Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the lord thy God hath commanded thee
Leviticus 26:2-4 ye shall keep my Sabbath, and reverence my sanctuary I am the lord
Leviticus 19:30 ye shall keep my Sabbath, and reverence my Sanctuary I am the lord
Leviticus 19:3-5 ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father and keep my Sabbath: I am the lord your god
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of god and be more ready to hear then to give the sacrifice of fools
Exodus 23:12-13 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou rest
Luke 13:10-17verse[14]-The ruler of the synagogue and answered with indignation because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and said unto the people, There are six days in which man ought to work, there came healed, and not on the Sabbath day
Matthew 12:10-12 beheld there was a man which had his hand withered and they asked him saying Is it lawful to heal to, on the Sabbath day? it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.
John 9:14-18 therefore said some of the Pharisees; this man is not of god, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day the blind man healed
Mark 3:2-5 they watched him whether he would heal him on the Sabbath days: that they might accuse him,
Luke 6:7-9 scribes and Pharisees watched him he will healed, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it.
Note-Beyond Pitcairn by Harvestime, pp, 177-182 reason – As with every other week that preceded it, Jesus worked through the final work-week of His life before His Crucifixion. After His death on Friday, “the preparation day” (the day God’s people prepared for the Sabbath-Luke 23:54, Matt. 28: 1-2), Jesus rested in the tomb during the hours of the Sabbath, and on the first day of the week He began another work-week again-by rising from the tomb (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1) and traveling all the way to heaven and back again on that day. Repeatedly, Jesus had said, “Mine hour is not come.” Every act of His life was guided by the Father. We can clearly see this in His Last Week -working up to Friday afternoon, resting on the Sabbath, and then resuming His work again on Sunday. / But no such example or pattern of Sunday-sacredness was ever given us by our Lord.TheSeventh day is the Lord’s Day, according to the Bible. We are told about the “Lord’s day” in Revelation 1:10, but we are not there told what day it is. Instead, very frequently throughout Scripture, the Seventh-day Sabbath is called the day of the Lord (Ex. 20:10; Lev. 23:3; Deut. 5:4; etc.), the day unto the Lord (Ex. 16:23,25; 31 :15; 35:2; etc.) and His own day (Isa. 58:13). And while on earth, Jesus told us the day He was Lord of—the Bible Sabbath (Mk. 2:28). / Nowhere in Scripture is the first day ever called the “Lord’s day” or any similar designation. At no time in the sacred Word did God by word of mouth ever honor the first day of the week. Be honest with yourself: Do you feel safer going by what God says to do or by what the people around you tell you to do? Jesus called Himself the “Lord of the Sabbath” (Matt.12 :8) because it was His work to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her (1 Pet. 3:6). Should you not love and cherish it also? / But never did He call Himself the lord of the first day. Repeatedly, Jesus vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good (Mk.2:23-28). / But He never had anything to say about the first day of the week. Far from abolishing the Sabbath, Jesus carefully taught men how to observe it (Matt.12:1-13). / But we were never taught in Scripture how we might keep Sunday holy. Just before His death, He instructed His disciples that the Sabbath should be carefully observed after His death at the time of the predicted destruction of Jerusalem—thirty-nine years later, and also at the end of the world (Matt. 24 :2-3 and 20). / But He was totally silent in regard to any sanctity of Sunday after His death. Christ’s followers carefully kept the Sabbath because of the Bible commandment after He died (Luke 23: 53-56). They loved Him and this was the day He had always taught them to keep. / But we are never once told that they kept the first day as sacred-because of a Bible commandment or for any other reason.
Note-Testimonies for the church, pp, 211-212.Vol9-9 The Sabbath question is one that will demand great care and wisdom in its presentation. Much of the grace and power of God will be needed to cast down the idol that has been erected in the shape of a false Sabbath. Lift up the standard, lift it up, higher and still higher. Point the people to the twentieth chapter of Exodus, in which the law of God is recorded. The first four of the Ten Commandments outline our duty to our Maker. He who is false to his God cannot be true to his neighbor. He who loves God supremely will love his neighbor as himself. Pride lifts itself up unto vanity, leading the human agent to make a god of himself. The gospel of Christ sanctifies the soul, expelling self-love “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:8. The Sabbath was instituted in Eden, after God had created the world. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:1-3. “And the Lord Spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, verily My Sabbaths 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. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.” Exodus 31:12-16. October 19, 1908.
Which day is the Sabbath?
Exodus 20:9-10 six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the lord thy god
Genesis 2:2-3 on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
Hebrew 4:4-10 he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on the wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his work
Nehemiah9:13-17 madest know unto them thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws
Exodus 19:20-25 God give Moses the ten commandment
Romans 7:10-16-[verse12]-the law is holy: and the commandment holy, and just and good
Psalm 19:7-9-[verse 8]-the statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the lord is pure enlightening the eyes
Psalm 2:6-7 the words of the lord are pure words us silver tried in a furnace of earth
Psalm 13:3-4 consider and hear me, O lord my god: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death
Isaiah 58:13-14 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth
Isaiah 56:2 blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man they layeth hold on it: that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it
Nehemiah 13:18-22 there dwelt man of tyre also therein, which brought fish and all manner of were and sold on the Sabbath unto he contended with the nobles of Judah, what evil thing is this, profane the Sabbath
Note-The great Controversy.pp.435-436- The ark in the tabernacle on earth contained the two tables of stone, upon which were inscribed the precepts of the law of God. The ark was merely a receptacle for the tables of the law, and the presence of these divine precepts gave to it its value and sacredness. When the temple of God was opened in Heaven, the ark of his testament was seen. Within the holy of holies, in the sanctuary in Heaven, the divine law is sacredly enshrined,–the law that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone.The law of God in the sanctuary in Heaven is the great original, of which the precepts inscribed upon the tables of stone, and recorded by Moses in the Pentateuch, were an unerring transcript. Those who arrived at an understanding of this important point, were thus led to see the sacred, unchanging character of the divine law. They saw, as never before, the force of the Saviour’s words, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law.” [MATT. 5:18.] The law of God, being a revelation of his will, a transcript of his character, must forever endure, “as a faithful witness in Heaven.” Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. Says the psalmist: “Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven.” “All his commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever.” [PS. 119:89; 111:7, 8.In the very bosom of the Decalogue is the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 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; w
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the lord thy God hath commanded thee
Leviticus 26:2-4 ye shall keep my Sabbath, and reverence my sanctuary I am the lord
Leviticus 19:30 ye shall keep my Sabbath, and reverence my Sanctuary I am the lord
Leviticus 19:3-5 ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father and keep my Sabbath: I am the lord your god
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of god and be more ready to hear then to give the sacrifice of fools
Exodus 23:12-13 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou rest
Luke 13:10-17verse[14]-The ruler of the synagogue and answered with indignation because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and said unto the people, There are six days in which man ought to work, there came healed, and not on the Sabbath day
Matthew 12:10-12 beheld there was a man which had his hand withered and they asked him saying Is it lawful to heal to, on the Sabbath day? it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.
John 9:14-18 therefore said some of the Pharisees; this man is not of god, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day the blind man healed
Mark 3:2-5 they watched him whether he would heal him on the Sabbath days: that they might accuse him,
Luke 6:7-9 scribes and Pharisees watched him he will healed, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it.
Note-Beyond Pitcairn by Harvestime, pp, 177-182 reason – As with every other week that preceded it, Jesus worked through the final work-week of His life before His Crucifixion. After His death on Friday, “the preparation day” (the day God’s people prepared for the Sabbath-Luke 23:54, Matt. 28: 1-2), Jesus rested in the tomb during the hours of the Sabbath, and on the first day of the week He began another work-week again-by rising from the tomb (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1) and traveling all the way to heaven and back again on that day. Repeatedly, Jesus had said, “Mine hour is not come.” Every act of His life was guided by the Father. We can clearly see this in His Last Week -working up to Friday afternoon, resting on the Sabbath, and then resuming His work again on Sunday. / But no such example or pattern of Sunday-sacredness was ever given us by our Lord.TheSeventh day is the Lord’s Day, according to the Bible. We are told about the “Lord’s day” in Revelation 1:10, but we are not there told what day it is. Instead, very frequently throughout Scripture, the Seventh-day Sabbath is called the day of the Lord (Ex. 20:10; Lev. 23:3; Deut. 5:4; etc.), the day unto the Lord (Ex. 16:23,25; 31 :15; 35:2; etc.) and His own day (Isa. 58:13). And while on earth, Jesus told us the day He was Lord of—the Bible Sabbath (Mk. 2:28). / Nowhere in Scripture is the first day ever called the “Lord’s day” or any similar designation. At no time in the sacred Word did God by word of mouth ever honor the first day of the week. Be honest with yourself: Do you feel safer going by what God says to do or by what the people around you tell you to do? Jesus called Himself the “Lord of the Sabbath” (Matt.12 :8) because it was His work to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her (1 Pet. 3:6). Should you not love and cherish it also? / But never did He call Himself the lord of the first day. Repeatedly, Jesus vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good (Mk.2:23-28). / But He never had anything to say about the first day of the week. Far from abolishing the Sabbath, Jesus carefully taught men how to observe it (Matt.12:1-13). / But we were never taught in Scripture how we might keep Sunday holy. Just before His death, He instructed His disciples that the Sabbath should be carefully observed after His death at the time of the predicted destruction of Jerusalem—thirty-nine years later, and also at the end of the world (Matt. 24 :2-3 and 20). / But He was totally silent in regard to any sanctity of Sunday after His death. Christ’s followers carefully kept the Sabbath because of the Bible commandment after He died (Luke 23: 53-56). They loved Him and this was the day He had always taught them to keep. / But we are never once told that they kept the first day as sacred-because of a Bible commandment or for any other reason.
Note-Testimonies for the church, pp, 211-212.Vol9-9 The Sabbath question is one that will demand great care and wisdom in its presentation. Much of the grace and power of God will be needed to cast down the idol that has been erected in the shape of a false Sabbath. Lift up the standard, lift it up, higher and still higher. Point the people to the twentieth chapter of Exodus, in which the law of God is recorded. The first four of the Ten Commandments outline our duty to our Maker. He who is false to his God cannot be true to his neighbor. He who loves God supremely will love his neighbor as himself. Pride lifts itself up unto vanity, leading the human agent to make a god of himself. The gospel of Christ sanctifies the soul, expelling self-love “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:8. The Sabbath was instituted in Eden, after God had created the world. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:1-3. “And the Lord Spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, verily My Sabbaths 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. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.” Exodus 31:12-16. October 19, 1908.
Which day is the Sabbath?
Exodus 20:9-10 six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the lord thy god
Genesis 2:2-3 on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
Hebrew 4:4-10 he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on the wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his work
Nehemiah9:13-17 madest know unto them thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws
Exodus 19:20-25 God give Moses the ten commandment
Romans 7:10-16-[verse12]-the law is holy: and the commandment holy, and just and good
Psalm 19:7-9-[verse 8]-the statutes of the lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the lord is pure enlightening the eyes
Psalm 2:6-7 the words of the lord are pure words us silver tried in a furnace of earth
Psalm 13:3-4 consider and hear me, O lord my god: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death
Isaiah 58:13-14 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth
Isaiah 56:2 blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man they layeth hold on it: that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it
Nehemiah 13:18-22 there dwelt man of tyre also therein, which brought fish and all manner of were and sold on the Sabbath unto he contended with the nobles of Judah, what evil thing is this, profane the Sabbath
Note-The great Controversy.pp.435-436- The ark in the tabernacle on earth contained the two tables of stone, upon which were inscribed the precepts of the law of God. The ark was merely a receptacle for the tables of the law, and the presence of these divine precepts gave to it its value and sacredness. When the temple of God was opened in Heaven, the ark of his testament was seen. Within the holy of holies, in the sanctuary in Heaven, the divine law is sacredly enshrined,–the law that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone.The law of God in the sanctuary in Heaven is the great original, of which the precepts inscribed upon the tables of stone, and recorded by Moses in the Pentateuch, were an unerring transcript. Those who arrived at an understanding of this important point, were thus led to see the sacred, unchanging character of the divine law. They saw, as never before, the force of the Saviour’s words, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law.” [MATT. 5:18.] The law of God, being a revelation of his will, a transcript of his character, must forever endure, “as a faithful witness in Heaven.” Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. Says the psalmist: “Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven.” “All his commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever.” [PS. 119:89; 111:7, 8.In the very bosom of the Decalogue is the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 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; w
