Are you certain the Bible changed the Sabbath to Sunday, or have you simply inherited a tradition you've never been challenged to examine? For centuries, millions have accepted the practice without questioning its roots, but this teaching breaks down the biblical arguments step-by-step to give you a clear understanding of why the Sabbath isn't Sunday.
For centuries, millions of believers have accepted Sunday worship without ever questioning its true roots. In this eye-opening teaching, we break down the key biblical and historical arguments step by step, giving you the clarity and confidence you need to align your faith directly with Yahweh’s Word.
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For centuries, millions of believers have accepted Sunday worship without ever questioning its true roots. In this eye-opening teaching, we break down the key biblical and historical arguments step by step, giving you the clarity and confidence you need to align your faith directly with Yahweh’s Word.
So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about why the Sabbath isn’t Sunday.
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Video Chapters:
00:00:00 Teaching Introduction
00:00:55 Video Start
00:02:46 Series Overview
00:05:16 Elementary My Dear Watson
00:15:25 Colossians 2:16-17
00:27:08 Romans 14:5
00:33:04 Revelation 1:10
00:40:21 Summary
Resources from God Honest Truth:
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00:01What if one of the most widely accepted beliefs within Christianity is not actually taught
00:07in the Bible?
00:08If you've ever been taught that Sunday is the Sabbath, you really need to examine the
00:13passages that are put forth that try to support this idea.
00:18Well, in this episode, we're actually going to look at three more proof texts that are
00:23put forth from Scripture to support the idea that Sunday is the Sabbath.
00:27Do they hold up?
00:28Do they not hold up?
00:30Well, that's what we're going to get into in this episode.
00:32So join us as we examine the arguments that are commonly put forth for Sunday as the Sabbath.
00:56So this teaching is going to be all about Shabbat.
01:00And three of the common arguments that are put forth to prop up the idea that Sunday is
01:05the Sabbath.
01:06Last episode, we looked at three of the top arguments that I thought was the most common
01:12or at least the most impactful, I guess you could say.
01:15Now we're going to finish up with the Sunday arguments in our second episode of Sunday
01:20arguments in our Shabbat series.
01:24And we're going to examine three more that are commonly put forth.
01:28Now, if you would like the notes for this particular episode, even more notes than we're going to present to
01:33you here,
01:34more information, more resources, stuff like that.
01:36Make sure to go to our website at www.godhonesttruth.com.
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01:46You'll be able to find the draw slides that you see here on your screen.
01:49But you'll be able to go through them at your own pace, even out of sync with the video if
01:54you'd like.
01:54Go back and forth, whatever it is.
01:56Very, very beneficial for those of you who are out there like nerds or like me.
02:00But you'll also be able to find the AI research papers that we had put together or produced,
02:06as well as our own personal notes on the subject of the Sabbath and the transcript,
02:11if that is so benefit to you.
02:14It's all right there on that article post on our website at www.godhonesttruth.com.
02:17And of course, like always, the best way to get to that particular article post
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02:41And we can get that link out to you or try to help resolve whatever issues there may be.
02:46Now, just a quick recap or overview of the series so far.
02:51Number one, in our first episode, we went over the, yeah, in the first episode,
02:56we went over how the Shabbat is presented and put forth and created and commanded in the Tannach.
03:03We looked at Shabbat and the Tannach in the first episode.
03:06Naturally, in the second episode, we went forward and looked at the Shabbat in the Brit Hadashah,
03:12or what some people call the New Testament.
03:16Third episode, we looked at Shabbat in the early centuries.
03:19And that was a very, very educational and informational episode,
03:24which really shows the turning point there of where the quote-unquote church
03:30went from the actual Sabbath of Scripture to the Roman pagan Sabbath of the first day of the week.
03:39So very good information there and explains how we got so off course.
03:43And then in episode four, we looked at Shabbat and the Reformation and also a few miscellaneous things
03:49and some really good information there, especially a guy that you've probably never heard of,
03:53but is a powerhouse in the Reformation.
03:56So if you missed it, definitely go back and watch that episode as well.
04:00Last episode, in episode five, we looked at the three top common arguments,
04:05or at least in my opinion, the most impactful arguments for putting forth Sunday as the Sabbath.
04:12And we debunked those.
04:13We looked at the context.
04:14We looked at definitions.
04:15We looked at common sense and a whole bunch of stuff.
04:19We exegeted various passages and we found those three arguments did not hold water
04:25when it comes to trying to say that Sunday is the Sabbath.
04:28Now, in this episode, in episode six, we're looking at three more arguments for Sunday as the Sabbath as well.
04:36In our next episode, we're going to be taking a look at what's called the Lunar Sabbath.
04:41Now, if you haven't learned or know anything about the Lunar Sabbath, that's fine.
04:45We will explain to you what it is and actually go over the biblical and historical evidence that goes along
04:52with that as well.
04:53However, like I said earlier, this is going to be in a couple of weeks because we've got some things
04:59planned and time off.
05:00So we're going to get to it, but just hang out with us.
05:03And we're actually thinking about doing an eighth episode, sort of like a series wrap up to get everything all
05:09in a nutshell,
05:09as it were, a complete recap of the entire series.
05:12We haven't decided yet, but we'll see how that works out.
05:16Now, like we did last time, let's go over a few basics real quick.
05:20We'll go over them even quicker this time since we went over them last time a little bit more in
05:25depth.
05:25So this is going to be just a quick review, a quick overview of the basics that you need to
05:30keep in mind when examining these passages that we're going to examine.
05:34But in general, also, every time you do a Bible study, these are some good principles to keep in mind
05:40and to apply when you're doing your Bible study.
05:44First off, let's look at some hermeneutics, what people will call hermeneutics.
05:48And this is going to be very important for studying scripture.
05:52First off, we have the literal principle, which states that the literal words in their plain meaning is actually what
05:58they mean.
05:59It's what we actually start with before we actually look at metaphorical or symbolic or poetic or things like that.
06:06Then we get into the contextual principle, which is taking things into context.
06:11And last episode, we saw that once we did take things into context, that it really illuminated and disproved the
06:18whole Sunday Sabbath argument.
06:20And you got the principle of scriptural harmony, whereas the in a nutshell, basically, the Bible does not contradict itself.
06:27Between the Tanakh and the Brut HaShah, there is no conflict.
06:31It's all in unity.
06:33Then we've got the grammatical principle, which is looking at the grammar of the original languages that the scriptures were
06:40written in, Hebrew for the Tanakh, and Greek for the Brut HaShah.
06:44And we've got the historical cultural principle, which is looking at various passages or doing your Bible study in reference
06:51and taking into account the culture and the history that was going on at the time of whatever it is
06:57that you're studying.
06:58And we've got the genre principle, which is you take each book or each passage in the context or in
07:07whatever genre it is, whether it's a narrative or a historical or apocalyptic or poetic or things like that.
07:15And we've got the progressive revelation principle.
07:18And don't take this too far.
07:19This doesn't mean like, you know, the Book of Mormon is a progressive revelation of no, no, nothing like that.
07:26No, this basically says that whatever is in scripture, sometimes it's not fully spelled out in the beginning, but over
07:33time, bits and pieces of it are revealed and shown to us.
07:37And but again, none of that contradicts itself with previous revelations.
07:43Then we've got the authorial intent principle, and this is what the author intended for his audience to know and
07:50understand and how the audience would have taken it at the time that was written by the author to the
07:56to the audience.
07:58And we've got the concept of Sola Scriptura, and this is a definitely a Protestant thing.
08:03And this is the principle that the scriptures alone are the ultimate infallible authority for faith and practice serving as
08:09the final court of appeal for all doctrine.
08:11And Sola Scriptura says if it's not in the Bible or if the Bible doesn't state it, then either it's
08:17tradition or we need to get rid of it.
08:19So if it doesn't come from scripture, it's definitely not the ultimate final authority as far as doctrine goes.
08:25And we've got the whole concept of descriptive versus prescriptive.
08:29When it comes to descriptive, that's a passage that records or details what happened historically, basically just telling the tale
08:35without necessarily commanding or approving of the behavior for anyone.
08:40Then you've got the concept of prescriptive, and this is a passage that explicitly commands or establishes an ongoing rule
08:47for how readers should live, think or act.
08:51So prescriptive is something that tells you what to do.
08:54Think of the Ten Commandments, thou shalt, thou shalt not, things like that.
08:58Those are prescriptive, whereas saying, you know, so-and-so went to this city on this day and they walked
09:05down the road.
09:06That was descriptive.
09:08Then you've got the concept of eisegesis versus exegesis.
09:12And exegesis is the process of drawing out of the original true meaning, I'm sorry, drawing out the original true
09:18meaning from a text based on what the author actually intended to communicate.
09:22On the flip side of that is eisegesis, and that means the practice of reading one's own biases, modern assumptions,
09:28or preconceived ideas into a text, forcing it to say what the reader wants.
09:33Obviously, we want to do exegesis when it comes to scripture, have the scriptures change us, instead of performing eisegesis,
09:40which is taking our own personal desires and trying to read it back into scripture and twist the text to
09:46make it read what we want it to say.
09:48No, scripture needs to change us. We don't need to try to change scripture.
09:52Then we've got the concept of anachronism, and this is the process or the act of taking something that is
09:59out of time historically and placing it back earlier.
10:03Like, for instance, if we talk about Abraham Lincoln's Facebook account, that would be anachronistic, because obviously the internet wasn't
10:10around then, much less Facebook.
10:12So that's anachronism. We've got confirmation bias. This is the mental tendency to search for, favor, and recall information that
10:19supports your existing beliefs while completely ignoring or downplaying evidence that contradicts them.
10:24Now, this is something to keep in mind, because we all have bias. We all have confirmation bias.
10:29We need to be aware of that when we're studying and not just take things like we think they are
10:34coming at us, because it may be something we've already thought or already believe, and we need to take it
10:40for what it actually says, not for what we already believe.
10:44Then there's the concept of taking things in context, and this is examining a specific statement within its surrounding verses,
10:51within its historical setting, and also within its literary genre to ensure its meaning aligns with the author's complete message.
10:59And we saw that last time with the three arguments that we looked at for Sunday as the Sabbath, and
11:04we saw that a lot of times when you just take things into context, it completely destroys the argument that
11:10Sunday is the Sabbath, at least when we looked at those three passages.
11:14We'll see what it means here in just a minute, too, when we'll examine three more passages.
11:18Now, let's look at some various attributes that are ascribed to the Sabbath back in the Tanakh.
11:25Number one is described as the day of rest, and this is the most important and most significant attribute of
11:32the Sabbath as it was initially created, as it was commanded, as it was performed back in the Tanakh.
11:40It was a day of rest.
11:41No other day was described as a day of rest.
11:44The Sabbath, if nothing else, it was the day of rest.
11:49So keep that in mind, when people were putting forth another day of the week as the new day of
11:53rest, do any of the passages they put forth describe it, that new day, as being a day of rest?
11:59Because if not, there's absolutely no way they can claim that is the Sabbath, because the Sabbath was initiated and
12:06put forth initially and commanded initially as a day of rest.
12:11The Sabbath is also described as a sign between Yahweh and his people.
12:15Again, new arguments that are put forth.
12:17It doesn't say that it's a sign between Yahweh and his people.
12:21The Sabbath and its knock is also described as being directly in connection with the creation, and we see that
12:28within the Ten Commandments of Exodus, and then it's attributed or connected to the Exodus from Egypt in the book
12:35of Deuteronomy.
12:36It's also being directly described as being made holy by Yahweh, and the very first thing to be made holy
12:43or set apart is directly described as being blessed by Yahweh.
12:48We see that in the creation account as well.
12:51There's also various gathering times that people gather together back in the Tanakh, and it wasn't just on the Sabbath.
13:00There were many days that Israel came together and worshiped, and I say this all the time, but I love
13:06asking people what the day of worship is during the week.
13:09And a lot of people, if they're Sunday Sabbath people, they say, well, Sunday.
13:13Or if they are Messianic, they'll say, okay, well, it's Saturday.
13:16That's the day of worship.
13:18No, every day should be a day of worship.
13:21We should worship Yahweh every single day.
13:24But the Sabbath is the day of rest.
13:28Get the distinction?
13:29But Israel came together and gathered together on many different days.
13:33They worshiped together on many different days.
13:35So just because people get together doesn't mean that is the Sabbath or even the new Sabbath.
13:41And they got together on many days back in the Tanakh for multiple reasons.
13:44The temple itself, as we looked at back in the first episode, the temple functions on a daily basis, seven
13:53days a week.
13:54Sacrifices were offered and occurred morning and evening, seven days a week.
14:01Prayer occurred throughout the day as well, and sometimes they prayed together.
14:06Likewise, Christians may gather on any day.
14:08You can see that even in today's day and age.
14:10They gather together on Wednesday nights.
14:13Just because they're gathered together on Wednesday night doesn't mean that they consider that Wednesday to be the Sabbath.
14:18Acts records gatherings on various occasions.
14:21You can see in Scripture on the book of Acts that they gathered together and broke bread together daily.
14:28Not just one day of the week, but daily.
14:31Gathering on Sunday is not identical to declaring Sunday the Sabbath.
14:35The distinction is crucial and very important.
14:39And one common misunderstanding is assuming that any religious gathering occurring on a particular day automatically establishes that day as
14:47a holy day.
14:48Just because people get together doesn't mean it's the Sabbath, and it doesn't mean it is a holy day either.
14:53However, Hebrew life included gatherings throughout the week.
14:57We had synagogue gatherings.
14:59We had prayer times.
15:00We had festival assemblies.
15:01Remember, they got together on Passover and Shavuot and Yom Teruah and Sukkot, etc., etc.
15:07They got together for temple services.
15:09They got together for study gatherings.
15:11They got together for community meetings.
15:13So there's all kinds of things, all kinds of reasons that people would get together, even back in the Brit
15:18Hattish shop.
15:19The existence of a gathering does not automatically define the day as a Sabbath.
15:25So now let's go ahead and start with Colossians 2, verses 16-17.
15:29And this is going to be the first of the three arguments that we look at during this particular episode.
15:35The passage goes as such.
15:38Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking or in respect of a festival or a new
15:43moon or Sabbath, which are a shadow of what is to come, but the body of the Messiah.
15:49Right there, it says it in black and white.
15:51Let no one therefore judge you in respect of the Sabbath.
15:57Because all of that was just, they used to be shadows and the shadow who was cast in the shadow
16:02Messiah has come.
16:04So therefore, those shadows are done and gone away with.
16:07Right there in black and white.
16:10No, no, no, no, no.
16:11Let's not just take this out of context.
16:13Let's take everything into context.
16:16Number one, here is something that is going to be, or at least it sticks out to me like a,
16:23it's like someone punching me in the face.
16:25But it says here, look very closely at the language that Paul uses here to the Colossians.
16:33Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking or in respect of a festival or a new
16:38moon or Sabbath, which are a shadow of what is to come, but the body of Messiah.
16:46Are.
16:47For those of you who haven't, it hasn't clicked yet, or you don't actually know this.
16:53Are, in English, is a conjugation of the verb to be.
16:58It's a present tense of the verb to be.
17:00It's a present conjugation of the verb to be.
17:02That means that when Paul wrote that, he says that those things, the festivals, the new moons, the Sabbath, were
17:08still ongoing.
17:09He says they are.
17:11He didn't say they were.
17:12He says they are, indicating that they are still relevant.
17:16They are still ongoing.
17:18They have not been done away with.
17:20Remember, this is many, many years after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Yeshua.
17:26And Paul is still saying that these things are still in effect.
17:32They are ongoing and they are still relevant.
17:35For those of you who would like even more evidence, more proof, here is the breakdown of that from blueletterbible
17:42.org.
17:43And verify with other sources as well.
17:46But that word right there in the Greek is still in the present tense, just like it is in English.
17:52And we showed you the various translations.
17:54They all do it in that exact tense, the present tense that Paul was writing in.
17:58So, Paul still thought these things were ongoing and hadn't been done away with.
18:04That included the weekly Sabbath as well as the other Sabbaths that are mentioned in Scripture.
18:11But what about that other part where it says, let no one therefore judge you?
18:16Well, take this into account.
18:17It starts at the beginning, let no one therefore judge you.
18:21It's giving you the command and telling you what not to do.
18:24Don't let anyone outside, in this context especially, not let anyone who is not a believer outside the faith judge
18:32you.
18:32And it says, which are the shadow of things to come.
18:35But who is to judge you?
18:38Paul says here, let the body of Messiah.
18:41Take out that little, you know, tangent part that he wrote there.
18:45Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of any festival or a new
18:49moon or Sabbaths, but the body of the Messiah.
18:52So, don't let the unbelievers try and judge you.
18:54Don't let those who are outside of the faith judge you.
18:56But those who are in the faith, those who have been educated, those who are your brothers and sisters who
19:02love you and want to see you advance and, you know, better yourself,
19:08those are the ones who are to judge you, not the people outside who just want to tear you down
19:12a lot of times or try and destroy your faith.
19:14Don't let them judge you.
19:15Let those who are in the faith, those are the ones who are to judge you.
19:20Also, notice some things right here.
19:22This is some parts where I disagree with some of these translations.
19:26It says, but the body of Messiah.
19:28Now, when it says here in the King James, I know it doesn't put it correctly here on screen because
19:35of all my formatting.
19:36But if you look at the King James Version, it says at the very end, but the body is of
19:41Christ.
19:41And that term right there is italicized in the King James Version.
19:48And that indicates that it's not actually in the original Greek.
19:52It's actually inserted by the translators just to help the flow of the way the English goes in comparison to
19:58the way the Greek goes, which is nice.
20:00That's a great feature of the King James.
20:04But, take it out.
20:06And it's not that the body is of Christ.
20:08It's referring to the body of Christ.
20:12There's a distinction there.
20:13I don't know if you caught that or not.
20:14It's talking about the assembly, the believers, the church, whatever term you want to use.
20:19But I also noticed some of these other ones, like the ESV, the LSB, and TLV, and also the Wycliffe
20:25as well.
20:27Well, actually, the Wycliffe is just like the King James, so it's not that much out.
20:31But the other ones, the ESV, the LSB, and the TLV, it says the reality is Messiah in the Tree
20:38of Life Version.
20:38That's not true.
20:40It's talking about the body, the assembly.
20:42And I'll show you that coming up here in just a moment.
20:44The LSB says the substance belongs to Christ.
20:47What substance?
20:49We're not talking about a substance here.
20:50We're talking about a congregation.
20:51We're talking about people.
20:53And it's talking about the body or the assembly of Messiah.
20:57And the same thing with the ESV there.
21:00It says substance.
21:00But when you break it down and look at the actual Greek, the word there is for body or, metaphorically
21:07speaking, the body, like the assembly or like the church, etc., etc.
21:11So hopefully that explains a little bit more in detail about this one particular passage.
21:18But again, that's still taken out of context with the surrounding verses.
21:22So let's look at everything in context with some of the surrounding verses of Colossians 2, 16 and 17.
21:28And now we're going to look at the greater passage, which is Colossians 2, 11 through 23.
21:36In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands in the putting off of the body
21:42of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Messiah, having been buried with him in immersion, in which
21:48you also were raised with him through the belief in the working of Elohim, who raised him from the dead.
21:54And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him,
22:00having forgiven you all your trespasses, having blotted out that which was written by hand against us.
22:06By the dogmas which stood against principalities and the authorities, he made a public display of them, having prevailed over
22:13them in it.
22:14Let no one, therefore, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new
22:19moon or Sabbath, which are a shadow of what is to come, but the body of the Messiah.
22:24Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers or
22:30angels, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast
22:36to the head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the growth
22:43of Elohim.
22:44If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world,
22:50do you subject yourselves to dogmas, do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which are all to perish
22:56with use, according to the commands and teachings of men?
23:00These, indeed, have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation, and harsh treatment of the body, of no
23:06value at all, only for satisfaction of the flesh.
23:09But here's a greater context, and hopefully this is helping you to understand exactly what's being referred to here in
23:16Colossians 2, 16 and 17.
23:19There's the very beginning before these two verses, we see it's talking about how you came into the faith, how
23:25you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands,
23:28how you were buried with Messiah and raised with Messiah through immersion, how you were forgiven all your trespasses, blotted
23:36out, which is written against us.
23:38He has taken those dogmas, which is man-made traditions, a.k.a. the pharisaical oral law, etc., etc., which
23:45stood against us and taken out of the way,
23:48and stripped the principalities and authorities of their power, basically, and made a public display of them prevailing over them.
23:55Then, so who is he talking about here?
23:57Well, so far, what he's been talking about is how you came into the faith, how you became saved and
24:02was born again.
24:04And this goes right into the body of Messiah making up the church.
24:09Then it talks about the outsiders and getting rid of them, their authority, their powers, stuff like that, and their
24:15dogmas, which they had come against us with.
24:18So now he's talking about let no one therefore judge you.
24:21Well, who's the no one he's talking about?
24:23What he's just talked about before, and that is those who are outside who have those dogmas against us.
24:28But he goes on to reference them again after this.
24:32He says,
24:33If then you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world,
24:39do you subject yourselves to dogmas?
24:41Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which are all to perish with use according to the commands
24:46and teachings of men.
24:47Well, obviously, this isn't talking about the Torah, because the Torah is not the commands and teachings of men.
24:54Obviously, right?
24:56So the dogmas, the teachings of men, the commandments of men, and the outsiders, that's what the context is talking
25:03about here within Colossians chapter 2, verses 16 and 17.
25:08It says,
25:08Do not let the outsiders judge you, rather let the body of Messiah judge you.
25:14Again, going back to that iron sharpening iron, getting set straight.
25:18I mean, we've all got things we mess up on from time to time.
25:22I know I do.
25:22I'm not going to list them out here for you.
25:24It'll take for a while, but yeah, it's nice to have someone that you are accountable to, who loves you
25:30and wants to see you get better.
25:31And therefore, their judgment is a righteous judgment, hopefully a righteous judgment, and an educated judgment to help you advance
25:39your faith and your walk in the faith and become closer to Yahweh and Yeshua.
25:45Now, if Paul was talking in Colossians, or writing to the Colossians, saying that the Sabbath had been done away
25:51with, as some people put forth, when they put forth verses 16 and 17, he would actually be contradicting himself
25:58from what he wrote in other places as well.
26:01If Saul argued that the Sabbath was obsolete, he would be contradicting his own public testimonies, where he claimed to
26:09believe everything written in the law and the prophets and asserted he had committed no offense against the Torah.
26:15You can find various examples like that in Acts chapter 21, Acts chapter 24, Acts 25, etc., etc.
26:25We saw last time, and also in other episodes, where Paul himself, they said, oh, there's people coming against you,
26:31they're saying that you are doing away with the word of Moses, and Paul takes a Nazarite vow to show
26:38that he does keep the Torah.
26:41So why would he now in Colossians, or in the book of Colossians, write that the Sabbath was obsolete?
26:47He wouldn't. That would be a contradiction, and that's not what Paul's doing.
26:51Paul is reinforcing the Torah, but he's telling us, do not let others outside the faith judge you in the
26:59way that you keep the faith.
27:00Let those who are in the faith judge you and guide you.
27:04That's what Paul's saying here in Colossians.
27:08Moving on to Romans chapter 14, verse 5.
27:13One indeed judges one day above another, another judges every day alike.
27:18Let each one be completely persuaded in his own mind.
27:22So obviously it's saying here that you can pick whatever day you want to have the Sabbath, right?
27:29No, no, no, no.
27:30But a lot of times that's what's put forth by the Sunday Sabbath people.
27:34And again, as we saw in the last episode when looking at the main three arguments for Sunday Sabbath,
27:43that context would completely obliterate the argument for Sunday Sabbath.
27:48Same thing happens here.
27:50Let's look at Romans chapter 14, verses 1 through 6.
27:55And receive him who is weak in the belief, not criticizing his thoughts.
27:59One indeed believes to eat all food, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
28:03He that eats, let him not despise him who does not eat.
28:07And he that does not eat, let him not judge him who eats.
28:10For Elohim received him.
28:12Who are you that judges another servant?
28:15To his own master he stands or falls, but he shall be made to stand.
28:19For Elohim is able to make him stand.
28:21One indeed judges one day above another, another judges every day alike.
28:26Let each one be completely persuaded in his own mind.
28:29He who minds the day minds it to Yahweh, and he who does not mind the day, to Yahweh he
28:35does not mind it.
28:36He who eats, eats to Yahweh, for he gives Elohim thanks.
28:40And he who does not eat, to Yahweh he does not eat, and gives Elohim thanks.
28:48So, does this provide a greater context to you?
28:51It's not talking about just a day in general.
28:54It's not talking about holy days and stuff like that.
28:57What is it talking about?
28:58Well, it's actually talking about days in relation to food.
29:02And in this context, I think the information and the evidence strongly points to the fasting days that were tradition
29:11back then.
29:12For instance, the Pharisees, the common understanding back then, or common tradition, was to fast on Mondays and Thursdays.
29:21We see in the Didache, it tells them not to be like the hypocrites who fast on Monday and Thursday,
29:26but you should rather fast on Tuesdays and Fridays.
29:32And that's what the context here, we see in context, it's talking about food before verse 5, and it's talking
29:38about food after verse 5, and then it's talking about, in verse 5, days.
29:43So, you put that together, food and days, what are they actually talking about?
29:47Well, it's not the Sabbath, obviously.
29:48In fact, the word Sabbath isn't there in this particular passage, not in verse 5, not in verses 1-6,
29:57it's not even in chapter 14, nor is the word Sabbath ever used in the entire book of Romans, which
30:06is interesting, isn't it?
30:08So, Romans 14, 5, I would definitely say the information is strongly against 14, 5, referencing the Sabbath, but instead,
30:18the evidence overwhelmingly, in my opinion, points to the fasting days instead.
30:23And we've also did an episode a long time ago about fasting, and we've seen, even in that episode, and
30:32also the episodes that we've done on Yom Kippurim, that fasting is not actually commanded in Scripture.
30:39Nowhere.
30:39It's a good idea, we see lots of people doing it, but it's not actually commanded, not even for Yom
30:44Kippurim.
30:45So, when Paul says, don't judge each other in regards to your fasting, that's because there's no command.
30:50There's nothing to judge people on, it's like, you know, trying to judge someone based on how they tie their
30:56ZZ.
30:58There's no command on how to tie the ZZ, there's not even command on the number of ZZ you're to
31:03have.
31:04It just says, on the borders of your garment, and make sure it has a blue thread.
31:08Other than that, you could have white thread, you could have black thread, which I saw with some law enforcement
31:13that I've personally known,
31:16or you could have pink and stuff like that with it as well, as long as it's got the blue.
31:20So, yeah, when it's not a command, we shouldn't be judging each other, we should allow each other the grace
31:25to go about that.
31:28But, you know, in fasting, that is one of those areas.
31:31If you want to fast, that's great.
31:33If you don't want to fast, that's great as well.
31:35So, don't fast.
31:37And also, in this particular time frame, was rampant paganism, especially in Rome and in other places as well.
31:47But a lot of times, people, when it says that they would only eat vegetables, some would only eat vegetables,
31:53that's because they would not want to buy meat at the market because they were scared that it would have
31:59been sacrificed to an idol,
32:01and they would be eating idolatrous meat, so they would only eat vegetables.
32:05And Paul says, okay, that's fine too, and also whichever day they fast or whichever day they don't fast, that
32:11is acceptable as well.
32:13Notice when we read in other passages that Paul writes, he says that if you don't know where the food
32:19came from,
32:19or whether or not it was sacrificed to idols, don't ask.
32:22Just eat it as it's set in front of you.
32:24But if you do know, then you don't eat it.
32:28So, that's good advice, I think, as well.
32:30We don't have to worry about that so much nowadays, I don't think, especially not in most of America, where
32:35I'm at,
32:36but maybe different in other parts of the world.
32:39But we really don't have a lot of pagan sacrifices going on and then going into the supermarket, as it
32:45were.
32:46No, we just have salmonella outbreaks and stuff like that.
32:49So, it's going on, and it's going pretty quick tonight.
32:53We got a lot of the information, a lot of the processes in last week, so this week's going to
33:00go pretty quick,
33:01since you know a lot about how to do context, stuff like that.
33:04The last one we're going to look at for tonight is the passage in Revelation 1, verse 10, and it
33:11reads as such.
33:12I'll read from the King James Version this time.
33:15The King James Version for Revelation 1.10 says as such,
33:25Now, if you're looking here on the screen, if you're watching the video,
33:29you can see here that I've got three different sections.
33:34And the first two, it says, instead of the Lord's Day, it says the Day of Yahweh, or the Day
33:41of the Lord.
33:41The next section, it actually says Sunday instead of Lord's Day.
33:46And then the final section, I've got the three down there, the ESV, the King James Version, and the LSB.
33:53Let's say the Lord's Day.
33:54Now, why did I put all this up here?
33:56Well, this is very interesting.
33:57Number one, let's look at the middle two right there for just a quick second.
34:01is that when it says Sunday here in the Coverdale Translation and the Matthew Translation,
34:07and there's a few others as well, when they put the word Sunday there,
34:11that is classic eisegesis, reading, and also anachronism as well,
34:17but reading and putting something in the Scriptures that isn't actually there.
34:21It does not say Sunday because the days of the week did not have names in Scriptures.
34:27It's the first day of the week, second day of the week, third day of the week,
34:29except for the seventh day, and the seventh day was called Shabbat or Sabbath.
34:34So putting Sunday there is definitely incorrect, and it's a,
34:40oh, how do I put this in a PC kind of way?
34:46Well, it's a, it's bastardizing the Scriptures, in other words,
34:51because it doesn't actually say Sunday.
34:53It actually says the Lord's Day.
34:56And that's why I read from the King James,
34:57because in the Greek it actually says the Lord's Day.
35:01And the translation that we normally use, the Scriptures 2009,
35:05says the Day of Yahweh.
35:07And that's not as true to the Greek as I think it should be.
35:11So, again, no translation is perfect,
35:13and even the one we like has its imperfections like you see here.
35:17Yeah, the actual Greek is the Lord's Day,
35:21the adjective form that is referencing that word day.
35:26Now, does this actually reference the first day of the week?
35:30Does this actually reference what we know of as Sunday nowadays?
35:34Well, I don't think so.
35:35Take into, again, context, and the context of Revelation is about the end times.
35:40It's called an apocalyptic writing, the Apocalypse of John,
35:43otherwise known as Revelation.
35:44It's about Armageddon, et cetera, et cetera.
35:48And, therefore, that's what I think the day,
35:50or the Lord's Day is actually referencing here.
35:52It's talking about the end time events.
35:55Now, this is the only time in all of Scripture this actual wording comes through.
36:00So it's rather difficult to tie it to other references in Scripture
36:05where it actually uses that exact same phraseology.
36:08But there is a similar phrase we find back in the Tanakh.
36:14And this is called, this is the phrase,
36:16the Day of Yahweh, or the Day of the Lord.
36:20And every single time back in the Tanakh,
36:22when it uses this phrase, the Day of Yahweh,
36:24or the Day of the Lord in certain translations,
36:26it's referencing end time events, apocalyptic events,
36:31such as Isaiah chapter 13, verses 5 through 6.
36:35They are coming from a distant land from the end of the heavens,
36:38even Yahweh and His weapons of displeasure,
36:40to destroy all the earth.
36:42Howl, for the Day of Yahweh is near.
36:44It comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
36:48We also see this in Ezekiel chapter 13, verse 5.
36:52You have not gone up into the breaches,
36:54nor do you build a wall for the house of Israel
36:56who stand in battle on the Day of Yahweh.
37:00And finally, looking at Zephaniah chapter 1, verse 7.
37:04Hush, in the presence of the Master Yahweh,
37:06For the Day of Yahweh is near.
37:09For Yahweh has prepared a slaughter.
37:11He has set apart his invited ones.
37:15So we can see here that, back in the Tanakh at least,
37:18when it has this phrase, the Day of Yahweh,
37:22that it's referencing end times events.
37:25That's why I think, personally,
37:27that when it's talking about the Lord's Day in Revelation chapter 1, verse 10,
37:31it's actually speaking about the end times events,
37:35not the first day of the week,
37:37and not even the seventh day of the week.
37:39Because remember, back in Scripture,
37:40Yeshua said He is Lord of the Sabbath.
37:43And the Sabbath in Scripture is only ever described as the seventh day.
37:48So if He's Lord of the Sabbath in the Lord's Day,
37:51that would naturally lead you to think that it would be the seventh day.
37:55But when you put it together with this phrasing from the Tanakh,
38:00I actually think that the Lord's Day in Revelation 1.10
38:03is referencing the apocalyptic times,
38:06and not any particular day of the week.
38:08Not the seventh, not the first, anything like that.
38:11Here is some more nerdy information for you guys.
38:14Because Lord's Day, there as it's used in Revelation 1.10,
38:19is actually an adjective where Lord's is referenced,
38:23or acting as an adjective to modify that noun day.
38:28So Lord's Day.
38:30Then we got the other phrase that we looked at from the Tanakh,
38:33and this happens even in the Greek Septuagint.
38:35It says, day of the Lord.
38:37So there it is more like a possessive thing,
38:41where the Lord is the possessor of that day,
38:45but I can also see that working with Lord's Day as well.
38:50People make a distinction between these two different phrases,
38:53but I think it's a distinction without a difference, as they say.
38:57Again, feel free to disagree.
38:58If you think this Lord's Day in Revelation 1.10 means Sunday,
39:05that's great.
39:07I disagree, and I think it took us some time for Lord's Day to be in connection with the first
39:14day of the week,
39:14and it wasn't happening here in the book of Revelation at this point in history.
39:19So again, decide for yourself and disagree.
39:22That's fine.
39:23We can still break bread and fellowship together.
39:25But also take into account as well that this is the only time it occurs in all of Scripture,
39:30and it's the only time that this phrase is used in the book of Revelation, obviously,
39:35and there's nothing there in that context.
39:38I should put up the context for you, but you can look at it for yourself.
39:41Revelation chapter 1.
39:43The whole context is about the apocalypse, and it has nothing to do with day of rest.
39:48It has nothing to do with a sacred assembly or getting together or anything like that.
39:55Look at it for yourself and tell me what you think.
39:57Let me know down in the comments.
39:59Do you think this means a particular day of the week, the 1st, the 7th,
40:03or do you think, like me, and it means, or it's actually referencing the apocalyptic times?
40:10It'll be interesting to see if anyone out there has a differing opinion on that,
40:14and also why.
40:15If you have a differing opinion, by all means,
40:18let us know a little bit of the explanation down there as well.
40:22So now, in summary, in Colossians chapter 2, verses 16 through 17,
40:29Paul references the festivals, the new moons, the Sabbaths, etc., etc.,
40:33as things which are, remember, that's the present tense,
40:37are still currently active and ongoing,
40:41not as things that have been done away with.
40:45Colossians chapter 2, verses 16 through 17,
40:47teaches that we do not allow those outside the body of Messiah to judge us
40:51on eating, drinking, festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths,
40:54but rather only those within the body of Messiah.
40:58Those are the ones who are to judge us.
41:03The word Sabbath does not appear in Romans chapter 14, verse 5,
41:07the entire chapter of Romans 14, or in the entire book of Romans.
41:13The context of Romans 14, verse 5 is regarding food and days,
41:18and most likely is strongly pointing to the practice of fasting,
41:23not Sabbath-keeping.
41:26The wording of Revelation chapter 1, verse 10,
41:29the Lord's Day, is most likely referring to the end times events,
41:33which is in keeping with the entire theme of Revelation,
41:36and also the previous phrase that we looked at,
41:39day of the Lord in this knock,
41:41which is referencing end times events.
41:44Context generally illuminates the fallacy that the Sabbath has changed to Sunday,
41:48or that the Sabbath is done away with when examining the passages used,
41:51and we saw that in this particular teaching,
41:54when we look at the verses that are put forth,
41:57we see they're taken out of context,
41:58but when we take all that into context,
42:00we see that, no,
42:02it's usually not referencing Sunday as the Sabbath,
42:06or it's in context referencing something completely different.
42:13And finally, the Sabbath has not been done away with,
42:17and the Sabbath has not changed to Sunday.
42:21And that's just the God-honest truth.
42:24So thank you for joining us for this episode in our Shabbat series,
42:28examining three more arguments and passages from the scriptures that are commonly put forth
42:34to say that Sunday is the Sabbath.
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