Have you ever wondered if the modern way of worship matches the original pattern that was laid down? In this eye-opening teaching, we will uncover the forgotten history of the Sabbath in the early years after the Apostles and discover how centuries of tradition may have reshaped what believers think they know about biblical worship.
If you have ever wondered whether modern church tradition fully reflects the faith and practice of the earliest disciples, this teaching will challenge assumptions, strengthen your understanding of Scripture, and equip you with historical knowledge that many believers have never been taught. We believe the truth matters and we are committed to being “God Honest” about history, Scripture, and the faith that was first delivered to the saints.
Whether you are new to studying the Sabbath or searching for deeper biblical understanding, this video will give you valuable insight into the early history of the early church. You’ll gain fresh insight that challenges common assumptions and answers long-held questions. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the sabbath in the first 500 centuries.
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00:06:25 1st Century
00:22:58 Judean & Jewish Rebellions
00:33:16 2nd Century
00:41:28 Roman Paganism
00:46:00 4th Century
01:05:44 5th Century
01:09:06 Summary
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If you have ever wondered whether modern church tradition fully reflects the faith and practice of the earliest disciples, this teaching will challenge assumptions, strengthen your understanding of Scripture, and equip you with historical knowledge that many believers have never been taught. We believe the truth matters and we are committed to being “God Honest” about history, Scripture, and the faith that was first delivered to the saints.
Whether you are new to studying the Sabbath or searching for deeper biblical understanding, this video will give you valuable insight into the early history of the early church. You’ll gain fresh insight that challenges common assumptions and answers long-held questions. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the sabbath in the first 500 centuries.
Don’t forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and click the bell icon so you don’t miss our next teaching!
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Video Chapters:
00:00:00 Teaching Introduction
00:00:52 Video Start
00:02:03 Series Overview
00:06:25 1st Century
00:22:58 Judean & Jewish Rebellions
00:33:16 2nd Century
00:41:28 Roman Paganism
00:46:00 4th Century
01:05:44 5th Century
01:09:06 Summary
Resources from God Honest Truth:
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00:00:01What if I told you that the day of rest you observe right now is based on a historic deception?
00:00:09Interesting, isn't it?
00:00:10But the history of the Sabbath goes much further than what you may think.
00:00:14It's not an unbroken line all the way from the time of Jesus and the apostles.
00:00:19There's a lot more that goes into it, a lot of fiery stuff.
00:00:23So stay tuned for this episode in our Shabbat series on exposing the historical truth, the God-honest truth, about
00:00:32Shabbat or the Sabbath in the early centuries.
00:00:53So this teaching is going to be all about Shabbat and our continuing series on the Shabbat.
00:00:59This episode is going to be Shabbat in the early centuries, and there's going to be a lot of information
00:01:03coming your way.
00:01:04And we had to cut out a bunch of stuff, like always, for the sake of time.
00:01:09But if you want even more information, by all means go forth and do your own research above and beyond
00:01:14what you learn here.
00:01:15But we've also provided you a lot more notes on our website.
00:01:19If you go to our website and click on the article post for this particular episode, you'll be able to
00:01:24get the on-demand video, the draw slides you see here on your screen.
00:01:28We had some academic research reports generated from AI that will be available to you as well.
00:01:35And we've also got our own notes that we provided for you up there on the website.
00:01:40And it's all right there on one convenient article post on our website at GodHonestTruth.com.
00:01:45We've also provided a convenient link down below in the description, and you just click on that link.
00:01:51It'll take you directly to that specific article post.
00:01:54And it should be down there in the description, whether you're watching on a video platform or an audio podcasting
00:02:00platform.
00:02:00It should still be down there all the same.
00:02:03Now, let's do a quick overview real quick, since it has been a little bit since we did our last
00:02:07episode.
00:02:08Just to go over the purpose and what this series is all about, what we're going to be covering, what
00:02:13we're not going to be covering, stuff like that.
00:02:15Number one, there are multiple Sabbaths that are spoken of when we read throughout Scripture.
00:02:20These are things like the weekly Sabbath, the festival Sabbath, otherwise known as Shabbatons, like you get with Passover or
00:02:28Pesach, like you get with Shavuot, which is coming up here.
00:02:31What you also get with things like Yom Kippurim, Sukkot, etc., etc.
00:02:36These are Sabbaths in addition to the weekly Sabbath, but we're not going to be talking about the festival Sabbath.
00:02:42This episode and this series is going to be concerning the weekly seventh-day Sabbath.
00:02:49There's also another kind of Sabbath called the seven-year Sabbath, or the seventh-year Sabbath, which is also referred
00:02:55to as the Shemitah.
00:02:56Then there's the Yovel or the Jubilee, which is the 50th-year Sabbath.
00:03:01Now, in this series, we broke it up into separate parts just so we could go into much further detail
00:03:08and keep it easier to digest.
00:03:10The first episode, we looked at Shabbat in the Tanakh.
00:03:13We looked at Shabbat and the Brit Hadashah in the last episode, and episode number two.
00:03:19This episode, we're looking at Shabbat in the early centuries.
00:03:22And again, the scope here is going to be from about 30 CE until about 500 CE.
00:03:29Next time, we're going to be looking at Shabbat and the Reformation and also some other stuff that doesn't really
00:03:35fit in any of the other episodes here.
00:03:37Now, you've got a lot of things you've been watching.
00:03:40You've got a lot of things in your mind.
00:03:41You're thinking about, well, what about this or what about that?
00:03:44And we haven't answered it yet, but we will.
00:03:46We're going to get to that.
00:03:47So just make sure to stay tuned.
00:03:48And most of that is probably going to come up in episode five.
00:03:51We will look at arguments for Sunday or arguments for Sunday as the Sabbath.
00:03:57Then finally, in our last episode, we're going to be looking at the lunar Sabbath and what that's all about,
00:04:04where it comes from, who believes it, all that good stuff.
00:04:07So if you want to know what the lunar Sabbath is, make sure to check it out when we do
00:04:13that.
00:04:13And also the form of the faithful, when we have that as well, we can learn even more than what
00:04:18we present in our teaching there.
00:04:21Now, some terminology that we're going to be using throughout this particular series, if you're not used to the way
00:04:27that those of us within the Messianic mindset kind of think.
00:04:30Number one, Shabbat is going to be a word that we use a lot, obviously, in this Sabbath series.
00:04:35And Shabbat is simply the Hebrew word for Sabbath.
00:04:38That's where we get our English word Sabbath anyways.
00:04:42Anyways, the Shabbat or Sabbath in the Bible goes from Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown.
00:04:50There's also the word Shabbaton, and as we intimated a little bit earlier, Shabbaton is one of these festival Sabbaths,
00:04:57like occurs on Passover or Yom Kippurim or Sukkot, etc., etc., stuff like that.
00:05:02These are usually sometimes referred to as high days, as we see in the Gospel of John, when it talks
00:05:09about Passover being a high Sabbath.
00:05:13It's also sometimes referred to as a minor Sabbath, and a festival Sabbath, like we actually used the term, you
00:05:21know, just like five seconds ago.
00:05:23Anyways, the word Tanakh.
00:05:25If those of you who have not heard the word Tanakh before, that is an acronym meaning Torah, Nevaim, and
00:05:31Ketuvim.
00:05:31And that stands for the Torah, obviously, Nevaim, which is the prophets, and the Ketuvim, which is the writings.
00:05:39And that goes into the one acronym, Tanakh.
00:05:43What is the Tanakh?
00:05:44Well, the Tanakh is what most within mainstream churchianity call the Old Testament.
00:05:49The Old Testament, Tanakh, same, same.
00:05:52Then we got, sorry, there we go.
00:05:55Then we got the term Brit Hadashat.
00:05:58This is a term, just like Tanakh, but it's the flip side of that.
00:06:02Brit Hadashat means renewed covenant, and those within mainstream churchianity refer to it as New Testament.
00:06:10So either Brit Hadashat, Messianic writings, the New Testament, the renewed covenant, or whatever you want to call it.
00:06:18It's all the same, same.
00:06:19Brit Hadashat or New Testament.
00:06:21Whatever term you use, it's all referring to the same books.
00:06:25So now getting into our teaching, and we're going to do this in more of a linear fashion, starting with
00:06:31each of the different centuries.
00:06:33We go through the first, the second.
00:06:35We don't do the third, just for the sake of time.
00:06:37We skip some of that.
00:06:39Then we go to the fourth and the fifth, and also some additional information in there to help in your
00:06:44understanding of this whole process, what happened, what was going on, that kind of thing.
00:06:49So we're going to start out with the first century, and looking at Shabbat in the first century.
00:06:54So just to recap, and to put this in the context of the first century, because that's when it happened,
00:06:59we look in the Brit Hadashat, and we look at Luke chapter 4, verses 14 through 16.
00:07:05And Yeshua returned in the power of the Spirit to Galil, and news of him went out through all the
00:07:10surrounding country, and he was teaching in their congregations, being praised by all.
00:07:15And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and according to his practice, he went into the
00:07:20congregation on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
00:07:24Now, why is this important?
00:07:26Well, obviously, you should just get it just from hearing it itself, but this very last part right here, I've
00:07:31highlighted part of it, but the important part here is that it was Yeshua's custom to go to the congregation
00:07:38or to the synagogue or even to the temple on the Sabbath.
00:07:43It was his custom to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:07:47Yeah, it was the custom of Yeshua to observe and keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:07:52Going on, we see other people doing the exact same thing.
00:07:56We see Paul in the book of Acts, and it says here in Acts 17, verse 2,
00:08:01And according to his practice, Shaul went in unto them, and for three Sabbaths was reasoning with them from the
00:08:08Scriptures.
00:08:08So here we see it was also the custom or the practice of Shaul to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:08:15When it talks about Sabbath in the Bible, wherever you're looking at, whether it's the Tanakh, whether it's the Berhadashah,
00:08:23whether it's the Old Testament, New Testament, et cetera, et cetera,
00:08:25when it says the word Sabbath, it means the seventh day.
00:08:29That is undisputed.
00:08:30Everyone agrees with that.
00:08:32And here we can see it was Shaul's practice.
00:08:35It was Yeshua's practice and custom to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:08:39Now, after the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua, if things had changed in the Bible, if things had changed
00:08:45during that time,
00:08:46you would have thought that Paul, the number one super apostle of mainstream churchianity nowadays,
00:08:53he would have said, hey, guys, knock it off.
00:08:55We're doing this on another day, a different day now, because it's all been fulfilled, right?
00:09:01But no, we don't see him doing that.
00:09:03Even after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Yeshua, decades later, we still see Shaul keeping the seventh-day
00:09:11Sabbath,
00:09:12because that's what they were doing, that's what they were taught, that's what they were commanded.
00:09:16They didn't know any other different.
00:09:19Paul did not know any different.
00:09:20He was not told any different.
00:09:21He did not think any different.
00:09:22He did not think the seventh-day Sabbath had been done away with.
00:09:25He didn't get the memo, I guess.
00:09:28He still kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:09:30And we see that from the scriptural evidence right here.
00:09:33Yeshua kept the seventh-day Sabbath, as was his custom.
00:09:36Paul kept the seventh-day Sabbath, as was his custom.
00:09:39And that's the pattern that we see.
00:09:41We also see other people within Scripture doing the same thing,
00:09:45and it was actually prescribed that they do that as well.
00:09:49We look in Acts 15, verses 19-21.
00:09:52Therefore, I judge that we should not trouble those from among the nations who are turning to Elohim,
00:09:57but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols and from whoring and from what is
00:10:02strangled and from blood.
00:10:04For from ancient generations, Moshe has in every city those proclaiming him being read in the congregations every Sabbath, every
00:10:13Shabbat.
00:10:14Once again, when it says Sabbath, what does it mean?
00:10:16It means the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:10:19So here, they're prescribing for new converts to go to the congregation, the synagogue, the temple, wherever it may be,
00:10:28on the Sabbath.
00:10:29Because that was the day that everyone gathered together to hear the reading of the Torah and to hear the
00:10:34teaching of the Torah, etc., etc.
00:10:37And if that wasn't so, they would not have said, well, the Torah and the Scriptures being read every Sabbath,
00:10:43they would have said on some other day.
00:10:45They would have said, okay, well, now everything's changed.
00:10:48It's going to be on the first day of the week, and they should go there to hear it read
00:10:51on the first day of the week.
00:10:53But that's not what they said.
00:10:54That's not what they prescribed.
00:10:55That's not what they were commanded or taught.
00:10:58They did not get the memo either, obviously.
00:11:00But yeah, the Jerusalem Council here is advising new converts to go to the congregations on the Sabbath
00:11:09because everyone else is keeping the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:11:12Everyone is gathering on the seventh-day Sabbath at the synagogues, at the temple, at these different congregations.
00:11:20Like I said, for some reason, the Jerusalem Council didn't get the memo either.
00:11:25If we don't see Yeshua doing a different day, we don't see Paul or the believers in the Brit Hadashah
00:11:34keeping a different day than the Sabbath, but where does it come in at?
00:11:39Well, let's go ahead and continue through the rest of the first century here.
00:11:45So we're going to get out of Scripture now and look at some of the secular writings
00:11:51and what we see from outside of the apostolic times after the time of the apostles.
00:11:56And the first one we're going to look at, still within the first century here,
00:12:00or at least where I've placed at the end of the first century, is something called the Didache.
00:12:05And this is going to be some very interesting stuff right here.
00:12:07This is something that's brought up a lot of times for those who are trying to defend Sunday as the
00:12:12Sabbath.
00:12:12So let's look at that real quick.
00:12:15Here in Didache chapter 14, verse 1, this is a common translation here, but it says,
00:12:21But on the Lord's day, after that you have assembled together, break bread and give thanks,
00:12:25having in addition confessed your sins, that your sacrifice may be pure.
00:12:31Now one thing to note also is what Scripture tells us, and keep this in mind too.
00:12:36In Acts chapter 2, verses 46 through 47, it says,
00:12:39And day by day, continuing with one mind in the set-apart place,
00:12:43and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
00:12:48praising Elohim and having favor with all the people,
00:12:50and the Master added to the assembly those who were being saved day by day.
00:12:54Again, it says here in the book of Acts,
00:12:57Day by day they were continuing and breaking bread from house to house, every single day.
00:13:02It wasn't just one day of the week, it was every single day.
00:13:05Notice what it doesn't say.
00:13:06It does not say that they were resting or anything like that.
00:13:10Nothing like the Sabbath that we see commanded in Scripture.
00:13:14But going back to the Didache, I want to read that one more time.
00:13:17It says,
00:13:17But on the Lord's day, after that you have assembled together,
00:13:20break bread and give thanks, having in addition confessed your sins,
00:13:24that your sacrifice may be pure.
00:13:26End quote.
00:13:27Now, a lot of times people who are pro-Sunday are trying to defend Sunday as the Sabbath,
00:13:31and they're bringing up this part in the Didache,
00:13:33they'll say, well, here they're saying on the Lord's day,
00:13:36and they say that means Sunday,
00:13:38and they also say that proves that they were doing Sunday as the Sabbath
00:13:43by the end of the first century, early, early on in the church.
00:13:48But is that true?
00:13:50Well, let's get even deeper into the Didache here,
00:13:53especially this chapter 14, verse 1,
00:13:56and break down a lot of this.
00:13:58It's not going to be the whole thing, definitely,
00:14:00because we don't have time for that.
00:14:01But we'll look at a lot of it anyways.
00:14:03Number one, the Greek word for day is not present here in 14.1 of the Didache.
00:14:10Commonly is translated, but on the Lord's day.
00:14:13But the word day is not there.
00:14:16Now, some people actually say that, well, it's shorthand.
00:14:20It doesn't have to include the word day.
00:14:21The audience would have known they meant the Lord's day.
00:14:26Okay, that is a plausible answer,
00:14:31a plausible retort for that particular piece of evidence,
00:14:36but you're going to have to prove that.
00:14:38And I haven't seen that.
00:14:39When we see the word back in the Tanakh,
00:14:42and especially in the Septuagint,
00:14:43when we look at apocalyptic times,
00:14:46eschatology and stuff like that,
00:14:47end times prophecies,
00:14:48and it says the day of the Lord,
00:14:50that's referring to Armageddon,
00:14:52the end of days, stuff like that.
00:14:54And then in the book of Revelation,
00:14:56John actually uses the exact phrase,
00:14:59the Lord's day.
00:15:00He says, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.
00:15:03Here's the question.
00:15:04In the book of Revelation,
00:15:05is John actually referring to Sunday,
00:15:08the first day of the week?
00:15:10Or is he referring to the apocalypse or something different?
00:15:14In my opinion,
00:15:15I see Revelation and what John's referring to there as the Lord's day.
00:15:19I see that as him referring to the end times,
00:15:22because it's all,
00:15:25what do you call it?
00:15:26Eschatological work.
00:15:27Anyways,
00:15:28the book of Revelation is,
00:15:29but it's kind of makes sense to me,
00:15:31but there's other explanations too.
00:15:34We all read in the Bible,
00:15:37where Yeshua says he is Lord of the Sabbath.
00:15:41So when John uses it in Revelation,
00:15:44does the Lord's day mean the actual biblical Sabbath,
00:15:48or does it mean something different?
00:15:50Again,
00:15:51I'm of the opinion that when he says Lord day in Revelation,
00:15:54it actually means the,
00:15:58in the eschatological sense,
00:16:00the end of times,
00:16:01stuff like that.
00:16:03But does that mean that the people who wrote the Didache are also using it in that same exact sense?
00:16:09That's the question at hand here.
00:16:10But just have it known that the Greek word for day is not present in 14.1 here of the
00:16:16Didache.
00:16:17In fact,
00:16:17a literal translation from the Greek of this Didache,
00:16:21chapter 14,
00:16:22verse 1,
00:16:23is Lords of the Lord.
00:16:26Very
00:16:28peculiar
00:16:29way of saying things,
00:16:31but
00:16:31it was a different language,
00:16:32and they do things a little bit differently,
00:16:33so that's okay too.
00:16:35But let's know,
00:16:35here,
00:16:36the Greek,
00:16:37actually,
00:16:37a little translation is Lords of the Lord.
00:16:40Yeshua said that he,
00:16:40again,
00:16:41he said he is the Lord of the Sabbath.
00:16:43So,
00:16:43Lord's day has been
00:16:45put forth by some,
00:16:46at least in the early centuries there,
00:16:48like in the first century,
00:16:49maybe second century,
00:16:50that Lord's day may be referring to the seventh day Sabbath.
00:16:56Then,
00:16:56we also see that in Didache 13,
00:16:59and if you look in the notes,
00:17:00I've got links for all this too,
00:17:01you can go look it up for yourself,
00:17:02even the Greek itself.
00:17:03But in Didache 13,
00:17:05it closes with an exhortation to give according to the commandment.
00:17:10It's talking about the apostles that come,
00:17:12and what they're worthy of,
00:17:13stuff like that.
00:17:14It says,
00:17:14give according to the commandment.
00:17:16That's the last part of Didache 13,
00:17:18and then it starts in with Didache 14,
00:17:21one,
00:17:22but on the Lord's day.
00:17:23Now,
00:17:23keep that in mind,
00:17:25because here,
00:17:26the conjunction that's used in the Greek with Didache 14 is the Greek word day,
00:17:33but it can also be rendered that day,
00:17:35meaning according to.
00:17:37So,
00:17:37it can be translated at that point,
00:17:39according to the Lord's command,
00:17:43which would put it in sync and connect it with Didache 13.
00:17:48There's a lot of stuff that goes in here,
00:17:50and it's all based up to how you want to translate it.
00:17:52And,
00:17:52of course,
00:17:53there's lots of,
00:17:54you know,
00:17:54the grammar and the wording and all that stuff that goes,
00:17:57went to as far as translation goes.
00:18:00But,
00:18:01there's different ways to translate it,
00:18:03and people do translate it differently.
00:18:06In Didache 8.1,
00:18:07also,
00:18:07this is a very important part,
00:18:09at least in my mind,
00:18:10but in Didache 8.1,
00:18:11the Greek word,
00:18:12perescue,
00:18:13is used,
00:18:14which means preparation.
00:18:15You can look this up in the Brut Hadashah as well,
00:18:19and almost always in the scriptures,
00:18:22it means,
00:18:22excuse me,
00:18:23it means the day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath.
00:18:27You can see this a lot of times in scripture,
00:18:29and even sometimes,
00:18:31especially in the book of John,
00:18:33John 19.14 and verse 31 there,
00:18:36this word perescue is used as preparation day for the Passover as well,
00:18:44because they considered the first day of Passover to be a Sabbath.
00:18:47And,
00:18:48the day before that,
00:18:48they called the preparation day for the Passover.
00:18:52Very,
00:18:53very interesting.
00:18:54When you go look at that in John 19.14 and 31,
00:18:57it connects and shows that they considered Passover to be a type of Sabbath.
00:19:05Powerful stuff.
00:19:06Go check it out.
00:19:07But,
00:19:07anyways,
00:19:07continuing with this particular,
00:19:09Drosser's particular teaching.
00:19:11In other translations of the Didache in 14.1,
00:19:16I'm sorry,
00:19:17in 8.1,
00:19:18Didache 8.1,
00:19:20it says here,
00:19:20and let not your fastings be with the hypocrites,
00:19:23for they fast on the second and the fifth day of the week,
00:19:25but do you keep your fast on the fourth and on the preparation,
00:19:30meaning the sixth day.
00:19:32Another translation says this,
00:19:34let not your fast be with the hypocrites,
00:19:36for they fast on Mondays and Thursdays,
00:19:38but do you fast on Wednesdays and Fridays.
00:19:42So,
00:19:42here the Didache is advising people not to fast with the hypocrites.
00:19:46That's the referring to the Pharisees or maybe even the Jews in general.
00:19:52And they say that these people,
00:19:54what they call the hypocrites,
00:19:55fast on Mondays and Thursdays or the,
00:19:57let's say here,
00:19:59the second and fifth day of the week.
00:20:01Instead,
00:20:02it's advising Christian believers or Messianic believers to fast on Wednesdays and the preparation day or Friday.
00:20:08Now,
00:20:09why would they still call it the preparation day if they weren't keeping the seventh day Sabbath?
00:20:14So,
00:20:14I think this is further evidence to show that the Didache is not changing things around it.
00:20:19At that point in time,
00:20:20they were not keeping Sunday as the Sabbath.
00:20:24Now,
00:20:24certain groups may have been keeping Sunday in commemoration of the resurrection.
00:20:30We do see that at least later on,
00:20:33if not at this early as well.
00:20:35But they did not consider it to be the Sabbath.
00:20:38They did not consider it to be on par with the Sabbath.
00:20:40They did not consider it to be a replacement of the Sabbath.
00:20:43It's way too early,
00:20:45at least in my opinion,
00:20:46and you'll be able to see that as we go through the rest of the evidence tonight.
00:20:50Yeah,
00:20:51someone brings up information like this and they just read like one section out of a early writing.
00:20:56And they say,
00:20:57well,
00:20:57this proves my point.
00:20:59Don't accept that at face value.
00:21:01Go study it out for yourself.
00:21:03You can do a little bit of Greek on your own.
00:21:05There's lots of resources now.
00:21:08I mean,
00:21:08heck,
00:21:09we've got AI that can help you out now.
00:21:11So,
00:21:11go do your own research.
00:21:13Verify anything they're saying.
00:21:14Do some exegesis on your own.
00:21:17Verify if it's what they're saying or not.
00:21:19But there's a lot of issues with saying this verse or this section in Didache can only mean one thing.
00:21:27And especially if they say it means that the Didache is using the Sunday as the Sabbath and no longer
00:21:34Saturday.
00:21:35No,
00:21:35that's not true.
00:21:36Anyways,
00:21:37there are also other theories put forth as to what this could mean in the Didache and Didache 14.1.
00:21:44Other suggested possibilities are that the Lord's Day is referring to Passover.
00:21:49That is referring to the Saturday night Havdalah ceremony.
00:21:52For those of you who don't know,
00:21:54that is within Judaism.
00:21:56The Havdalah ceremony is the closing of the Sabbath.
00:21:59It's a special ceremony they do.
00:22:03And not to get into detail,
00:22:05but that's what Havdalah is.
00:22:06And then Yom Kippurim is another possibility put forth by some scholars for this section here in Didache 14.1.
00:22:15Personally,
00:22:16not to tell you what to believe,
00:22:18make up your own mind by all means.
00:22:19But just personally,
00:22:20what I would interpret this here in Didache 14.1 to be,
00:22:24would be according to the Lord's command.
00:22:27I think it just makes more sense in connecting with the flow of the Didache back with chapter 13.
00:22:33And it also comes together with being assembled together and breaking bread and confessing sins,
00:22:40et cetera,
00:22:41et cetera.
00:22:41It just makes a lot more sense to say or translate it as according to the Lord's command.
00:22:47But that's just my interpretation.
00:22:50Again,
00:22:51you do you do your own research and let me know if you come up with something different and also
00:22:56why that would be as well.
00:22:59So now one thing before we move on into the second century evidence here is looking at some of the
00:23:05Judean and Jewish rebellions that happened throughout time.
00:23:09Now,
00:23:09a lot of people know about what happened in 70 CE with the destruction of the temple and that kind
00:23:16of that's where it stops.
00:23:17That's where most people,
00:23:18they're understanding that that's where it ends.
00:23:21They don't know about these other rebellions.
00:23:24And for the entire context of our study on the Sabbath in early centuries,
00:23:30I do think this is important to understand and know about in order to get a better grasp on why
00:23:37things pivoted and went the way they did there in early centuries,
00:23:41or at least part of why.
00:23:44After the death of Herod the Great,
00:23:46you remember who Herod the Great was,
00:23:47right?
00:23:47Anyways,
00:23:48after the death of Herod the Great,
00:23:49there were multiple rebellions within Judea by the Judeans and the Jews.
00:23:56Number one,
00:23:57Judas,
00:23:58the son of Hezekiah,
00:23:59raided the royal palace at Sepphoris in Galilee.
00:24:02He seized weapons and led a guerrilla campaign against Rome.
00:24:05This is all within the scope of 4 BCE until 44 CE.
00:24:10Another event,
00:24:12Simon of Perea,
00:24:13a former slave,
00:24:14claimed the crown and led bands of rebels to burn down the royal palaces in Jericho and across the Jordan
00:24:20before he was killed.
00:24:23Athrongis,
00:24:23the shepherd set up a mock kingdom and waged a guerrilla war against both Roman troops and Herodian loyalties.
00:24:31The Jews,
00:24:32the Judeans,
00:24:33and those within Judaism,
00:24:35from the impression I get,
00:24:37they really did not like the Herodian dynasty from Herod the Great to his sons,
00:24:44et cetera,
00:24:44et cetera.
00:24:45So when these rebellions were a lot of times against both Rome and the Herod family.
00:24:51But another one,
00:24:53I'm sorry,
00:24:54eventually the Roman governor Publius Quintillus Verus marched south with three,
00:25:02three full legions brutally crushing the rebellion and crucifying approximately 2,000 insurgents around Jerusalem.
00:25:11These Romans liked their crucifixions.
00:25:13Yep.
00:25:14Apparently.
00:25:14But then in about 46 to 48,
00:25:18there was also another rebellion.
00:25:20This was the Jacob and Simon uprising.
00:25:24Then there was the first Jewish Roman war and that went from about 66 to about 73 CE.
00:25:31And that made Emperor Nero dispatch General Vespasian and his son Titus to crush the rebellion.
00:25:38And this is the one pretty much about everyone knows.
00:25:41They might not know the names,
00:25:42they might not know the dates,
00:25:43but they know what resulted from it.
00:25:45In 70 CE,
00:25:46Titus breached the walls of Jerusalem and burned and completely destroyed the second temple.
00:25:52Then you've got the second Jewish Roman war,
00:25:56and that was the Kitos war from 115 to 117 CE.
00:26:01And then you've got the third Roman Jewish war,
00:26:05and that was the Bar Chukba revolt from 132 to 136 CE.
00:26:11And this is actually very,
00:26:12very interesting because Bar Chukba was a figure that some even held up to be a messianic figure.
00:26:19Obviously not.
00:26:20But what I really find interesting is that during this revolt,
00:26:25Bar Chukba actually was able to set up an independent sovereign nation.
00:26:30And for about three years,
00:26:33and he ran the Romans out and they had their own sovereignty for about three years before the Romans finally
00:26:41came back and crushed them.
00:26:44And that was pretty much the end of any significant rebellion at that point.
00:26:49But it was this particular point that was the strong that broke the camel's back with Rome,
00:26:56because things really got tough for the Jews and the Judeans after that.
00:27:03The Fiscus Judaicus was something that was levied upon Jews.
00:27:08And this is the Jewish tax, Fiscus Judaicus.
00:27:12And it wasn't merely just an economic burden,
00:27:15but it was a profound religious insult aimed directly at those within Judaism because of all these revolts.
00:27:21And the Empire of Rome,
00:27:24when you kick them out and have your own sovereign nation for three years,
00:27:27that is embarrassing to Rome, right?
00:27:29So Rome came back and they,
00:27:31and well,
00:27:32this Fiscus Judaicus has been going on for a long time,
00:27:35but it kind of changed after Bar Chukba especially.
00:27:39But before the first Jewish Roman war,
00:27:41the one that saw the temple destroyed,
00:27:43this tax was something that every adult Jewish male would send every single year.
00:27:50It was a voluntary annual tax of half a shekel
00:27:53to support the daily sacrifices and upkeep of the temple in Jerusalem.
00:27:58But once Rome got thoroughly ticked off,
00:28:03this whole Fiscus Judaicus changed drastically and embarrassingly so.
00:28:09Following the destruction of the temple in 70 CE,
00:28:12the Emperor Vespasian instituted this tax as a punitive measure.
00:28:17Now you may be thinking,
00:28:19okay,
00:28:19if it's to upkeep the temple in Jerusalem,
00:28:22how is that punitive?
00:28:23Well,
00:28:23remember,
00:28:24after 70 CE,
00:28:25there is no temple in Jerusalem anymore.
00:28:27So why would they pay the tax?
00:28:29Because Rome is making them pay the tax.
00:28:31It was a Jewish tax.
00:28:33The Fiscus Judaicus.
00:28:34The half shekel that was once offered for the upkeep of Yahweh's temple
00:28:38was now forcibly seized to maintain the temple of Jupiter,
00:28:43capital Linus,
00:28:44the chief pagan god of Rome.
00:28:48So the annual tax,
00:28:50the annual contribution that these Jewish males would send to upkeep the temple every year,
00:28:56the temple of Yahweh,
00:28:57is now going to Rome to build and keep up a temple of paganism.
00:29:03Think about how humiliating that would be.
00:29:08So yeah,
00:29:08it got worse than that.
00:29:10Because then Emperor Vespasian established the tax,
00:29:13but it was his younger son who eventually came to power,
00:29:16Domitian,
00:29:17who turned the Fiscus Judaicus into an absolute terror and extortion.
00:29:21The tax was expanded to include anyone living apparently like the Jews.
00:29:27If you look Jewish,
00:29:28if you're living in a way that looked like you were Jewish,
00:29:30then you got taxed.
00:29:32Things like observing the Sabbath,
00:29:34dietary regulations,
00:29:35dietary laws,
00:29:36wearing zitzit,
00:29:37et cetera,
00:29:38et cetera.
00:29:38And it did not matter what your ethnicity was.
00:29:41Those who attempted to conceal their Judean origins to avoid the tax,
00:29:45those were also taxed as well.
00:29:48And Suetonius records that Roman officials would publicly strip elderly men
00:29:54to search for circumcision,
00:29:56another thing that would make you look like you were Jewish,
00:30:00for circumcision in order to verify if they owed the tax.
00:30:04Now,
00:30:04keep this in mind.
00:30:06The tax was intended to go toward Jews and those within Judaism,
00:30:12not necessarily towards the Messianics,
00:30:15the Christians,
00:30:16right?
00:30:16But at this point in time,
00:30:19just the way they lived,
00:30:21it was hard to tell.
00:30:22You would actually have to know some of their doctrines and their theology to tell the difference.
00:30:27But the early Christians,
00:30:29the early Messianics,
00:30:29they kept the Sabbath.
00:30:30They wore zitzit.
00:30:32They probably wore talits.
00:30:34They did circumcision.
00:30:36They ate kosher.
00:30:38So if you're out in Rome and there's no ID cards,
00:30:42right?
00:30:43You're out in Rome,
00:30:44you're looking at someone,
00:30:45the way they're living their life or taking off on the Sabbath.
00:30:48They're got zitzit on.
00:30:49You're going to think they're Jewish,
00:30:50but they could be a Messianic or a Christian.
00:30:54So they were getting harassed by the officials as well for this Fiscus Judaicus.
00:31:01Eventually,
00:31:02Dalmatian was assassinated in 96 CE.
00:31:05His successor,
00:31:06Emperor Nerva,
00:31:08drastically reformed the Fiscus Judaicus in a positive way.
00:31:11It did not get abolished,
00:31:13but it did get positively reformed,
00:31:15or at least in my opinion.
00:31:17He put an end to the invasive physical inspections
00:31:20and the widespread practice of false accusations.
00:31:23He limited this tax strictly to those who openly practiced Judaism,
00:31:28relieving converts and ethnic Judeans who did not practice the faith.
00:31:32Otherwise,
00:31:33Jews who were non-practicing Jews,
00:31:36they were just Jews ethnically speaking,
00:31:39but not religiously speaking.
00:31:41To commemorate this act,
00:31:43Nerva created a bronze Sestertius coin that stated,
00:31:51Fiscus Judaica Columnia Sablata,
00:31:54the extortion of the Jewish tax has been abolished.
00:31:57That's what that means.
00:31:58However,
00:31:59the tax itself,
00:32:00the Fiscus Judaicus,
00:32:02endured for nearly two more centuries.
00:32:06So just to recap real quick,
00:32:08the Judeans,
00:32:10those living within the nation of Israel,
00:32:16natively anyways,
00:32:17and those who were practicing Judaism,
00:32:21they rebelled several times.
00:32:23I'm not going to say it's right or it's wrong.
00:32:24No one wants to live under the occupation of a foreign government.
00:32:28So it's understandable,
00:32:29but you know,
00:32:30it's Rome.
00:32:31You get your butt kicked when you try to go against Rome.
00:32:34But anyways,
00:32:35this made Rome irritated and they put out this Fiscus Judaicus and just,
00:32:41it was intended to go toward the Jews,
00:32:44those within Judaism,
00:32:45but it unfortunately and probably unintentionally went and applied to even those within Messianic,
00:32:54with a Messianic mindset,
00:32:56who are Christians,
00:32:57everybody who want to say it,
00:32:58same,
00:32:59same.
00:33:00So keep that in mind.
00:33:01That's where we're at here at the end of the first century and really about the middle of the second
00:33:07century,
00:33:08more realistically speaking.
00:33:09But that's the context for this particular study.
00:33:13So keep that in mind as we go through the rest of this.
00:33:16Now,
00:33:17moving on into the second century,
00:33:19we see Ignatius's letter to the Magnesians or the epistle to the Magnesians.
00:33:26And here he says,
00:33:27quote,
00:33:28if therefore those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a
00:33:32new hope,
00:33:33no longer observing the Sabbath,
00:33:35but living in the observance of the Lord's day on which also our life has sprung up again by him
00:33:40and by his death.
00:33:42End quote.
00:33:43Now,
00:33:44this is a second century writing,
00:33:45and it is a lot of times brought up to promote the theory that Sunday was being observed early on
00:33:56in the Messianic congregation back in the early centuries there.
00:34:01However,
00:34:02there's a lot that goes into this as well.
00:34:04At face value,
00:34:05it does seem like a contradiction between the Sabbath and Sunday or the first day of the week,
00:34:12which about this time started being referred to as Lord's day.
00:34:18It does seem like that,
00:34:19but I'm going to leave it right there.
00:34:22Just like with the Didache,
00:34:23go do your own research.
00:34:25Look this up.
00:34:25It's not what it seems to be,
00:34:27especially that word day.
00:34:30Again,
00:34:30it's missing there,
00:34:31and it doesn't say in the Greek,
00:34:33in the original Greek where Ignatius wrote it,
00:34:35it does not say observance of the Lord's day.
00:34:38That's something different,
00:34:39but I'm going to challenge you for once.
00:34:41If you've had that before,
00:34:43this is going to be your first time.
00:34:44I'll challenge you to go look deeper into this,
00:34:46especially in the Greek,
00:34:48and there's a lot of information in the notes and in the research reports.
00:34:52You can go check those out,
00:34:54learn about that as well.
00:34:55But,
00:34:56this is,
00:34:57give you a little hint,
00:34:58this is not abolishing the Shabbat,
00:35:01nothing like that.
00:35:02Anyways,
00:35:03that's for you,
00:35:04homework,
00:35:05if you will.
00:35:06Let's go on.
00:35:06We've got something different here.
00:35:08This is Justin Martyr,
00:35:10and this is going to be very interesting too,
00:35:11because Justin,
00:35:12I think,
00:35:12is a very interesting character.
00:35:15He is,
00:35:16in my opinion,
00:35:18rabidly anti-Semitic,
00:35:19and,
00:35:21it shows.
00:35:22You'll see it in his writings,
00:35:23and some of these right here.
00:35:25Anyways,
00:35:26he writes in his dialogue with Trifo,
00:35:28in chapter 18,
00:35:29he says here,
00:35:30quote,
00:35:30for we too would observe the fleshly circumcision and the Sabbaths,
00:35:34and in short,
00:35:34all the feasts,
00:35:35if we did not know for what reason they were enjoined to you,
00:35:39namely,
00:35:39on account of your transgressions,
00:35:41and the hardness of your hearts,
00:35:43end quote.
00:35:44So here,
00:35:45Justin is telling this Jew,
00:35:47Trifo,
00:35:48that the Sabbath,
00:35:50along with other things,
00:35:51are a punishment
00:35:54on the Jews.
00:35:56And that's why Justin doesn't keep the Sabbath,
00:35:59and those,
00:36:00supposedly those that he congregates with,
00:36:03don't keep the Sabbath,
00:36:04and other things.
00:36:07So,
00:36:08how does that sound to you,
00:36:09when you think about everything that you read in the Bible,
00:36:13about the Sabbath?
00:36:14Does that line up,
00:36:15Justin's thinking here,
00:36:16and what he wrote,
00:36:17does that line up with what we see in Scripture?
00:36:19No.
00:36:21The Sabbath in Scripture is a blessing,
00:36:23not a curse,
00:36:24not a punishment,
00:36:25is a blessing.
00:36:27And,
00:36:27Justin here,
00:36:28is making it out to be a punishment,
00:36:30as a curse for,
00:36:32what he says here,
00:36:33the Jewish transgressions,
00:36:35and the hardness of their hearts.
00:36:36This isn't the only place he says it.
00:36:38He goes on,
00:36:39in that same dialogue with Trifo,
00:36:41in chapter 21,
00:36:42and he says here,
00:36:43quote,
00:36:44moreover,
00:36:44that God enjoined you to keep the Sabbath,
00:36:46and impose on you,
00:36:47other precepts for a sign,
00:36:49as I have already said,
00:36:50on account of your unrighteousness,
00:36:52and that of your fathers,
00:36:55end quote.
00:36:56So again,
00:36:58this is why I kind of agree with some of the people,
00:37:00that say that this dialogue with Trifo,
00:37:02is something that he made up,
00:37:04and it wasn't an actual conversation.
00:37:05I believe that,
00:37:06because,
00:37:07oh my gosh,
00:37:08some of the stuff he says,
00:37:10just get him smacked in the head,
00:37:11in my opinion.
00:37:13But keep in mind that Justin Martyr,
00:37:16his last name wasn't Martyr,
00:37:17by the way,
00:37:17it's just because he was Martyr,
00:37:18but Justin Martyr was a,
00:37:22someone who was from a Gentile background,
00:37:26and he was also a Platonist,
00:37:28and then he came into the faith.
00:37:31So keep all that in mind,
00:37:33I really think that definitely influences,
00:37:36the writings that he puts out.
00:37:39But anyways,
00:37:39these two different sections right here,
00:37:41that we put forth,
00:37:42he's calling the Sabbath a punishment,
00:37:44a transgression,
00:37:46a curse upon the Jewish people,
00:37:48because of their unrighteousness,
00:37:50and that's the case for why,
00:37:51he and others that he knows,
00:37:54does not keep the Sabbath,
00:37:57the seventh day Sabbath.
00:37:58Notice as we go through,
00:37:59these different writings,
00:38:00these different examples from history,
00:38:03even though some of these people,
00:38:05do eventually go to the first day,
00:38:07as a Sabbath,
00:38:08they still make a distinction,
00:38:10and they call the seventh day,
00:38:11the Sabbath,
00:38:12they call the first day,
00:38:14the Lord's Day.
00:38:15They still know the seventh day,
00:38:17is the Sabbath,
00:38:17but they just try to ignore it,
00:38:19and it really doesn't work.
00:38:20But even in these writings,
00:38:22like we see with the Bible,
00:38:25Sabbath means seventh day.
00:38:27So keep that in mind.
00:38:29Anyways,
00:38:29one last example from Justin Martyr,
00:38:31here in his first apology,
00:38:32chapter 67,
00:38:33he writes,
00:38:34But Sunday is the first day on which we all hold our common assembly,
00:38:38because it is the first day on which God,
00:38:40having wrought a change in the darkness and matter,
00:38:43made the world.
00:38:44And Jesus Christ our Savior on that same day rose from the dead,
00:38:48for he was crucified on the day before that of Saturn,
00:38:52meaning Saturday,
00:38:53and on the day after that of Saturn,
00:38:55which is the day of the sun,
00:38:57having appeared to his apostles and disciples,
00:39:00he taught them these things,
00:39:02which we have submitted to you also for your consideration,
00:39:04end quote.
00:39:07A couple things here.
00:39:09Number one,
00:39:10this proves that the,
00:39:13again,
00:39:15Justin Martyr understands that the seventh day,
00:39:18what he's calling here Saturday,
00:39:20is the Sabbath.
00:39:22And he's under the impression that Yeshua died on Friday.
00:39:29Go back and look at our Pesach and our Easter teachings.
00:39:32We prove to you and show to you from scripture that did not happen.
00:39:37So it's obvious that Justin has a misunderstanding of scripture.
00:39:42Number one,
00:39:43calling it a curse,
00:39:43calling Sabbath a curse.
00:39:45Number two,
00:39:46thinking that Yeshua was crucified on a Friday.
00:39:50It just did not happen.
00:39:53I mean,
00:39:53I hate it for him,
00:39:54but he's completely off base here.
00:39:57But,
00:39:58notice also he says,
00:39:59that,
00:39:59rose on the day of the sun,
00:40:02the day after Saturn,
00:40:04the day after Saturday.
00:40:07However,
00:40:08we also saw that he did not rise on what we call Sunday now.
00:40:12He actually arose at the end of Shabbat,
00:40:16which will be the sunset of Saturday,
00:40:18our time.
00:40:20Yeah.
00:40:22Justin here is saying that Sunday,
00:40:24the day of the sun,
00:40:25and he's using this term,
00:40:27day of the sun,
00:40:27even at the middle of the second century here,
00:40:31he's using the word day of the sun.
00:40:34That's also important.
00:40:34Keep that in mind.
00:40:36For the first day of the week,
00:40:37for Sunday.
00:40:39And he's saying that Sunday is the day on which we hold their assembly.
00:40:42So apparently whatever congregation that Justin Martyr was going to were assembling on the first day of the week in
00:40:49the second century,
00:40:50about the middle of the second century.
00:40:51But that wasn't everyone.
00:40:53And as history shows,
00:40:54that was actually a very,
00:40:56very,
00:40:57very small minority.
00:40:59As scripture teaches us,
00:41:01a little bit of leaven leavens the whole lump.
00:41:03And as we go through this and go through the history here,
00:41:07that leaven of the first day Sabbath leavens the entire rest of history as we know it down to today.
00:41:15Another thing to keep in mind,
00:41:18and especially after we just read this passage here from Justin,
00:41:21and for a better understanding overall of the concept of the Sabbath in the early centuries,
00:41:28a little bit about Roman paganism.
00:41:32Number one,
00:41:33there was literally no equivalent in Roman paganism to the seventh day cycle of rest that we find in scripture.
00:41:41It wasn't work six days,
00:41:42rest one,
00:41:44work six days,
00:41:44rest one.
00:41:45That wasn't Roman paganism.
00:41:47They did not have a day of rest.
00:41:50They did not have a Sabbath like we would think of today.
00:41:54The Romans actually did have two types of days.
00:41:58Number one,
00:41:59they had the dies fasti.
00:42:00These are days when legal and political business could be conducted.
00:42:03And then they had dies nefasti,
00:42:05the days when those such activities were actually prohibited or heavily discouraged.
00:42:13The closest thing the Romans had to a day of rest was the feriae.
00:42:18If I'm saying that correctly,
00:42:19Romans were expected on this feriae to abstain from litigation and manual labor.
00:42:27The publica kind of feriae were general holidays for all of Rome.
00:42:33This included things like Saturnalia and Brumalia.
00:42:36Wink,
00:42:37wink.
00:42:37Remember that teaching?
00:42:39Hello,
00:42:39Christmas.
00:42:40Then you got Lupercalia,
00:42:42which is another one that we looked at not too long ago.
00:42:45And various things like that.
00:42:47These were the publica,
00:42:48the publica feriae,
00:42:49I guess maybe.
00:42:51Then you had the privateae.
00:42:52These were off days or rest days or holidays that were observed and commemorated by individuals and families.
00:43:02The Nundanae,
00:43:04this is very interesting as well.
00:43:05The Nundanae was the eight-day cycle that was followed by Rome before the adoption of the seven-day week.
00:43:12It's hard to think of someone actually having an eight-day week,
00:43:17but the Romans did.
00:43:19And this was called the Nundanae.
00:43:22Eventually,
00:43:23as various concepts crept into Rome,
00:43:31these concepts were things like soul and soul invictus and Mithraeism.
00:43:38And these were other kinds of paganism,
00:43:41but they crept in,
00:43:42they took hold.
00:43:43And these things tended to have a seven-day week.
00:43:46And they were based on the seven wandering stars or the seven visible planets,
00:43:51as they were referred to then.
00:43:54And these seven different planets or the seven wandering stars were the sun,
00:44:00moon,
00:44:00Mars,
00:44:01Mercury,
00:44:01Jupiter,
00:44:02Venus,
00:44:02and Saturn.
00:44:04As such,
00:44:05the days of the week were each dedicated or given to each of these different
00:44:11planets.
00:44:12First day of the week was given to the sun.
00:44:15Second day,
00:44:16the moon,
00:44:16third,
00:44:17Mars,
00:44:18then Mercury,
00:44:19Jupiter,
00:44:19Venus,
00:44:20and Saturn for the last,
00:44:21which is where we get our English word,
00:44:24Saturday.
00:44:25And it's also where we get the word Sunday for the first day of the week and
00:44:30Monday for the second day,
00:44:32which was after the moon.
00:44:35Even before Yeshua,
00:44:37the sun held a prominent place in the mind of a Roman pagan.
00:44:40It was like the,
00:44:41Oh,
00:44:42here we go.
00:44:42The sun was the king of the planets or the king of the wandering stars as
00:44:47they were able to see with their naked eye at that point.
00:44:50And I mean,
00:44:50now we have telescopes.
00:44:51We can see a lot more,
00:44:52but they could only see so much with their naked eye.
00:44:54The sun was the king of those planets or the king of those wandering stars.
00:44:58And it was considered to be the bringer of light,
00:45:01the source of life for obvious reasons.
00:45:04And sometimes it was worshiped as a God.
00:45:07It was thought of as a God,
00:45:08as a divine being,
00:45:10but the sun did hold a very prominent place within Roman paganism.
00:45:15And it was the head of the week.
00:45:17It was the king of the planets.
00:45:20Here is a breakdown for some of you who want this kind of information from my
00:45:25fellow nerds out there.
00:45:26The day of the week,
00:45:27the Roman name for that particular day of the week,
00:45:30you can see here,
00:45:30Roman name for Sunday would be Deus Solus.
00:45:34And the God for that particular day of the week was soul Invictus.
00:45:39So keep that in mind as we go forward.
00:45:42Yeah.
00:45:43Sunday,
00:45:43the first day,
00:45:44the day of the sun,
00:45:45the king of the planets referred to in Rome as Deus Solus.
00:45:49And the God that went with that day was soul Invictus or Mithras,
00:45:55or even soul.
00:45:56If you go way back in Roman paganism,
00:45:59keep that in mind as we go into the fourth century here.
00:46:03And this is going to be very,
00:46:05very interesting because as we just learned,
00:46:08there was no equivalent of a pagan Sabbath,
00:46:13a pagan day of rest.
00:46:14Like we would think of the Sabbath in scripture.
00:46:19Until one particular famous historical figure,
00:46:24you're probably already thinking about him.
00:46:26This was Constantine and Constantine in 312.
00:46:30He supposedly converted to the faith became saved.
00:46:36I'll leave that up to you,
00:46:37whether you believe it or not,
00:46:38but that is the story.
00:46:40And then in 321,
00:46:42he issued an edict.
00:46:43This is Constantine's edict of Sunday.
00:46:48And let me read it first here real quick.
00:46:51This is Constantine's edict in 321.
00:46:54But anyways,
00:46:55he says here,
00:47:23So here for the first time,
00:47:25in Rome,
00:47:26within Roman paganism even,
00:47:29and this also included,
00:47:31of course,
00:47:31Christianity or Messianism,
00:47:34this was an imperial edict
00:47:37establishing a day of rest.
00:47:40But notice something here,
00:47:43or actually several things here
00:47:45as we look into this.
00:47:47Even though
00:47:50not everyone was given the day off.
00:47:53You see,
00:47:53the magistrates
00:47:54and those within
00:47:55the urban areas,
00:47:57they took off
00:47:57more of the white collar,
00:47:59if you will.
00:48:00But the blue collar,
00:48:01those who worked out in the fields,
00:48:02done the farming,
00:48:04stuff like that,
00:48:05they still worked.
00:48:06However,
00:48:07not everyone took off
00:48:09in the cities.
00:48:09You could still do
00:48:10legal stuff
00:48:11in the cities,
00:48:12in the urban areas,
00:48:13like emancipation,
00:48:15the freeing of slaves,
00:48:16even on the
00:48:17quote-unquote
00:48:18day of the sun.
00:48:20The wording here
00:48:22that Constantine put out,
00:48:24it contains zero
00:48:25scriptural language,
00:48:26things such as
00:48:27Shabbat,
00:48:28or even Sabbath.
00:48:29It doesn't contain
00:48:30the phrase
00:48:31the Lord's Day.
00:48:32It doesn't contain
00:48:33the phrase
00:48:34the day of the Lord.
00:48:35It doesn't contain
00:48:36the name of Yeshua,
00:48:38or Jesus,
00:48:38or Jesus,
00:48:39anything like that.
00:48:42No scriptural language
00:48:43whatsoever.
00:48:44In fact,
00:48:44it's all
00:48:45pagan language.
00:48:48To the pagans,
00:48:49this felt like
00:48:50an honor
00:48:51that was paid
00:48:51to the sun god.
00:48:53So,
00:48:53he was
00:48:54giving a nod
00:48:56to the
00:48:56pagan section
00:48:57of the empire,
00:48:59and to a certain
00:49:00section of Christianity,
00:49:02it also felt like
00:49:03imperial recognition
00:49:04for their existing
00:49:05commemoration
00:49:06on the first day
00:49:07of the week
00:49:07celebrating
00:49:08the resurrection.
00:49:09Remember,
00:49:10certain
00:49:11Christians,
00:49:12certain Messianics
00:49:13at that time,
00:49:14in the early years,
00:49:15were commemorating
00:49:16the resurrection
00:49:17on the first day
00:49:17of the week.
00:49:18They were still
00:49:19keeping the Sabbath,
00:49:19yes,
00:49:20but they commemorated
00:49:21the resurrection
00:49:21on the first day
00:49:22of the week.
00:49:23Constantine,
00:49:24as a pragmatist,
00:49:25in my opinion,
00:49:27and he was a
00:49:28great pragmatist,
00:49:29he kind of
00:49:30melded both worlds
00:49:31together in this
00:49:33Sunday law
00:49:34that he put forth,
00:49:35this edict of
00:49:36Constantine.
00:49:37It played to the
00:49:38pagans,
00:49:38it played to the
00:49:40faithful.
00:49:42I mean,
00:49:42in that aspect
00:49:44it was pretty good,
00:49:45but in another
00:49:46aspect it was
00:49:47absolutely horrible
00:49:48because it
00:49:49completely goes
00:49:49against Scripture
00:49:50and it completely
00:49:51goes against the
00:49:52established
00:49:52seventh day
00:49:54Sabbath.
00:49:55This edict did
00:49:56not include
00:49:56everyone like
00:49:57Yahweh's Sabbath
00:49:58did.
00:49:59Remember,
00:49:59when we read
00:49:59in the
00:50:00Brit Hadashah,
00:50:01I'm sorry,
00:50:01in the Tanakh,
00:50:02the command
00:50:03for Sabbath
00:50:04included everyone.
00:50:06The man of the
00:50:07house,
00:50:08the lady of the
00:50:08house,
00:50:09the children,
00:50:09the manservant,
00:50:11maidservant,
00:50:12even the animals
00:50:13get the day off
00:50:15according to
00:50:15Yahweh.
00:50:17Not with
00:50:18Constantine's
00:50:19edict.
00:50:19It's on the
00:50:20wrong day
00:50:20and not everyone
00:50:22gets off according
00:50:23to Constantine.
00:50:24Again,
00:50:25the edict of
00:50:26Constantine was
00:50:27not on Yahweh's
00:50:28chosen day of the
00:50:29week.
00:50:29It was contradictory
00:50:30to Scripture.
00:50:32Constantine sought
00:50:33to make sure this
00:50:33new edict was
00:50:34respected and
00:50:35utilized for a
00:50:36more unified
00:50:37empire.
00:50:37And that's
00:50:38something that
00:50:38Constantine
00:50:40really did
00:50:40desire,
00:50:41a unified
00:50:41empire,
00:50:42stop all the
00:50:43infighting.
00:50:44That was one of
00:50:45the biggest
00:50:46reasons for
00:50:47the Council of
00:50:48Nicaea in
00:50:49325,
00:50:50is to try to
00:50:50get everybody
00:50:51on the same
00:50:51page and
00:50:52harmonious.
00:50:54Didn't work,
00:50:55but that was
00:50:55kind of his
00:50:56goal.
00:50:58Also,
00:50:58this edict of
00:50:59321,
00:51:00establishing the
00:51:01Sunday law,
00:51:02if you will,
00:51:04Constantine
00:51:04commanded his
00:51:05troops,
00:51:05both Christian
00:51:06and pagan,
00:51:07to lay down
00:51:08their weapons
00:51:08on the
00:51:09day of
00:51:10the sun.
00:51:11Sol Invictus,
00:51:12the Dias
00:51:13Solus.
00:51:14While Christians
00:51:14went to services,
00:51:15the pagan
00:51:16soldiers were
00:51:16required to
00:51:17march to an
00:51:18open field and
00:51:19recite a
00:51:20monotheistic
00:51:20prayer composed
00:51:22for them by
00:51:22Constantine's
00:51:23advisors.
00:51:24This is
00:51:25something I
00:51:25found very,
00:51:26very interesting.
00:51:28When he put
00:51:29forth this edict
00:51:30of 321,
00:51:30establishing Dias
00:51:32Solus for a
00:51:33quote-unquote
00:51:34day of rest,
00:51:35at least for
00:51:36part of the
00:51:36empire,
00:51:37he also
00:51:38required pagan
00:51:39soldiers to
00:51:40recite a
00:51:41monotheistic
00:51:42prayer.
00:51:42It wasn't
00:51:43Christian by
00:51:43any means,
00:51:44and here it
00:51:45is for
00:51:46your
00:51:48cruisal.
00:51:49Anyways,
00:51:50this prayer
00:51:50goes as
00:51:51such,
00:51:52quote,
00:51:52we acknowledge
00:51:53the only
00:51:54God,
00:51:55we own
00:51:55thee as
00:51:55our
00:51:56king and
00:51:56implore
00:51:56thy
00:51:57succor.
00:51:57By thy
00:51:58favor have
00:51:59we gotten
00:52:00the victory.
00:52:01Through thee
00:52:02are we mightier
00:52:03than our
00:52:03enemies.
00:52:04We render
00:52:04thanks for
00:52:05thy past
00:52:06benefits and
00:52:07trust thee for
00:52:08future blessings.
00:52:09Together we
00:52:09pray to thee
00:52:10and beseech
00:52:11thee long to
00:52:12preserve to
00:52:13us safe and
00:52:14triumphant our
00:52:15emperor Constantine
00:52:16and his pious
00:52:17sons,
00:52:18end quote.
00:52:20So he did
00:52:22not require the
00:52:23pagans to
00:52:24convert to
00:52:25Christianity,
00:52:26but he did
00:52:28require them to
00:52:29take the day
00:52:29off on the
00:52:31dios solis and
00:52:33recite this
00:52:34monotheistic
00:52:35prayer.
00:52:35Nonetheless,
00:52:37very, very
00:52:37interesting stuff.
00:52:38And maybe it
00:52:41did help grow
00:52:42the numbers
00:52:42within Christianity,
00:52:43but probably for
00:52:45the wrong reasons.
00:52:46I mean, the
00:52:46wrong Sabbath
00:52:47and all that
00:52:48stuff, too.
00:52:49This is really
00:52:50one of the
00:52:50biggest turning
00:52:51points within
00:52:52the history of
00:52:53the Sabbath,
00:52:54this edict of
00:52:55Constantine.
00:52:58Going on to
00:53:01get the rest of
00:53:02Christianity or
00:53:03the rest of
00:53:04Messianism in
00:53:05line with this
00:53:06whole idea of
00:53:08a Sunday
00:53:08Sabbath, they
00:53:10had to employ
00:53:10various tactics.
00:53:12And one of the
00:53:13tactics they used
00:53:14was to order
00:53:16and they
00:53:18attempted to
00:53:19require everyone
00:53:20to fast on
00:53:22the actual
00:53:23Sabbath and
00:53:24then feast on
00:53:25the first day
00:53:25of the week.
00:53:26Pope Sylvester,
00:53:28back during his
00:53:29time, who
00:53:29served from
00:53:31314 to
00:53:32335, issued
00:53:34this decree
00:53:34about fasting
00:53:36and Shabbat.
00:53:37He says,
00:53:38quote,
00:53:38If every
00:53:39Lord's Day,
00:53:40meaning Sunday,
00:53:41is to be
00:53:42observed joyfully
00:53:43by Christians on
00:53:44account of the
00:53:44resurrection, then
00:53:45every Sabbath
00:53:46day, Saturday, on
00:53:48account of the
00:53:49burial, is to be
00:53:50regarded in
00:53:51execration, cursing,
00:53:52of the Jews.
00:53:54For all the
00:53:55disciples of the
00:53:56Lord had a
00:53:57lamentation on the
00:53:58Sabbath, bewailing
00:53:59the buried Lord, and
00:54:00sadness possessed
00:54:01them.
00:54:01But on the Lord's
00:54:02Day they were
00:54:03gladdened by the
00:54:04resurrection of the
00:54:05Lord.
00:54:06Therefore, we
00:54:07fast on the
00:54:08sixth day and on
00:54:10the Sabbath next
00:54:11to it.
00:54:12End quote.
00:54:14Now, as we read
00:54:14through Scripture, we
00:54:15see from the
00:54:17Tanakh and we
00:54:18see from the
00:54:18Brit Hadashah and
00:54:19Yeshua that the
00:54:21Sabbath was made
00:54:22for man and not
00:54:23man for the
00:54:24Sabbath.
00:54:24The Sabbath is a
00:54:26blessing, it's a
00:54:27joy, things like
00:54:28that.
00:54:29As such, those
00:54:31within Judaism
00:54:32started having the
00:54:33habit or the
00:54:36tradition of
00:54:37feasting and
00:54:38having a feast
00:54:39every single
00:54:40Shabbat to
00:54:41celebrate it, to
00:54:42have a lot of
00:54:43joy and stuff
00:54:43like that.
00:54:45Well, Pope
00:54:46Sylvester tried to
00:54:47change that and
00:54:48switch it around
00:54:49and make it a
00:54:51drag on
00:54:52Saturday, make a
00:54:53drag on Shabbat
00:54:54and then have a
00:54:55feast on Sunday
00:54:56to get all the
00:54:57people turned
00:54:57around and
00:54:58accustomed to
00:54:59this new way that
00:55:00the church wants
00:55:01to do it.
00:55:02Not the way the
00:55:02Bible wants to
00:55:03do it, but the
00:55:03way the church
00:55:04wants to do it.
00:55:05And this is
00:55:08so, wow, I
00:55:10get so fired up
00:55:11about this, but
00:55:11anyways, think
00:55:15about it like
00:55:15this.
00:55:16In the early
00:55:17years, like we
00:55:18seen and like
00:55:19it just, you
00:55:20know, logic
00:55:21makes sense
00:55:22here, Yeshua
00:55:23taught his
00:55:24disciples and
00:55:25his disciples
00:55:25taught their
00:55:27disciples and so
00:55:28on and so
00:55:29forth.
00:55:29They taught
00:55:29them the
00:55:30commandments.
00:55:31Well, as
00:55:32people are
00:55:32coming into
00:55:33the faith and
00:55:34other people
00:55:35want to change
00:55:37things, like
00:55:38from Sabbath to
00:55:39Sunday, they
00:55:42have their
00:55:42various reasons.
00:55:43We went over
00:55:43the Jewish
00:55:44rebellions and
00:55:45we went over
00:55:45the Jewish
00:55:46tax and some
00:55:47of these people
00:55:48did not want to
00:55:48pay that Jewish
00:55:49tax and if they
00:55:50were looking like
00:55:50they were Jews
00:55:52by observing the
00:55:52Sabbath, then they
00:55:53wanted to change
00:55:54that and do a
00:55:55different day so
00:55:56they didn't look
00:55:56like Jews and
00:55:57not have to pay
00:55:58the tax and
00:56:00they wouldn't
00:56:00get persecuted
00:56:01as much either.
00:56:02That's the way
00:56:03they were thinking
00:56:04in their minds.
00:56:05So they wanted
00:56:06to change it and
00:56:07they chose Sunday
00:56:08which was already
00:56:09a, I guess, for
00:56:11lack of a better
00:56:12term, high day
00:56:13for the pagans
00:56:13because it was
00:56:14the day of the
00:56:15sun, who was
00:56:15the king of the
00:56:16planets, etc.,
00:56:17etc.
00:56:17But they
00:56:18couldn't just
00:56:18change it
00:56:20overnight because
00:56:21people were
00:56:22already accustomed
00:56:23to the actual
00:56:24Sabbath.
00:56:24So they had to
00:56:26slowly get into
00:56:27it and they had
00:56:27to come up
00:56:28with the
00:56:28reasons as
00:56:29to why.
00:56:29They couldn't
00:56:30just say, oh,
00:56:31we don't want
00:56:31to pay this
00:56:31tax, we
00:56:32want to be
00:56:32tax evaders
00:56:34and we're
00:56:35going to
00:56:35change the
00:56:36day of rest,
00:56:37the day of
00:56:38assembly, the
00:56:38day of
00:56:38congregation, and
00:56:39we're going
00:56:39to change it
00:56:40to Sunday.
00:56:40They would
00:56:41have been
00:56:41an uproar.
00:56:42So they had
00:56:43to come up
00:56:43with the
00:56:43reasons why.
00:56:45The epistle
00:56:46of Barnabas
00:56:47allegorizes
00:56:47these things
00:56:48and they say
00:56:50that the
00:56:50seven-day week
00:56:52is like the
00:56:54period of time,
00:56:55the millenniums,
00:56:56and it's going
00:56:57to be the
00:56:57eighth day,
00:56:58which they
00:56:58refer to as
00:56:59Sunday.
00:56:59It's going
00:57:00to be the
00:57:00day of rest
00:57:01because that
00:57:02is the
00:57:03allegorical
00:57:03spiritual rest
00:57:05and stuff like
00:57:05that.
00:57:07Another method
00:57:08they used to
00:57:08try to get
00:57:09people accustomed
00:57:09to the
00:57:11alternate day
00:57:12that the
00:57:13church came
00:57:13up with
00:57:13was fasting
00:57:14here.
00:57:15And think
00:57:16about how
00:57:16this would
00:57:16be for you
00:57:17growing up
00:57:18in this kind
00:57:19of situation
00:57:19as a child.
00:57:20You grow up
00:57:21with people
00:57:22trying to
00:57:23get Christians
00:57:24to worship
00:57:25and rest
00:57:26on Sunday.
00:57:28So how do
00:57:29you do that
00:57:29if you're
00:57:29already accustomed
00:57:30to this?
00:57:31Well, as a
00:57:31child, if you're
00:57:32growing up in
00:57:32this and they
00:57:34put out this
00:57:35fasting order
00:57:35on the
00:57:36seventh day,
00:57:37well, you're
00:57:37fasting on the
00:57:39sixth and the
00:57:40seventh days
00:57:41and you're
00:57:42hungry.
00:57:42It's a
00:57:45drag.
00:57:45It's a
00:57:46drab time
00:57:48as well.
00:57:49You don't
00:57:49like it and
00:57:49then you get
00:57:50to the first
00:57:50day of the
00:57:50week and
00:57:51it's a joy
00:57:51for you because
00:57:52you finally
00:57:53get to eat.
00:57:53You're not
00:57:53hungry anymore.
00:57:54And this
00:57:55is actual
00:57:56psychological
00:57:57warfare from
00:57:58the Catholic
00:57:59Church.
00:58:01Psychological
00:58:01warfare on
00:58:03the commandments.
00:58:04Getting
00:58:06people's minds
00:58:06changed around
00:58:07to the way
00:58:08the church
00:58:09wants to do
00:58:09things, not
00:58:10the way the
00:58:11Bible wants
00:58:12to do
00:58:12things.
00:58:14Again, it's
00:58:15psychological
00:58:16warfare.
00:58:16It's
00:58:17absolutely
00:58:17horrid.
00:58:18And if
00:58:18you're a
00:58:19child growing
00:58:19up in
00:58:19this, your
00:58:20parents don't
00:58:21know any
00:58:21better because
00:58:22they're most
00:58:22likely illiterate.
00:58:23I mean,
00:58:24illiteracy was
00:58:25rampant at
00:58:26that time.
00:58:27Did they have
00:58:27their own
00:58:28Bible?
00:58:29Most certainly
00:58:29not.
00:58:31Bibles and
00:58:31any book in
00:58:32general would
00:58:32have been
00:58:33extremely
00:58:33expensive and
00:58:35especially if
00:58:35you're one of
00:58:36the poorer
00:58:36classes, you
00:58:37definitely wouldn't
00:58:38have been able
00:58:39to own a
00:58:40Bible or a
00:58:41copy of any
00:58:42of the books
00:58:42of the Bible,
00:58:43let alone be
00:58:44able to read
00:58:44it if you
00:58:45did.
00:58:45So you
00:58:46had to take
00:58:46the word and
00:58:47a teaching of
00:58:48those that
00:58:49you went to
00:58:50to learn from
00:58:50your priests,
00:58:52your popes,
00:58:53your teachers
00:58:54like that.
00:58:55And they were
00:58:55teaching you the
00:58:56wrong thing and
00:58:57you wouldn't have
00:58:58known otherwise
00:58:58because you
00:58:59couldn't read and
00:59:00you wouldn't be
00:59:00able to read
00:59:00because you
00:59:01didn't have the
00:59:01book anyways.
00:59:02So the
00:59:03psychological
00:59:03warfare was
00:59:04waged by
00:59:05Pope Sylvester
00:59:06and then also
00:59:07others after him
00:59:08as well.
00:59:10But it didn't
00:59:11take hold
00:59:11immediately and
00:59:12it didn't
00:59:12actually really
00:59:14work that
00:59:14much because
00:59:15we find as
00:59:16we go on
00:59:17you'll see we
00:59:18find people
00:59:19still continuing
00:59:20with the
00:59:21actual biblical
00:59:22Sabbath.
00:59:23One example
00:59:24we see if you
00:59:25ever heard that
00:59:26phrase when in
00:59:27Rome do as the
00:59:28Romans do.
00:59:28this is actually
00:59:29a reference to
00:59:30this whole
00:59:31history of
00:59:32Shabbat and
00:59:33this phrase
00:59:34comes from a
00:59:35letter that
00:59:36Ambrose of
00:59:37Milan wrote to
00:59:38Augustine and
00:59:39his mother back
00:59:41in about 387
00:59:42CE at the
00:59:44end of the
00:59:444th century.
00:59:45This is
00:59:45you know
00:59:4670,
00:59:4860,
00:59:4870 years
00:59:49after Pope
00:59:49Sylvester
00:59:50enabled or put
00:59:52forth this
00:59:52fasting decree.
00:59:54But Ambrose of
00:59:55Milan wrote to
00:59:56Augustine and he
00:59:56says here quote
00:59:57when I go to
00:59:58Rome I fast on
00:59:59the Sabbath when
01:00:00I'm here in
01:00:00Milan I do
01:00:02not fast.
01:00:03So also you
01:00:04to whatever
01:00:05church you may
01:00:06come observe
01:00:07its custom if
01:00:08you would not
01:00:08suffer offense
01:00:09from anyone or
01:00:10give offense to
01:00:11anyone.
01:00:12End quote.
01:00:13There in Milan
01:00:13they did not
01:00:15fast on the
01:00:15Sabbath.
01:00:16They observed
01:00:16the Sabbath.
01:00:17It was feasting
01:00:18and joy presumably
01:00:19but Ambrose says
01:00:21that when he went
01:00:22to Rome he did
01:00:23fast on the
01:00:24Sabbath because
01:00:24they were doing
01:00:25the whole first
01:00:26day thing.
01:00:28That's something
01:00:28else to keep
01:00:29in mind.
01:00:29When you see
01:00:30things like this
01:00:31that drastically
01:00:32change scriptural
01:00:33mandates,
01:00:34scriptural traditions,
01:00:35scriptural commandments
01:00:36a lot of times it
01:00:38comes from places
01:00:38like Rome,
01:00:40Alexandria,
01:00:42Antioch,
01:00:43things like that.
01:00:44But Ambrose says
01:00:45when he's in Rome
01:00:46he fasts on the
01:00:47Sabbath because
01:00:47that's the way
01:00:48they were doing
01:00:48it but in Milan
01:00:49he fasted other
01:00:51days of the week
01:00:51but he presumably
01:00:53feasted and
01:00:55celebrated on the
01:00:56Sabbath.
01:00:58I don't
01:00:58necessarily agree
01:00:59with his advice
01:01:00here but
01:01:01that's where
01:01:01that phrase
01:01:02comes from
01:01:02when in Rome
01:01:03do as the
01:01:04Romans do.
01:01:05So even here
01:01:06at the end
01:01:06of the 4th
01:01:06century we
01:01:07still see
01:01:08people celebrating
01:01:09and observing
01:01:10and keeping
01:01:11the 7th day
01:01:12Sabbath in
01:01:13opposition to
01:01:14what the
01:01:14church is
01:01:15trying to do
01:01:15and switching
01:01:16everything around
01:01:17and contradicting
01:01:18the actual
01:01:19Bible.
01:01:20then we
01:01:20look or
01:01:21get to the
01:01:22Council of
01:01:22Laodicea.
01:01:23Now this is
01:01:24before 387
01:01:26so we go
01:01:26back a little
01:01:27bit.
01:01:28This is going
01:01:28to be in
01:01:28about 364,
01:01:30365,
01:01:30something like
01:01:31that.
01:01:32And here in
01:01:33the Council of
01:01:33Laodicea this
01:01:34is the actual
01:01:36first prohibition
01:01:37against keeping
01:01:39the Sabbath.
01:01:41And the
01:01:41Catholic Church
01:01:42writes this in
01:01:43Canon 16
01:01:44the Gospels
01:01:45are to be
01:01:46read on the
01:01:46Sabbath with
01:01:47the other
01:01:47scriptures.
01:01:48And then,
01:01:49this is the
01:01:50important part,
01:01:51in Canon 29
01:01:52the Catholic
01:01:53Council says
01:01:54this,
01:01:56Christians must
01:01:57not Judaize
01:01:58by resting
01:01:59on the
01:01:59Sabbath but
01:02:00must work
01:02:01on that day
01:02:01rather honoring
01:02:02the Lord's
01:02:03day and if
01:02:04they can,
01:02:05resting then
01:02:06as Christians.
01:02:07But if any
01:02:08shall be found
01:02:09to be Judaizers,
01:02:10let them be
01:02:11anathema
01:02:12from Christ.
01:02:14End quote.
01:02:15Here is the
01:02:16first official
01:02:17prohibition from
01:02:19the Catholic
01:02:19Church prohibiting
01:02:21the observance
01:02:23of the
01:02:24Sabbath.
01:02:25Resting on
01:02:25Sabbath.
01:02:28Direct,
01:02:29blatant,
01:02:30open
01:02:31contradiction
01:02:32to Yahweh's
01:02:33command.
01:02:37Absolutely
01:02:38horrid.
01:02:39But as you
01:02:39already saw
01:02:40a little bit,
01:02:41it really
01:02:42did not
01:02:43stick because
01:02:43as we saw
01:02:44with Ambrose
01:02:45and Milan,
01:02:45there is still
01:02:46evidence there
01:02:47that a lot
01:02:47of churches
01:02:48or a lot
01:02:48of congregations
01:02:49were still
01:02:50observing the
01:02:51seventh day
01:02:52Sabbath by
01:02:53the end
01:02:54of the
01:02:55fourth century.
01:02:57Then we look
01:02:58at the Apostolic
01:02:58Constitutions,
01:02:59book 7,
01:03:00chapter 33.
01:03:01It says here,
01:03:02quote,
01:03:03Let the slaves
01:03:03work five days
01:03:04but on the
01:03:05Sabbath day
01:03:05and the
01:03:06Lord's day
01:03:06let them
01:03:07have leisure
01:03:07to go to
01:03:08church for
01:03:08instruction in
01:03:09piety.
01:03:10We have said
01:03:11that the
01:03:11Sabbath is on
01:03:12account of
01:03:12the creation
01:03:13and the
01:03:14Lord's day
01:03:15of the
01:03:15resurrection.
01:03:17Let slaves
01:03:18rest from
01:03:20their work
01:03:20all the
01:03:21great week
01:03:21and that
01:03:22which follows
01:03:22it for the
01:03:23one in
01:03:23memory of
01:03:24the passion
01:03:24and the
01:03:25other of
01:03:26the resurrection
01:03:26and there
01:03:27is need
01:03:28they should
01:03:28be instructed
01:03:29who it
01:03:30is that
01:03:30suffered and
01:03:31rose again
01:03:32and who
01:03:32it is
01:03:33permitted him
01:03:34to suffer
01:03:34and raised
01:03:35him again.
01:03:37So here
01:03:38the apostolic
01:03:39constitution is
01:03:40still giving
01:03:41evidence in
01:03:41the fourth
01:03:41century that
01:03:43people are
01:03:43keeping both
01:03:44the Sabbath
01:03:45and the
01:03:47Lord's day.
01:03:48Again,
01:03:49the people
01:03:50were keeping
01:03:51and commemorating
01:03:52the first day
01:03:53of the week
01:03:53in honor of
01:03:54the resurrection
01:03:54but they
01:03:56were keeping
01:03:56it in
01:03:57addition to
01:03:58and alongside
01:03:58the actual
01:04:00Sabbath.
01:04:00They weren't
01:04:00doing it in
01:04:01place of.
01:04:02This is
01:04:03further evidence
01:04:04here especially
01:04:04with the
01:04:05slaves even
01:04:06the Sabbath
01:04:06day and
01:04:07the first
01:04:08day.
01:04:10Going on
01:04:11looking at
01:04:12the
01:04:13constitutions
01:04:13of the
01:04:14holy
01:04:14apostles.
01:04:15It says
01:04:16here,
01:04:16quote,
01:04:17thou shalt
01:04:17observe the
01:04:18Sabbath on
01:04:18account of
01:04:19him who
01:04:19ceased from
01:04:20his work
01:04:20of creation
01:04:21but ceased
01:04:21not from
01:04:22his work
01:04:22of providence.
01:04:23It is a
01:04:24rest for
01:04:24meditation of
01:04:25the law
01:04:25not for
01:04:26idleness
01:04:27of the
01:04:27hands.
01:04:28End quote.
01:04:29I found
01:04:30this one to
01:04:30be very
01:04:30interesting.
01:04:31It's a
01:04:31fourth century
01:04:32writing but
01:04:33they're saying
01:04:33to observe
01:04:35the
01:04:35Sabbath.
01:04:37And again,
01:04:38when they
01:04:38say Sabbath
01:04:39they mean
01:04:39seventh day
01:04:40and when they
01:04:41mean first
01:04:41day they
01:04:41say the
01:04:42Lord's
01:04:42day.
01:04:43But here
01:04:44they are
01:04:45actually
01:04:48exhorting
01:04:48people to
01:04:49observe the
01:04:50Sabbath and
01:04:51why to
01:04:52observe the
01:04:52Sabbath.
01:04:52But a
01:04:53very interesting
01:04:53part I
01:04:54found is
01:04:55that they
01:04:55say it's
01:04:56not for
01:04:56the idleness
01:04:57of the
01:04:57hands.
01:04:58And at
01:04:59first you
01:04:59might take
01:05:00that as
01:05:00them saying
01:05:02hey go out
01:05:03and work
01:05:03do
01:05:03something.
01:05:04But it's
01:05:05not exactly
01:05:06correct.
01:05:06They're
01:05:06actually
01:05:07encouraging
01:05:08you to
01:05:08meditate on
01:05:09the law
01:05:10as it
01:05:10says here.
01:05:11Study the
01:05:12scriptures,
01:05:12learn from
01:05:12scriptures,
01:05:13stuff like
01:05:13that.
01:05:14That's what
01:05:14the idea
01:05:15they're really
01:05:15getting at
01:05:15here.
01:05:16But even
01:05:16here in
01:05:17the fourth
01:05:17century,
01:05:17near the
01:05:18end of
01:05:18the fourth
01:05:19century,
01:05:19somewhere
01:05:19around
01:05:19375,
01:05:20380,
01:05:21they're
01:05:21saying
01:05:22celebrate
01:05:23and
01:05:23observe
01:05:23the
01:05:24Sabbath.
01:05:25That's
01:05:25the
01:05:26seventh
01:05:26day.
01:05:29Again,
01:05:29we saw
01:05:30in Laodicea
01:05:30and we
01:05:31saw with
01:05:31Pope
01:05:31Sylvester
01:05:32in the
01:05:32early
01:05:32fourth
01:05:33century
01:05:33and
01:05:33with
01:05:34Constantine's
01:05:34edict
01:05:35in 321,
01:05:36they were
01:05:37trying to
01:05:37get away
01:05:38from
01:05:38Yahweh's
01:05:39Sabbath,
01:05:39but it
01:05:40did not
01:05:41take hold,
01:05:42not for
01:05:42a long
01:05:43time after
01:05:44that.
01:05:45In the
01:05:45fifth
01:05:45century,
01:05:46we even
01:05:46still see
01:05:47further
01:05:47evidence
01:05:48of people
01:05:49continuing
01:05:50to
01:05:51celebrate
01:05:51the
01:05:52Sabbath.
01:05:53Here
01:05:53in
01:05:56the
01:05:56church,
01:05:57history
01:05:57or
01:05:57what's
01:05:57referred
01:05:58to
01:05:58as
01:05:58ecclesiastical
01:05:59history
01:05:59by the
01:06:01historian
01:06:02Socrates
01:06:03Scholasticus,
01:06:04he writes
01:06:04quote,
01:06:05For although
01:06:06almost all
01:06:06churches
01:06:07throughout the
01:06:07world
01:06:07celebrate
01:06:08the
01:06:08sacred
01:06:08mysteries
01:06:09on the
01:06:09Sabbath
01:06:10of every
01:06:10week,
01:06:10yet the
01:06:11Christians
01:06:11of Alexandria
01:06:12and at
01:06:13Rome,
01:06:13on account
01:06:13of some
01:06:14ancient
01:06:14tradition,
01:06:15have ceased
01:06:15to do
01:06:16this.
01:06:18End quote.
01:06:20Take that
01:06:21and meditate
01:06:22on that for
01:06:23just a
01:06:23moment.
01:06:25Here,
01:06:27Socrates
01:06:28is saying
01:06:29in about
01:06:30the middle
01:06:30or almost
01:06:31the middle
01:06:32of the
01:06:325th
01:06:33century,
01:06:34439
01:06:35CE,
01:06:36even at
01:06:37this point
01:06:37in history,
01:06:38Socrates
01:06:39Scholasticus
01:06:40is writing
01:06:40and saying
01:06:41for although
01:06:42almost all
01:06:43churches
01:06:44throughout the
01:06:45world,
01:06:45and what
01:06:46almost all
01:06:47these churches
01:06:47throughout the
01:06:47world are
01:06:48doing,
01:06:48they are
01:06:49celebrating
01:06:50and observing
01:06:51the Sabbath
01:06:53of every
01:06:53week.
01:06:56still here
01:06:57in 439
01:06:58CE,
01:06:59almost all
01:07:00the churches
01:07:01in the
01:07:01world are
01:07:02still
01:07:04celebrating
01:07:04and observing
01:07:05the Sabbath.
01:07:06Amen.
01:07:08But,
01:07:09notice here,
01:07:10he says,
01:07:11the two
01:07:11outliers that
01:07:12he mentions
01:07:12here are
01:07:13Alexandria
01:07:14and Rome.
01:07:17And,
01:07:17he says,
01:07:18he don't
01:07:18know why,
01:07:18it's probably
01:07:19on account of
01:07:19some tradition,
01:07:20but they
01:07:20don't do
01:07:21the Sabbath,
01:07:22they don't
01:07:22observe the
01:07:23Sabbath,
01:07:23they do
01:07:24something
01:07:24different,
01:07:24probably
01:07:25the Lord's
01:07:26Day,
01:07:26the first
01:07:26day of
01:07:26the week.
01:07:27It was
01:07:28absolutely
01:07:28amazing to
01:07:28see here,
01:07:29even in
01:07:29the 5th
01:07:30century,
01:07:30even after
01:07:30everything
01:07:31the Catholic
01:07:32Church has
01:07:32tried to
01:07:32do,
01:07:33to do
01:07:35away with
01:07:35the Bible
01:07:35and do
01:07:36away with
01:07:36Yahweh's
01:07:37commandments,
01:07:38the Sabbath
01:07:39still endures
01:07:40through here
01:07:41to the 5th
01:07:42century.
01:07:44Absolutely
01:07:44amazing.
01:07:45So,
01:07:46no,
01:07:46there is
01:07:47not this
01:07:47unbroken
01:07:48line of
01:07:49Sunday
01:07:50observance
01:07:50from the
01:07:51time of
01:07:52Jesus until
01:07:52today.
01:07:53that's
01:07:54just a
01:07:54false
01:07:55assumption,
01:07:55that's a
01:07:56false
01:07:56tradition,
01:07:56it did
01:07:57not
01:07:57happen,
01:07:58the
01:07:58historical
01:07:59evidence
01:08:00clearly
01:08:00shows
01:08:01that is
01:08:01false.
01:08:04Very,
01:08:05very
01:08:05eye-opening
01:08:06stuff.
01:08:07Now,
01:08:07eventually,
01:08:08most,
01:08:08if not
01:08:09all,
01:08:10at some
01:08:10points in
01:08:11history,
01:08:11went to
01:08:11a Sunday
01:08:12Sabbath
01:08:12because
01:08:13the Church
01:08:14became
01:08:14extremely
01:08:15powerful
01:08:16because
01:08:16they had
01:08:16the power
01:08:17of the
01:08:17sword,
01:08:17backing
01:08:18of the
01:08:18empire,
01:08:19and several
01:08:19empires,
01:08:20actually,
01:08:21so they
01:08:21were able to
01:08:22enforce it,
01:08:23through
01:08:23violence,
01:08:25their
01:08:25edicts,
01:08:27what they
01:08:27ruled in
01:08:28their
01:08:28councils,
01:08:29things like
01:08:30the Sunday
01:08:31of Sabbath
01:08:31and working
01:08:32on the
01:08:33actual
01:08:33Sabbath,
01:08:34stuff like
01:08:34that.
01:08:35But,
01:08:36things are
01:08:37flipping.
01:08:38I don't know
01:08:39if you've seen
01:08:39it today,
01:08:40or today's
01:08:40day and age,
01:08:41but more
01:08:42and more
01:08:43people are
01:08:43coming to
01:08:44the truth
01:08:45about the
01:08:46Sabbath,
01:08:47which day of
01:08:47the week it
01:08:48is,
01:08:48how to
01:08:48observe it,
01:08:49things like
01:08:49that.
01:08:50we're
01:08:50getting
01:08:50away
01:08:51from
01:08:51Babylon,
01:08:52we're
01:08:52getting
01:08:52away
01:08:53from
01:08:53the
01:08:53Roman
01:08:54way
01:08:54of
01:08:54doing
01:08:54things,
01:08:55and
01:08:55returning
01:08:56to
01:08:56the
01:08:56actual
01:08:57true
01:08:57way
01:08:57of
01:08:57doing
01:08:58things.
01:08:58Praise
01:08:59Yahweh
01:08:59for that.
01:09:00Not
01:09:00everyone's
01:09:01there yet.
01:09:01Tradition's
01:09:01a hard
01:09:02thing to
01:09:02break,
01:09:03but it's
01:09:04going.
01:09:04It's
01:09:04headed in
01:09:04the right
01:09:05direction,
01:09:05at least
01:09:05in my
01:09:06opinion.
01:09:07So,
01:09:07in summary,
01:09:09it was
01:09:10Yeshua's
01:09:10custom and
01:09:11tradition and
01:09:12practice to
01:09:13keep the
01:09:13Sabbath,
01:09:14the seventh
01:09:14day of
01:09:15the week.
01:09:16It was
01:09:16Paul's
01:09:16custom,
01:09:17tradition,
01:09:17practice,
01:09:18to keep
01:09:19the seventh
01:09:19day of
01:09:20the week,
01:09:20the Sabbath.
01:09:21It was
01:09:21the custom
01:09:22of the
01:09:22believers
01:09:22in the
01:09:23Brit Hadashah
01:09:23to keep
01:09:24the Sabbath.
01:09:25It was
01:09:25the custom
01:09:26of the
01:09:26early
01:09:26believers
01:09:27after the
01:09:28apostles
01:09:28to keep
01:09:29the
01:09:29Sabbath.
01:09:30The
01:09:30Didache,
01:09:31as we saw
01:09:31there,
01:09:32looked at
01:09:32some in
01:09:33depth,
01:09:33is not
01:09:34referring to
01:09:35Sunday.
01:09:36In fact,
01:09:36it's referring
01:09:37to the
01:09:37command of
01:09:39the Lord,
01:09:39at least
01:09:40the way
01:09:40I interpret
01:09:41it anyways.
01:09:42The
01:09:42Judeans
01:09:43rebelled
01:09:43many times
01:09:44before Rome
01:09:45came down
01:09:45heavily on
01:09:46the Judeans,
01:09:47and at
01:09:47least the
01:09:48way I
01:09:48see the
01:09:48historical
01:09:49evidence
01:09:49that had
01:09:50an
01:09:50influence
01:09:51on
01:09:51changing
01:09:53or at
01:09:54least the
01:09:54attempt to
01:09:55change the
01:09:56Sabbath from
01:09:56the seventh
01:09:57day to
01:09:57the first
01:09:58day.
01:09:58Other
01:09:59things were
01:09:59stuff like
01:10:01paganism
01:10:01coming in
01:10:02to the
01:10:03church as
01:10:04well.
01:10:05Certain
01:10:05Christians,
01:10:06in order to
01:10:06separate
01:10:06themselves from
01:10:07appearing
01:10:07as part
01:10:08of Judaism
01:10:08and due
01:10:09to their
01:10:09pagan
01:10:10upbringing,
01:10:11started
01:10:11rejecting the
01:10:12Sabbath in
01:10:12favor of
01:10:13Sunday,
01:10:14which eventually
01:10:16was called
01:10:17the Lord's
01:10:17Day.
01:10:18Constantine
01:10:19implemented the
01:10:19first Sabbath
01:10:20in Rome
01:10:21in 321
01:10:22CE.
01:10:23Remember,
01:10:24Roman paganism
01:10:25did not have
01:10:25what we would
01:10:26consider to be
01:10:26a Sabbath
01:10:27before that.
01:10:29Many Christians
01:10:30still kept
01:10:31the seventh day
01:10:33biblical Sabbath
01:10:35Sabbath up
01:10:35through the
01:10:365th century
01:10:37and even
01:10:38beyond that.
01:10:39And it was
01:10:40the newly
01:10:40formed church
01:10:41that assumed
01:10:41the power
01:10:42and authority
01:10:43to change
01:10:43the day
01:10:44of the
01:10:44Sabbath,
01:10:45not Yeshua,
01:10:46not the
01:10:47apostles,
01:10:47not the
01:10:48scriptures,
01:10:49and certainly
01:10:50not Yahweh.
01:10:52And that's
01:10:53just the
01:10:54God honest
01:10:55truth.
01:10:56So thank you
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01:10:58presentation,
01:10:59our third
01:11:00episode in
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01:11:02series.
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