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SATURDAY OR SUNDAY?

SATURDAY

·         God rested on the Seventh day - God's rest or Sabbath.
·         God blessed and Sanctified - made holy the Sabbath.
·         God Commanded - "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."      Ex. 20:8.
·         Sabbath made before sin, hence not type.
·         Sabbath made for man and all mankind.  Mark 2.27.
·         Made 2,500 years before there was a Jew.
·         Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath.
·         God placed it in the centre of His Moral Commandments.
·         Sabbath commanded by voice of living God.
·         God wrote commandment with His own finger on stone.
·         God pronounced special blessing on Gentiles who keep Sabbath.    Isa. 56:3, 5, 6.
·         God promises to bless any man who will keep the Sabbath.
·         After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down "many   generations" it is to be restored in the last days. Isa. 58:12-13.
·         Jesus kept the Sabbath.  Luke 4.16.
·         The Sabbath is the "Lord's Day".  Mark.2.28; Isa. 58:13;, Ex.   20:8-11.
·         Gentile converts called it the Sabbath (14 years after Cross).    Acts 13.42.
·         Three decades after the cross, Bible says the Sabbath remaineth.    Heb. 4:9.
·         Christians to enter Sabbath rest as God did.  Heb. 4:10.
·         God did rest the Seventh Day.  Heb. 4:4.
·         Everyone in new earth will keep the Sabbath. Isa. 66:22-23.
·         "The Seventh-day is the Sabbath of the Lord Thy God."

SUNDAY

·         God worked on Sunday.  Gen. 1:1-5.
·         God commanded work on Sunday.  Ex. 20:8-1 1.
·         God calls it a working day.  Eze. 46:1.
·         He never blessed Sunday.
·         Christ did not rest upon it.
·         Christ never blessed Sunday.
·         It was never sanctified.
·         The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it.
·         There was no penalty for its desecration.
·         No blessing promised for its observance.
·         No regulation given as to how it should be observed.
·         It is never called the Christian Sabbath.
·         It is never called the Lord's Day.
·         No sacred title applied to it.
·         The word Sunday never occurs in the Word of God at all.
·         Neither God, Christ or any inspired man ever said one word in favour of Sunday as a holy day.
·         There is no requirement to break bread.
·         The Bible nowhere says the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ.
·         This is the Tradition of man which makes void the Commandment of God.

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