Whichever way you look at it; the word 'Sabbath' translating to 'Sunday,' or Sunday being the worship day as defined by the activities under the term 'Sabbath' (which is described as day of FEAST only in the Bible, and not worship), the Bible does not support either, and more importantly it does clearly describe the LORD's Day as the 'Sabbath' (the 7th day of our creation) starting from Genesis and all the way to the book of Revelation. So, if you look at the Bible as a whole, which is how to study the message of any written work, the day of worship is always the Sabbath, the 7th day of creation. It seems like this was to be one of the items to define the real Church from the fallen Church in the last days. There appears to be various tests even to the believers in the Bible in different topics, different levels, and this is not the only one either.
It is very sad that once you realize the truth about the Sabbath, you find that only a few Churches scattered within some denominations respect the Sabbath as the day of worship. And the only denomination known to apply the Sabbath worship universally in within their denomination is the Seventh Day Adventist Church of course. Sure, they may have their own internal problems also like any other Church, but they like to study the Bible very carefully, and that's what I like myself, that should be done by everyone interested in the knowing the word of God. The Hebrew Orthodox Christians should not be the only ones looking at the Bible very closely.
I was immediately attracted to a church's sign that read 'St. Paul's Reformed Church' the other day, but not only did the 'St.' (Catholic-paganized term) throw me off immediately, but also was saddened to see "SUNDAY WORSHIP" on the bulletin-board. It has a warm looking building for a church too.
References to the keeping of the Sabbath in the Bible:
Genesis 2:2-3
New King James Version (NKJV)
2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Exodus 20:8-11
New King James Version (NKJV)
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but 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 cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days theLord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Deuteronomy 4:13 (verifying the importance of the 10 Commandments)
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13 So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Matthew 12
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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”
3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was ["not lawful"] for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? 6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath (he declares himself to have the authority to say what he just said as our Lord, and the Son of Man [God's Son]).”
Healing on the Sabbath
9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him.
11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.
Acts 15:21
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21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Acts 17:2
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2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Many Sunday worship defenders use Revelation 1:10 to attempt to verify that the 'Lord's Day' mentioned is "Sunday," but the link below shows a study on how and why that is false.
Revelation 1:9-11
New King James Version (NKJV)
Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
All Biblical references from the courtesy of biblegateway.com
Many Sunday worship defenders use Revelation 1:10 to attempt to verify that the 'Lord's Day' mentioned is "Sunday," but the link below shows a study on how and why that is false.
Revelation 1:9-11
New King James Version (NKJV)
Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
All Biblical references from the courtesy of biblegateway.com
Revelation 1:9-11
New King James Version (NKJV)
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
