What is the difference between worshiping God on a Saturday or a Sunday, or for that matter any other day of the week? What does time have to do with anything? Have you ever wondered how and why time got divided into seven day segments? Why not eight day segments? Or ten day segments? Why is time divided into seven day segments the world over? In China the year is 4722. In the Jewish calendar it is 5784. In Islam it is the year 1446. Yet all have weeks divided into seven days!!
The solar year is explained by the amount of time it takes for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun. The length of a month is determined by the amount of time it takes for there to be two new, or full, moons. A day is computed by the length of time that elapses from one sunset to another sunset. But where and how did mankind get the idea of dividing time into seven day cycles. The answer: From the creation story alone! There is no astronomical reason for it as there is for determining a year or a month or the length of a day!
Genesis One gives us our first seven day week, and the fact that God rested on the seventh day points up the fact quite eloquently that God is the Creator of all that exists. God’s sabbath declares that God is the Creator. The keeping of His hallowed sabbath reminds mankind on a weekly basis that we do have a Creator, that evolution is a myth, and that the only true God is the God that created all things that exist. No other day of the week serves this purpose. Sunday does not serve this purpose but only commemorates the first day of God’s creative work, when God said, “Let there be light” and divided the light from the darkness. (See Genesis 1:3-5). (Many erroneously think Sunday commemorates Christ’s resurrection. But this, too, is error as when the women arrived at the tomb early Sunday morning while it was still dark they found that Christ had already arisen from the dead! See Matthew 28:1-8; Mark 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-9 and John 20:1-9. Jesus had arisen at the conclusion of the sabbath many hours before, the exact time He said He would come out of the tomb). To be continued…
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley