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    Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath
    Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath
    Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath
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    Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath

    By Phillip Kayser

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    Are we still compelled to keep the Sabbath? How has the Sabbath changed since creation?


    This book looks to the Bible to find how we are supposed to relate to the Sabbath. It also examines the early church's view of the Sabbath.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiblical Blueprints
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
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      Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath - Phillip Kayser

      Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath

      Sunday as a First-Day Sabbath

      Phillip Kayser

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      Table of Contents

      1. The First Day Sabbath Concept

      1988-1989 Calendar

      2. The Sabbath Principle Shown to be an Abiding Principle

      The Sabbath is a creation ordinance (Genesis 2:3)

      Gentiles are repeatedly commanded to keep the Sabbath

      It is one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20)

      Explicitly called an everlasting or perpetual statute (Exodus 31:16-17)

      We are commanded to worship God on the Sabbath

      Sabbath command to labor for six days

      New Testament continuation

      Old Testament prophesy

      Christ taught proper observance of the Sabbath

      Christ’s prophesy for the Great Tribulation

      Revelation 1:10

      3. Historical Changes In the Sabbath

      Summary

      Detailed analysis

      The Change to First Day Sabbath Hinted at in the Old Testament

      4. Christ’s Resurrection Establishes a New First Day Sabbath

      The Greek form of the fourth commandment

      Jewish Sabbath abolished along with all other Old Testament and Old World days

      Resurrection accounts that bring in a new Sabbath

      Early Church celebration

      5. The Early Church Saw Sunday as the Christian Sabbath

      AD 90 — Didache

      AD 100 — Epistle of Barnabas

      AD 107 — Ignatius

      AD 110 — Pliny the Younger

      AD 150 — Epistle of the Apostles

      AD 150 — Justin Martyr

      AD 180 — Acts of Peter

      AD 190 — Clement Of Alexandria

      AD 200 — Bardesanes

      AD 200 — Tertullian

      AD 220 — Origen

      AD 225 — Didascalia Apostolorum

      AD 250 — Cyprian

      AD 300 — Victorinus

      AD 300 — Eusebius of Caesarea

      AD 345 — Athanasius

      AD 350 — Cyril of Jerusalem

      AD 360 — Council of Laodicea

      AD 387 — John Chrysostom

      AD 400 — Apostolic Constitutions

      6. Scriptural Guidelines on How to Observe the Sabbath

      Guidelines from Jeremiah 17:19-23

      Guidelines from Genesis 2:1-3: The Day God Blessed

      About the Author

      Notes

      1. The First Day Sabbath Concept

      It is often alleged that the New Testament nowhere makes mention of Sunday as the Sabbath. However, many Greek scholars have pointed out that the concept of Sabbath has simply been translated away. We will later be demonstrating that this is clearly shown in the Greek of Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:1-2, Luke 24:1, John 20:1, Acts 20:7, and 1 Corinthians 16:2, all of which speak of a first day Sabbath. Indeed, the last passage commands the observance of a first day Sabbath.¹ It says, Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: on the first day Sabbath let each one of you lay something aside…

      Notice the three imperatives: 1) as I have given orders, 2) so you must do also, and 3) let each lay aside.

      There is clearly a day-keeping which is commanded, and which is quite at odds with Jewish day-keeping. Further evidence is hinted at in Acts 13. Paul preached to the Jews on two consecutive Sabbaths (mentioned in 13:14 and 13:44). In Acts 13:42 the Gentiles begged Paul to preach to them on the Sabbath in between.² What is the Sabbath that is in between these two consecutive Jewish Sabbaths? This book will seek to demonstrate that it was not the seventh day Sabbath (which Paul treats as no longer binding on the Christian – see Colossians 2:16), but was instead the first day Sabbath, a day which all churches were commanded to keep (1 Cor. 16:1-2).

      To those who object that the concept of a first day Sabbath would have been confusing, it should be pointed out that exactly the same language is repeatedly used in the Old Testament. The phrase first day Sabbath as well as eighth day Sabbath occur in the Hebrew of Leviticus 23:39.

      The Septuagint translation of the Old Testament makes provision for the midweek Sabbaths by providing titles to some of the psalms such as A Psalm of David on a first day Sabbath³ (Greek LXX title for Psalm 24 [23 in LXX]), A song of praise for the sons of Core on a second day Sabbath (Psalm 48 [47 in LXX]), A Psalm of David on a fourth day Sabbath (Psalm 94 [93 in LXX]).

      David intended these psalms to be sung on midweek Sabbaths (i.e. intended for festival days, not for the regular Sabbath). Certainly a glance at the following Jewish calendar will show that there were not only 1st day Sabbaths, 2nd day Sabbaths, 3rd day Sabbaths, and 4th day Sabbaths, there were Sabbaths for every day of the week. Thus Luke 6:1 (Majority Text) can speak of the second-first Sabbath, a possible reference to the fact that the 15th and the 22nd of Nisan occurred on Sunday in that year, and Luke is referring to the 22nd, which would be the second first day Sabbath on that festival.⁴

      1988-1989 Calendar

      (Jewish year starts Nisan 1 which in 1988 was March 19)

      Column 0 gives some examples of first day Sabbaths that occurred in the Jewish Calendar. It should be remembered that the Feast of First Fruits (resurrection day) was never a Sabbath day in its own right. God

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