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While many Christians have elected to call the day
that man has named, "Sunday," their "Sabbath," their conclusion
is nonetheless technically incorrect, because Sunday is, in truth,
the first day of the week: To further clarify this particular
issue, we point out that the Church decision to move their "Sabbath
celebration" was based largely on both the anti-Jewish sentiments
of the Early Church,4 and on what the Church refers
to as "Resurrection Day,"or "Easter Sunday."
(Here let it be noted that the Jewish celebration
of Passover and the Christian celebration of Resurrection are
not equal counterparts:5 One celebrates the death of
a lamb, and deliverance from Egypt [though not acknowledged by
the Jewish community at large, it also marks the time when the
Lamb of God was skewered on a tree--dying for our transgressions],
while the other celebrates the Resurrection of the Lamb of God,
and deliverance from the curse of death [and, though not acknowledged,
or even realized, choice of reckoning this day also was founded
on the day of the pagan, so-called, "sun god," as well as a calculated
separation from anything regarded as "Jewish."]. To fairly settle
this ancient Christian versus Jewish dispute, these very vital
points must be taken into account.)
Again, regarding which day is "Sunday," Scripture
tells us that, "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of
the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the
tomb" (Matthew 28:1). Based on their (mis?)interpretation of this
verse, the Easter/Sunday/Resurrection type observance of the Church
takes place on the "first day of the week." But, it is not a true
Sabbath celebration, because, the seventh day always was, and
always will be, the seventh day. Likewise, the first day of the
week always was, and always will be, the first day of the week.
Sunday very simply is not the Sabbath, or seventh day.
To celebrate the concept of the Sabbath on the first
day of the week, does not, cannot, will not, move the "hallowed"
seventh day. It simply moves the concept of the Sabbath celebration
to the first day of the week. While Christians may be celebrating
the concept of the Sabbath on the first day of the week, or Sunday,
they are not celebrating the Sabbath--because the Sabbath, meaning
the day the Holy One hallowed at the beginning of time, is still
the seventh day.
4
See the book, The Constantine Conspiracy by Rabbi David M. Hargis,
8 x 11 size, available through House of David, $15.00 plus $3.00
shipping.
5 See the House of David Herald, Celebrating The Four Passovers.
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