- Did you know there are two passages of scripture, one in the New Testament and one in the Old Testament, that clearly identify for us which day of the week is the Lord’s day? Here is the New Testament passage: “For the Son of Man is Lord EVEN OF THE SABBATH” (See Matthew 12:8). If the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, is LORD of the Sabbath, then the Sabbath is clearly the Lord’s day! Now look at the Old Testament passage that declares the same truth: “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath (that is, quit trampling on it), from doing your pleasure (whatever you please) on MY holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight (NOT a yoke of bondage), the holy DAY OF THE LORD, honorable (a sacred day), and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, and speaking your own words, THEN (and only then) you shall delight yourself in the Lord (learn how REAL He can be in your day to day existence)…..the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (See Isaiah 58:13-14).So which day of the week is called the Lord’s Day in both Old and New Testaments? The seventh day of the week, the Sabbath, NOT the first day of the week, Sunday. In no other area of human endeavor is Satan’s blinding power more obvious than in his deceptive working to deceive unsuspecting men and women to abandon God’s seventh day eternal Sabbath for Sunday observance! This is the one error where Satan has been able to unite almost all, but not all, professing Christians to come to agreement, from Roman Catholics to Reformers, from Amish to Baptists, from Pentecostals to Presbyterians. Satan deceives multitudes into thinking Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, when the scriptures clearly reveal that when the women got to the tomb of Jesus while it was yet dark they found Jesus already gone! And the scriptures also plainly show that He had come out of the tomb at sunset the day before, as the preceding Sabbath came to a close. Of course He was gone when the disciples arrived at the tomb Sunday morning. He had been resurrected roughly twelve hours before!!! To be continued…..
- Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
- Donald Wiley
