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Your Sabbath Questions Answered

Wasn't the Sabbath just a reminder of freedom from Egypt?
Here is the Old Testament text from which this common question arises: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day" (Deuteronomy 5:14, 15).

The key to understanding this passage as it relates to Sabbath keeping ...
Can the true seventh day be located?
Some teach that through various calendar changes and other factors, the true seventh day of the week cannot be accurately identified. But this is simply not true. Here are four evidences that help us identify the true Sabbath today:

1. The sixth day, seventh day, first day ...

According to Scripture, Christ died on Friday, the sixth day of the week, and rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. Practically all churches acknowledge this fact when they observe Good ...
Hasn't the calendar been changed?
Actually, we can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here on Earth - the day He kept every week as the Sabbath. (See Luke 4:16.) The days of the week have never been confused. Here's why some people ask this question ...

Before 1582, the world went by the Julian calendar, named for the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, who implemented it in 46 BC. The Julian calendar had calculated that it takes the earth 365-¼ days to orbit the sun. However, it actually takes about eleven minutes less than that. Those eleven minutes accumulated each year until, by 1582, the calendar was 10 days out of harmony with the solar system.

On October ...

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Sabbath Articles

Is Saturday the “Jewish Sabbath”?
The evidence that the early church switched the Sabbath is, at best, circumstantial and, ultimately, unsubstantiated. See why...
Doesn't Colossians 2:14 wipe out the weekly Sabbath?
Does it really matter that the earth is round when God's people observe the seventh-day Sabbath?
Separation of Church and State
Wasn't the Sabbath made only for the Jews?
10 Reasons Why the Sabbath is not Jewish
A Professional Soccer Player Chooses Sabbath Over Profit
Denominal Statements on the Sabbath

Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE
This Fourth is not a commandment for one place, or one time, but for all places and times.
D.L. Moody, at San Francisco, Jan. 1st, 1881.