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THE CHANGE OF THE
SABBATH
THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH
The 12th study in the series.
Studies written by William Carey.
Presentation by Michael Salzman.
All texts are from the New King James
version.
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• What is the only holy day mentioned in
the Bible?
• Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy.
9- Six days you shall labor and do all
your work,
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10- But the seventh day is the sabbath of
the Lord your God: in it you shall do
no work: you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor
your female servant, nor your cattle,
nor your stranger who is within your
gates.
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11- For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, and rested the seventh
day. Therefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it.
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• The only weekly Sabbath or weekly
holy day ever mentioned in the Bible is
the seventh day which Christ the Lord,
as Creator, blessed and set apart for
man at the beginning of this world’s
history. (Genesis 2:1-3)
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• Does Jesus alter the things he has
made?
• Psalm 89:34
• My covenant will I not break, Nor alter
the word that is gone out of My lips.
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• Since the Lord will not alter what has
come from His lips, the command to
keep the seventh day, as spoken by His
lips (Ex. 20:1, 10) must stand
unchanged forever. God has never
changed the Sabbath from the seventh
day to the first day. There is not one
word in the New Testament about a
change of the Sabbath.
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• The book of Acts of the Apostles
contains positive proof that the first
day, Sunday, was not substituted for
the seventh day as the divine day of
rest and worship. It should be noted
that the book of Acts covers a period of
history when the apostles were still
alive.
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• Which day did the Apostle Paul
keep?
• Acts 13:14, 42; 18:4
• But when they departed from Perga,
they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and
went into the synagogue on the
Sabbath day and sat down.
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42- So when the Jews went out of the
synagogue, the Gentiles begged that
these words might be preached to them
the next Sabbath.
18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue
every Sabbath, and persuaded both
Jews and Greeks.
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• The book of Acts in describing various
events that happened from 14 to 23
years after Christ’s resurrection, refers
to the seventh day, the identical day
that the Jews met for worship in their
synagogues, as the Sabbath day.
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• If the first day had taken the place of
the seventh day as God’s holy day at
the resurrection of Christ, the book of
Acts COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT
have called the seventh day THE
SABBATH for 23 years after the
resurrection. This proves the Apostles
regarded the seventh day as the
Sabbath of the Lord.
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• Since the transfer of the day of worship
from the seventh to the first was not
made in New Testament times, it must
have been made by uninspired men at a
later time. Hence the change rests only
on human authority.
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• The first law ever made setting Sunday
apart as a day of rest was made by
Constantine on March 7, A.D. 321. The
first rule directing Christians to rest on
the first day of the week, in place of the
seventh, was made by the Council of
Laddicea in A.D. 364.
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• Does the book of Acts give us a
warning about trouble to come?
• Acts 20:29-32
• For I know this, that after my departure
savage wolves will come in among you,
not sparing the flock.
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30- Also from among yourselves men will
rise up, speaking perverse things, to
draw away the disciples after
themselves.
31- Therefore watch, and remember that
for three years I did not cease to warn
everyone night and day with tears.
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32- So now, brethren, I commend you to
God and to the word of His grace,
which is able to build you up and give
you an inheritance among all those
who are sanctified.
• Paul foretold of a great apostasy that
would corrupt the teaching of the Word
of God.
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• Does this apostasy involve the Ten
Commandments?
• Daniel 7:25
• He shall speak pompous words against
the Most High, Shall persecute the
saints of the Most High, And intend to
change times and law. Then the saints
shall be given into his hand For a time
and times and half a time.
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God foretold that the Catholic power
would attempt to change the law of God
that dealt with time. This must mean
that the papal power would attempt to
change the Sabbath.
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The Fourth commandment (Remember
the Sabbath) is the only place in God’s
Ten Commandments that deals with
time. Here God directs man to count
time, devoting the first six days of the
week to labor, and resting on the
seventh.
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Under the centuries of rule of the
Catholic Church, God’s arrangement
was reversed, so that now men are
resting on the first day of the week, and
devoting the last six days to their labor.
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The last part of this Daniel 7:25
denotes that this substitution was to
prevail for 1260 prophetic days, or
literal years (Rev. 12:14,6; Eze. 4:6;
Num. 14:34), or from 538 to 1798. It is
a fact that light on this wrong
substitution of the first day for the
seventh did not come to the whole
world until after 1798.
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• Why was this change not known?
• Daniel 12:4
• “But you, Daniel, shut up the words,
and seal the book until the time of the
end; many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased.”
• This truth from the book of Daniel
would be made known near the end of
time.
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• What about all those who did not know
of this change?
• John 9:41
• Jesus said unto them, “If ye were blind,
you would have no sin; but now you
say, ’We see.’ Therefore your sin
remains.
• None will be condemned for keeping
the wrong day in ignorance.
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• What about those who do
understand this change?
• James 4:17
• Therefore, to him who knows to do
good and does not do it, to him it is
sin.
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When the light of the seventh day
Sabbath as God’s holy day, is shown to
us, then if we do not keep it, it is held
against us as sin.
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• Is the keeping of God’s
Commandments important?
• 1 John 3:4
• Whoever commits sin also commits
lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
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• To fail to keep the seventh day as God
commands in the fourth precept of His
Ten Commandments is sin.
• Romans 6:23
• For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ
our Lord.
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• Who should we serve?
• Romans 6:16
• Do you not know that to whom you
present yourselves slaves to obey, you
are that one’s slaves whom you obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience to righteousness?
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Whomever we obey as supreme, his
servants we are. We must now decide
whether we’ll obey God by keeping His
Sabbath and be His child, or obey the
papal power by keeping Sunday and be
man’s servant. Obeying God brings
eternal life -- the other: death.
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• Who should we obey?
• Acts 5:29
• But Peter and the other apostles
answered and said: “We ought to obey
God rather than men.
• We should obey God. What is to be
gained by obeying man?
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• What can we gain by obeying God?
• Hebrews 5:9
• And having been perfected, He became
the author of eternal salvation to all
who obey Him,
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We must obey Jesus for salvation.
Obedience to Christ includes the
Sabbath, the day that Jesus made for
man, (Mark 2:27-28).
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Fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel
7:25
“Think to change times and laws”
From a Catholic Catechism:
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
192. What is the third Commandment?
The third Commandment is, “Remember
that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.”
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193. What are we commanded by the
third commandment?
By the third Commandment we are
commanded to keep Sunday holy.
The Jew’s Sabbath Day was Saturday; we
Christians keep Sunday holy. The Church,
by the power our Lord gave her, changed
the observance of Saturday to Sunday.
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A word about Sunday. God said,
“Remember that thou keep holy the
SABBATH DAY.” The Sabbath was
Saturday, not Sunday; why then, do we
keep Sunday holy instead of Saturday?
The Church altered the observance of the
Sabbath to the observance of Sunday in
commemoration of our Lord having risen
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from the dead on Easter Sunday, and the
Holy Ghost having descended upon the
apostles on Whit Sunday. Protestants
who say that they go by the Bible and the
Bible only, and that they do not believe
anything that is not in the Bible, must be
rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday
when god distinctly said, “Keep holy the
Sabbath Day”.
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The word Sunday does not come
anywhere in the Bible, so, without knowing
it, they are obeying the authority of the
Catholic Church.
-- THE CATECHISM SIMPLY EXPLAINED,
H. Canon Cafferata, Page 89.
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“You may read the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation and you will not find a single
line authorizing the sanctification of
Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the
religious observance of Saturday, a day
which we never sanctify.”
--FAITH OF OUR FATHERS,
James Cardinal Gibbons, Page 89.
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• Do you now understand the importance
of the Sabbath and how it is under
attack.
• Do you wish to obey Jesus and keep
His day?
The End