The Bible prophesied in 2Thessalonians 2:1-12 of a falling away among the churches headed by a man that exalts himself to be God, before Christ comes. It is that falling away foretold in prophesy that caused the exaltation of Sunday in place of the keeping of the Sabbath and not Scripture.
History shows the papacy forced Christian churches to keep Sunday and outlawed the keeping of the Seventh Day Sabbath. In 321 ACB the papal bishops influenced Emperor Constantine to legislate a law that Sunday was to be kept, and in 325 ACB due to the council of Nicea, it was made law that the New Passover, or the Lord's Super; what we call "the Communion Service" was to be done on a particular Sunday each year, instead of the the 14th of the Jewish month Nisan, which was the time when it was kept generally by the Christian churches (some also kept it every Sabbath). This is synonymous with the Easter Festival done once a year in our time. Later in 364 ACB in the Council of Laodicea the keeping of the Sabbath was outlawed. Note due to the council of Nicea the dogmas of one particular church in Rome was given control over other ChristIan churches religious dogmas or doctrines by law, so what was decided in councils like the council of Laodicea became law throughout the Roman Empire.
Note however before 321 ACB the apostate Christian church in Rome had great influence over other churches, however they had not the civil authority of the state to enforce their decrees. For instance in the last decade of the second century; bishop Victor (I) in Rome commanded all Christian churches to keep the New Passover on a Sunday each year, determined by the apostate church, and assumed to disfellowship all churches that did not follow this command. Note however all the Christian churches were autonomous and did not have a central church government or a head at that time. Thus Victor (I) had to assume authority or put on a pretense of being head over the other churches. A good few churches gaved in to his pretense, but there was other influences to them giving in.
There was also the influence of Christian Gnosticism from Alexandria, Egypt influencing the church in Rome and others into keeping paganistic doctrines as Sunday exaltation. Christian Gnosticism was a blend of Greek paganism and Christianity. The Catholic Church today are proud of their beginning as being influenced by so called church fathers who mixed Greek philosophy with Christianity from Christian Gnostism, like Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria and Origen. In fact in the first half of the second century the Gnostic Valentinus went from Alexandria to Rome and labored some twenty years in influencing the Church of Rome into what is called Christian Gnosticism. The Christian Gnostic Basildes also had a large following at both Alexandria and Rome in that period. Hence it could be understood how a few churches due to being influenced by Christian Gnosticism in 189 ACB to 199 ACB gave in to the pretense of the bishop Victor I in Rome. Later on between 200 to 305 ACB after being influenced to have a yearly Sunday Passover the churches were influenced to have weekly Passover every Sunday. For this reason the general church service in the Catholic Church involves the Communion which they call "Mass". Thus their Communion mass service is the remnants of a yearly Sunday communion service that was initially used to initiate a weekly Sunday keeping by Christians.
It must be noted that Sabbath keeping only became unpopular and well nigh extinct in many places due to persecution by Rome's legislation of religious dogma, during the time of what is called the Constantinian Shift. Now all these intrigues in history would not have taken place if the early apostolic churches were not keeping the Seventh Day Sabbath. In fact the rallying cry of the early church of Peter's and John's time shows they were all Seventh Day Sabbath Keepers. I quote Acts 4:23-24:
"23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God, and WITH ONE ACCORD said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is"
This shows they exalted Yahweh as the God of the Sabbath and would thus be keepers of the true Sabbath.
My dear Facebook friends note the Evangelicals and gainsayers could try to fight against the Sabbath but the history is there. And their reasoning is exposed as being petty, illiterate and full of mischief and naughtiness. To those who are really sincere I hope they give themselves a chance to learn the truth by humbling themselves before God with contrition and dedication to the will of God.
As to Adventist I pray that in the same way many of you desire the Evangelicals etc. to humble themselves to see the truth, you also will humble yourself when the Spirit of truth comes to you in its ever advancing light, even to your very salvation. May Yahweh empower us all to do His bidding. Amen, and amen.
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