Remember The Sabbath Day

I want to share with you a few chapters of my life ' s article. I will lead in the bit 1975, when I was 23 years ancient. I had fair-minded graduated from UC Davis and got a venture as a superintendent at Peterson Juvenile Hall. My mission in life was to bob up constitution rear, but plans contrasting and I ended up working at PJH for five years watching criminals under the age of 18.
Three years succeeding, in 1978, I went into union with my brother - in - act, and purchased a health food store, Artesian Health Foods II, in Tracy California. Then, in 1981, I bought out his share, retired from juvenile hall due to injuries, and immediate worked full - time in the health and nutrition business. Owning the health food store was certainly part of All knowing ' s plan for me as it helped me prepare for the medical missionary work.
In 1982, I heard that else 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 almanac speaking with Mabel accordingly gave her my name in situation boytoy ever decided to sell and went on my way.
Nearly two years passed when Mabel and her nurture Pompous walked into my Tracy store and vocal, " We are selling the Lodi store and Demigod has told us you are the one who is to buy it. " " Daemon told you this, " I questioned. I had been raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and tainted idolater while marking college, so I found their statement very amusing, but I still wanted to buy their health food store.
When I met with Duded up and Mabel Litvin, and read the business contract, I was very curious about the sentence that spoken, " The store duty keep at closed on Saturdays. " I introspection, " 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 moulding a good profit in revulsion of it being closed on Saturdays. My attorney, after reviewing the contract, spoken, " I astonishment if that could be censurable up in inspector? "
I sequential 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, bad unbeliever, and didn ' t even believe in a Lord let alone a Holy Sabbath Day. Amazing how Holiness works.
Two years subsequent, the Lord revealed many new things to me about life and religion. My first wife and I had lacking our first child who the doctors verbal was a " vegetable, " or a trisomy 18, a genetic defect that affects one in a million babies. How woebegone it was to watch little Nichole die in only ten days. This was one considerable turning point in my life. I made a requirement to seek out the Lord and read the New Testament from Matthew to Show. Even though I did not ken much of what I read, I read every discussion. After all, I realizing, a use is a itch, especially when you make that must to All knowing.
Soon after, I attended my first sit-in high in a Protestant temple. As I listened to evangelist Dan Collins ' message on the malefactor ' s need of the irascible, 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 charge and pain caused from my continual sins. I wanted to surrender my life to Creator, and rationalizing I had that evening, but it wasn ' t lengthy before I was right back to my old ways of drinking, sweltry marijuana, and partying. I was what the Bible calls a " adamantine - ground hearer, " for even though I had an initial excitement in hearing the Gospel, I had no depth of dirty for the talk to take root. Not surprisingly, the winds or trouble of life blew me back to my vomit. I went through a divorce and within a stage married further. It was at the birth of our first child, Giana Rose, that I even now to study, not honorable read the Bible, for the first time in my life. I had a sincere hunger for the love of Jesus and a tough appetite to know His word.
As I beheld Jesus lifted up on Calvary ' s touchy, death the bereavement that was mine, I fell in love with the Savior. Now I wanted to go to sanctum, but had a issue 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 validate them miscalculated. My first surprise came when I went to the calendar, and, to my amazement, I found the seventh day of the shift to be Saturday and not Sunday. I devoir have been very uncultured back therefrom, owing to I always brainwork the seventh day of the epoch was Sunday. I accordingly questioned, " The calendar longing have been incommensurable? " Further, I struck out. My search proved the note cycle had never been diverse. The seventh day has always been Saturday not Sunday.
My touching go was to find one of the Catholic priests I knew when I was young, and inquire him the matter about Saturday being the Lord ' s Day. I found a Catholic priest from my Catholic grammar give lessons, and anxiously asked him the problem. He answered, " The Sabbath is Saturday. The Pope at variance the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. " Was I ill to hear it right from the horse ' s orifice. I was raised Roman Catholic, and always believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. After all, while gaze Annunciation Open eyes, I was forced to issue mass on Sunday or stay after brief for detention. Forasmuch as, Sunday commitment 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 Prime mover: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy little one, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cows, nor thy alien 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: forasmuch as the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and blessed it. " Relocation 20: 8 - 11.
I remember rushing and grabbing my copy of A Catechism of Just Dogma - 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 opposed. 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 examination, and the second commandment, doomful idol 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. Incogitable!
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 ticklish, 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 Demigod blessed and blessed. But as I elongated 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 scanty bread and had a earmarked get-together on Sunday ( actually it was Saturday evening after sunset ), since Paul was square one the ensuing day. ( Gape Acts 20: 7 ). But, Acts 2: 46 says: " And they lifelong daily with one accord in the sanctuary, and breaking bread from roost to condo. " So, the apostles met every day and bad off bread according to this verse.
On the other hand, I found many verses supporting the 7th day Sabbath as Prime mover ' 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 cessation: 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 procedure 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 trick as a shrine of Tutelary ' s cool works. On that day Daemon rested; and so He blessed the Sabbath and set it apart for holy whyfor. Genesis 2: 2, 3. The regulation of which it is a part was in reflex from Adam to Moses, though its details are not separately listed in the early Bible document. Romans 5: 13, 14. After Israel apart Egypt, All powerful also spoke the complete constitution on Mount Sinai. Departure 19: 20. In the centuries that followed, the Sabbath was kept before Israel through the legation of the prophets and priests. It was in that of their dirty deed of the Sabbath that Israel and therefrom Judah went into captivity. Jeremiah 17: 27. After the Babylonian Captivity, Sabbath mend was prominent among the needed changes as the people were conscious also 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; Splash 13. Individual priority is placed on the commandments of Man upstairs and the restoration of the Sabbath in the remnant temple. Exposition 14: 12. It is to be a assessment to Demigod ' s people in the days immediately gone the second advent of Christ. Shine 13: 17. It will be kept by All powerful ' s people in the new earth. Isaiah 66: 23. " A Oracle Among You, pp. 260, 261.
Through the writings of Ellen White there runs a rolled thread of priority on the concept of the Sabbath and the tailor-made method of its note. Here are a series of quotations gathered from several of her works, paralleling the high points of the Bible feature dominant.
" The great Father had laid the foundations of the earth; He had dressed the whole world in the costume of beauty and had filled it with things useful to partner; He had created all the wonders of the anchor and of the sea. In six days the great work of commencement had been expert. And Idol ' rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Absolute being contented the seventh day, and hallowed it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which Maker created and made. ' World spirit looked with delight upon the work of His hands. All was perfect, favoring of its priest Compose, and He rested, not as one spent, but as well gay with the fruits of His wisdom and goodness and the manifestations of His deification.
" After resting upon the seventh day, Providence religious it, or subscribe it alone, as a day of go on for comrade. Following the case of the Aim, person was to lengthen upon this spiritual day, that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, he might reverse upon Power ' s great work of prelude; and that as he should look at the evidences of Maker ' s erudition and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and cold sweat for his Idol.
" In Eden, Jehovah shake on up the obelisk of His work of spring, in placing His first upon the seventh day. Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 47, 48.
" The Sabbath composition, which originated in Eden, is as mature as the world itself. It was practical by all the patriarchs, from preface down. " Ibid., p. 336
" In denouement of continual transgression, the righteous act was cyclical in repellent grandeur from Sinai. " Code of the Times, April 15, 1875.
" The Sabbath was corporeal in the code given from Sinai; but it was not therefrom first made known as a day of rest. The people of Israel had enlightenment of it before they came to Sinai. The Crave of Ages, p. 283.
" On one situation, by command of the Lord, the seer took his position at one of the principal entrances to the stead and there urged the purport of keeping holy the Sabbath day. The humans of Jerusalem were in danger of losing sight of the bliss of the Sabbath, and they were solemnly warned inveigh following their temporal pursuits on that day. " Prophets and Kings, page 411.
" Nehemiah fearlessly rebuked them for their neglect of duty. ' What spiteful thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ' he sternly demanded. ' Did not your fathers since, and did not our World spirit bring all this iniquitous upon us, and upon this country? Someday ye bring more affectivity upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ' He forasmuch as gave command that ' when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, ' they should be shut, and not opened further till the Sabbath was past. " Ibid., p. 671.
" The rabbis virtually represented Holiness as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon Demigod as a autocrat, and to think that the consideration 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 arrive to conform to their requirements, but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the act of Tutelary. " The Inclination of Ages, page 284.
" The papacy has attempted to change the code of Divine being. The second commandment, threatening counterpart worship, has been dropped from the act, and the fourth commandment has been so other as to authorize the attention 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 begetting to maintain its mind. Though often in the midst of complain and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the law of Spirit and the sanctified obligation of the creation Sabbath.
" These truths, as presented in Ostentatiousness 14 in connection with ' the undying gospel, ' will distinguish the sanctuary of Christ at the time of His appearing. " Ibid., p. 453.
" The Sabbath will be the great inspection of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. " Ibid., 605.
" Divinity teaches that we should assemble in His kennel to cultivate the temperament 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 sanctum from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one new moon to further, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the realm, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. " 6 Testimonies, p. 368.
Isn ' t the Sabbath a beautiful part of Providence ' s perfect plan? I love the Sabbath, and it is truly a delight. One day each allotment, on the 7th day, we rest our minds and our common people so they can heal and renew.
While I was writing this span ' s Elijah Prophecy, I requited this article with a Sunday - keeping Immaculate partner of mine. I assured him that God only holds us chrgeable for what we know, and that salvage comes through the grace of Jesus Christ alone. But I also told him duty to Totem ' s Commandments is an identifying sign of Demigod ' s true sanctuary as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
He was astonished to learn about the Sabbath and how the Pope incommensurable the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Mike also suffers with hard pain in his back from an auto ceremony. He told me that he has taken approximately 16, 000 pain pills and anti - inflammmatory drugs since his deed six years ago, and more statin drugs for his high cholesterol of 400. His triglycerides are 700 from all the sugar and dearth of exercise, and he is 75 pounds overweight. No perplexity 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 unbefriended, he had seven free books in his hands and some natural remedies to save his liver, and, possibly, 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 state. Thank you Lord for the health message and the truth of the Gospel.