$100 REWARD
A Tract From 1885
$100.00 Reward For The Missing Bible Text
You are reading a public notice of a
$100.00 reward for a Bible text proving any one of the following 5 statements to
be TRUE:
1. God changed the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday.
2. God blessed, sanctified and
hallowed Sunday and removed His blessing from Saturday.
3. Christ or the apostles kept Sunday
holy, or taught others to do so.
4. Being "under grace" allows us to
violate God’s Ten Commandment Law.
5. Sunday is the Lord’s day.
Did You Know?
• Jesus kept Saturday holy 1,700
times. Luke 4:16 Luke 3:23 I John 2:3-6
• Sunday had its origin in the
ancient pagan worship of the sun, and that it crept into Christianity as one of
many false teachings and practices long after Jesus and the apostles had passed
from the scene. II Thes. 2:3,4,8-10 Dan. 7:25
• The book of Acts notes Saturday
being used for worship by early Jewish and Gentile Christians 84 times. Acts
13:14,44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4,11
• Jesus affirmed the Law as binding
and expected his followers to regard the Saturday Sabbath prayerfully 40 years
after His death. Matt. 5:17-19 Matt. 24:20
• The Bible never suggests that
Sunday be held in honor of Jesus’ resurrection. Matt. 15:8,9,13
• The 7th day Saturday Sabbath is the
only day that God has ever blessed, sanctified, and hallowed. Gen. 2:2,3 Ex.
20:8-11 Is. 58:13,14 Mark 2:28
See For
Yourself & Compare The Following:
The 4th
Commandment
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is
the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11
Your Calendar
Note: Saturday is the 7th day of the week, and Sunday is
the 1st day. The Jews have kept Saturday holy according to the Ten Commandment
Law throughout their history. The seven day weekly cycle has remained unbroken
since long before the time of Jesus.
Also, beware of ministers that tell you, "it doesn’t
matter which day you keep." Ask them where that statement is found in the Bible.
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree
of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Revelation 22:14
Jesus Kept Saturday
Holy, Should We?
Why keep the Sabbath day? What is the object of the Sabbath?
Who made it? When was it made, and for whom? Which day is the true Sabbath? Many
keep the first day of the week, or Sunday. By what Bible authority have they for
this? Some keep the seventh day, or Saturday. What Scripture have they for that?
Here are the facts about both days, as plainly stated in the Word of God:
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Bible Facts on the
Seventh-day of the
Week
1. After working the first six days
of the week in creating this earth, God rested on the seventh day.
Genesis 2:1-3
2. This stamped that day as God's
rest day, or Sabbath day, as Sabbath day means rest day. To illustrate:
When a person is born on a certain day, that day thus becomes his
birthday. So when God rested upon the seventh day, that day became His
rest, or Sabbath, day.
3. Therefore the seventh day must
always be God's Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day
on which you were born to one on which you were not born? No. Neither
can you change God's rest day to a day on which He did not rest. Hence
the seventh day is still God's Sabbath day.
4. The Creator blessed the seventh day. Genesis 2:3
5. He sanctified the seventh day.
Exodus 20:11
6. He made it the Sabbath day in the
Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:1-3
7. It was made before the fall; hence
it is not a type; for types were not introduced till after the fall.
8. Jesus says it was made for man,
that is, for the race, as the word man is here unlimited; hence, for the
Gentile as well as for the Jew. Mark 2:27
9. Not only is the Sabbath made for
man, but Jesus said that He was Lord of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28
10. It is a memorial of creation.
Exodus 20:11; 31:17 Every time we rest upon the seventh day, as God did
at creation, we commemorate that grand event.
11. It was given to Adam, the head of
the human race. Mark 2:27; Genesis 2:1-3
12. It is not a Jewish institution,
for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.
13. The Bible never calls it the
Jewish Sabbath, but always "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Men should
be cautious how they stigmatize God's holy rest day.
14. Evident reference is made to the
Sabbath and the seven-day week all through the patriarchal age. Genesis
2:1-3; 8:10,12; 29:27,28, etc.
15. It was a part of God's law before
Sinai. Exodus 16:4,23-29
16. Then God placed it in the heart
of His moral law. Exodus 20:1-17 Why did He place it there if it was not
like the other nine precepts, which all admit to be immutable?
17. The seventh-day Sabbath was
commanded by the voice of the living God. Deuteronomy 4:12,13
18. Then He wrote the commandment
with His own finger. Exodus 31:18
19. He engraved it in the enduring
stone, indicating its imperishable nature. Deuteronomy 5:22
20. It was sacredly preserved in the
ark in the holy of holies. Deuteronomy 10:1-5
21. God forbade work upon the
Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. Exodus 34:21
22. God destroyed the Israelites in
the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. Ezekiel 20:12,13
23. It is the sign of the true God,
by which we are to know Him from the false gods. Ezekiel 20:20
24. God promised that Jerusalem
should stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath. Jeremiah
17:24,25
25. He sent them into the Babylonish
captivity for breaking it. Nehemiah 13:18
26. He destroyed Jerusalem for its
violation. Jeremiah 17:27
27. God has pronounced a special
blessing on all the Gentiles who will keep it. Isaiah 56:6,7
28. This is in the prophecy which
refers wholly to the Christian dispensation. See Isaiah 56.
29. God has promised to bless all who
keep the Sabbath. Isaiah 56:2
30. The Lord requires us to call it
"honourable." Isaiah 58:13 Beware, you who take delight in calling it
the "old Jewish Sabbath," "a yoke of bondage," etc.
31. After the holy Sabbath has been
trodden down "many generations," it is to be restored in the last days.
Isaiah 58:12,13
32. All the holy prophets kept the
seventh day.
33. When the Son of God came, He kept
the seventh day all His life. Luke 4:16; John 15:10 Thus He followed His
Father's example at creation. Shall we not be safe in following the
example of both the Father and the Son?
34. The seventh day is the Lord's
day. See Revelation 1:10; Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10.
35. Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath
(Mark 2:28), that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord
of the wife, to love and cherish her. 1 Peter 3:6
36. He vindicated the Sabbath as a
merciful institution designed for man's good. Mark 2:23-28
37. Instead of abolishing the
Sabbath, He carefully taught how it should be observed. Matthew 12:1-13
38. He taught His disciples that they
should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was "lawful." Matthew
12:12
39. He instructed His apostles that
the Sabbath should be prayerfully regarded forty years after His
resurrection. Matthew 24:20
40. The pious women who had been with
Jesus carefully kept the seventh day after His death. Luke 23:56
41. Thirty years after Christ's
resurrection, the Holy Spirit expressly calls it "the sabbath day." Acts
13:14
42. Paul, the apostle to the
Gentiles, called it the "sabbath day" in A.D. 45. Acts 13:27 Did not
Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it
ceased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Christ?
43. Luke, the inspired Christian
historian, writing as late as A.D. 62, calls it the "sabbath day." Acts
13:44
44. The Gentile converts called it
the Sabbath. Acts 13:42
45. In the great Christian council,
A.D. 49, in the presence of the apostles and thousands of disciples,
James calls it the "sabbath day." Acts 15:21
46. It was customary to hold prayer
meetings upon that day. Acts 16:13
47. Paul read the Scriptures in
public meetings on that day. Acts 17:2,3
48. It was his custom to preach upon
that day. Acts 17:2,3
49. The Book of Acts alone gives a
record of his holding eighty-four meetings upon that day. See Acts
13:14,44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4,11.
50. There was never any dispute
between the Christians and the Jews about the Sabbath day. This is proof
that the Christians still observed the same day that the Jews did.
51. In all their accusations against
Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why did
they not, if he did not keep it?
52. But Paul himself expressly
declared that he had kept the law. "Neither against the law of the Jews,
neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any
thing at all." Acts 25:8 How could this be true if he had not kept the
Sabbath?
53. The Sabbath is mentioned in the
New Testament fifty-nine times, and always with respect, bearing the
same title it had in the Old Testament, "the sabbath day."
54. Not a word is said anywhere in
the New Testament about the Sabbath's being abolished, done away,
changed, or anything of the kind.
55. God has never given permission to
any man to work upon it. Reader, by what authority do you use the
seventh day for common labor?
56. No Christian of the New
Testament, either before or after the resurrection, ever did ordinary
work upon the seventh day. Find one case of the kind, and we will yield
the question. Why should modern Christians do differently from Bible
Christians?
57. There is no record that God has
ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh day?
58. As the Sabbath was kept in Eden
before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after
the restitution. Isaiah 66:22,23
59. The seventh-day Sabbath was an
important part of the law of God, as it came from His own mouth, and was
written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. See Exodus 20. When Jesus
began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy
the law. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets."
Matthew 5:17
60. Jesus severely condemned the
Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love God, while at the same
time they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. The
keeping of Sunday is only a tradition of men.
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Bible Facts on the First Day of the Week
1. The very first thing recorded in
the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. Genesis
1:1-5 This was done by the Creator Himself. If God made the earth on
Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?
2. God commands men to work upon the
first day of the week. Exodus 20:8-11 Is it wrong to obey God?
3. None of the patriarchs kept it.
4. None of the holy prophets ever
kept it.
5. By the express command of God, His
holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for
4,000 years, at least.
6. God Himself calls it a "working"
day. Ezekiel 46:1
7. God did not rest upon it.
8. He never blessed it.
9. Christ did not rest upon it.
10. Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3),
and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the
Sabbath and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence, He did
many a hard day's work on Sunday.
11. The apostles worked upon it
during the same time.
12. The apostles never rested upon
it.
13. Christ never blessed it.
14. It has never been blessed by any
divine authority.
15. It has never been sanctified.
16. No law was ever given to enforce
the keeping of it, hence it is no transgression to work upon it. "Where
no law is, there is no transgression." Romans 4:15 See also 1 John 3:4.
17. The New Testament nowhere forbids
work to be done on it.
18. No penalty is provided for its
violation.
19. No blessing is promised for its
observance.
20. No regulation is given as to how
it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep
it?
21. It is never called the Christian
Sabbath.
22. It is never called the Sabbath
day at all.
23. It is never called the Lord's
day.
24. It is never called even a rest
day.
25. No sacred title whatever is
applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?
26. It is simply called "first day of
the week."
27. Jesus never mentioned it in any
way, never took its name upon His lips, so far as the record shows.
28. The word Sunday never occurs in
the Bible at all.
29. Neither God, Christ, nor inspired
men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.
30. The first day of the week is
mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. Matthew 28:1; Mark
16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2
31. Six of these texts refer to the
same first day of the week.
32. Paul directed the saints to look
over their secular affairs on that day. 1 Corinthians 16:2
33. In all the New Testament we have
a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this
was a night meeting. Acts 20:5-12
34. There is not an implication that
they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.
35. It was not their custom to meet
on that day.
36. There was no requirement to break
bread on that day.
37. We have an account of only one
instance in which it was done. Acts 20:7
38. That was done in the night-after
midnight. Acts 20:7-11 Jesus celebrated it on Thursday evening (Luke
22), and the disciples sometimes did it every day. Acts 2:42-46
39. The Bible nowhere says that the
first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. This is a
tradition of men, which contradicts the law of God. Matthew 15:1-9
Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus. Romans 6:3-5
40. Finally, the New Testament is
totally silent with regard to any change of the Sabbath day or any
sacredness for the first day.
Here are one hundred plain Bible facts upon this question, showing
conclusively that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord in both the
Old and New Testament.
You may now be asking yourself, is
all of this important, does it really matter? Well, let me close with
this verse. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into
the city." Rev. 22:14
Reprinted from a tract published about the year 1885.