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Speaker 1
Jesus rose. So Thomas is saying Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week. Jesus appeared to the disciples on the first day of the week. And these are all cited, but I’m not going to read them all in detail. Jesus appeared inside the room to the eleven disciples eight days after the first day of the week. The Jewish way of measuring days meant that it was again Sunday. The Holy Spirit came on Pentecost the first day of the week. The first sermon was preached by Peter. On the first day of the week, 3000 converts joined the church. On the first day of the week, 3000 were baptized on the first day of the week, the Christians assembled broke bread. On the first day of the week, the Christians also heard a message from Paul on the first day of the week. Note the reference is until midnight, which is not the Jewish method of measuring days, but the Roman system. Paul instructed the churches to put aside contributions on the first day of the week. Jesus gave the apostle John the vision of Revelation on the first day of the week.
Speaker 2
All right, my friend, I’m not entirely.
Speaker 1
Clear on what the question is here.
Speaker 2
I think what my friend Thomas is saying here is we’ve definitely promoted that the 7th day Sabbath is still binding as it’s written by God’s finger in his law in stone, and God blessed it at creation. Jesus kept it when he was alive and it says in Isaiah 66 that we’re going to keep it in heaven. So we’re pretty clear from Bible ask that we believe in the keeping of the 7th day Sabbath that’s just stated in the Bible. Now what our friend Thomas seems to be saying is, well look at all these verses pointing to the first day of the week after Jesus was crucified. And so I hear you. And so Thomas, I want to start with a verse for you in Hebrews, chapter 13, verse eight, and it reads basically Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. So Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Right? So let’s think about very far yesterday as far as creation where it talks about the first day of the week. And in Genesis one, basically in verse three, it says god said let there be light and there was light. Correct? So the first day of the week, God had a plan.
Speaker 2
He’s like at the beginning in creation, the first day his work was to say let there be light. And I would say that many of these instances as far as Jesus starting after Jesus resurrected on the first day, he was starting saying let there be light. The Pentecost on the first day, let there be light. This mirrors his work of creation. And there’s so many things on the first day that did happen that were good things. They’re not bad things, are works of god or they’re works of the disciples, but they are not a Sabbath, because a Sabbath means to rest, it means to stop, means to not work. And so at creation again, in Genesis, chapter two, verses, chapter two, verses two and three, it says, and the 7th day God rested from all his works which God created and made, and he blessed it and hallowed it. So he made that day holy at creation yet again. And throughout the life of Jesus, jesus rests on the Sabbath. You see his disciples resting on the Sabbath. The only thing, and these verses are not wrong, that these disciples did things on the Sabbath, they did break bread.
Speaker 2
But also, if you look at that verse where you’re saying they break bread.
Speaker 3
Does that mean anything?
Speaker 2
But they broke bread every single day. They said they broke bread daily. And so breaking bread was a daily thing. It wasn’t anything set aside for a worship service. It was just them getting together and eating or maybe doing a communion service or whatever. But it wasn’t exactly something that was an act of worship.
Speaker 3
They were very communal living together. You had 70 people in one room for pretty much 40 days right before Pentecost.
Speaker 2
Ten days, if I’m not mistaken, because maybe ten days.
Speaker 3
Yeah.
Speaker 2
And this whole thing with Pentecost is it happened, which is very interesting. You brought it up. You put Leviticus, chapter 26, verse 13, which is talking about the feast of first fruits. And that’s how we know when Pentecost was, because it was 50 days after the Passover, because Jesus died at the Passover. And then there’s this feast that happens, 49 plus one. Exactly. But it’s Seven Sabbaths. And then the next day after those seven Sabbaths is when this feast of first fruits begins.
Speaker 3
Actually, this is the verse Thomas cites as supposedly evidence that Sabbath got changed.
Speaker 2
Exactly. But the thing is, it’s saying there’s seven Sabbaths that need to happen. So again, it’s reiterating that the Sabbath is very important. And even seven Sabbaths, God is pointing to seven, because the 7th day, the number seven, is very important to God. And we see that in the book of Revelation with the seven seals and the seven last plagues and the seven trumpets. There’s something important to God about the number seven, and we need to respect that. And the thing is too, as far as putting aside money on the first day that’s a church business meeting.
Speaker 3
Or not even that what he’s saying is you don’t save up for your tithe at the end. You start your week putting away your tithe.
Speaker 2
Exactly.
Speaker 3
Make it the first thing you do.
Speaker 2
Exactly. It’s a first day work. I think the last thing I wanted to bring up was and then you say at the end that the Lord’s day is Revelation, chapter one, verse ten. That is not true.
Speaker 3
No evidence of that.
Speaker 2
There is no evidence of that. Jesus actually says.
Speaker 3
All it says is the Lord.
Speaker 2
Exactly. Jesus says in Mark chapter two, verse 28, that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. So that is not the first day of the week. I’m sorry, revelation was not given by inspiration on the first day, it was given on the 7th day Sabbath, because the 7th day Sabbath is the Lord’s day. So while I respect your thoughts and opinions, my brother, I have to respectfully say these are interesting. There are mentions of the first day, because God definitely wants you to do work on the first day, because in 6th day shalt thou labor and do all thy work. But the 7th day is the Sabbath unto the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any labor. And I’m directly quoting his commandment, he wrote with his finger on stone that you read in Exodus chapter 20, verses eight through eleven, and you really can’t deny that. Now, one less thing I will tell you though, as far as could God have changed the 7th day Sabbath to the first day? Let’s read about it in Hebrews chapter four, because Jesus or Paul says something very interesting in Hebrews chapter four, verses four through ten.
Speaker 2
And basically it says unto Moses, when he made an excuse me for he spake at a certain place of the 7th day on this wise. And God did rest the 7th day from all his works, seeing therefore it remains that some must enter. In verse five it says and in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. So God is saying, the 7th day is my rest. And verse six says seeing therefore it remains that some must enter their end, they to whom it was first preached entered not because of unbelief. So it’s because of unbelief that people don’t want to enter into God’s rest that he said he set aside on the 7th day. And it says in verse seven again, he limits a certain day, saying to David, today, after so long a time, as it is said today, if you will hear My voice, harden not your hearts. And verse eight reads or designates a certain day limits a day. For if Joshua had given them rest, he would have not afterward have spoken of another day. So if God was going to tell us that, hey, there’s another day of rest, he would have spoken of it.
Speaker 2
But he didn’t. And verse nine and ten go on to say, there remains therefore a rest for the people of God, the 7th day Sabbath rest he gave us at creation. And verse ten just basically reads for he who has entered into his rest has himself also ceased from his works, as God did from his. And when did God cease from his works? On the 7th day, as it says in Genesis two, two and three, again, God’s saying there is a rest. It’s the rest I gave you at creation. And if there was another day of rest, I would have told it to you. But no, there’s not. And all these references to the first day just reiterate that this is first day is a day of work. It’s not a day of worship. It’s a day of work to do God’s will. Which is fine that you do the first day to the 6th day, but the 7th day is the Sabbath, and there’s just no rebuttal against that because even in, like I said, as it says in Isaiah 66, from one new moon to another, from one Sabbath to another, so shall all come and worship before the Lord.
Speaker 2
And this is speaking of the new heavens and the new earth. And so I’m sorry, God doesn’t change. Like I said at the beginning, god is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Anyway, Jay or Wendy, any other thoughts on that? I’m sorry if I beat this to.
Speaker 3
Death, what the last thing you said? Maybe remember? So it’s not that necessarily. Like, for example, pentecost, it’s 49 plus one. And this concept of like seven plus one, which equals eight, is a reoccurring theme in the Bible. So you look at the people who came onto the ark, how many were there? It was seven plus one, eight people. It’s like the new beginning for the human race. And I forget other examples of this, but usually that’s the example. It’s a new beginning is what it’s talking about. It’s not a new rest period, it’s not a completion of a cycle. All these things are pointing to the beginning of a new era. Christ resurrection on the first day is the beginning of a new dispensation, the new covenant, the pentecost coming on the disciples. Again, this is a new beginning of a new relationship, the Holy Spirit working with us differently than has before and with great power. So that’s what we’re seeing here, it’s not necessarily even one, it’s actually eight that we’re dealing with the number in these situations. Or 49 plus 150. Yeah, again, we need to just because events happen on a day doesn’t mean that changed the day.
Speaker 3
I mean, we could look at other significant events in the Bible and some happen on Tuesday, some happen on Wednesday, some happen Thursday. Is God telling us now we need to do something on that particular day? No, not unless God specifically gave us a way of counting and saying on this day, do something in particular. There’s times where he did that.
Speaker 2
But again, when God is writing his Ten Commandments with his finger in stone and he’s saying he’s going to put these laws in our heart, that just doesn’t change.
Speaker 3
And again, the commandment is to keep the Sabbath, keep the 7th day holy. It’s not making it holy because he made it holy back on the first week, on the 7th day. So just as the first day, the evening and morning were one day. That’s a fact. God said, the 7th day is a Sabbath. That’s just a fact. Because God said it was so, made it so because he separated that day. This day is now special.
Speaker 2
Yeah. And one last thing to just say, and I have to say, I do feel for my brothers and sisters who have kept Sunday as a day of rest for their lives. And that’s been their tradition. It’s been what they’ve known their whole lives. And I think it’s very difficult to just be like, whoa, what I’ve been doing all this time is not the right thing. How could I have been wrong? How could my parents have been wrong? How could my pastor that I trust who led me to Jesus be wrong? And the thing is, it’s not that obviously, I’m not saying that your parents pastor are bad people or anything like that, but I think that sometimes traditions get passed down and they’re not always biblical.
Speaker 3
Actually, that’s where I wanted to go next, too. Is that Daniel seven, verse 25. It talks about a lot of people recognize as Antichrist. And it says, he shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and laws. Times and laws. Is there a commandment that is both a time and a law? There’s only one. Yeah. And we believe this has already happened. We believe, enter. Christ has already come. He’s still around. We’ll still appear again, too, but this has already come to pass. And so, yeah, it’s a tradition that people have been following for centuries, not because it was biblical, but because someone changed it or thought they changed it. As the verse says, think to change.
Speaker 2
Yeah, they’d like to. It’s in their mind. And again, it’s just so important that we choose the commandments of God rather than the traditions of men. Jesus talked about that multiple times, that you hold fast the traditions of your fathers, but rather than the commandments of God. And we really need to put God first in his law first, because that’s what he said. And if we love God, we keep his commandments. And I understand that this might be going against what your tradition of your family has been, but you really need to come to a point where you say, god, I’m going to follow you no matter what. No matter what the world thinks, no matter what my parents think, no matter what anybody says, I’m going to follow God. And if God came to me one day and was just like, Tuesday is my day, I know you got this mixed up, but here it is. I would say, you know what, Lord, this has been my tradition, but I will change what I have always known for you, because that’s what you do when you love somebody. It’s that pearl of great price.
Speaker 2
You sell all that you have to purchase this pearl, just like the parable says. And that’s what it comes down to with Jesus. Will you sacrifice all your past, your traditions, your culture for the sake of the Gospel? For what God is telling you through his word? Because it is very important to him. If it wasn’t, he wouldn’t have written it down. This is the only part of the Bible God wrote himself. And so are you going to just be like, it doesn’t matter, cast it away? No, you can’t do that. Not with God’s word. And I always want to address people. Then bring up Colossians. 214 through 16 where it basically says, you know, you know, don’t let people judge you with, you know, Sabbath days. But those Sabbath days it’s talking about, it says those, that’s a handwriting of ordinances. Those are the Levitical law. That’s not the Sabbath day set apart at creation. Because obviously God, like we said, god is the same yesterday, today and forever. He doesn’t change and his law doesn’t change.
Speaker 3
Those Sabbaths that were abolished were types and shadows of things to come.
Speaker 2
Exactly.
Speaker 3
Sabbath is a memorial of things past, of creation.
Speaker 2
That’s very true.
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