Hi, and welcome to UNLEARN.
Jeremiah 16:19 says, "O Lord, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, "Surely our fathers
have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things."
It is time for us to UNLEARN the lies because the truth will set you free.
I drove past a church recently, and the message on their marquee caught my attention because
it mentioned the Sabbath.
So, I decided to pull into the driveway to read the message on their sign.
It said, "No Christian can keep the faith and not keep the Sabbath."
This message intrigued me because directly under the marquee was their listing of Sunday
morning service times.
As I was about to drive away, a man walked out of the church and approached my car, so
I rolled down my window to ask him about his sign.
I was curious why a Sunday keeping church seemed to be advocating the Sabbath.
He asked if there was anything he could help me with.
So I said, "I am curious about your sign that seems to encourage keeping the Sabbath, yet
you are a Sunday keeping church.
Can you explain this to me?"
He replied, "We keep the Christian Sabbath, which is Sunday."
I was puzzled, so I asked, "Can you show me where in Scripture the Sabbath was changed
to Sunday?"
He sidestepped this question by claiming "God obviously approves, because it has been this
way for 2,000 years and he hasn’t done anything to change it.”
I was not satisfied with this answer, so I pressed the question again, but he was unable
to provide a single verse to support his claim that Sunday is the "Christian Sabbath".
We talked about the book of Acts, and I explained that on multiple occasions the book of Acts
records believers attending Synagogue on the Sabbath with both Jews and Greeks, and that
when Paul went to Corinth he "reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded
both Jews and Greeks" (Acts 18:4) “And he continued there a year and six months, teaching
the word of God among them.”
(Acts 18:11)
He mentioned that in Acts 20, Paul taught on the first day of the week, and I explained
that this is the ONE time that Paul taught on the "first day of the week", and it was
a special occasion because he was about to go out of town.
I also explained that it was Saturday night leading up to midnight, not sunday morning
leading to midnight, because a Jewish day begins at sunset.
He then explained that both the resurrection and Pentecost took place on Sunday, and argued
that was evidence of the believers meeting on Sunday.
To which I explained that the resurrection was on the Biblical Feast day of "FirstFruits"
and that Pentecost is also a Biblical Feast day, and the fact that they were gathering
on commanded Feast days does not negate the command to observe the Sabbath.
It was at this point that he accused me of being a Seventh Day Adventist, and started
pointing out flaws in their doctrine.
So, I quickly assured him that I am not a Seventh Day Adventist.
I explained to him that I was raised in a Sunday keeping church, attended a mainstream
christian college, studied mainstream Christian Theology, and was a preacher for nearly 15
years in a Sunday keeping Church.
I also told him that a few years ago I began studying the early church and found out that
the first century believers continued to keep the Sabbath, Passover, and other Biblical
Feast days, and that I wanted to be like those first believers.
and was a preacher for nearly 15 years in a Sunday keeping Church.
I also told him that a few years ago I began studying the early church and found out that
the first century believers continued to keep the Sabbath, Passover, and other Biblical
Feast days, and that I wanted to be like those first believers.
At this point, he insisted on giving me a book, and he ran back inside to retrieve a
book titled, "Why I am a Nazarene and not a Mormon, Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness,
Christian Scientist, or Seventh-Day Adventist"
He then read this quote from the book,
"On the Lord's day every one of us Christians keep the Sabbath meditating on the law, and
rejoicing in the works of God."
- Irenaeus in A.D. 167
He then continued by saying that the "real truth" is that Constantine didn’t change
the Sabbath to Sunday, because Sunday had been the “Christian Sabbath” ever since
the first Easter Sunday when Jesus resurrected.
I explained to him that "Easter" is actually the name of a pagan goddess, and was instituted
by Constantine to replace Passover at the council of Nicaea in 325AD, and that Messiah
actually resurrected on the Biblical Feast day known as "FirstFruits".
And I told him that the Spring feasts were prophetic rehearsals of his first coming - he
died on Passover, resurrected on FirstFruits, and the Spirit was poured out on Pentecost.
And I explained that the Fall Feasts are prophetic of his second coming, saying, the Feast of
Trumpets announces his return, the Day of Atonement is the day of judgment, and Tabernacles
is the wedding Feast, and is about Him making his dwelling with us on Earth.
To which he responded, “those Jewish Feasts have been done away with.”
So, I directed him to Zechariah 14:16 which says,
“And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts,
and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles”.
This prophecy is about what will happen when Messiah returns.
Zechariah says that the whole world will be required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles,
and he goes on to say that anyone who does not keep the Feast will not get rain on their
land.
The preacher had a puzzled look on his face, and he didn’t seem to be familiar with that
Scripture.
He then changed the subject and asked me if I believed in the "Pre-Trib Rapture”.
I responded by saying, "no, because it has no Biblical basis."
At which the preacher threw his hands in the air, took three steps backward, and proclaimed
loudly, "then we have nothing in common".
It seemed as if he didn’t even want to be near me if I we couldn’t agree about
the "Pre-Trib Rapture".
I thought this was very interesting, because we disagreed about so many other things, yet
the Rapture was the one that really bothered him.
I tried to explain that the Rapture theory was invented in the late 1800's, and did not
exist in Christian Theology prior to that point.
He claimed that the Scriptures do not warn Christians to prepare for the Tribulation,
but I explained that he needed to read Matthew 24 again, because Messiah was warning his
disciples about the Tribulation that will come, and I also explained that the Tribulation
will be shortened for the “sake of the Elect”, but it was obvious that he was no longer interested
in the conversation.
I thanked him for his time, and he told me to keep the book and read the section about
Seventh-Day Adventists so that I can see why he believes that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath.
I thanked him for the book, and drove home.
It seems that some people are too comfortable with their own doctrines and traditions, that
they don’t really want to hear what the Bible actually says.
Thank you for taking time to watch this video.
I hope it has challenged you to seek the truth, and UNLEARN the lies we have inherited.
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