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Holy Sabbath #7

Fred R. Coulter

This is Holy Sabbath number seven, which we will conclude the series on the purpose of God’s Sabbath, and so forth. But what I want to do is I want to finish up reading some of the quotes, this time from the Protestants. Now, we’ve seen all the quotes from the Catholics, and how that they say, which is absolutely true - and at least they are honest in it; today they are no longer honest in it, but at least they were before the beginning of the twentieth century, the last part of the nineteenth century. And that is, that you can search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find one single line authorizing the observance of Sunday. Everywhere the Scriptures enforce the observance of Sabbath. And as the Catholics have said, “…which is a day that we have never sanctified.”

So that’s important to understand; and remember, do you want your salvation based on a lie? Let’s ask another question: how can you possibly have salvation and worship and serve God if you do that which is not contained in the Scriptures? How can you possibly keep yourself from sinning if you are keeping Sunday, which is sin, once a week? Because you have two sins: one, you’re breaking the Sabbath; and two, you’re keeping Sunday. But what makes it even worse is this: all of the theologians – Catholics and Protestants – know and understand that Sunday was never the day that God gave.

Now let me read these quotes here to you. Here is one. And this is from an Anglican, Isaac Williams is his name: “And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day… The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason we observe many other things, not because of the Bible, but because the Church has enjoined it.”[i] So that’s really quite an admission. Let’s look at that. Nowhere is there a command to keep the first day. And it doesn’t matter what you do to look at all the Scriptures. We just covered them last time. Everywhere it was the first day of the week.

Now here’s another one. And this one is from Jimmy Taylor, Church of England: “The Lord’s Day was merely an ecclesiastical institution…” Meaning, that it was instituted by the Roman Catholic Church. “…It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment.” Now here, a Mr. Moore, a learned clergyman of the Church of England says…now these are all Protestants. And you have to understand that the Protestants, in following Rome, in keeping Sunday and Christmas and Easter, they never really finished the Reformation. They never really came out of the Reformation at all. They are still locked to the Roman Catholic Church, because they keep these days.

Now let’s read this admission. He says, “The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath.” And as a matter of fact, the Sabbath was kept by the Church of God always. But it was widely kept by all professing Christians, worldly and true Christians – because there’s a version of both, you know. And the true Christians kept the Sabbath, and it was noted in history up to the third and fourth century they kept the Sabbath. But when the persecutions came and they were driven out of the Roman Empire, then all knowledge of the Sabbath in history was lost. But there has been a continuous chain of keeping the Sabbath by the people of God always. Because they are the ones who have the faith of Jesus Christ and keep His commandments.

Here – let’s go to Revelation 14 and let’s read that. That’s very important to understand. Because the Protestants will argue back and forth all the time that you cannot have faith and you cannot have Sabbath-keeping together. They say one is antithesis of the other. No, they have everything all mixed up on it. They have justification mixed up with Sabbath-keeping and commandment-keeping, saying that, “No one can keep the commandments, so therefore, we don’t have to keep the commandments.” But Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). Now notice what is said here. And this is a prophecy of the Church of God at the end time. Revelation 14:12, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” So faith and Sabbath-keeping go together. That’s what’s so important to understand concerning the Sabbath-Sunday question.

Now all of these quotes are available from the Sabbath Association, the Bible Sabbath Association.[ii] Now let’s look and see what the Baptists admit. And this is Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a Baptist: “There was and is a command to keep holy Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament absolutely not.”[iii] So it is an empty, vain boast that it has been transferred. There is nowhere - we have not seen one Scripture, there has not been one word from Christ, there has not been one thing said about Sunday.

Now let me give you an example of how Christ made the commandments of God spiritually applicable, and how He made the standard of obedience greater. Then we will see what Christ would have had to have said in order to transfer the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first day of the week. Now here, let’s come here to Matthew 5, and let’s begin right here in verse 27. This is an excellent example of how, in the New Testament, commandment-keeping is now a higher standard. It is a Spiritual standard. It is something, then, which then begins with the whole way that you think and you act and you live.

Verse 27, Jesus said, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you,…” Now He says it because He is Lord. He says it because He was the Lawgiver of the Old Testament, and gave the law, “You shall not commit adultery” to the children of Israel when He was the Lord God of the Old Testament. So He has the right, and He alone has the right to change any commandment. Now let’s understand that very clearly. No man has a right to change any commandment. No man has the right to do away with the Word of God.

Now let’s read what He says here. “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” (vs. 28). Now therefore, in order for the Sabbath to have been changed from Sabbath to Sunday, taking this example, we would have to read the words of Jesus which would have to say, “You have heard it said in old time, ‘Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.’ But I say unto you, you shall keep the first day of the week holy.” But that’s not in the Scriptures. So when this Baptist says that people make a “show of triumph” that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh day to the first day, he says, “…Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not.” Now this was a paper read August 20, 1893. And probably at that time it was in a Baptist ministers meeting at Saratoga, New York. Now at that time, there were probably those wanting to keep the Sabbath, and wanting to shift the Baptist Church away from Sunday, the first day of the week, to the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. And so this was probably part of the discussion that was going on.

Now here’s another one from a Baptist, J. J. Taylor, a Baptist, The Sabbath Question: “The Lord’s Day is not sanctified by any specific command, or by any inevitable inference. In all the New Testament there is no hint or suggestion of a legal obligation binding any man, whether saint or sinner, to observe the day [that is, Sunday]. Its sanctity arises only out of what it means to the true believer.” In other words, there is nothing from God to authorize the change - only what people may think. And if a person thinks it’s good, if a person thinks it’s right, if they have been convinced by the lie that it is, well then, that’s what they will go by. But they won’t go to the Scriptures. If you do, then you go to the Word of God. And when you go to the Word of God, then what you must do is follow the Word of God. And Jesus said, as we saw at the very beginning, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live” (Matthew 4:4, paraphrased).

Now let’s continue on. Here’s one from a Congregationalist in an article, The Ten Commandments, by Dr. R. W. Dale, a British Congregationalist: “…It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath -… The Sabbath was founded on a specific Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligation to observe Sunday… There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.”[iv] Now that’s quite an admission. I mean, if you are a Sunday-keeper, you need to think on these admissions. What is really important is, at least in these admissions here, they are being honest. But while they salve over their consciences, they are being dishonest, because they continue with Sunday. If anyone truly believed what was said here, they surely would have kept the Sabbath. But you see, they rely upon twisting scriptures. And in the series that will follow this one, “Refuting Sunday-Keeping,” there were twenty-five reasons given by a man that Christians ought to keep Sunday. And we will refute, scripturally, every single one of those twenty-five reasons, just like we have refuted everything concerning the claims concerning Sabbath, that the Sabbath is no longer meant to be observed.

Now let’s continue on here with some of these quotes. Now here’s one. Timothy Dwight’s Theology, American Congregationalist, says, “The Christian Sabbath [that is, Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called the Sabbath.”[v] And that means the apostolic church. What did the apostles do when they taught? What did they teach the disciples? They taught them to keep the commandments and the Sabbath and the holy days. That’s what they were taught. And so this whole thing of the primitive church and things like this eventually ends up just being kind of a mockery of the Word of God. Some say, “Well, the Bible was not canonized until the 400’s A.D.” No it wasn’t. It was canonized and final canonized by the apostle John. And so it wasn’t the church’s authority to change anything that God had given in the Old Testament, or anything that the apostles had given in the New Testament. But they went ahead and did it and called it, “Well, the church fathers had their writings. Which then, from whence we get our traditions.” But remember what we saw concerning the traditions of the Jews. And that applies to the traditions of the Catholics, and that applies to the traditions of the Protestants, to where “Full well you keep your tradition and reject the commandment of God” (Mark 7:9, paraphrased).

Now let’s continue on here. Here’s one from the Disciples of Christ, Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Disciples of Christ. “‘But,’ say some, ‘it was changed from the seventh to the first day.’ Where? when? and by whom? No man can tell. No; it was never changed, nor could it be unless creation was to be gone through again;...” Because you see, God created the day. He created the time. So it couldn’t be changed unless you went through creation again. “…For the reason assigned must be changed for the observance, or respect to the reason, can be changed!...” In other words, you can’t change the reason for keeping a day unless you first change the day. That’s what he is saying. And the day was never changed. Now continuing on, “…It is all old wives’ fables to talk about the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be changed, it was that the august personage changed it who thinks to change times and laws ex officio - I think his name is Doctor Antichrist.”[vi] Another name for the Church at Rome and the Pope at Rome.

Now here’s another quote from the First Day Observance: “The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. The Sabbath of the Bible was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sabbath anywhere in the entire Scriptures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. There is not any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change.”[vii] Now even the Lutherans know it. And it’s interesting that if you read the history of Luther very carefully you will find that he came that close to accepting the Sabbath and holy days. But those rich princes and barons who supported him talked him out of it. Later he went insane. The Catholics say that he went insane because he translated the Bible. But could it be that he went insane because he rejected the Sabbath and the holy days after translating the Bible, after having it clearly shown to him, after God revealing it to him? We just have to leave that as a question in history because we cannot answer that question. We weren’t there. But that gives another thought to consider concerning the life of Martin Luther.

Now here, the Lutherans; and this is from the United Lutheran Church, 1923, “The Sunday Problem.” So they’ve known it all along. Listen - every minister who is a Protestant has to cross the Sabbath-Sunday intersection. Every Sunday-keeping person has to also likewise cross that Sabbath-Sunday intersection. And most of them for convenience, and most of them for peer pressure, and most of them because they are not grounded in the Scriptures, believe the false interpretations of the twisting of the Scriptures which the ministers do from the pulpit to convince them that Sunday is all right. And they salve their conscience and they daub it with untempered mortar, but it’s all going to fall. It is not true.

Now let’s continue on here and let’s read this. “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 the Christians of the first three centuries never confused one with out the other, but for a time celebrated both.”[viii] Now that is a somewhat true statement. There was a time when there was Sabbath confusion, Sunday confusion; when there were the teachers saying, “Well, now we transfer it to Sunday,” and those saying, “No, it’s the Sabbath;” and people came up with the idea, “Well let’s keep both.”

And that happened in one well known Sabbath-keeping church, which has now completely rejected Sabbath and the holy days, and have gone to Sunday, Christmas, and Easter. And that’s what they did for a while - they allowed Sabbath and Sunday-keeping: “All of those of you who want to keep the Sabbath, you do that; and all of those of you who want to keep Sunday, you do that. That will just be fine. Just what ever you think.” Well that’s not what God says. God says, “I am the Lord God. I am the one Who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall make no idols; you shall not take My name in vain; remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Nowhere did He ever say, “Well, whatever you think.”

Now let’s look at one scripture to see what happens when people do just what they think. “Well, whatever you think, that’s all right. You have your truth, I have my truth. You’re a Hindu; you’re a Muslim; you’re a Protestant; you’re a Catholic; you’re a Sabbath-keeper. Whatever you think, that’s OK. You just go right ahead and do it.” Well let’s go here to Judges, the very last chapter in the book of Judges and let’s see what happens when every man does that which is right in his own eyes. You have sin, you have confusion; and sooner or later you have the correction of God, and the mighty hand of God because God is not going to be mocked. Whatever a person sows that is what he’s going to reap. And if they sow to lies of Sunday-keeping, and the lies of rejecting Sabbath-keeping, and the lies of Christmas and Easter, and all of that, then they are doing what is right in their own eyes and a correction from the hand of God is going to come.

But notice, this is Judges 21:25. “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” And God never gave us that authority to do what is right in our own eyes. Because that was the sin of Adam and Eve, as we saw. They chose to make their own way rather than obey God. They chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil rather than the tree of life, and they brought upon mankind the whole existence that we have now. So if anyone says, “You just do whatever you think concerning Sabbath and Sunday,” they are entirely, absolutely wrong, and are liars.

Now what I want you to think upon is this. Notice that all of these quotes are coming from the end of the nineteenth century and just on into the beginning of the twentieth century. And I want you to think about how much knowledge has been lost because of rejecting the Sabbath and embracing Sunday in a greater and greater way. There must have been a time when God was revealing even to the Sunday-keeping Protestants at this time, because of these quotes about the Sabbath, that many of them were ready to reject Sunday-keeping and begin to obey God the way that they should by keeping the Sabbath and the holy days.

Now let me read you another one here. And this is from Philip Schaffs’ The Creeds of Christendom: “Because it was requisite to appoint a certain day that the people might know when they ought to come together, it appears the Christian Church did for that purpose appoint the Lord’s Day.” And that is somewhat of a true statement. That’s exactly what the Catholics have done. But the Christian church - remember there are two kinds: there is the worldly Christian-professing church which keeps Sunday, Christmas, Easter, and has a licentious grace, and no commandment-keeping. There is the true Church of God, which then is made up of true Christians having the Holy Spirit of God, who keep the Sabbath and who keep the holy days. So to take a label and just say “Christian” in a broad sense, and to include all Catholics and Protestants and Orthodox and so forth, is too broad of a brush, too broad of a definition. So you need to distinguish between worldly Christianity, who profess Christ, and those who are the true Christians and have the Spirit of God and are of the Church of God, and who believe Christ. There is a vast difference between profession and belief.

Now let’s continue on here with another one. The History of the Christian Religion and Church, by Augustus Neander: “The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intention of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect…” Let me read that again: “…It was far from the intentions of the apostles [and they are the ones who wrote the New Testament] to establish a Divine command in that respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday.”[ix] Now listen - these people knew. And when you know the truth and reject the truth then you bring upon you disaster. Now that disaster may not come in the way that you think. Because the greatest disaster is to be cut off from God. And those who are cut off from God because of Sabbath-breaking and Sunday-keeping do not know that they are cut off from God, and they feel so good in it. Because there is pleasure in sin for a season. But you see, the greatest disaster is yet to come, and they don’t know that they won’t have salvation the way that they are thinking they are going to get it. Because you do not have salvation unless you are keeping the commandments of God.

Now let’s again go to the book of Revelation. Let’s come to Revelation 22, and let’s see something so very important. Now if you’ve got an NIV Bible, the first thing you better do is throw it away. Or a New American Standard Bible, get rid of it. Perhaps maybe the New King James might be all right. But let me tell you something profound: the Greek text that underlies the Revised Standard Version, the New American Bible, the New English Bible, and all of the modern ones, the New International Version, have the wrong Greek text. They do not translate from the Byzantine text as did the translators of the King James Version of the Bible. They translate from the Western Text, which was altered by Gnostics who did not believe in Christ as the Son of God come in the flesh; and did not believe in commandment-keeping. And they changed the Scriptures to read differently.

Here, Revelation 22, let’s pick it up here in verse 12. Let’s read the words of Christ. “And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Now if the works are the works which are done from men of their own works and not from the good works which God ordained that we’re to walk in, they are not going to receive salvation. It’s just that plain. It’s just that simple. Jesus says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Meaning that all of these things continue from the beginning to the end. Now notice in that context verse 14: “Blessed are they that do His commandments,...” (Rev. 22:12-14). Now in the Greek, the Greek word for “do” is poieo, which means “practice.” “Blessed are they that do [practice] His commandments, that they may have [the] right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” In other words, if you are not keeping the commandments of God, you have no salvation. Do you understand that? Do you grasp that?

Now, more modern translations say this: “Blessed are they who have washed their robes...” Deliberate mistranslation to lead people astray. Will you believe the Word of God, or will you believe men? Will you keep the commandments of God, or go on continuing in your own way, to do your own thing, to keep your own Sunday, to keep your own Christmas and Easter and all of the pagan holidays? What will you do? You have to answer that question. Because if you desire salvation then you better repent of Sunday-keeping, and Christmas-keeping, and Easter-keeping, and all of the ways of this world; and you need to come to Christ with a broken heart and a broken Spirit, and confess your sins and put them under the blood of Christ, and He will forgive you. And then you are to come out of that watery grave of baptism and walk in newness of life. And newness of life is to keep the commandments of God with the Spirit of God in you. That’s what you need to do.

Now let’s come back and see some other quotes here. Now this is from the Methodists. Now today the Methodists will allow anything - homosexual marriages, women priests, and all of that sort of thing. And this is from the Theological Compendium by Amos Binney: “It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week….”[x] There are a lot of things that the churches do which are not true. Now here’s another one from a publication called The Sabbath Question, the Methodists: “The Lord’s Day is not sanctified by any command or any inevitable inference. In all the New Testament there is no hint or suggestion of a legal obligation binding upon man, whether a saint or sinner, to observe the day [that is, Sunday].” Now here’s another quote here. This is given by the Sabbath Association in printing out these things. “On what authority have the Protestants to observe Sunday? Plainly, on the authority of the very Catholic Church which they say they have abandoned.” But they haven’t.

And now there is a book out called All Roads Lead to Rome. And if you are a Protestant, what you need to understand is that the Roman Catholic Church has had its agents of ecumenism working, and have infiltrated almost every other church to bring the doctrines together so that the churches will all come back home to Rome. And it’s sad to see that where the Protestant Reformation started in England; and in England it started because of the translation of the New Testament and half of the Old Testament by William Tyndale, and he almost single-handedly caused the Protestant Reformation in England. And how they threw off the yoke of the Catholics, and all the bloody history that they went through. And William Tyndale gave his life in martyrdom. And God heard his prayer and opened the mind of the King of England, King Henry VIII. And he threw off the yoke of Catholicism and established what became the Anglican Church.

But now it has been so infiltrated that even the leading bishop of the Church of England has now gone to Rome and has had communion with the Pope. And only the last vestige of the Protestant Reformation in England that is left is that if there is a law passed where the king, or his wife, can be Catholic. And when that happens, Protestant Reformation in England is completely undone. Now that’s something to think about. Think about what they have done to the Scriptures. Think about the things that they have admitted here. And then ask yourself, “What will I do?”

Now while you are thinking about what you will do, let’s ask another question. Because there are more days than just the weekly Sabbath. There are also the annual Sabbaths. And likewise, the church has rejected those. Now let’s go back and review the Scripture as we saw back here in Exodus 31. And let’s begin in verse 13. And this time I want to go ahead and emphasize again that what it is talking about here is “sabbaths,” plural. And then what we will do, we will take an overview of the annual holy days of God and we will go through sections of the Old Testament and New Testament, as an overview, to see which days they were keeping. And we will find out when we get to the epistle of 1 Corinthians by the apostle Paul, that the apostle Paul gives a clear and precise and imperative command for that Gentile church to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is one of the feasts of God.

Nowhere will you find Christmas, Easter, and New Years, and all of the holidays of this world expounded as something that we should keep. All of them are those, as we have seen, that we should not keep. There is a warning in Jeremiah 10 that we are not to have anything to do with Christmas. There’s a warning in Jeremiah 8 that we are not to participate in Easter services with hot cross buns. Now I don’t have time to go into detail on all of that; I’ll do that at another time. But there is also in the book of Ezekiel 8 an absolute forbiddance of Easter sunrise service, and weeping for Tammuz which was done at midnight on Friday, supposedly for Christ nowadays by the Catholic Church. None of those, none of those days were there.

Now let’s read something here that is very important. This is taken from the book called My Catholic Faith, page 416. And it says, “In the history of the church we find that she has often Christianized pagan festivals….” What did we read? Deuteronomy 12 - let’s go back and read that again because this is so important. Here the Roman Catholic Church is bragging about what they have done with these pagan days. All they have done is change the name. They have not changed the practices. Now let’s read it. Deuteronomy 12:29. No, let’s go to verse 28 so we get the whole context here, so we get the comparison. “Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.” Now you see, all the commandments of God were designed to bring you a right, proper way of living, so that God’s blessing would be upon you, so that you could do that which is good and right. Not whatever you think in your own sight, but what is good and right in the sight of God.

Now notice verse 29, “When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; take heed to thyself [watch out, beware] that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminished from it” (vs. 28-32). Now these are the words of God. No one is to add to it. The Roman Catholic Church has no authority from God to change these pagan days, which they readily admit here, and put Christian-sounding names on them and say, “We are given to do these abominations.”

Let me finish this quote. “…We find that she has often Christianized pagan festivals, making use of dates and ceremonies and endowing them with an entirely new and Christian significance. In accordance with this tradition she now has placed the observance of Labor Day under the powerful patronage of St. Joseph, the humble and saintly worker, whom God chose as the head of the Holy Family.” There you go. Men can claim to make things holy all they want. They can look out at all of these quaint, pagan, religious customs. They can adopt them. They can make it part of their liturgy. They make it part of the things that they do. They can rename them. But you see, an abomination is an abomination, is an abomination, is an abomination. You can change the name but you can’t change what it is. You can put a new name on Baal, but it’s still Baal. You could put a new name on Semiramis but it’s still Semiramis. You can put a new name, the name of Christ on Tammuz, but it’s still Tammuz. So God says you are not to do it.

Now let’s go back and see the command here in Exodus 31:13 again. And let’s see whether we can really come to understand it now, and then we will do a survey of the holy days of God. “…Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily...” Now verily means truly. It also can mean “amen.” “…Verily [or truly] My sabbaths [plural] ye shall keep:...” We just read you’re not to keep any of the other days of the pagans. We just read where the Catholics bragged that that’s what they do. So you need to understand, anyone who follows what the Catholics enjoin upon their church, whether you are Protestant, regardless of what you are, you are following the abominations which God has said not to do.

“Verily My sabbaths [plural] ye shall keep:...” That’s just like anything else. You shall not commit adultery; you shall not murder. You shall remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Now, “…My sabbaths [plural] ye shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” Now if you don’t keep the holy sabbaths, the annual sabbaths of God, you are not sanctified by God. And furthermore, you don’t know God. Do you understand that? If you don’t keep the seventh-day Sabbath and holy days of God, you don’t know Him. You may know of Him, and you may have to come to the point, which you should, like Job did, he said, “Oh, I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” That’s because he saw himself for what he was and repented. Well it’s the same thing that has to happen to each one of us. We need to see ourselves for what we are. And we need to see ourselves all involved in all of this pagan abomination and observance of things which God never said that we are to do. And to repent of it, and to withdraw and to come out of it, and to get away from it. Because they are abominations.

Do you what the sign of God upon you, through keeping His sabbaths, that is, His weekly Sabbath and the holy days? Or do you want the sign of Satan the devil and its worlds religion put upon you? And maybe that’s the sign which goes all the way back to Cain, who murdered his brother Abel. You have one of the two. You either have the sign of God or you have the sign of Satan. The sign of God includes the holy days which we’ll go through in just a minute, which includes the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Day of Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Last Great Day. So coupled with the weekly Sabbath, those are the signs of God. The sign of Satan is Sunday, Christmas, Easter, New Year’s, and all of the other paganized, Christianized feasts that the Roman Catholic Church has given to their church. Which sign do you have?

[i] Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, vol. 1, pp. 334, 336

[ii] The Bible Sabbath Association is found online at www.biblesabbath.org

[iii] Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers’ conference, Nov. 13, 1893, and reported in the New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.

[iv] Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments (New York: Eaton & Mains), p. 127-129.

[v] Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended (1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, p. 258

[vi] Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb. 22, 1824, vol. 1, no. 7, p. 164

[vii] First Day Observance, pp. 17, 19

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

[ix] Dr. August Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church, Henry John Rose, tr. (1843), p. 186

[x] Amos Binney (1802-1878), Theological Compendium, 1902 edition, pp. 180-181, 171

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