00:00this is Jay Carper and in this video we're going to talk about whether the
00:05Sabbath might have been moved to Sunday let me read from Acts chapter 20 verses
00:137 on the first day of the week when we were gathered together to break bread
00:17there are several times in the book of Acts that the disciples are recorded as
00:23meeting on the first day of the week but meeting on the first day of the week
00:28doesn't say anything about whether that day is the Sabbath they could have met
00:33on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday and other places in Scripture said that they
00:38did meet every day of the week so this doesn't really have anything to do with
00:43the debate in fact the book of Acts also shows that the Apostles continued to go
00:49to the temple after Jesus resurrection even after Pentecost and they continued
00:55to go to the synagogue on the weekly Sabbath it was Paul's habit to go to the
01:01synagogue every Sabbath everywhere he traveled and while there he would talk
01:06to both Jews and Gentiles about Jesus in part of course he went there because
01:11that's when most people were there but the synagogues were also like community
01:16centers there were people there every day of the week but Paul didn't go to the
01:22synagogue on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday he went there on the weekly Sabbath
01:29keeping the Sabbath is the fourth commandment out of the Ten Commandments
01:33and idolatry adultery and murder none of these things are redefined in the New
01:38Covenant so why should we think the Sabbath would be any different especially
01:44when there isn't one single explicit statement anywhere in the Bible that says
01:49the Sabbath was moved from the seventh day to the first day another verse that
01:55people frequently go to to show that the Sabbath has been moved from the seventh
01:59day to the first day is revelation 110 in this verse John says I was in the
02:06spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet people
02:13often assume that this term the Lord's day refers to Sunday and it's true that
02:19some of the early church fathers used it that way but this is actually the only
02:25time that that phrase is used anywhere in the Bible and it's not defined John
02:30just says he was in the spirit on the Lord's day even today though many people
02:36disagree about what this phrase means some people say it refers to the weekly
02:41Sabbath some people say it refers to Sunday or possibly to the prophetic day
02:46of the Lord that great and terrible day of judgment at the end of time the phrase
02:52in Revelation 110 is kuriaki hemera in the Greek it literally means the Lord's day
03:00but there's another phrase that's used five times in the New Testament day of the
03:06Lord and in Greek it's hemera kurios it always refers to the end times and the
03:12difference between kuriaki hemera and hemera kurios is exactly the same as the
03:18difference in English between the Lord's day and the day of the Lord they
03:23essentially mean exactly the same thing from the context of Revelation 1 I don't
03:29know whether John really means the Sabbath Sunday or the great and terrible day of the Lord I
03:35think that all of those are plausible but none of them can be proved from this verse
03:40even if it refers to Sunday it doesn't say anything at all about changing the
03:47Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day people began to call Sunday the
03:53Lord's day because it's the day that Jesus resurrected from the grave essentially he
03:59resurrected on the eighth day of the week and eight in the Bible represents new
04:05beginnings and elevation from normal citizenship to priesthood or from the
04:12unclean status of a leper back to citizenship the first day of the week is
04:17significant because it's the eighth day on which the Messiah resurrected but that
04:23has nothing to do with whether it's the Sabbath or not this is Exodus 32 1 when
04:31the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain the people
04:35gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him up make us gods who shall go
04:40before us this was less than 40 days from God speaking directly to all the
04:46people from the top of Mount Sinai in less than two months the Hebrews fell away
04:52into idolatry and this wasn't unusual this happens all throughout human history it
04:59happened again when they crossed the Jordan River into the promised land they
05:03had just spent 40 years in the wilderness in the presence of God being fed by
05:08miraculous manna and quail with a pillar of fire and smoke right there in the
05:13middle of the camp and yet the Israelites fell away in a single generation
05:18after crossing the Jordan River into the promised land and this happened again in
05:23the New Testament Paul visited the Corinthians and established a
05:28congregation there but then just a few years later he had to bring them back
05:32again because they had drifted so far from his instructions this isn't just a
05:38Jewish thing this is a human thing this is how all people behave if they are not
05:45constantly reminded of God's commandments and God's ways they start
05:49following their own ways were the church fathers in exception to normal human
05:55behavior I think we should actually be shocked if they didn't fall away very
06:01quickly after the first Apostles by the middle of the second century most
06:06Christian churches were keeping a first day Sabbath instead of the seventh day the
06:11primary motive for this was to separate themselves from the Jews they didn't
06:17want Rome to think they were one of those people so they decided to keep their
06:22Sabbath on a different day they started celebrating Passover on a different day
06:27they stopped keeping God's Commandments because they didn't want to look
06:31Jewish but this wasn't true of all believers many believers kept keeping the
06:38seventh-day Sabbath they kept keeping Passover on the same day that the Bible
06:43says to do it in fact at the very end of the fourth century the Council of
06:48Laodicea had to order people to stop Judaizing as they called it by keeping
06:54God's commanded seventh-day Sabbath they commanded the people to keep man-made
07:00traditions instead of the commandments of God exactly the opposite of what the
07:05Bible says to do Amos 3 7 says for Adonai Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh does nothing
07:14without revealing his secret to his servants the prophet remember that I
07:19pointed out way back at the beginning of this series that the Sabbath is of
07:23paramount importance to God Exodus 31 13 says you are to speak to the people of
07:31Israel and say above all you shall keep my Sabbaths for this is a sign between me
07:37and you throughout your generations that you may know that I Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh
07:42sanctify you but if the Sabbath is so important to God shouldn't there be some
07:48hint somewhere in the Bible that he was going to change it from the seventh day
07:52to the first day after Jesus resurrection but there isn't no prophet ever
07:58hinted that God would change the Sabbath day however there is one prophet that
08:04said someone else would try to change it in Daniel 7 25 it says he shall speak
08:12words against the Most High and shall wear out the Saints of the Most High and
08:16shall think to change the times and the law and they shall be given into his hand
08:21for a time times and a half time Daniel said an evil king would come to try to
08:27change God's appointed times and the law on the one hand keeping the Sabbath is of
08:34paramount importance to God and on the other hand destroying the Sabbath is of
08:40paramount importance to this Antichrist figure so which side of this equation do
08:45you want to be on Exodus 28 says remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy most
08:54Christians have no problem keeping most of the Ten Commandments they believe in
09:00keeping the commandments against idolatry murder adultery covetousness most
09:06Christians keep all nine out of the Ten Commandments or at least they try to but
09:12what about this one many Christians believe they're trying to keep the
09:16Sabbath by keeping it on Sunday instead of Saturday but nowhere in Scripture does
09:21God say that that's what we're supposed to do he said keep it on the seventh day
09:26and never said anything about the first day the Sabbath is the only one of the Ten
09:32Commandments that says remember and it's the only one of the Ten Commandments
09:37that the church tells us to forget this is Jay Carper from americantorah.com and
09:45commonsensebiblestudy.com in the next video we're going to talk about an
09:51interpretation of the Sabbath that you might not have heard of before
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