Do you want to worship the “Sun god” or the God who made the sun during His 7 day creation week? Whose worship day will we choose?
Keep reading to discover the true worship day of our Creator God – a continual reminder of His goodness and love in both creation and salvation. We’ll also discover briefly the origin of the devil’s counterfeit! See the quotes of history for yourself! By God’s grace we can steer clear of the pitfalls!
THE DAY OF WORSHIP IN HONOR OF OUR CREATOR AND REDEEMER, JESUS
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Jesus said, “The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:28). Jesus taught that it was “lawful” to “do good upon the Sabbath days” (Mark 3:4-5), therefore instructing humanity in what things were “lawful” [i.e. right according to the law] to do upon the holy Sabbath, showing its continued importance to mankind. Furthermore, in His suffering upon Preparation day (Friday), his resting in the grave upon the Sabbath day (while his disciples also “rested…according to the commandment” Luke 23:54-56), and His resurrection early upon the “1st day of the week” (Luke 24:1), He shows us that Sabbath, the 7th day of the week, is actually SATURDAY, while “Sunday” on the other hand is only the 1st day of the week, as it even appears on the standard wall calendar today.
In the Scriptures (both New and Old Testaments) Sunday, the first day of the week is NEVER 1) blessed, 2) made holy, 3) set apart for rest, 4) ever pronounced as a day of worship in honor of the resurrection, or 5) even given instruction for observance. How strange! Sabbath, the 7th day of the week, however, has received all of God’s blessings – blessed, made holy, set apart for rest, given as a day of worship to honor THE REST we have in Jesus through His gospel, and how to observe it is taught in both Old and New Testaments by God/Jesus.
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THE ORIGIN OF SUNDAY, ON THE OTHER HAND…
First Sunday Law enacted by Emperor Constantine –
March, 321 A.D.
“On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain-sowing or for vine-planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost. (Given the 7th day of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls each of them for the second time [A.D. 321].)”
Source: Codex Justinianus, lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3 (5th ed.; New York: Scribner, 1902), p. 380, note 1.
Pagan Festivals and Church Policy
“The Church made a sacred day of Sunday … largely because it was the weekly festival of the sun; for it was a definite Christian policy to take over the pagan festivals endeared to the people by tradition, and to give them a Christian significance.”
Source: Arthur Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity, p. 145. Copyright 1928 by G. p. Putnam’s Sons, New York.
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The evidence is clear. Either we choose to worship the Creator on His Holy Day, the seventh-day Sabbath, on Saturday (and for 24 hours of rest from secular labor), or we choose to worship the Sun god on his day, “Sun-day.” Many sincere Christians are worshiping on the wrong day, in ignorance of these facts. God loves them still and they are His. However, God does not desire for any to remain in ignorance. And once we become aware of the light of His truth, we should make our decisions to follow His truth instead of the errors that are in existence. Search out the facts, and may God guide you in choosing to follow Him according to His truth.
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