The Hidden History Behind Sunday Worship & The Sabbath

Faith
Written By Thyme and Vine
The Hidden History Behind Sunday Worship & The Sabbath | Bible Study for Women | God Wants to Restore Himself in Your Life

The Sinister Truth Behind Sunday Worship in the Church

So here’s the thing: bondage is going to be the theme of The Marriage Contract, and most importantly, how Yahuah sets us free through His Son Yahusha HaMashiach. That’s the whole point of this series. Once you understand that, you’re on the right path to realize I’m not coming for your traditions and doctrines because I hate Christianity. Ha. That’s further from the truth than Pluto is from the Sun. I mean it. I’m starting this chapter of this series off like this because it’s gonna trigger people who honestly wanna make excuses for the behavior we’re going to be talking about a little bit down the road. This is my disclaimer, this is my I-don’t-care-about-your-feelings-if-it-saves-your-life warning. I mean it. This is a sensitive topic, and when it’s not considered sensitive, many Christians just blow it off as if this isn’t important to the Most High.

And it is. It’s insanely important, and today we’re gonna confront the elephant in the room and talk about it.

Sabbath. Shabbat. Sundown on Friday to Sundown on Saturday. (Yeah, I went there.) Some people consider this 6p Friday evening to 6p Saturday evening. They are also correct. But what it is not is Sunday. It never was Sunday to our biblical ancestors, Yahuah has not ordained a move from Friday evening to Sunday, and no matter what your denomination of Christianity wants to lie and say to you, they do not have the authority to make that change in His name either. And it’s this last one that we’re going to get to today.

Friends, we’re coming for your Sunday worship. And what I have to share with you will blow your mind like it did mine.

Let’s dive in.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Part I of this series, we broke down the definition of the word bondage and when I began this series, I had no idea what I was doing. I’ll be honest. Like I mentioned in that previous post, my mind was elsewhere getting ready to complete Part III of the Knowng God series. (I was actually pretty excited about that... Yah… hint… >.>) The Most High, however, had different plans and steered me in a COMPLETELY different direction which… I’m not too mad about. (It’s cool… hint, LOL). All jokes aside, I was excited and felt like I was receiving insider knowledge on some top secret information just checking a dictionary in Part I of this series. And it was that good, wasn’t it? I really enjoyed learning myself because I don’t know about you but I’d never broken down the word bondage in depth like that.

But this?

Thissssss, my friends… I really didn’t ask for this. And I didn’t think that it would be this juicy when I fell down the rabbit hole from which I have YET to recover.

This is meaty. I’m not just hyping this up, there’s a lot of research that went into this and it will probably be updated in the future if He so leads me if some more documents pop up and I feel like I need to add them to The List. That’s what we’re gonna call it: The List. Because the fact that this information is just out there for anyone to have equal opportunity access to? And we still worship on Sun- here we gooooooo!

Let’s recap with our founding scripture before I get too ahead of myself:

2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman,

3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people,

4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head.

5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves.

6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’

Ezekiel 33:2-6 NIV

What I’m about to share with you, I couldn’t make up if I tried. I’m surprised a certain organization aligned (allegedly) with the Christian faith could do it themselves. Because this certain organization aligned (allegedly) with the Christian faith has been very bold throughout the centuries about their hand in this. What am I talking about? What is the this?

Sunday. Worship.

The Roman Catholic Church (I’m just gonna call em out) is behind Sunday worship. In part. But majorally. The thing is, if you don’t follow down their boastful path of confessions, this might not seem too sinister. If you don’t read your Bible or care about the Old Testament texts, this also might not seem like a bad thing. But this isn’t something we can just brush under the rug, friends.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

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:

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.

Exodus 20:8-11 KJV

This is the fourth commandment. It’s a part of Yah’s foundational law between Him and His people, the Hebrews. The Israelites. Our ancient ancestors. This is not joke to Him because He also specifies exactly when the Sabbath is. As mentioned by the lovely people behind Got Questions, “The Sabbath day. The word Sabbath comes from a Hebrew word meaning “day of rest.” The Bible specifies that this day of rest is the seventh day of the week, what we would call “Saturday,” or in the Israelite mindset, sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday. God set the pattern for the Sabbath rest in Genesis 2:2, ceasing from His work of creation on the seventh day. God’s action (or, rather, His inaction) in Genesis 2 foreshadowed the Law’s command in Exodus 20:8.”

Pretty straight forward, right? I think Yah thought so.

Wellllllll…

When you go further down on same article from Got Questions, they also go on to say, “Believers today, being under the New Covenant, are not bound to keep the sign of the Old Covenant.”

Ok. Now these are Protestants. And when I say Protestant (for future reference) I mean any group from the denominations that sprout from the Reformation Movement… which is the majority of Western Christian churches. That explained, these are protestant believers spreading this on their website. So I’m not just coming for the doctrine espoused by the Roman Catholic Church (as you’ll soon see in the evidence I’m about to put before you.)

My thing is that with their statement on their website, it thoroughly contradicts what’s written the book of Ezekiel, a prophet who is responsible for quite a bit of End Time prophecy. In said Ezekiel, the Most High says this:

10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:10-13 KJV

If.

Now, I know there are a lot of people who are like, “Wahhhh, but that’s still Old Testament and waaHHHh, we’re not under the law because Chriiissstttt.”

Two things:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 5:17 KJV

We can all agree that’s Christ? Yahusha HaMashiach? We can all agree He’s the one who said this right? Ok. Second thing:

16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:16-19 KJV

Now if you’re not familiar with Old Testament prophetic books, meet Zechariah. He was one who was used to bounce off of what is said about the Last Days just like Isaiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Obadiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joel, and a few more (like Micah– I could go on.) Old Testament prophets spoke about Yeshua’s coming… but not just the FIRST time. They were also prophesying about the Second Coming, which is what makes the book of Revelation so powerful, because what was already spoken of centuries earlier is just confirmed through the Apostle John in the Revelation of Yahusha HaMashiach, the grand finale of the Word of Yah.

What’s the Feast of Tabernacles? Sukkot. It’s also referenced as the Feast of Booths. It’s a holy feast day that was a part of the law that was given to our Hebrew ancestors as a (and this is what makes it hilarious) shadow of the second coming of Yahusha and the Millennial Reign with Him. So, just so we’re clear: he (Zechariah) is letting us know that when Yahusha comes back, we’re going to be keeping this feast day with Yahusha HaMashiach HIMSELF. Soooooo… why in the WORLD would it be done away with now because of his sacrifice on the cross? What sense does that make? Especially when…

33 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

34 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.

35 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

36 For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

37 ‘These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day—

38 besides the Sabbaths of the Lord, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the Lord.

39 ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

40 And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

41 You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.’ ”

44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

Leviticus 23:33-44 NKJV

Now all of Leviticus 23 is good. It goes into what Yah requires of His people to securely host and establish the Sabbaths and Feast Days in the land. It’s really good stuff and I’m excited to further study on those in the future with you. (Truly. ♥️) But for right now? I bolded the section I’m focusing on just so you could see it for yourself too. The. Feast. Of. Tabernacles. Is. Part. Of. The. Sabbath. The Feast of Tabernacles, what we call Sukkot, is a SABBATH. It’s not just a party, there is more to it than that, it’s a time to rest with the Most High and be in His presence and just enjoy Him. It also means that the Sabbath isn’t just the final day of the week, but the Feasts of the Most High are also included into that FOURTH COMMANDMENT.

So this isn’t just an attack on one day out of the week. Let me be clear: This isn’t just an attack on what is or isn’t the last day of the week. Yah means business about His day of rest. The one HE chose, so much so that if you do not observe this particular feast in the Millennial Reign, after He comes back in glory, you won’t get no raiiiiiin, friend. Thirsty. Dry. Just no hope. Drought, honey. It’s wicked not to observe what He says to observe how He says to observe it. You need to pay attention to this.

So this doctrine trying to tell us that we don’t have to keep this because it’s Old Testament doctrine? Honeyyyy, it’s a lieeeee. It’s false doctrine. It’s condemnable. And who’s behind this? This particular disregard for His holy sabbath?

The Roman Catholic Church.

Now if this is hard to follow, take some time and research these scriptures. Don’t just take my word for it. Really go and study this. Because this next section, we’re getting into The List. And this is what made my blood boil, because the deception is sinister: it’s been intentional, and it’s time for His people to wake up.

The Hidden History Behind Sunday Worship & The Sabbath | Exodus 31:13 | The Sabbath is Yah's Mark Between Him and His People

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE STRATEGIC AND INTENTIONAL MOVE OF THE SABBATH FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY

Now, this rabbit hole began with me after watching the documentary from School of Prophets, From Babylon to America. Now I’m not affiliated with them, I’m not a Seventh Day Adventist, but if you know anything about the SDA organization, honoring the Sabbath on the correct, Yah ordained day is something they have been blessed by and have down pat. So it was in this documentary, put together by one of its members, Jan “Tilla” Capa, that I was exposed to some pretty incriminating evidence that the Catholic Church was behind the move from Saturday to Sunday with Sabbath worship.

Now you know me, I need receipts. I need to see it, I need the empirical evidence to mull over, and the documentary didn’t provide me with that. There were no links in the description box, just the names of a couple sources in the documentary, So I went on a hunt for them myself.

This is what I found.

I’m not gonna bore you to death. The list that you’re going to read below is full of documented evidence that the Roman Catholic Church has KNOWINGLY tried to come between the Children of Israel (us) and Gentile believers in the Most High Yah and His SIGN that He has established between us. Let’s be clear:

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Exodus 31:13 KJV

When you look up what sign means in the Strong’s Concordance, you get the word “'ôṯ” and one of the definitions of this word means, “a distinguishing mark” [1]. A mark, friend. And it might not click for you right now, but when you are in the know that HaSatan has an agenda to be like the Most High and conveniently perverts everything that He has created as good, you understand that this means that HaSatan is also looking to mark people. I need you to get this. He also wants a sign between him and his children to show that they are sanctified by him and that he reigns as their lord.

We call this the mark of the beast.

And so here’s The List.

The Hidden History Behind Sunday Worship & The Sabbath | False Doctrine in the Church

THE LIST

This list was created as a page of references that I’ve found while uncovering layer after layer of historical documents telling us out of their own mouths (as well as reputable sources) that the Roman Catholic Church strategically changed the day of worship of the Most High Yah to Sunday so that it would be a mark of their authority over His people. This is the deception. It’s sneaky, it’s sinister, it’s a heinous fist in the face of the Most High and it will be judged. But just so that you have the documents to look over yourself, each quote has a link to where you can download or view the source yourself. You’re welcome.

The Catholic Record (1 September 1923):

Now in the matter of Sabbath observance the Protestant rule of Faith is utterly unable to explain the substitution of the Christian Sunday for the Jewish Saturday. It has been changed. The Bible still teaches that the Sabbath or Saturday should be kept holy. There is no authority in the New Testament for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday. Surely it is an important matter. It stands there in the Bible as one of the Ten Commandments of God. There is no authority in the Bible for abrogating this Commandment, or for transferring its observance to another day of the week.

For Catholics it is not the slightest difficulty. "All power is given Me in heaven and on earth; as the Father sent Me so I also send you," said our Divine Lord in giving His tremendous commission to His Apostles. "He that heareth you heareth Me." We have in the authoritative voice of the Church the voice of Christ Himself. The Church is above the Bible; and this transference of Sabbath observance from Saturday to Sunday is proof positive of that fact. Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explanation or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday in the Third - Protestant Fourth - Commandment of God.

— Source: Archive.org [2]

Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950):

PRACTICALLY everything that Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church. They accepted Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made that change. They accepted the Bible from the Catholic Church as genuine, as authentic, as inspired, solely on the authority of the Catholic Church. They observe Christmas on the day assigned to it by the Catholic Church. They accept the date for Easter observance from the Church.

They observe Advent and Lent, both institutions of the Catholic Church. Their prayerbooks and liturgy follow the order of the Catholic Church’s ecclesiastical year, and they use many prayers and Bible readings which were in common use by the Catholics throughout the world before the new religions were formed.

But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the Pope.

Practically everything fundamental taught by Protestantism was defined by early Councils of the Church, and whether these were held in the east or in the west, they were presided over by the Pope or by his legate, and the decrees had no validity until they were approved by the Catholic Church.

— Source: Archive.org [3]

The Faith of Millions: The Credentials of the Catholic Religion (1933):

Thirdly, the Bible does not contain all the teachings of the Christian religion, nor does it formulate all the duties of its members. Take, for example, the matter of Sunday observance, the attendance at divine services and the abstention from unnecessary servile work on that day, a matter upon which our Protestant neighbors have for many years laid great emphasis. Let me address myself in a friendly spirit to my dear Protestant reader: You believe that the Bible alone is a safe guide in religious matters. You also believe that one of the fundamental duties enjoined upon you by your Christian faith is that of Sunday Observance. But where does the Bible speak of such an obligation? I have read the Bible from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of Revelations, and have found no reference to the duty of sanctifying the Sunday. The day mentioned in the Bible is not the Sunday, the first day of the week, but the Saturday, the last day of the week. It was the Apostolic Church which, acting by virtue of that authority conferred upon her by Christ, changed the observance to the Sunday in honor of the day on which Christ rose from the dead, and to signify that now we are no longer under the Old Law of the Jews, but under the New Law of Christ. In observing the Sunday as you do, is it not apparent that you are really acknowledging the insufficiency of the Bible alone as a rule of faith and religious conduct, and proclaiming the need of a divinely established teaching authority which in theory you deny?

[…]

Under the Old Law, the Sabbath or seventh day of the week was observed because on that day God rested from his labors of creation, and on that day He delivered the Jewish people from the galling yoke of their Egyptian bondage. The observance of the Sabbath served, therefore, as a traditional reminder of their miraculous deliverance in accordance with the words of the Almighty: “Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath He commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the Sabbath day.”

The Old Law was but an image or foreshadowing of the Light and Truth that was to come. When that Light came in the personality of Jesus, the old Mosiac law having fulfilled its function of preparing the Jews for the coming of the Messiah was abrogated as regards its ceremonial prescriptions in favor of the new dispensation or law of Christ.

To signalize this transition from the old to the new law, the Apostles transferred the observance to the Sunday, the first day of the week. Sunday was chosen because on that day was wrought the greatest miracle of the Christian religion, the resurrection of Christ from, the dead. It was on Sunday also that the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles and sent them out to preach the Gospel to the world. Sunday is, therefore, the birthday of the Christian Church.

How are we to observe the Sunday? The Church by the authority divinely committed to her has given explicit formulation of the obligation contained in the third commandment by telling us in her first precept: “Thou shalt hear Mass on Sunday and holydays of obligation and thou shalt abstain from servile work.” The positive part of this precept binds all, the faithful who have attained the use of reason to hear Mass on Sunday and holydays under pain of mortal sin.

— Source: Archive.org [4]

The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1937):

What is the Third Commandment?

The Third Commandment is: Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

Which is the Sabbath day?

Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?

The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday, and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.

By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?

The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.

What does the Third Commandment command?

The Third Commandment commands us to sanctify Sunday as the Lord's Day.

— Source: Archive.org [5]

Note: If you’re confused as to why keeping the Sabbath day holy is listed in these texts as the Third Commandment and not the Fourth, it’s because (should you read the Ten Commandments portion of The Convert’s Catechism, you’ll find the Catholic Church has completely omitted the actual Second Commandment, which is to not make any idols to false gods (Exodus 20:4-6). Why? I can only speculate that it would convict their consciouses when it comes to the idolatry permeating through the Catholic faith with the worship of the saints in idol form and the worship of the Virgin Mary, which is a scapegoat for Mother Goddess worship, a pagan concept that merged with the faith when Constantine, as more deeply discussed by historians behind Ancient Origins, Christianized pagan worship into Roman Catholicism.

Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church (1884):

A Roman legend represents the seven-branched candlestick of Jerusalem to have been lost on that day in the waves of the Tiber. On that day, too, was lost the simpler, ruder form of the Christianity of the first three centuries. From that day onwards, the 28th of October, in the year 312, began the gradual recognition of the Christian faith by those measures, some questionable, some admirable, which invest the career of Constantine with peculiar significance.

The triumphal arch which bears his name, and which was erected as a trophy of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, is a standing monument, not only of the decay of art which had already made itself felt, but of the hesitation of the new Emperor between the two religions. The dubious inscription on its front well marks the moment of transition. ‘Instinctu Divinitatis et mentis magnitudine’ are the two causes to which the senate ascribes the victory. ‘Divinitas,’ or Providence, is the word under which, in his public acts, he veils his passage from Paganism to Christianity. His statues, in like manner, halted between the two opinions. That erected at Rome held in its hand the Emperor’s well-known spear, but the spear bore the form of a cross. That at Constantinople was in the image of his ancient patron deity Apollo; but the glory of the sunbeams was composed of the emblems of the Crucifixion, and underneath its feet were buried in strange juxtaposition a fragment of the ‘True Cross’ and the ancient Palladium of Rome. His coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ ; on the other the figure of the Sun-god, and the inscription ‘Sol invictus,’ as if he could not bear to relinquish the patronage of the bright luminary which represented to him, as to Augustus and to Julian, his own guardian deity.

The same tenacious adherence to the ancient God of light has left its trace, even to our own time, on one of the most sacred and universal of Christian institutions. The retention of the old Pagan name of ‘Dies Solrs,’ or ‘Sunday, for the weekly Christian festival, is, in great measure, owing to the union of Pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects Pagan and Christian alike, as the ‘venerable ‘day of the Sun.’ His decree, regulating its observance, has been justly called ‘a new era in the history of the Lord’s ‘day.’ It was his mode of harmonising the discordant religions of the Empire under one common institution.

— Source: Archive.org [6]

An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine: With Proofs of Scripture on Points Controverted by Way of Question and Answer (1833):

Q. Why was the Jewish Sabbath changed into the Sunday?

A. Because Christ was born upon a Sunday, rose from the dead upon a Sunday, and sent down the Holy Ghost upon a Sunday: works not inferiors to the creation of the world.

Q. By whom was it changed?

A. By the Governors of the Church, the Apostles, who also kept it; for St. John was in Spirit on the Lord’s Day (which was Sunday.) Apoc. i. 10.

Q. How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holydays?

A. By the very act of changing the sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.

Q. How prove you that?

A. Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.

Q. What other proof have you?

A. Out of John x. 22, where we read that Christ himself was present, and kept the Dedication of the temple in Jerusalem, a feast ordained by Judas Maccabæus, 1 Macc. iv. 59.

And out of Acts ii. 1, 4, where the Apostles, keeping the feast of Pentecost, “were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Neither do Protestants as yet differ from this, though some have lately prohibited and profaned both it and the holy feast of the Resurrection, and all the other feasts of the Church.

— Source: Archive.org [7]

Note: Listen. We have to talk about this. This right here. We know, because of Esther 9:20-32 that the Most High has nothing against His people taking it upon themselves to create ways to worship how He has delivered them from their enemies. The nature of Purim in essence is to not forget this great mercy. When you look back, He also spoke to the Moses before they were to cross over into the Promised Land of a song that would be a witness against them when they turned away from Him in the future, a song that would remind them of His great mercy to deliver them from their enemies (Deuteronomy 31:19-22). So when you take that into consideration, the creation of Chanukah, which is the Festival of Lights, is about the rededication of the Temple which was liberated after being desecrated and essentially held hostage by their enemies. Yahusha going into the temple to celebrate this is a foreshadowing of how He would go to calvary and by His death, liberate Yah’s people back to Himself from HaSatan, our enemy, who had been holding us hostage to sin and its wage (which is death) since the transgression of Yah’s Word when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree. THIS IS BY NO MEANS CHANGING THE LAW AND HOW YAHUAH ADONAI ESTABLISHED, HIMSELF, HOW HIS LAWS WERE TO BE OBSERVED AND KEPT HOLY. Yahuah Elohiym has NEVER given anyone the authority to change what He has decreed, yet instead has warned against following such teachers who would do such.

Catechism of the Council of Trent (1867):

Question XIII.—Why it was expedient for the Jews to prescribe a Certain Day for the Offices of Religion, and that the Seventh.

Now this day was dedicated to the divine worship, because it was inexpedient for a rude people to have the liberty of choosing arbitrarily the time, lest perhaps they might imitate the religious rites of the Egyptians. The last of the seven days was therefore chosen for the worship of God, a circumstance replete with mystery. Hence in Exodus (Exod. xxxi. 13), and in Ezechiel (Ez. XX. 12), the Lord calls it "a sign;" he therefore says, "See that you keep my Sabbath, because it is a sign between me and you in your (renerations, that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you" (Exod. xxxi. 13).

Question XIV.—Of what Things the Celebration of the Sabbath was a Sign.

It was therefore a sign, which indicated that men ought to dedicate and consecrate themselves to God, whereas we see that to him is dedicated even the day; for that day is holy, because on it, in a special manner, men ought to practise holiness and religion. It is, in the next place, a sign, and, as it were, a memorial, of the creation of this admirable Universe. To the Israelites it was also a traditional sign, reminding them that they had been freed and delivered by the hand of God from the galling yoke of Egyptian bondage, as the Lord showed in these words: "Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the Sabbath day" (Deut. v. 15). It is also a sign both of the spiritual and of the celestial Sabbath.

[…]

Question XVII.—The Jews had other Festivals besides the Seventh Day.

Besides the seventh day, the Jewish people had also other festive and sacred days instituted by the divine Law, on which would be renewed the recollection of the principal favours [conferred on them by God].

Question XVIII.—Why the Apostles consecrated to the Divine Worship, not the Seventh Day of the Week, but the First.

But it pleased the Church of God, that the religious celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to "the Lord's day;" for as on that day light first shone on the world; so by the resurrection of our Redeemer on that day, who opened to us the gate to life eternal, our life was recalled out of darkness into light ; whence also the Apostles would have it named "the Lord's day." We also observe in the sacred Scriptures that this day was held sacred, because on that day the creation of the world commenced, and the Holy Ghost was given to the Apostles.

— Source: Archive.org [8]

A History of the Councils of the Church, From the Original Documents. Volume II (1826):

Can. 29. “Christians shall not Judaism and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do not work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.”

— Source: Archive.org [9]

The Catholic Mirror (September 2, 1893):

The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who can find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the Seventh to the First. Hence their appellation, “Seventh-Day Adventists.” Their cardinal principle consists in setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the positive command of God Himself, repeatedly reiterated in the Sacred Books of the Old and New Testament, literally obeyed by the Children of Israel for thousands of years to this day, and endorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God whilst on earth.

Per contra, the Protestants of the world, the Adventists excepted, with the same Bible as their cherished and sole infallible teacher, by their practice, since their appearance in the Sixteenth century, with the time-honored practice of the Jewish people before their eyes, have rejected the day named for His worship by God, and assumed, in apparent contradiction of His command, a day for His worship never once referred to for that purpose, in the pages of the Sacred Volume.

[…]

Our purpose in throwing off this article, is to shed such light on this all important question (for were the Sabbath question to be removed from the Protestant pulpit, the sects would feel lost, and the preachers be deprived of their “Cheshire cheese'’) that our readers mav be able to comprehend the question in all its bearings, and thus reach a clear conviction.

The Christian world is, morally speaking, united on the question and practice of worshiping God on the first day of the week.

The Israelites, scattered all over the earth, keep the last day of the week sacred to the worship of the Deity. In this particular, the Seventh-Day Adventists (a sect of Christians numerically few) have also selected the same day.

The Israelites and Adventists both appeal to the Bible for the Divine command, persistently obliging the strict observance of Saturday.

The Israelite respects the authority of the Old Testament only, but the Adventist, who is a Christian, accepts the New Testament on the same ground as the Old, viz: an inspired record also. He finds that the Bible, his teacher, is consistent in both parts; that the Redeemer, during His mortal life, never kept any other day than Saturday. The Gospels plainly evince to Him this fact; whilst, in the pages of the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and the Apocalypse, not the vestige of an act canceling the Saturday arrangement can be found.

The Adventists, therefore, in common with the Israelites, derive their belief from the Old Testament, which position is confirmed by the New Testament, endorsing fully by the life and practice of the Redeemer and His apostles the teaching of the Sacred Word for nearly a century of the Christian era.

Numerically considered, the Seventh-Day Adventists form an insignificant portion of the Protestant population of the earth, but, as the question is not one of numbers, but of truth, fact and right, a strict sense of justice forbids the condemnation of this little sect without a calm and unbiased investigation; this is none of our funeral.

The Protestant world has been, from its infancy, in the Sixteenth century, in thorough accord with the Catholic Church, in keeping “holy"’ not Saturday, but Sunday. The discussion of the grounds that led to this unanimity of sentiment and practice for over 300 years, must help towards placing Protestantism on a solid basis in this particular, should the arguments in favor of its position overcome those furnished by the Israelites and Adventists, the Bible, the sole recognized teacher of both litigants, being the umpire and witness. If, however, on the other hand, the latter furnish arguments, incontrovertible by the great mass of Protestants, both classes of litigants, appealing to their common teacher, the Bible, the great body of Protestants, so far from clamoring, as they do with vigorous pertiuacity for the strict keeping of Sunday, have no other resource left than the admission that they have been teaching and practicing what is Scripturally false for over three centuries, by adopting the teaching and practice of what they have always pretended to believe an apostate church, contrary to every warrant and teaching of Sacred Scripture, To add to the intensity of this Scriptural and unpardonable blunder, it involves one of the most positive and emphatic commands of God to His servant, man: “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.”

No Protestant living today has ever yet obeyed that command, referring to follow the apostate church referred to than his teacher, the Bible, which, from Genesis to Revelation, teaches no other doctrine, should the Israelites and Seventh-Day Adventists be correct. Both sides appeal to the Bible as their “infallible” teacher. Let the Bible decide whether Saturday or Sunday be the day enjoined by God. One of the two bodies must be wrong, and, whereas a false position on this all-important question involves terrible penalties, threatened by God Himself, against the transgressor of this “perpetual covenant.”

— Source: Archive.org [10]

Plain Talk About the Protestantism of To-Day (1868):

XIV. How Catholics and Protestants Observe Sunday.— A comparison often made between the strict observance of the Sabbath in Protestant England and its disregard in many of the largest cities of France has led to conclusions in behalf of Protestantism.

Now, beside the fact that French cities can no longer be considered as Catholic cities, the difference in question arises from the fact that in England, and in Protestant cities, the civil law lends its aid to the law religious, and employs its power to preserve the quiet of the Lord's day. Protestantism has nothing to do with it; has no merit in it. In fact, Protestants who live in places where there exists no such law, as in France, observe the Sunday not a whit better than bad Catholics. On the other hand, in Catholic countries, such as Spain and Italy, where the civil law works hand-in-hand with the religious, Sunday is observed as strictly as in London, Basle, or Geneva. Add to this that, in Protestant countries, there are also many Catholics who, subjected to the same law, no more violate the Lord's day than their Calvinistic or Anglican neighbors. Then, the rigid observance of the Sabbath in England and in Switzerland is merely a local fact; it is the happy working of a civil law, not a deep religious feeling. Were such a law to be enacted in France, those who now violate the sanctity of Sunday, for want of a spirit of faith, would act as the generality of unbelieving English men do; they would observe it out of respect for authority or fear of the police.

It is worth its while to remember that this observance of the Sabbath, — in which, after all, the only Protestant worship consists, — not only has no foundation in the Bible, but it is in flagrant contradiction with its letter, which commands rest on the Sabbath, which is Saturday. It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the Church.

I shall conclude by observing that the Lord's day is observed with far more intelligence and Christian freedom by true Catholics than by Protestants. In London, the playing of music in one's house is forbidden; children are forbidden to play with marbles, or hoops; all public monuments are shut up; a promenade is looked upon as improper. It is pharisaism, not fidelity.

— Source: Archive.org [11]

Sentinel (May 21, 1995):

Our Lord really simplified things when He said that the new law consisted in only two parts; love God and love neighbor. In the Hebrew Scriptures there were hundred of laws that governed things in minutest detail And the early Christians, most of whom were Jewish, had to really struggle with change. Some thought that many of the old laws should be carried over into the New Testament.

And, when we come to apply the Lord’s commandments to concrete situations, we have to specify about particulars. So, the very early Church, without a long tradition, creed that nobody should be overburdened, but idolatry, that is, taking part in pagan sacrifices, and sins against chastity are clearly against loving God and neighbor.

The Church has always had a strong sense of its own authority. “Whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven”, Jesus said.

Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. “The Day of the Lord” (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.

— Source: Saint Catherine Catholic Church (now Our Lady on the River) [12]

HERE'S THE TRUTH: SUNDAY WORSHIP JUST ISN'T BIBLICAL AND WE CAN'T IGNORE IT ANYMORE

Now I’m not coming for the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Church, I’m coming for you. I’m coming for the renewing of your mind away from false doctrine because regardless of whatever heresies or deconstructionist tactics any institution puts out about what is written in the Holy Scriptures, it’s our job to be able to shift through the doctrine of the wheat and the tares (for those who know, you know) to obey and abide by the actual Law of the Most High for ourselves.

So what they put out all this rhetoric to steer us away from the true and faithful worship of our Yahuah Elohiym. I mean it! So. Whaaaaaaattt. It’s satanic. It’s what the children of HaSatan are supposed to be doing. We are told to expect this.

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matthew 7:15-20 KJV

This is their fruit, friends. Disobeying Yah and leading others astray is in their hearts so this is what they are putting out. Why? Because they don’t love Him. It’s really that simple. You have to hate the Most High to strategically, over centuries and centuries, uphold institutional doctrine that speaks against what the Almighty Yah said Himself. That would knowingllyyy lead other Believers into idolatry, false doctrine, and witchcraft.

Now am I saying that all Roman Catholics are this way? No. Many are deceived, just like many Protestant believers are as well. I worshipped on Sunday with my family for yeeaarrrrssss because I “didn’t know better” which essentially means, I wasn’t reading my Bible. And this is why I’m coming for you: it’s dangerous to know this, to have read this article, to have heard other brothers and sisters in the faith come to you to admonish and lead you back to the truth and to continue in sin with Sunday worship. It just is. There’s no excuse you can have for it, tradition isn’t going to be something that the Most High accepts when you are called to account for why you deliberately disobeyed how He told us to keep His sabbath. HIS sabbath.

Which brings me to my next point.

In Exodus 31:13, we saw at the beginning of this article that Yahuah clearly demonstrated to the saints before us that when He gave us the law, the sabbaths were HIS sabbaths. They don’t belong to the Church. The Roman Catholic Church does not have the authority to change what belongs to Yah because they are not our Creator. They are not Father Elohiym. And yet…

Prompta Bibliotheca, Vol. V, PAPA, Art II (1858):

The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God. The Pope is of such lofty and supreme dignity that properly speaking he has not been established in any rank of dignity, but rather has been placed upon the very summit of all ranks of dignities. The Pope is the Father of fathers. Therefore he alone holds the office of Supreme Pontiff.

[…]

The Pope alone merits to be called Most Holy, why? The pope alone is deservedly called by the name most holy because he alone is the vicar of Christ, who is the fountain, source and fullness of all holiness. The Pope by reason of the excellence of his supreme dignity is called bishop of bishops. He is also called Ordinary of ordinaries. He is likewise bishop of the universal Church. He is a bishop with jurisdiction over the whole globe. He is likewise the divine monarch, and supreme emperor, and king of kings. Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and of earth and of hell. Moreover the superiority and the power of the Roman Pontiff by no means pertains only to heavenly things, but also earthly things, and to things under the earth, and even over the angels, whom he is greater than. So that if it were possible that the angels might err in the faith, or might think contrary to the faith, they could be judged and excommunicated by the Pope. For he is of so great dignity and power that he forms one and the same tribunal with Christ. So that whatever the Pope does, seems to proceed from the mouth of God.

As to papal authority, the Pope is as it were God on earth, Sole sovereign of all the faithful of Christ, chief king of kings, having a plentitude of unbroken power, entrusted by the omnipotent God to govern the earthly and heavenly kingdoms.

— Source: BibleLightInfo.com [13]

And what does Vicar of God mean? Vicarius Filii Dei?

Catholic Dictionary (1993):

Vicar of Christ

[…]

Title used almost exclusively of the Bishop of Rome as successor of Peter and, therefore, the one in the Church who particularly takes the place of Christ; but used also of bishops in general and even of priests. First used by the Roman Synod of A.D. 495 to refer to Pope Gelasius; more commonly in Roman curial usage to refer to the Bishop of Rome during the pontificate of Pope Eugene III (1145-1153). Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) asserted explicitly that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ; further defined at the Council of Florence in the Decree for the Greeks (1439) and Vatican Council I in Pastor Aerternus (1870). The Second Vatican Council, in Lumen Gentium , n.27, calls bishops in general "vicars and legates of Christ." All bishops are vicars of Christ for their local churches in their ministerial functions as priest, prophet, and king, as the Pope is for the universal church; the title further denotes they exercise their authority in the Church not by delegation from any other person, but from Christ Himself.

— Source: BibleLightInfo.com [14]

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The Hidden History Behind Sunday Worship & The Sabbath | The Most High Yah and the Sabbath | Believe in Yah

Now It's Up to You What You Do With These Revelations About the True Sabbath of the Most High

I’m not trying to scare you if you’re a Sunday worshipper. I’m trying to keep you from the wrath of the Most High Yah. This is serious, friend. I mean, this is really, really serious, and Protestants and Catholics alike have been lured into Feel Good religion that is honestly? Honestly? It’s pagan worship in disguise. (I mean, what else can you call it?) This has been something that has been eating at me as someone who walked away from Sunday worship myself. I just didn’t think that it was His sign, Yah’s mark on His people until I read it myself by studying to show myself approved (2 Timothy 2:15, Jeremiah 29:13, John 5:39). It’s the ONLY thing that I’ve found, so far, that Yah uses as a mark to distinguish His people from those who are not the Children of Yah. Period.

I hope you share this resource with your family members and loved ones who are caught up in this demon doctrine (I’m just calling it what it is) that’s SUN WORSHIP IN DISGUISE. We have nothing to do with it, nothing to do with Janus (which is a wholleeee other discussion for another day) and any pagan deity that tries to exalt itself as something to be heralded over the Most High Yah.

I pray this resource finds you well. I hope that you’re able to use this in your continued study of the Word to seek out the truth and to continue to dispel false doctrine in your habits and daily life.

Much love.

LOVE IT? SHARE WITH FRIENDS ON PINTEREST

KEEP READING…

REFERENCES

  1. “'Ôṯ, N. (I.1.)” Blue Letter Bible, Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, Strong’s H226, https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h226/kjv/wlc/0-1/. Accessed 25 August 2024.

  2. "Sabbath Observance." The Catholic Record, Vol. XLV, 1 Sept. 1923, p. 4, https://archive.org/details/catholic-record-full. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  3. "Since They Take Everything Else Why Not the Pope?" The Sunday Visitor, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 41, 5 Feb. 1950, pp. 1, 9, https://archive.org/details/20211124114413112-1. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  4. O’Brien Ph.D., Reverend John A. "The Faith of Millions: The Credentials of the Catholic Religion" The Sunday Visitor, Sixth Edition, 1933, pp. 147, 394, https://archive.org/details/FaithOfMillions/page/n81/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  5. Geiermann C.Ss.R., Father Peter. The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine. Saint Louis, Missouri: B Herder, 1937, pp. 65-66, https://archive.org/details/converts-catechism/page/n63/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  6. Stanley D.D., Arthur Penrhyn. Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church: With an Introduction on the Study of Ecclesiastical History. New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1884, pp. 183-184, https://archive.org/details/historyofeastern0000arth/page/n527/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  7. Tuberville D.D., Reverend Henry. An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine: With Proofs of Scripture on Points Controverted by Way of Question and Answer. New York: John Doyle, 1833, p. 58, https://archive.org/details/anabridgmentchr00turbgoog/page/n64/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  8. Donovan D.D., Reverend J. Catechism of the Council of Trent. Dublin: James Duffy, 1867, pp. 344-345, https://archive.org/details/catechismofcounc00cathiala/page/344/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  9. Hefele D.D., Reverend Charles Joseph. A History of the Councils of the Church, From the Original Documents. Volume II, A.D. 326 to A.D. 429. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1826, p. 316, https://archive.org/details/catechismofcounc00cathiala/page/344/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  10. "The Christian Sabbath: The Genuine Offspring of the Union of the Holy Spirit, and the Catholic Church, His Spouse. The Claims of Protestantism to Any Part Therein Proved to Be Groundless, Self-Contradictory and Suicidal" The Catholic Mirror, Fifth Edition, 2, 9, 16, 23 Sept. 1893, pp. 3-7, https://archive.org/details/christian-sabbath-or-sunday/page/4/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  11. Ségur, Louis Gaston. Plain Talk About the Protestantism of To-Day. Boston: Patrick Donahue, 1868, pp. 223-225, https://archive.org/details/PlainTalkAboutTheProtestantism/page/n229/mode/2up. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  12. Broderick, Father Leo. "Pastor’s Page" Sentinel, Vol. 50, No. 22, 1995, p. 1, https://ourladyontheriver.net. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  13. Prompta Bibliotheca, Vol. V, PAPA, Art II. Petit-Montrouge: J. P. Migne, 1858, pp. 1823-1824, https://www.biblelightinfo.com/prompta.htm. Accessed 21 July 2024.

  14. Stravinskas, Peter M.J.. "Catholic Dictionary" The Sunday Visitor, 1933, pp. 484-485, https://www.biblelightinfo.com/666.htm. Accessed 21 July 2024

Hey, I’m Chase! I’m so excited you’re here, because diving deeper in the Word of Yah is right where you belong!

LATEST POSTS

CATEGORIES

ARCHIVE

Thyme and Vine
Next

August 2024 Bible Reading Plan