QUESTION: Why do you say Saturday is the Sabbath?

ANSWER:  In Genesis 2:1-3 (1) “Thus the Heaven and the earth were finished and all the host of them.  (2) And by the beginning of the seventh day God finished His work which He had made and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.  (3) And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”  God Himself in the beginning set aside the seventh day, note your own calendar and what day that is.  By the way, Sunday is the 1st day of the week.  Now Exodus 20:8-11 reads.  (8)  Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.  (9)  Six days you shall labor and do all your work.  (10)  But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.  In it you shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your livestock nor the stranger within your gates.  (11)  For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.  Only the seventh day, Saturday, has a name.  The other days had numbers.  We must remember that mankind calls the Hebrew canon of the Bible the Old Testament and the Greek Christian section called the New Testament.  But the Bible is a whole.  God doesn’t see that division in His Word.  The Sabbath day was never changed.  There is not one verse in the New Testament section that says it was changed.  In fact, we have Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, not Jesus, saying this in Acts 17:2 “And as was the custom with Paul, he went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures.”  Many people say in error that Sunday is the Lord’s Day.  But, the Bible says something altogether different.  Mark 2:27-28 says:  (27) And He said to them the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath  (28) Therefore, the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.  Do you want to worship God on His day?  Then you must worship on the seventh day.  QUESTION:  Why do you say the day begins at sunset instead of 12:00 a.m. midnight?  ANSWER:  In Leviticus 23:32—In Leviticus 23:32—concerning the Day of Atonement it says:  (32) “It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest and you shall afflict yourselves.  In the ninth day of the month at sunset from sunset to sunset you shall keep your Sabbath.”    This is the clearest verse showing when God says when the day begins and ends.  In fact, we can see from the first page of your Bible God says evening and morning one day, etc.  The day begins at sunset, evening time, not midnight as has been the practice since Roman times.

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