The Lord's Day of Rest

Usually when I feel the need to write about a Christian subject, it is because of something which happened and did stir me. So here is the story behind this article;

There was a wonderful Godly congregation of believers in a small town.They were interdominational and blessed with nice roomy facilites. They had a great zeal for worldwide evangelisme .Their young Godly pastor led them in very nice Praise and worship services.He loved His Lord very much and was totally inclined to obey His WorD
Ofcourse , when a church is doing so good , it becomes a primary target for Satan.
I can imagine that Satan had a conference in His realm and did ask , " how can we best break this congregation up " ? The demons decided to do it in this case through the confrontational doctrine of Sabbath keeping ! They managed to convince the pastor, through books and other people, that we have to honor and use Saturday as the Lord's Day, rather than Sundays. He proposed to change the Worship services to Saturday... It is not hard to imagine what happened next. !
A division among the people develloped quickly. The leadership of it was a relative elder. They had several meetings, but the issue could not be resolved . So our Pastor resigned and now the former pastor and the opposition elder are accusing each other of causing all the damage to the church.
Although I do not know what exactly happened in their meetings,
but the young Pastor started this controversy and was used by Satan to break up this church. !
It is my prayer that this article will prevent many more schismes Satan is planning.

First of all we should know that the beginning of the naming of days can not be percisely determined. Some believe it occured around the tower of Babel time, because that they were aware of seven of our nine heavenly bodies, the Sun ,moon, and the 5 other planets. Later on, a little before Christ The Roman empire started using Latin names for the 7 days.They got intermingled with Saxon and Nordic Heathen concepts.
This is hat develloped;Sunday-Sun,Monday-Moon,Tuesday-Tewe's day a Norse female deity.Wednessday-Wooden's Day , Teutonoc theology. It was before called Mercury"s Day fomw hich comes Mecredi. Thursday-Thors Day the God of lightning .Friday= Frigg.s Day, a rotund Germanic female deity. It used to be Venus day [Vendredi]. Saturday-Saturn.

The Jewish people go as far back to the days off MOses and the giving of the Law. Before this the entire world had gone thouhg great periods of spiritual darkness. [Noa's flood and the tower of Babel]. Most likely no days were known.
In addition to this, I do not believe, on the basis of the Genesis creation account, that the Lord is talking about our 24 hour day periods. ! Because during the first 3 days, there was not even a Sun and Moon, which sets our 24 hour day.!
Even if they picked the correct so called 7th day,there is the fact that God,s Word tells us that He turned back the Sun at least 2 times! ONe time 10 degrees on the Sundial and during another occation , He lenghted the day with at least half ! [2Kings20-:11 and Joshua 10:13-15].

I point this all out to make sure that you understand that it is impossible to know for sure which day was the original day the Lord our God rested. ! So how foolish it is to fight and debate about "what is the 7 th day ?
One thing we should know . It is very importand to God that we keep one day as rest and Holy. And here we give the devil a foothold. Since Constantine, around 300 ad, the world system gave its approval to Sunday keeping as the day of rest. But most people had no concept about our Lord,s desire to keep it Holy. It detoriated almost at once in a day of leasure and pleasure. And even today, many church going Christians spent most of the Sundays on their own pleasure. In Isaiah 58:13, God list several things not to do on the Sabbath." Not doing our own pleasures and going our own ways. Not even speaking our own words ! How much watered down is our Sunday rest today ! This is still a great failure of the Church to day !

Apperently , Our Lord saw this controversy coming and put in His New Testament some warnings, not to judge one another concerning, food, drink and keeping of holy days and Sabbaths.Romans 14:5-10 tells us clearly that people can esteem different days of the week and in Col.2:16 It says "Let no man judge you in meat or drinkor in respect of any Holy day orof the new moon festival, or of the Sabbath days ! Legalisme was allready a problem in the New Testament Church. Some wanted to keep the circumcision and the Sabbath keeping .

Does all this mean that the Lord did not leave us any indication as to what day the early church used ? Ofcourse not. To let us know, which day became the Lords,s day of rest, when they were meeting and breaking bread together, He mentioned the first day of the week.[Acts 20:7] Also, the collection of the Saints listed in 1Cor.16:2, was ordered on the first day of the Week ! The Lord does not tell us some things for nothing !
When Paul uses the Synagoge on the Sabbath,it is every time, in order to find converts. In my opnion, based on all of this, the early church felt a great need to set them self apart from Judaisme and choose the the first day as celebration of the Lord,s resurruction. And because it is God,s Word, it shows His approval of it .In 1Tim.4: God tells us that all things which He created, are good by our prayers and Praise . Praise His Holy name for our Sunday !

Do you love our Lord? Than please Him with a day of rest and devotion and do not use it to split any part of the Body of Christ .
Your servant in Christ, Johannes Weiss