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Will the United States Establish a National Sabbath?

Will the United States Establish a National Sabbath?

The Heritage Foundation wants a “uniform day of rest” for the United States of America. Some think it’s a good idea that will restore work-life balance and save the family, but others see Bible prophecy unfolding before their eyes.
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Some teach that Hebrews 4 defines the seventh-day Sabbath commandment in the Decalogue as a shadow-type law pointing forward to a spiritual rest in Christ. They view the Sabbath in the same way the Old Testament sacrifices pointed forward to Christ's atoning death on the cross. They teach that once we have found "spiritual rest" in Christ, we no longer need to observe the Sabbath day, and that keeping the seventh day is a form of bondage and an act of personal works.


It is true that the primary message of Hebrews 4 is to emphasize the believer's rest of grace. The main point in Hebrews 3:7-4:11 is ...

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We should keep the Sabbath because it is one of the precepts of the eternal, unchangeable moral law of God, which Paul declares to be 'holy,' 'just,' and 'good' (Romans 7:12); but we do not practice circumcision because it was one of the national rites of the Jews and part of the ceremonial law that was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). 'Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters' (1 Corinthians 7:18, 19).

Circumcision was part of the law of Moses, ...

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Here is the verse in question:

'On the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.'

Is this meeting in which the disciples came together to break bread on the first day of the week sufficient evidence for the Sabbath being changed from the seventh day to the first day? Were Paul and the believers observing the first day as a holy day - or were they merely breaking bread without any suggestion of the Lord's Supper or of established procedure?

First, the meeting in question did not begin on what is now known as Sunday at all, but on ...

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Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

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Sabbath means, of course, Saturday, the seventh day of the week, but the early Christians changed the observance to Sunday, to honour the day on which Christ arose from the dead.
FULTON OURSLER. Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1951, pages 34, 35.
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