How can you prove that Saturday is the seventh day? R. U. G.
We have no desire to prove that Saturday is the seventh day. The days of the week are not identical with the Bible days, only in the most general sense. The Bible seventh day is not identical with our Saturday. It begins at sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday night; that is, the Biblical seventh day. The identity of the seventh day is shown in the fall of the manna; for forty years God pointed it out so that man could not possibly make a mistake. Exodus 16. When our Lord Jesus Christ came, He and His followers observed the seventh day "according to the commandment." Luke 23:56. That again fixed the identical seventh day. There has been no question, and is no question, on the part of scholars as to the identity of the New Testament days with our days. The New Testament week is identical with our week. The New Testament first day has come down to us in our Sunday. We can understand how one person or one family might lose track of the day of the week, but no one ever hears of a township or a city or a country losing such record. Certainly the world has not, and all history bears this out. See tract "The Identical Seventh Day," Bible Students' Library No. 114, one cent. Also "The Sabbath the Test of the Ages," a pamphlet which covers the whole Sabbath question, No. 134, price, ten cents.