WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
The only Sabbath ever given by the God of heaven to mankind is the seventh-day Sabbath. That is the only Sabbath you will find in either the Old or New Testament Scriptures.
A couple centuries after the time of Christ, men decided to change it to Sunday. But they had no authority to do that. In order to change the Bible Sabbath from the seventh to the first day, God would have to create the world all over again! And He would have told us about it in the Bible. But He never did. This is what the Bible says:
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made."—Genesis 2:1-3.
The Bible Sabbath is embedded in the heart of the Ten Commandment Moral Law, which God gave to mankind. We dare not get rid of the Fourth Commandment anymore than we can get rid of the other commandments about murder and adultery, etc.
Here is the Fourth of the Ten Commandments:
"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 they 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.
God gave man the weekly cycle of seven days when He created this world. That cycle has never changed. God loves you very much, and He wants you to keep the Bible Sabbath!
The Sabbath was God's sign between Him and His people, and evidence of His kindness, mercy, and love, a token by which His people are distinguished from all false religionists of the world. And God has pledged Himself that He will bless them in their obedience, showing Himself that He is their God, and has taken them into covenant relation with Himself, and that He will fulfill His promise to all that are obedient.
Not upon the first day, but upon the seventh day, God rested and was refreshed--satisfied with His work of creation. Then "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," and now man's observance of the Lord's day of rest will again cause joy among the angels of heaven. The time in which we live is a time when the church will realize the oppressive power of persecution, because they keep the Sabbath of creation which God has sanctified and blessed.
The observance of the Sabbath is a line of demarkation between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. It is God's great memorial of the fact that in six days He created the heavens and the earth, and "on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed."
It is His memorial to preserve among the nations a clear, definite, unmistakable knowledge of the only true God, an evidence that He is a God above all gods. For this reason He set apart the day on which He rested after creating the world, a day in which no common work should be done.
God has given men six days in the week in which to labor and do all their work; the one day wherein He rested after creating the world and all things that are therein was to be His own holy day, when men should worship Him, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. This portion of time is especially set apart for rest and for worship, that men may look upon the heavens and the earth, and honor, worship, praise, and exalt the God who created all things by Jesus Christ.
By observing the Sabbath day wherein God rested, the knowledge of God would be preserved. It is a "sign between Me and you . . . that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." Those who keep the Sabbath holy as the Lord has specified, reveal that they are His peculiar people, and that He who made the heavens and the earth is their God.
You want to know the truth about this matter. Here it is, simple and brief: Click on Ten Facts about the Bible Sabbath.