In the Beginning...

In the beginning, God the Father, through Jesus (John 1:1-4), made the world in six days and rested the seventh day (Saturday). We read in Genesis 2:2-3 of the special blessing placed on His true Sabbath.

• He rested on the seventh day.
• He blessed the seventh day.
• He sanctified the seventh day.

Only God has the power to sanctify a day as holy. The seventh-day Sabbath is the “Lord’s day” of the Bible. It is a day of spiritual rest in Christ.

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The Fourth Commandment

God made the seventh day holy and gave it to humanity. It is the "set-apart" time of the week, when we can experience the spiritual rest that comes from contact with God. In the fourth commandment God says: “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God” (Exodus 20:10).

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The Lord’s Day in Isaiah

God calls the seventh-day Sabbath “My holy day" in Isaiah 58:13. “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable…”

If God Himself calls a day holy, then it is so.

Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath Day

If Jesus Christ made the seventh-day Sabbath, and it is clear that He did from reading John 1:1-4, He is by creative right the Lord of the Sabbath. In His own words, when He lived on this earth, Jesus assured us that the Lord's day is the Sabbath of creation. He also declared Himself the Lord of the seventh-day Sabbath. “For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath” (Matthew 12:8).

The Lord’s Day in Revelation

The Holy Bible knows no other Sabbath day than the seventh day. When the apostle John was exiled to the Island of Patmos, he received the visions of the book of Revelation. His first vision evidently came to him on the Bible Sabbath, for he records: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet” (Revelation 1:10).

Nowhere in Holy Scripture is the first day of the week, Sunday, called the Lord's day.

Enjoy the Blessing

God promises a special blessing to those that keep the Sabbath as a special day to spend with Him. “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken” (Isaiah 58:13-14).

And again: “So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9, ESV).

Don’t you want to experience that blessing by keeping the seventh-day Sabbath holy as God intended?