The Scripture says “Be careful not to jump to conclusions before the Lord returns as to whether someone is faithful” 1 Cor 3:5 .  “Study to show thy self approved, rightly dividing the Word of truth” 1 Tim 2:14 (KJV).

Sabbath or Sunday is not about being saved by “Law” we are saved by Grace. Eph 2:8 Law & Grace. and Riches of Grace

Sabbath or Sunday is not about the “Law” being done away with, as Luke says “That doesn’t mean the Law has lost its force, in even the smallest point. It is stronger and more permanent than heaven and earth” Luke 16:16 & Matt 5:18.

 In the garden of Eden, God had said “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden  except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” Gen 2:16-17  Mankind was given a Test    Satan said “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman.  “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”  Gen 3:4-5.

Satan was successful at that time, with Adam and Eve, he now, has lined up, the biggest deception of all time, that will come to an ultimate climax as the defining end time event.

 Bible Prophecy foretold what would happen.         ( all bible verse are NLT unless noted )

•  1 Thess 2:4 For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who brings destruction.
•   He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God

•    1 Thess 2:7 For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way.

•  Dan 7:25 He will defy the Most High and oppress the holy people of the Most High. He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws,

•  Rev 13:5 Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God.

•  2 Peter 2: 1 But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered

              So we can see from scripture three strong warnings

1. Dan 7 “He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws”

2. 2 Thess  “defy everything that people call god and every object of worship”

3. 1 Jh  “Antichrist is coming”

Who could this be? 

• Remember what John said 1 Jh 2:24 “So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning……. I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray.” 1 Thess 2:7 For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way. 

• In Johns day error has already begun. How did this happen? 

The early church began to break up in to three camps, based in Rome, Antioch and Alexandra

ANTIOCH  Catholic Encyclopedia

Antiochene tendencies have been characterized as Aristotelian (concerned with what is before them); Semitic (emphasizing the oneness of God); and historical (focussing on the incarnation of Christ). Understanding the meanings and origins of the words in the scriptures was important to exegesis of texts. Operation was, for these thinkers, the way to distinguish the persons of the Trinity. Antiochenes tended to place much emphasis on the humanity of Christ and saw a great need for human moral effort.

• Lucain was an early leader. Very little is known about the life of Lucian, though few men have left such a deep print on the history of Christianity. The opposition to the allegorizing tendencies of the Alexandrines centred in him. He rejected this system entirely and propounded a system of literal interpretation which dominated the Eastern Church for a long period

• The most enduring memorial of the life of Lucian, next to the Christological controversy which his teachings aroused was his influence on Biblical study. Receiving the literal sense alone he laid stress on the need of textual accuracy and himself undertook to revise the Septuagint on the original Hebrew. His edition was widely used in the fourth century 

CATECHETICAL SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA  Catholic Encyclopaedia

Alexandrian teachings moved toward speculation, philosophical discourse, and an allegorical interpretation of the Bible,  Clement of Alexandria (c 150 - c 230 CE) (born Titus Flavius Clemens) united philosophy and theology by using ideas from Greek philosophy (primarily Plato) to elucidate truths within Christian doctrine 

Alexandria was, in addition, one of the chief seats of that peculiar mixed pagan and Christian speculation known as Gnosticism. Basilides and Valentinus taught there. It is no matter of surprise, therefore, to find some of the Christians affected in turn by the scientific spirit. At an uncertain date, in the latter half of the second century, "a school of oral instruction" was founded. Lectures were given to which pagan hearers were admitted, and advanced teaching to Christians separately. It was an official institution of the Church. Pantænus  is the earliest teacher whose name has been preserved. Clement first assisted and then succeeded Pantænus in the direction of the school, about A.D. 

BEGINNING OF SUNDAY KEEPING: THE COUNCIL OF LAODICEA IN   PHRYGIA PACATIANA 364 A.D.

The Church fathers at the Council of Laodicea were not opposed to Sunday services but were opposed to Christians Judaizing the Sabbath (see 29th Canon), Judaizing is what they labled Christians resting on the Sabbath day. At the Coucil of Laodicea, they published as doctrine that the practice of staying at home and resting on the Sabbath was sinful and anathema to Christ.

• CANON XXIX.
• CHRISTIANS must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ
• CANON XLIX.
• DURING Lent the Bread must not be offered except on the Sabbath Day and on the Lord's Day only. 

Sunday was the first day of the week according to the Jewish method of reckoning, but for Christians it began to take the place of the Jewish Sabbath in Apostolic times as the day set apart for the public and solemn worship of God. The practice of meeting together on the first day of the week for the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is indicated in Acts, xx 7; I Cor., xvi, 2; in Apoc., i, 10, it is called the Lord's day. In the Didache (xiv) the injunction is given: "On the Lord's Day come together and break bread Catholic Encyclopedia  .

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ROME

    Samuele Bacchiocchi writes: "That the Church of Rome was the champion of the Sabbath fast and anxious to impose it on other Christian communities is well attested by the historical references from Bishop Callistus (A.D. 217-222), Hippolytus (c. A.D. 170-236), Pope Sylvester (A.D. 314-335), Pope Innocent I (A.D. 401-417), Augustine (A.D. 354-430), and John Cassian (c. A.D. 360-435). The fast was designed not only to express sorrow for Christ's death but also, as Pope Sylvester emphatically states, to show 'contempt for the Jews' (execratione Judaeorum) and for their Sabbath 'feasting' (destructiones ciborum Samuele Bacchiocchi, "The Rise of   Sunday Observance in Early Christianity," in The Sabbath in Scripture and History, ed. Kenneth A. Strand (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald, 1982), p. 137; citing S. R. E. Humbert, Adversus Graecorum calumnias 6 (PL 143:937). See also  Bacchiocchi, From Sabbath to Sunday (Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University Press, 1977), 185-198.

St Justin is the first Christian writer to call the day Sunday (I Apol., lxvii) in the celebrated passage in which he describes the worship offered by the early Christians on that day to God. The fact that they meet together and offered public worship on Sunday necessitated a certain rest from work on that day. However, Tertullian (202) is the first writer who expressly mentions the Sunday rest:Lord's Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude, deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil" "We, however (just as tradition has taught us), on the day of the ("De orat.", xxiii; cf. "Ad nation.", I, xiii; "Apolog.", xvi).

5th-century church historians, Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen:

"For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries [the Lord's Supper] on the sabbath [Saturday] of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this. The Egyptians in the neighborhood of Alexandria, and the inhabitants of Thebais, hold their religious assemblies on the sabbath, but do not participate of the mysteries in the manner usual among Christians in general: for after having eaten and satisfied themselves with food of all kinds, in the evening making their offerings they partake of the mysteries." Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 5, 22 in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers/2 2:132.

"The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria. There are several cities and villages in Egypt where, contrary to the usage established elsewhere, the people meet together on Sabbath evenings, and, although they have dined previously, partake of the mysteries." Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History 7, 19 in NPNF/2 2:390

Constantine made Sunday a civil rest day.His famous Sunday law of March 7th, 321 reads as follows: "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" Codex Justinianus   3.12.3, trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, 5th ed. (New York, 1902), 3:380, note 1.

Growing distinction from the Sabbath In the light of these texts, the celebration of the day of the Resurrection acquired a doctrinal and symbolic value capable of expressing the entire Christian mystery in all its newness.

          It was this newness which the catechesis of the first centuries stressed as it sought to show the prominence of Sunday relative to the Jewish Sabbath.

 In effect, Sunday is the day above all other days which summons Christians to remember the salvation which was given to them in baptism and which has made them new in Christ.

             On Keeping the Lord's Day Holy (Dies Domini) John Paul II (Vatican Web Site, July 7, 1998)          www.Catholicculture.org

Sunday is a day which is at the very heart of the Christian life. From the beginning of my Pontificate, I have not ceased to repeat: "Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ!".(9) In the same way, today I would strongly urge everyone to rediscover Sunday:

This Christocentric vision sheds light upon another symbolism which Christian reflection and pastoral practice ascribed to the Lord's Day. Wise pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the christianization of the notion of Sunday as "the day of the sun", which was the Roman name for the day and which is retained in some modern languages.(29) This was in order to draw the faithful away from the seduction of cults which worshipped the sun, and to direct the celebration of the day to Christ, humanity's true "sun". Writing to the pagans, Saint Justin uses the language of the time to note that Christians gather together "on the day named after the sun",(30) but for believers the expression had already assumed a new meaning which was unmistakeably rooted in the Gospel.
On Keeping the Lord's Day Holy (Dies Domini) John Paul II (Vatican Web Site, July 7, 1998)  

Catechism 2190 The sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ. English Translation of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc 

It is the duty of Christians therefore to remember that, although the practices of the Jewish Sabbath are gone, surpassed as they are by the "fulfilment" which Sunday brings, the underlying reasons for keeping "the Lord's Day" holy — inscribed solemnly in the Ten Commandments — remain valid, though they need to be reinterpreted in the light of the theology and spirituality of Sunday:  On Keeping the Lord's Day Holy (Dies Domini) John Paul II (Vatican Web Site, July 7, 1998)

  As time has moved on people have accepted the Sabbath change and have lost sight or are unaware of the background of this issue. There was a time when Protestants and Catholics where very antagonistic to each other, I’m not suggesting that was  a good thing or that we should go back to those days, the point is that the Catholic Church had proudly stated they were responsible for the change, note these two comments.

1. The Catechism Simply Explained by Canon Cafferata, (first published in 1897)

Regarding the change to Sunday. “the apostles made no law on the matter, and the full transfer from Saturday to Sunday was a gradual process under the authority of the church. Those Christians who believe in the bible and the bible only must have some difficulty in explaining why they keep Sunday holy and not the Sabbath”

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOINS WITH ROME ON THE ISSUE OF SUNDAY America 10 Commandments.pdf 

The history was accurately summarized a century ago by Chief Justice Terry of the Supreme Court of California in Ex parte Newman, 9 Cal. 502, 509:

The truth is, however much it may be disguised, that this one day of rest ( Sunday) is a purely religious idea. Derived from the Sabbatical institutions of the ancient Hebrew, it has been adopted into all the creeds of succeeding religious sects throughout the civilized world; and whether it be the Friday of the Mohammedan, the Saturday of the Israelite, or the Sunday of the Christian, it is alike fixed in the affections of its followers, beyond the power of eradication, and in most of the States of our Confederacy, the aid of the law to enforce its observance has been given under the pretence of a civil, municipal, or police regulation."  

Page 366 U.S. 420, 568

Sunday laws has always been a mixed bag. Some judges have asserted that the statutes have a "purely" civil aim, i. e., limitation of work time and provision for a common and universal leisure. But other judges have recognized the religious significance of Sunday and that the laws existed to enforce the maintenance of that significance.

"Our Puritan ancestors intended that the day should be not merely a day of rest from labor, but also a day devoted to public and private worship and to religious meditation and repose, undisturbed by secular cares or amusements. They saw fit to enforce the observance of the day by penal legislation, and the statute regulations which they devised for that purpose have continued in force, without any substantial modification, to the present time." 

The Maryland court, in sustaining the challenged law in No. 8, relied on Judefind v. State, 78 Md. 510, 28 A. 405, and Levering v. Park Commissioner,5 134 Md. 48, 106 A. 176. In the former the court said:

It is undoubtedly true that rest from secular employment on Sunday does have a tendency to foster and encourage the Christian religion - of all sects and denominations that observe that day - as rest from work and ordinary occupation enables many to engage in public worship who probably would not otherwise do so. But it would scarcely be asked of a Court, in what professes to be a Christian land, to declare a law unconstitutional because it requires rest from bodily labor on Sunday, (except works of necessity and charity,) and thereby promotes the  cause of Christianity. If the Christian religion is, incidentally or otherwise, benefited or fostered by having this day of rest, as it undoubtedly is, there is all the more reason for the enforcement of laws that help to preserve it." 78 Md., at 515-516, 128 A., at 407. Page 366 U.S. 420, 571

Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments have been the foundation upon which much of America’s legal system has been built. To deny this fact, one would have to rewrite American history.

Context That is why the Alliance Defense Fund is actively involved in funding and litigating cases in defense of the public display of the Ten Commandments – so that our nation’s system of laws and freedoms will preserved for generations to come. (Click Here ) 

• The claim by the ADF that the 10 Commandments are the foundation on which America legal system is built, fits into Bible Prophecy.

•         Toward the end of his oration, Webster declares, We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by example of our own systems,

•         to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be signal... (Webster, 112).

•         Because the Pilgrims (along with the 1607 establishment of Jamestown) are a fact of U.S. beginnings, and because World War I had recently emphasized the undeniable role of the United States not only as a political world power, but as one which has "affected the entire course of western civilization, and largely helped to determine its fate, which, shaken and clouded by the most desolating of wars, is now trembling in the balance"; because of this, Lodge says, the Pilgrims "clearly" represent a decisive event

Rev13:12 He (Lamb like Beast) (America) exercised all the authority of the first beast ( Papal Roman ). And he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed

This wound was healed when the Latern Treaty,
in 1929 restored Vatican city click link

•       Time 18th Feb 1929
 

    Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last        week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from his "imprisonment" in the               Vatican and restores the Supreme Pontiff to temporal power

The Pope had "taken possession" of his Church of St. John Lateran, "Mother of all churches."

•         American non-Catholics last week seemed almost as happy as Catholics to have the Pope in their midst. No old sectarian angers darkened the pageant. Whatever doctrinal reservations may remain about the Pope of Rome lay quiet, at least for the moment.

•         The spectacle was a startling confirmation of the substantial changes that have occurred in American attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy. One has only to imagine the nation's furious reception if Pope Pius XII had appeared in America 30 years ago: Congressmen would have introduced resolutions denouncing the visit; angry pickets would have greeted the Pontiff at every stop. It would have seemed un thinkable to invite him to the White House

    This growing allegiance between America and a Renewed Roman Catholicism,
    with the Ten Commandments and Sunday as a common bond linked with:
    Pentecostalism and a resurgent Christian movement in the USA 

Pentecostalism This newest movement is often referred to as "Power Evangelism," "Healing, Signs, Wonders and Miracles Evangelism," or the "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit."

 Ecumenical in scope and decidedly worldly in practice the three so-called "waves of the Holy Spirit" (Pentecostals, Charismatics and Power Evangelism teachers) have now blended into a powerful coalition which is rapidly spreading. This poses a great threat to the purity of the Church and the Gospel.    (Pentecostalism Charismatic) (Understanding Tonques)

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party click here and click  here

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        at Cornell University

•  "Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society."

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Roy Moore, the former Alabama Chief Justice.

 


 

• Dominionism is a form of Social Darwinism. It inherently includes the religious belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is, out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations—wealth, in and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval on men and nations whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s disapproval

 

Papal Rome was the first beast, they forced you to believe their way or else, some day soon, the lamb like beast will do the same

•         We believe that the United States of America was founded on the laws of Nature and Nature's God, and that Almighty God is sovereign over the affairs of men, exercising jurisdiction over the family, church, state, and each individual.( amongst other statements)  (click Here for more)

 As a back lash to the failure of society and as attempt to placate an angry God, ( as they see it) who they believe is punishing sinful man, a move to bring back morals and religion.

Rev 13:14 He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life. ¹⁵ He was then permitted to give life to this statue ( Sunday Worship) so that it could speak. Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die

• ^{Exodus 20:8} God Said “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. ⁹ You have six days each week for your ordinary work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God”.

• Mark 7:6‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. ⁷ Their worship is a farce for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.⁸ For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.”

• ^{1 John} 2:3 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. ⁴ If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. ⁵ But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.

        The claim has always been made that The Sabbath was for the Jews, this idea ignores the clear word of scripture :-

• Mark 2:24 The Sabbath was made for Man (people)
• Isaiah 56;3,6 My blessings are for the Gentiles too, when they commit themselves to the Lord…..I will bless the Gentiles who commit themselves to the Lord and serve Him and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of worship

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