Your Pastor Can’t Prove that Jesus Changed the Sabbath!
Can you or your “First-Day”-promoting pastors show Messiah’s words as the reason you and your church or denomination observes Sunday instead of Sabbath? No, You Can’t!
Let me remind your pastor that over 3500 years ago Moses was given the message directly from the Most High that when the Prophet/Messiah came, they were to LISTEN TO HIM. This same message has been repeated multiple times, even in the New Testament. A voice from heaven told those present at Messiah’s baptism to LISTEN TO HIM. Even after Jesus’ death and resurrection the Apostles quoted that we are to LISTEN TO HIM.
The Apostle’s doctrines Acts 2:42, could not have been different than His or they would have been called out as hypocrites! If you think your pastor has a Bible verse where Messiah SAID—or that there were those who HEARD HIM SAY—that He abolished the Sabbath and substituted Sunday, please come back here and share it with us all!
In obeying what God told Moses 3500 years ago, we are to LISTEN (not IGNORE, not SKIP OVER FOR ANOTHER’S MESSAGE whose we like better), to what Jesus actually said and taught. If you believe the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, then “tell me where Jesus said or taught that He fulfilled the Sabbath.
He said the Apostles were to teach whatsoever He commanded. Giving a message that Jesus fulfilled the Sabbath was not anything He taught them to teach. Neither did any of them teach that!
—VIA YOUTUBE: response to “Sabbath Idol”
Response: The Sabbath was never changed to Sunday.
First, a detail: it was not at Jesus’ resurrection but at His Transfiguration when God said from the cloud, “This is my Son, my chosen one. Listen to Him” (Luke 9:35).
Sunday is not a holy day, nor is it Sabbath. It is called “the Lord’s Day”, but it is not a required holy day. The Sabbath was FULFILLED in Jesus. He is the One to whom we go and find rest. Sabbath is a created day—it is not eternal. It was first given in Exodus 16.
Our eternal, holy God is not under the law of a seventh-day Sabbath. Rather, He gave that law to His nation Israel. Now Jesus has fulfilled the Sabbath, and we receive Him when we trust Him and He makes our dead spirits come to life by His Spirit. Now there is no required day; Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers worship God “in spirit and in truth”, not at Jerusalem or Mt. Gerazim (Jn 4:20–24).
Now we meet on Sunday because it is a day when we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and the birth of the church on Pentecost, but meeting on the first day is neither REQUIRED, nor is the day holy. It is a day of celebration as is a birthday or Christmas.
No, the Sabbath was never changed. Jesus IS the prophet like Moses to whom we listen. In Luke 9 and Matthew 13 we read of the Transfiguration when Moses (representing the law) and Elijah (representing the prophets) appeared with the glorified Christ. A cloud obscured them and the disciples, and God’s voice said, “This is my Son, my chosen one; listen to HIM.” When the cloud dispersed, Jesus alone was in front of them. The law and the prophets had disappeared—because Jesus was the fulfillment of everything they had foretold and revealed. Now we listen to Jesus—by God’s authority. Not keeping Sabbath is not a rejection of the law. Rather honoring the Lord Jesus and living in Sabbath rest everyday is God’s gift to us through the Lord Jesus. The law is fulfilled.
You asked where Jesus said He fulfilled the law. Following are examples of New Testament passages answering your question:
In Matthew 5:17 Jesus said He didn’t come to abolish the Law BUT TO fulfill it. In Matthew 11:28–30 Jesus said to take HIS yoke upon you and learn of Him and you will find rest for your souls. The Jews referred to the law as a “yoke”.
After saying to come to Him, in Matthew 12 he had the encounter with the Pharisees where He told them, when accused of breaking Sabbath by picking grain, that He was “greater than the temple”. In Jesus Himself is the reality of everything contained in the temple: the sacrifices, the showbread, the candlesticks, the priesthood, the law itself. Every command of the law is realized in Jesus—and the shadow of Sabbath is no longer binding on those who trust Him because He has completed all the work necessary for our eternal peace, reconciliation, and rest.
Colossians 2:16 17 says that the yearly, monthly, and weekly Sabbaths were shadows of the reality that is in Christ.
Hebrews 7:11, 12 says that the law was based on the levitical priesthood, and with a new priesthood (Jesus’ priesthood in the order of Melchizedek) there must OF NECESSITY be a change of the law.
Hebrews 10:1 says the Law was “shadows” of the good things to come.
Acts 15 gives the account of the Jerusalem Council where the leaders of the church at Jerusalem decided NOT to require the law for gentile converts.
The entire book of Galatians explains that the law is not required of gentile converts, that to go back to the law after trusting Christ is to fall from grace (Gal. 5:4) and is the same as returning to paganism (Gal. 4:8–11).
In the New Testament there are no commands for any believer to keep the Sabbath. Neither is Sabbath-breaking listed in any of the lists of sins believers are warned about.
Romans 14:5–9 says that day-keeping is personal and optional. Whatever one does must be done as to the Lord. But no day is required.
Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 9:19–23 that he was NOT under the law but is under the Law of Christ (the NEW LAW based on the Melchizedek, not the Levitical, priesthood).
Jesus is greater than a day. The New Testament is FULL of instructions for following Jesus by living by the Spirit instead of following a law which was a shadow of the reality which is in Christ. Read 2 Corinthians 3.
Moses said Israel was to listen to the prophet like him who would come from among their brothers. That prophet was the Lord Jesus. When He appeared, listening to Moses as a rule of faith and practice was obsolete. Jesus is now the One to whom we listen. Jesus even said that Moses would condemn the Jews because Moses wrote of Him, and that if they believed Moses, they would believe Him (Jn. 5:45–47). Moses said when the prophet would come, they were no longer to listen to Moses. They were to listen to Jesus.
Again, read 2 Corinthians 3.
Don’t Bash Woman Who Loved the Lord
I am Seventh-day Adventist, and I do not use E.G. White for doctrine. The main reason why I don’t reference her is not because she is a plagiarist or not a plagiarist, but because she has been pulpit-promoted so heavily by the older conservatives in the Adventist church that referencing her has become a stumbling block to others. I do not agree with the fundamental idea we should discredit her writings here, as honestly, E.G. White spent her life promoting faith in God. If we are going to continue to bash the writings of a person of faith who loved the Lord, we are destroying the credibility of the Christian faith because even E.G. White was a sinner. What did Christ say to the accusers of the woman caught in adultery? Wasn’t it, “He who is without sin, cast the first stone”?
—VIA YOUTUBE: response to “Present Truth Hoax”
Response: The problem with EGW is that she claimed to speak for the Lord and to receive her messages from Him—yet she taught untruth. She taught a unbiblical trinity, a unbiblical view of the nature of man, an unbiblical view of the atonement, and an unbiblical view of the role of Satan in human life and salvation—even to the point of saying he is punished at the end for the sins of the saved. Anyone who wrote and taught such a heretical worldview cannot be classified as “Christian”.
We can’t dismiss her ideas as the product of a sinner while continuing to allow her to hold the central position of being the source of Adventism’s only unique doctrine and of Adventism’s great controversy worldview. She was a false teacher and a false prophet and has led millions of people to spiritual ruin by instilling a false belief system into them.
We can’t say we “don’t use EGW for doctrine” when the entire Adventist great controversy worldview is from her. The interpretive lens which established Adventist proof texts to support her unbiblical worldview IS the foundation of Adventism. One never has to read her to have her in one’s head. She is the source of Adventism’s worldview. If you haven’t dug below the proof-texts, you need to dig. She did not teach biblical ideas, but she is the source of how Adventism interprets both Scripture and the world.
Jesus Never Changed the Sabbath
You know, there are almost 600 Sabbath-keeping denominations worldwide, and that number is rapidly growing. Seventh-day Adventism is only one of them (although there are other split-offs from Adventism that have the name in it, but have different doctrines or beliefs). Personally, I keep the seventh day as a rest day in honor of the creator keeping the day. It has nothing to do with the Jews. Jews weren’t even around during creation, anyhow. If Sabbath was really changed, then Christ would have blatantly told His disciples, in which He didn’t. What do the apocryphal books say about it? Anything?
—VIA YOUTUBE: response to “Present Truth“
Response: Jesus actually DID teach that He Himself gives the Sabbath rest that the law commanded. He did actually demonstrate that He alone had authority to fulfill the day and to give people all the rest, healing, and life that the Sabbath foreshadowed. I suggest that you read the online book Sabbath In Christ that we are publishing in Proclamation! magazine. The first 14 chapters are already online; a new chapter goes up each week. You will see how Jesus and the apostles taught the new covenant in Jesus’ blood and how the Sabbath was fulfilled in Jesus. We receive Sabbath rest, truly, when we are made spiritually alive and indwelled by God Himself. https://blog.lifeassuranceministries.org/sabbath-in-christ-2/
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