THE CHART OF THE WEEK
Dr. William Meade Jones
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INTRODUCTION—This is incredible information! This Chart of the Week is over a hundred years old. It was prepared by Dr. William Meade Jones, a research expert in London, England. Well over a hundred languages prove that the week, everywhere, has seven days;—and that, in most languages, the native word for the seventh day is "Sabbath" (which means "rest" or "rest day") or "rest day."
Dr. William Meade Jones lived over a hundred years ago, and was a well-known London, England, research expert. He discovered in his studies that the Seventh-day Sabbath was the only weekly Sabbath ever commanded by God in the Bible.
The CHART OF THE WEEK, is over a hundred years old. It is extremely valuable and almost impossible to find today.
Jones, a well-known British researcher, decided that, since Scripture clearly shows that the Bible Sabbath was first given to mankind at the end of Creation Week, then two important facts would have had to be known throughout the ancient world: First, a fixing of the seven-day weekly cycle on a worldwide basis and, second, an ancient worldwide knowledge of the seventh-day Sabbath.
Jones was convinced of this for four reasons:
1 - Adam and Noah were both earnest worshipers of God and would therefore have been faithful Sabbathkeepers.
2 - They would have taught their descendants about the Bible Sabbath; these descendants would then be aware of its original sacredness.
3 - The truth that God is to be worshiped on the seventh day of each seven-day week—would require a seven-day weekly cycle everywhere. If the first generations kept the weekly Sabbath given at Creation, then their descendants would continue to keep a seven-day week, even though they might later have turned to idols and left the worship of the true God.
4 - Therefore, as the descendants of Adam and Noah spread out all over the world, they would have carried with them these two important facts: (1) Each week has seven days, and (2) the seventh day of the week is the holy Sabbath given by God to mankind.
Jones reasoned that, even though many of Adam and Noah’s descendants would become scoffers, all of them would still carry with them the twin truths of the seven-day Creation Week and the seventh-day Sabbath rest. So all the world would have a seven-day week;—and, embedded in most of those languages, the seventh day would generally be called the "rest day" ("Sabbath").
William Meade Jones was certain that, because Genesis 1 and 2 were really true, and God really created the world in six days and then rested on the seventh day,—that a majority of the languages of the world would prove the fact!
This, in turn, would be a powerful proof—not only that the seventh day (and not the first) was the true Sabbath given by God to mankind,—but also a dramatic proof that Genesis 1 and 2 are genuine, and that God is our Creator!
William Meade Jones’ Chart of the Week is stunning proof that the book of Genesis is really true! This amazing chart is filled with corroborating evidence.
This is just a part of it:
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Shewing the UNCHANGED ORDER of
the Days and the true Position of the
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1 - In all languages the seven-day weekly cycle is maintained; that is, no language group anywhere has a week with more or less days than seven.
2 - In spite of the fact that 6,000 years has elapsed since Creation Week when our world was created (Genesis 1-2), and regardless of many language adaptations down through the centuries, the seventh day of the week continues to called "Sabbath" or "day of rest" in over a hundred languages.
Here is a list of Languages in which the a seven day weekly cycle occurs and the seventh day means Sabbath or Rest.
| Shemitic— Hebrew Bible Hebrew (ancient and modern) Targum of Onkelos (Hebrew literature) Kurdistan Jews (Targum dialect) Ancient Syriac Chaldee Syriac (Kurdistan; Urumia, Persia) Samaritan (Nablas, Palestine) (use old Hebrew letters) Babylonian (Euphrates and Tigris Valleys, Mesopotamia) Assyrian (Euphrates and Tigris Valleys, Mesopotamia) Arabic (very old names) Arabic (ancient and modern; W. Asia, E, W & N Africa) Maltese (Malta) Ethiopic (Ge-ez; Abyssinia) ("Ge-ez" means "original") Tigre (Abyssinia) Amharic (Abyssinia) Falasha (Jews of Abyssinia) Hamitic— Coptic (Egypt; a dead language for 300 years) Orma or Galla (south of Abyssinia) Tamashek or Towarek (ancient Libyan or Numidian) Kabyle or Berber (Ancient Numidian; N Africa) Hausa (Central Africa) Japhetic— Urdu or Hindustani (Islamic and Hindu, India) Pashto or Afghan (Afghanistan) Pahlavi or Pahlavi-Pazand (Ancient Persian) Persian (Persia; Modern Iran) Armenian (Armenia) Kurdish (Kurdistan) Brahuiky (Beluchistan) Tartaric— Mongolian (Sharra-Mongolian; Eastern Mongolia) Kalmuk (Western Mongolia) Turkish (Osmanlian; Turkey) Lazen (Pashelik of Trebisond) Monosyllabic— Chinese (Roman Catholic; earlier) Mohammadan Chinese Annamite (Annam) Ancient Peguan (Pegu-Burma) Khassi (Cossyah Hills, East of Bengal) Tibetan (Tibet) Boutan (Little Tibet) Georgian (Caucasus) Suanian (Caucasus)Ingouish (Caucasus) Aware or Avar (Daghistan; Cis-Caucasus) Polynesian— Malayan (Sumatra) Javanese (Java) Sunda (West Java) Dayak (Borneo) Makssar (Southern Celebes and Salayer Islands) Bugis (Celebes) Malagassay (Madagascar) Nuforian (NW New Guinea) |
African— Swahili (East Africa) Congo (West Africa) Isolated Languages— Wolof (Sengambia, W Africa) Fulah (W Africa) Mandingo (South of Senegal, W Africa) Teda (Central Africa) Bornu or Kanuri (Central Africa) Fulfulde (Central Africa) Sonyal (Central Africa) Logone (Central Africa) Wandals (Central Africa) Bagrimma (Central Africa) Maba (Central Africa) Miscellaneous— Norman French (10th and 11th centuries) Ancient French (12 and 13th centuries) D’oc. France (ancient and modern) Ecclesiastical Roman Parliamentary (British) Basque (Spain and France) Finnish (Finland) Estonian (Estonia) Livonian (Baltic Russia) Lap (Laplanders, Norway) Morduin (Russia) Tsheremissian (Russia) Permian (Russia) Votiak (Russia) Hungarian (Hungary) Ostiac (Russia) Greek (Greece) Modern Greek (Greece) Latin (Italy) Italian (Italy) Spanish (Spain) Portuguese (Portugal) French (France) Roman (Spain, Catalonia) Wallachian (Romania or Wallachia) Old High German (South Germany) High German (Germany) Icelandic (Iceland) Swedish (Sweden) Danish (Denmark) Old Slave (Bulgaria) Russian (Russia) Illyrian (Dalmatia, Serbia) New Slovenian (Illyrie in Austria) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) Polish (Poland) Bohemian (Bohemia) Lusatian (Saxony) Polabic (borders of the Elbe) Lithuanian (Lithuania) Prussian (Prussia; Germany) English Bible (England)
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