Observance of the Jewish Sabbath Insisted On

Narrator: Chris Genthree
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 14
As to the Sabbath, Mrs. White says: " An acceptance of the truth concerning the heavenly Sanctuary involved an acknowledgment of the claims of God's law, and the obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment."
Surely, if to keep the Jewish Sabbath instead of the Christian's First Day of the Week, was a matter of such vital importance, the writers of the New Testament would have made it plain. Yet never once in the whole of the New Testament are we enjoined to keep the Jewish Sabbath. Seeing that many Christians of the day were converted out of heathendom, and lived in countries where such a thing was unknown amongst themselves as heathen, it would have been necessary to have enjoined them as to the particular day they should observe. But the New Testament is absolutely silent on this point. On the contrary, allusions to the practice of the early disciples meeting on the first day of the week are sufficient to account for the fact that so-called Christian nations observe Sunday as a day of rest, a boon for which we cannot be too thankful to an overruling Providence, and which we grieve to see weakened in any way.