Introduction
Sunday is coming, this is the cry of a representative group of Sunday
keeping religions in a meeting carried on by a Roman Catholic priest. A
Sunday-law has been planned by the Papacy as the single most important
means to sanctify the world and correct the evils that has threatened the
existence of the Catholic Church. The movement for a Sunday Law on a global scale has been planned in secret and is to be advocated in secrecy, but occasionally, evidence of this conspiracy comes to light as a warning to God’s people as to just what is coming.
The Seventh-day Sabbath, however, is the real way to counteract the evils of Sunday exaltation, because, it teaches that the one true Creator, whose name is YHWH, is the only one that can sanctify the penitent towards
sinfreeness. This reality must become the conviction of all who hope to escape the deception of a global Sunday law. In this booklet, statements from authoritative sources in the Roman Catholic Church has been quoted
to reveal that Sunday exaltation is a product of the Roman Catholic Church, and not of Jesus or the apostles; these statements show the blasphemy of the Church in an effort to turn away all who are sensibly convicted that Sunday must not be kept, but they must keep the Lord’s Sabbath.
Amen.
1. We are told to keep the seventh-day Sabbath for the following
important reasons. Exodus 31:13-17.
a. It is a sign that God is YHWH. (Psalms 83:18; Ezekiel 20:20).
b. It is a sign that YHWH sanctifies us.
Leviticus 20:8; Ezekiel 37:28; 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
c. It is an eternal sign and testimony (covenant) between God and theChurch. (Hebrews 9:16,17; Jeremiah 22:9; Ezekiel 20:20).
d. It is a testimonial sign that YHWH was the Creator of the earth in
six days so He rested the seventh day and was refreshed. (Hebrews
9:16,17; Hebrews 4:3,4,10; Genesis 2:1-3).
2. God’s Law is composed of ten clauses.
Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4.
3. This Law is eternal and cannot change. Psalms 111:7,8.
4. Thus if one clause is broken, the interconnected prismic nature of all the
The Seventh-day Sabbath
Sign of Sanctification clauses, causes one to break all the clauses. James 2:8-12.
5. Yet we are told of a power that shall “think” to change times and laws, that is, think to also change law that commands sacred times. This is specifically the Seventh-day Sabbath being attacked. Daniel 7:24,25; Isaiah 24:5.
6. This attempt to change the Sabbath to Sunday has been admitted by the Roman Catholic Church in the following quotations that shows their authority for such change:
“Not the Creator of Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days.” S.C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica, 1969, pp. 366-367.
“The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify,
explain, or interpret even divine laws…. The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth.” Lucuis Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca,
“Papa,” art. 2.
“The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to
dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has the
authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the commands of
Christ.” Decretal, de Traniatic Episcop. Ferraris, Ecclesiastical
Dictionary.
7. This power the pope has aggregated to himself has led the Papacy to
make the bold claim of changing the seventh-day Sabbath to Sunday
the first day of the week.
“The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The
Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath
day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the
entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the
command of the holy Catholic church! “Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the
Redemptoral College, Kansas City, History of the Sabbath, p. 802.
“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on
that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this
law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may
read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a
single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures
enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never
sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917
ed.) pp. 72,73.
“The authority of the Church could therefore not be bound to the
authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed the
Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own
authority.” Canon and Tradition, p. 263.
“Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observance can be
defended only on Catholic principles…. From beginning to end of
Scriptures there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.”
Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, 1900.
“The Sunday… is purely a creation of the Catholic Church.”
American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.
“Sunday…. It is the law of the Catholic Church alone …” American
Sentinel (Catholic), June 1893.
“Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday, they accept the
authority of the spokesperson of the Church, the Pope.” Our Sunday
Visitor, February 5, 1950.
8. One historical clip that shows the decree of a pope to change the seventh
day Sabbath to the first day of the week, Sunday, is here presented.
“Pope Sylvester [314-335 A.C.B.] instructed the clergy to keep the feriae
[day]. And, indeed, from an old custom he called the first day [of the
week] the “Lord’s [day],” on which the light was made in the
beginning and also the resurrection of Christ is celebrated.”
Rabanus Maurus [776-856], Liber de Computo ( A book Concerning
Computation), Chap. XXVII (“Concerning Festivals”), as translated
from the Latin text in Migne’s Patrologia Latina, Vol. CVII, col. 682.
“But he [Sylvester] ordered [them] to call the Sabbath by the ancient
term of the law, [to call] the first feria the “Lord’s day,” because on it the Lord rose [from the dead], Moreover, the same pope decreed that
the rest of the Sabbath should be transferred rather to the Lord’s day
[Sunday], in order that on that day we should rest from worldly works
for the praise of God.” De Clericorum Institutione (Concerning the
Instruction of the Clergymen), Book II, Chap. XLVI, Translated from
the Latin text in Migne’s Patrologia Latina, Vol. CVII, col. 361.
9. Now in modern times, the pope has called for the legislation of Sunday
holiness; he said:
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that civil legislation respects
their duty to keep Sunday holy.” Section 67. Dies Domini, July 7,
1998. John Paul II.
10. The movement to enforce Sunday laws has always moved in secrecy
and will continue to do so. We are told:
“The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness. The
Leaders are concealing the true issue, and many who unite in the
movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent is
tending. Its professions are mild and apparently Christian, but when
it shall speak it will reveal the spirit of the dragon.” Ellen G. White,
The Faith I Live By, p. 325.
11. Sunday holiness is now being presented as achieving the following
points:
a. Sanctifying people.
b. Causing proper worship to God. c. Gives authentic Christian freedom.
d. Makes people children of God.
e. Corrects all the problems of the world.
f. Thus Sunday holiness is the solution to correct all the problems of
the world today.
12. We are told the following from the Vatican Papacy, regarding Sunday.
“Sunday “is the identity of the Christian community and the center of
his life and mission,” that “we cannot live without joining together on
Sunday,” that only those Christians “who lived in accordance with
Sunday” have “attained new hope,” and that “the Christians of today
will rediscover the crucial importance of the Sunday Celebration.””
(Pastorial Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Bari for the Closing of the
24th Italian National Eucharistic Congress, Homily of Pope
Benedict XVI,… Sunday, May 29, 2005).
“People cannot be sanctified except on Sunday, that Christ transferred
Sabbath sacredness to Sunday, that only those who keep Sunday
belong to Christ, that only on Sunday does “the risen Lord makes
Himself present among his followers,” that only these “worship God
properly” and that may Sunday “regain all its importance.”” Letter of
Pope Benedict XVI to Cord. Francis Arinze…. From the Vatican,
November 27, 2006.
“Sunday is an “obligation for all the faithful” which brings “authentic
freedom enabling them to live each day,” that it is the Lord’s day, that it is “a day to be sanctified,” and those who do not keep it suffer “the
loss of an authentic sense of Christian freedom” and the loss of being
“the children of God,” that Sunday is the “primordial holy day” and
“is meant to be kept holy,” “a day of rest from work,” which hopefully
“will also be recognized by civil society” “by law.”” Sacramentum
Caritatis… Given by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, at Saint Peter’s
February 22, 2007.
“”Without the Lord’s day, we cannot live,” that meeting with the Lord
only occurs on the “specific day” of Sunday, that life does not flourish
without Sunday, and that Sunday is a day of rest, of freedom and
equality for all the world.” Eucharistic Celebration Homily of Pope
Benedict XVI, Sunday, September 9, 2007.
13. A group of representatives reveal that they know a Sunday law is
being advocated in secrecy. Thus the priest who preaches shows the
cure for all the ills of the world is the advent of Sunday holiness, that
is, legislated Sunday observance requirements. He ends by saying:
“Brothers and sisters, there are plenty of people here today who are
making Sunday come faster; let’s just continue together to declare to
this society one single message: It’s Friday [meaning, a symbol of the
legislated evils of present society], but Sunday [the legislated means to
cure these evils] is coming!” Quote from video clip.
14. But the real sign of curing the ills of society is not Sunday holiness. The
means to end sin is nothing but conversion ministered super-naturally
to the penitent. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
15. Sanctification here or “separation from evil” is symbolized by Sabbath
keeping and not by Sunday holiness for the following reasons.
a. The Sabbath is a sign of God sanctifying the penitent person.
Ezekiel 20:12.
b. There remains a Sabbath-keeping (Greek: Sabbatismos) for the
people of God. Thus the people of God—those who cease to do
evil—keep the seventh-day Sabbath. Hebrews 4:3-4,9.
c. Entering into God’s rest of Sabbath-keeping protects one from
unbelief thus apostasy. Thus the solution to the godlessness of
modern society is Sabbath keeping and not Sunday holiness.
Hebrews 4:9-11.
Fin
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