The Seventh-Day Sabbath: Divine Origin and Sacred Truth

The seventh-day Sabbath is a sacred institution established in the Garden of Eden, predating even the celestial time-keeping of the sun and the moon Genesis 2:2-3BDOC 73.29. It stands as a perpetual memorial of creation, as the fourth commandment explicitly requires man to labor for six days and rest on the seventh day because the Lord claims that specific day as His own Exodus 20:8-11AMS July 1888, page 51.11. While many in the religious world today observe Sunday, historical and doctrinal evidence confirms that this change was not authorized by Scripture but was an act of the Papal churchFEE 221.3+1. In fact, Catholic authorities cite the transition from Sabbath to Sunday as a primary evidence of their ecclesiastical power to command holy days under penalty of sinARSH July 23, 1861, page 61.2+1. This substitution serves as the "mark of the beast," a rival sabbath that challenges the authority of God's lawPTUK May 16, 1895, page 309.8+1. Unlike the complex and unscriptural lunar Sabbath theory, the true Sabbath is a simple truth that even the simple-minded can understand and stake their lives uponBDOC 73.18. In these last days, as spiritual declension grows, God is testing His people to develop character and separate the precious from the vile1EGWLM 629.2+1. Faithful observers must choose the plain testimonies of the Word of God over human traditions and creedsARSH August 15, 1854, page 5.1+1. Embracing the Sabbath after the light of 1844 is a vital step in being ready for Christ’s soon comingVSS 335.1+1.

...;Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, 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.” Exodus 20:8-10. In this commandment the Lord expressly claims the seventh day as his day, so that the first day of the week, “commonly called the Lord’s day,” is not the Lord’s day at all. He also commands that the seventh day shall be kept holy to him, but freely gives to man the other six days as working days. Now whether all admit that the fourth commandment limits the Sabbath to the seventh day of the week, or whether they hold that it sanctifies any seventh part of time that men choose to keep, all must admit that it gives men the privilege of working six days. That is, men have the same authority for working on six days of the week that they have for restin...— AMS July 1888, page 51.11

Q. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days? A. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday str...— ARSH July 23, 1861, page 61.2

Conclusion The week was being counted before the creation of the time-keeping pieces of the sun and the moon. The Sabbath, like marriage, comes to us from the Garden of Eden. It has always had faithful observers. When light shown on the Law of God after 1844 the Sabbath tr...— BDOC 73.29 (2013)

Summary and Settling the Issue Not one of the six primary lines of evidence for lunar Sabbaths holds up under investigation. That could settle the issue for me. No evi...— BDOC 73.18 (2013)

The mark of the beast is a rival sabbath. It is a mark by which the Papal church maintains her authority, and claims the right to make or change laws. Catholic writers claim that there is no “scriptural authority” for the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, and say it is “only authorized by our tradition.” The Catholic church sets forth this change of the Sabbath as a mark of her authority to mak...— ARSH August 6, 1857, page 109.21

Ans.-Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin; and by not keeping the rest [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same p...— SBBS 475.14 (1919)