The Sabbath

THE SABBATH CREATED AND COMMANDED.

• Genesis 2:3: God blessed and sanctified the Sabbath at creation.
• Exodus 20:8–11: The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments and is the seventh day of the week.

The sign, seal or mark of God.
Revelation 9:4

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SABBATH.

• Exodus 20:8–11: The fourth commandment has every element of a royal or state seal: Time, Date, Territory, Authority, and a Signature. 
• Exodus 31:12–17: The Sabbath a sign between God and His people.
• Ezekiel 20:12: The Sabbath a sign of sanctification (set apart as holy).
• Ezekiel 20:20: The Sabbath a sign between God and you, that He is your God.

THE SABBATH THROUGH HISTORY.

• Exodus 16:22, 23: Israel kept the Sabbath before Sinai.
• Luke 4:16: Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath.
• Acts 18:4: Apostles, Jews, and non-Jews kept the Sabbath.
• Isaiah 66:23: Sabbath will be kept in the New Earth.

HOW TO ENJOY THE SABBATH.

• Isaiah 58:13, 14: Set aside week-day pleasures and pursuits.
• Matthew 12:11–13: Focus on doing good for others.
• Mark 2:27: God made Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath.
• Luke 14:1–5: What Jesus taught about Sabbath-keeping.

WHEN TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH.

• Leviticus 23:32: Sabbath celebrated from “evening to evening.”
• Matthew 28:1: The Sabbath is on the seventh day of the week.
• John 19:31: Friday is the “day of preparation” just before the Sabbath.

THE WICKED AND THE SABBATH.

• Lamentations 1:7: The wicked mock at the Sabbath.
• Isaiah 56:2: They pollute Sabbath.
• Nehemiah 13:17: They profane Sabbath.
• Amos 8:5-7: The wicked weary of the Sabbath.
• Ezekiel 22:26: They hide their eyes from the Sabbath.
• Nehemiah 13:15: They also bear burdens upon the Sabbath.
• Nehemiah 10:31: The wicked traffic on the Sabbath.
• Luke 13:14; John 9:16: Sometimes they pretend to be zealous for the Sabbath.

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BIBLE FACTS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.

• The very first thing recorded in the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. Genesis 1:1-5 This was done by the Creator Himself. God started creating the earth on Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?
• Sunday through Thursday are so insignificant that the Bible only names them by: first day, Second day, Third day, Fourth day, and Fifth day.
• The Bible only gives names to the important days of the week. Friday the Preparation day and Saturday the Sabbath.
• The Bible doesn't record the wicked desecrating the 1st day (Sunday) of the week.
• God commands men to work upon the first day of the week. Exodus 20:8-11
• None of the patriarchs kept 1st day (Sunday).
• None of the holy prophets ever kept 1st day (Sunday).
• By the express command of God, His holy people used the first day (Sunday) of the week as a common working day for 4,000 years, at least.
• God Himself calls the first day (Sunday) a "working" day. Ezekiel 46:1
• God did not rest upon 1st day (Sunday).
• Christ did not rest upon 1st day (Sunday).
• Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the Sabbath (Saturday) and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence, He did many a hard day's work on Sunday.
• The apostles worked upon 1st day (Sunday) during the same time.
• The apostles never rested upon 1st day (Sunday).
• Christ never blessed 1st day (Sunday).
• Sunday has never been blessed by any divine authority.
• Sunday has never been sanctified.
• No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of Sunday, hence it is no transgression to work on Sunday. "Where no law is, there is no transgression." Romans 4:15 See also 1 John 3:4.
• The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on 1st day (Sunday).
• No penalty is provided for Sunday violation.
• No blessing is promised for Sunday observance.
• No regulation is given as to how Sunday ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep Sunday?
• Sunday is never called the Christian Sabbath.
• Sunday is never called the Sabbath day at all.
• Sunday is never called the Lord's day.
• Sunday is never called even a rest day.
• No sacred title whatever is applied to Sunday. Then why should we call it holy?
• The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible at all. Sunday is simply called "first day of the week."
• Jesus never mentioned 1st day (Sunday) in any way, never took its name upon His lips, so far as the record shows.
• Neither God, Christ, nor inspired men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.
• The first day (Sunday) of the week is mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2. Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.
• There was no requirement to break bread on the 1st day (Sunday) in the Bible Sunday threw Thursday.
• Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on the 1st day (Sunday). 1 Corinthians 16:2
• In all the New Testament we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this was a night meeting. Acts 20:5-12. That was done in the night-after Sabbath sundown. Acts 20:7-11
• There is not an implication that they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.
• It was not their custom to meet on the 1st day (Sunday).
• Jesus celebrated passover on Thursday evening (Luke 22), and the disciples sometimes did it every day. Acts 2:42-46
• The Bible nowhere says that the 1st day (Sunday) of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. This is a tradition of men, which contradicts the law of God. Matthew 15:1-9 Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus. Romans 6:3-5
• Finally, the New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the Sabbath day (7th day, Saturday) or any sacredness for the first day.