Revelation: History of the Sabbath and Sunday
History of the Sabbath and Sunday We will give here a brief history of the relationship between the Sabbath and Sunday . From very early on we already see in some circles a decline of the value of the Sabbath and an elevation of Sunday . But how these two days related to one another, and how and whether they were observed, is a story in itself. As an example: “Furthermore, concerning the sabbath it is also written, in the Ten Words6 that he spoke to Moses face to face on Mount Sinai: ‘And sanctify the Lord's sabbath, with clean hands and a clean heart.’ And in another place he says: ‘If my children guard the sabbath, then I will bestow my mercy upon them.’ He speaks of the sabbath at the beginning of the creation: ‘And God made the works of his hands in six days, and finished on the seventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it.’ Observe, children, what ‘he finished in six days’ means. It means this: that in six thousand years the Lord will bring everything to an end,...