The Seventh Day Part 2 | Sabbath Truth

Part two is broken into 10 sections.
1. Religion in Rome - A summary view of Roman religions during the time of Jesus.
2. The Jewish Sabbath - Strict Sabbath-keeping marked the Jews as unique.
3. The Sabbath Reformer - The Bible portrays Jesus as a revolutionary Sabbath-keeper.
4. Prophecy - Jesus predicted that His followers would be still be keeping the Sabbath at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
5. Christians and Jews - The two groups shared a view of a personal God and of the weekly Sabbath, but Christians found new meaning in the holy day.
6. The Christian Sabbath - Clear evidence for Christian observance of the seventh-day Sabbath in the first century AD.
7. Sunday-keepers - Second-century Christians in Alexandria and Rome begin observing the first day of the week instead of the Sabbath.
8. The Day of the Sun - Roman sun worship and its link to Christian Sunday observance.
9. Sunday Law - Emperor Constantine legalizes Sunday as the weekly day of rest in the Roman Empire.
10. The Sabbath Survives - Proof of seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath observance into the middle of the fourth century.

Christ the End of the Law

Bowing to Babylon

Bricks Without Straw

Labouring To Rest

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