Remember The Sabbath Day

Remember The Sabbath Day

I want to share with you a few chapters of my life ' s chestnut. I will enter on in the interval 1975, when I was 23 years decrepit. I had even-handed graduated from UC Davis and got a venture as a escort at Peterson Juvenile Hall. My target in life was to check in regulation show, but plans unlike and I ended up working at PJH for five years watching criminals under the age of 18.
Three years successive, in 1978, I went into partnership with my brother - in - law, and purchased a health food store, Artesian Health Foods II, in Tracy California. Wherefore, in 1981, I bought out his share, retired from juvenile hall due to injuries, and contemporaneous worked full - time in the health and nutrition business. Owning the health food store was certainly part of World spirit ' s plan for me as it helped me prepare for the medical missionary work.
In 1982, I heard that extended health store, Lodi Health Foods, was for sale. I took a ride to Lodi and inquired of the owners if the store was indeed for sale. The short, redheaded woman named Mabel answered, " No, it isn ' t for sale, I ' m sorry. " I spent a few more comic book utterance with Mabel thus gave her my name in case babe ever decided to sell and went on my way.
Nearly two years passed when Mabel and her guard Classy walked into my Tracy store and oral, " We are selling the Lodi store and Jehovah has told us you are the one who is to buy it. " " Totem told you this, " I questioned. I had been raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and overripe pagan while the eye college, so I found their statement very amusing, but I still wanted to buy their health food store.
When I met with Chichi and Mabel Litvin, and read the business contract, I was very curious about the sentence that vocal, " The store longing move ahead closed on Saturdays. " I reflection, " Why would they want me to close on Saturdays? " After all, Saturdays are a good day for business. I looked at the books further to reconfirm the store was making a good profit in anathema of it being closed on Saturdays. My attorney, after reviewing the contract, uttered, " I uncertainty if that could be susceptive up in bench? "
I subsequent found out that the sellers were Seventh - day Adventists and their Sabbath was Saturday not Sunday, which most other Christians recognize as the Lord ' s Day. Remember, friends, I was a former - Catholic, overripe sceptic, and didn ' t even believe in a All powerful let alone a Holy Sabbath Day. Amazing how Divine being works.
Two years sequential, the Lord revealed many new things to me about life and religion. My first wife and I had off-course our first child who the doctors uttered was a " vegetable, " or a trisomy 18, a genetic defect that affects one in a million babies. How miserable it was to watch little Nichole die in only ten days. This was one extensive turning point in my life. I made a need to seek out the Lord and read the New Testament from Matthew to Exhibition. Even though I did not apprehend much of what I read, I read every chitchat. After all, I rumination, a demand is a longing, especially when you make that must to Prime mover.
Soon after, I attended my first turnout answerable in a Protestant sanctuary. As I listened to evangelist Dan Collins ' message on the offender ' s need of the petulant, I felt the pull of the Holy Spirit calling me to surrender my life to the Lord. I had been longing for a new life, and sick and tired of the onus and pain caused from my continual sins. I wanted to surrender my life to Demigod, and deriving I had that evening, but it wasn ' t distant before I was right back to my senescent ways of drinking, fiery marijuana, and partying. I was what the Bible calls a " compact - ground hearer, " over even though I had an initial excitement in hearing the Gospel, I had no depth of begrime for the consultation to take root. Not surprisingly, the winds or mishap of life blew me back to my vomit. I went through a divorce and within a instance married and. It was at the birth of our first child, Giana Rose, that I contemporary to study, not strict read the Bible, for the first time in my life. I had a sincere hunger for the love of Jesus and a able appetite to know His confabulation.
As I beheld Jesus lifted up on Calvary ' s petulant, oblivion the passing over that was mine, I fell in love with the Savior. Now I wanted to go to sanctuary, but had a matter about which day to worship on. I wanted to know why SDAs keep Saturday instead of Sunday as the Lord ' s Day. In a way, I wanted to evidence them at fault. My first surprise came when I went to the calendar, and, to my amazement, I found the seventh day of the spell to be Saturday and not Sunday. I requirement have been very shallow back for, seeing I always introspection the seventh day of the year was Sunday. I thus questioned, " The calendar devoir have been divergent? " And, I struck out. My search proved the journal cycle had never been offbeat. The seventh day has always been Saturday not Sunday.
My following energy was to find one of the Catholic priests I knew when I was young, and demand him the problem about Saturday being the Lord ' s Day. I found a Catholic priest from my Catholic grammar ground, and anxiously asked him the interrogation. He answered, " The Sabbath is Saturday. The Pope discrepant the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. " Was I put out to hear it right from the horse ' s entry. I was raised Roman Catholic, and always believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. After all, while bad eye Annunciation Implant, I was forced to arrive mass on Sunday or stay after prepare for detention. Wherefore, Sunday devoir be holy.
At the time I purchased Lodi Health Food Store, I also learned, for the first time, that the command to worship of the 7th - day Sabbath is the Fourth Commandment in the Bible: " 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 Idol: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy child, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy stock, nor thy outsider 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: therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it. " Exodus 20: 8 - 11.
I remember rushing and grabbing my copy of A Catechism of Principled Teaching - A Textbook of Catholic Teaching and anxiously turning to the page where the fourth commandment was located and reading only the words: " Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. " It had been particular. It was much shorter and there was no mention of the seventh day. In addition to this, the fourth commandment in the catechism was now the interrogatory, and the second commandment, fateful replica worship, was totally gone! They even divided the tenth commandment, which forbids coveting your neighbor ' s wife and goods, into two commandments, numbers nine and ten, so there would still be ten. Suspect!
The seventh day, I learned, is the true Sabbath. It is in the heart of the Ten Commandments. And to think that the Pope, a mere serpentine, claims power to change the Fourth Commandment and the 7th - day Sabbath to Sunday? I had, like so many billions of people, believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. At first, even for me, it was strange to think of Saturday as the day World spirit blessed and blessed. But as I extensive to study the Bible, I could not find one scripture to support Sunday worship or Sunday sacredness. I did find one verse that says the apostles stone broke bread and had a major sit-in on Sunday ( actually it was Saturday evening after twilight ), since Paul was alpha the alongside day. ( Make out Acts 20: 7 ). But, Acts 2: 46 says: " And they abiding daily with one accord in the shrine, and breaking bread from building to domicile. " So, the apostles met every day and suffering bread according to this verse.
On the other hand, I found many verses supporting the 7th day Sabbath as Absolute being ' s appointed day of rest and the true Lord ' s Day. The Bible showed me that Jesus kept the 7th - day Sabbath and so did His disciples after His curtains: And he 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. " " And Paul, as his system was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures. " Luke 4: 16; Acts 17: 2.
The more I researched, the more evidence I found on the 7th - day Sabbath. I pray you will enjoy the following short presentation on the history of the Sabbath. " The Sabbath was introduced at the close of the creation month as a sepulchre of World spirit ' s superb works. On that day Demon rested; ergo He blessed the Sabbath and set it apart for holy prospect. Genesis 2: 2, 3. The jurisprudence of which it is a part was in effect from Adam to Moses, though its details are not separately listed in the early Bible record. Romans 5: 13, 14. After Israel lonely Egypt, Infinite spirit also spoke the complete jurisprudence on Mount Sinai. Departure 19: 20. In the centuries that followed, the Sabbath was kept before Israel through the represantative of the prophets and priests. It was whereas of their onset of the Sabbath that Israel and so Judah went into captivity. Jeremiah 17: 27. After the Babylonian Captivity, Sabbath mend was prominent among the needed changes as the people were published further in their homeland Nehemiah 9: 14; 10: 31; 13: 15 - 22.
The life of Christ highlights the sacredness and the significance of the Sabbath. The coming of apostasy and turning away from the Sabbath and other truths is part of the prophetic picture. Daniel 7: 25; Front 13. Select importance is placed on the commandments of Holiness and the restoration of the Sabbath in the remnant shrine. Flourish 14: 12. It is to be a appraisal to Tutelary ' s people in the days immediately past the second advent of Christ. Dash 13: 17. It will be kept by Divinity ' s people in the new earth. Isaiah 66: 23. " A Soothsayer Among You, pp. 260, 261.
Through the writings of Ellen White there runs a comparable yarn of stress on the clue of the Sabbath and the correct style of its notice. Here are a series of quotations gathered from several of her works, paralleling the high points of the Bible narration dominant.
" The great Holiness had laid the foundations of the earth; He had dressed the whole world in the garments of beauty and had filled it with things useful to person; He had created all the wonders of the berth and of the sea. In six days the great work of introduction had been skilful. And All knowing ' rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Maker elated the seventh day, and religious it: considering that in it He had rested from all His work which Absolute being created and made. ' Man upstairs looked with gratification upon the work of His hands. All was perfect, constructive of its divine Originate, and He rested, not as one laid back, but as well perky with the fruits of His sagacity and goodness and the manifestations of His fealty.
" After resting upon the seventh day, Prime mover consecrated it, or grant it unattended, as a day of project for individual. Coterminous the lesson of the Origin, partner was to advance upon this blessed day, that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, he might reverse upon Totem ' s great work of alpha; and that as he should perceive the evidences of Almighty ' s erudition and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and timidity for his Demigod.
" In Eden, Omnipotent stand together up the memorial of His work of inauguration, in placing His peak upon the seventh day. Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 47, 48.
" The Sabbath methodology, which originated in Eden, is as old as the world itself. It was experimental by all the patriarchs, from source down. " Ibid., p. 336
" In follow through of continual transgression, the upstanding law was repeatitive in ungodly grandeur from Sinai. " Hieroglyphics of the Times, April 15, 1875.
" The Sabbath was substantial in the charter given from Sinai; but it was not thereupon first made known as a day of rest. The people of Israel had scholarship of it before they came to Sinai. The Desire of Ages, p. 283.
" On one case, by command of the Lord, the seer took his position at one of the principal entrances to the locus and there urged the weight of keeping holy the Sabbath day. The citizens of Jerusalem were in danger of losing sight of the seventh heaven of the Sabbath, and they were solemnly warned inveigh following their material pursuits on that day. " Prophets and Kings, page 411.
" Nehemiah fearlessly rebuked them for their neglect of duty. ' What ugly thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ' he sternly demanded. ' Did not your fathers whence, and did not our Divine being bring all this heinous upon us, and upon this compass? In consummation ye bring more outburst upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ' He wherefore gave command that ' when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, ' they should be shut, and not opened and till the Sabbath was bygone. " Ibid., p. 671.
" The rabbis virtually represented Tutelary as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon God as a persecutor, and to think that the understanding of the Sabbath, as He required it, made men hard - hearted and cruel. It was the work of Christ to clear away these misconceptions. Although the rabbis followed Him with merciless hostility, He did not even come out to conform to their requirements, but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the act of Almighty. " The Long of Ages, page 284.
" The papacy has attempted to change the jurisprudence of Creator. The second commandment, fateful drawing worship, has been dropped from the charter, and the fourth commandment has been so contradistinct as to authorize the grasp of the first instead of the seventh day as the Sabbath. " The Great Controversy, p. 446.
" Since the Reformation, there have been some in every generation to maintain its remark. Though often in the midst of censure and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the regulation of Absolute being and the holy obligation of the creation Sabbath.
" These truths, as presented in Affectation 14 in connection with ' the imperishable gospel, ' will distinguish the altar of Christ at the time of His appearing. " Ibid., p. 453.
" The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. " Ibid., 605.
" Divine being teaches that we should assemble in His apartment to cultivate the bag of perfect love. This will fit the dwellers of earth for the mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for all who love Him. There they will assemble in the shrine from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one new moon to besides, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the possessions, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. " 6 Testimonies, p. 368.
Isn ' t the Sabbath a beautiful part of Divinity ' s perfect plan? I love the Sabbath, and it is truly a delight. One day each moment, on the 7th day, we rest our minds and our hoi polloi so they can restore and renew.
While I was writing this stage ' s Elijah Prophecy, I mutual this article with a Sunday - keeping Pure classmate of mine. I assured him that God only holds us chrgeable for what we know, and that recovery comes through the grace of Jesus Christ alone. But I also told him deference to Divinity ' s Commandments is an identifying sign of Divinity ' s true sanctum as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
He was astonished to learn about the Sabbath and how the Pope peculiar the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Mike also suffers with incommodious pain in his back from an auto thing. He told me that he has taken approximately 16, 000 pain pills and anti - inflammmatory drugs since his miracle six years ago, and more statin drugs for his high cholesterol of 400. His triglycerides are 700 from all the sugar and deficiency of exercise, and he is 75 pounds overweight. No marveling he suffers from depression. Perfect timing for me to give him advice on how to change his lifestyle, lower his cholesterol and triglycerides, reduce his medications, and how he can lose 70 pounds in the process.
When Mike empty, he had seven free books in his hands and some natural remedies to save his liver, and, perhaps, his life. I praise the Lord for the work He has given us to do in helping the sick and in saving souls for the tract. Thank you Lord for the health message and the truth of the Gospel.