that they might install their images.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of anything] 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 showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20: 4-6

You have to recognize the nerve of the Papacy who would “speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:”

Perhaps the others who claim to “worship” God on Sunday should just preach the nine commandments. This will not help them much of course because “whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.”

Cameron A. Bowen