The Ten Commandments

 One of the best movies of all time! For many, many years it's been a tradition in my family to watch this at Easter time. My sister Robin is the one that turned us on to it; and a lot of times we would watch it with her. Once we knew the movie by heart, we could focus more on the smaller action on the screen instead of the big action. Like for instance: if you look really carefully at the people carrying the golden calf after they made it through the Red Sea, you will notice a poor extra who stubbed his toe on something and hops around a bit. Priceless! Robin and I would laugh and laugh at this every time! She's probably in Heaven making the real Moses and Aaron, et al, act it out for her every Easter. She's like that!

Anyhoo, on the topic of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20: 1-17), I know that most of us are familiar with at least some of them. And most of us have no problem keeping most of them, like thou shalt not kill, honor thy father and thy mother, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultery. But here's the one that people break: most of the time not even realizing it. It's the one that has the most said about it, because God wants us to know how important it is.

"8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." KJV

There it is. But now you're saying, "I do keep that commandment. I go to church on Sunday. That's the Sabbath, right?" No, actually it isn't. The Sabbath is Saturday, which is the seventh day (technically, sundown Friday until sundown Saturday). Sunday is the first day.

I have heard it said that the sabbath was changed to Sunday because that's the day Christ was resurrected. However, God didn't change the day. It was Roman culture that did. You see, in Roman culture they worshipped the sun god, because the sun gave warmth and illumination to mankind. That's pagan theology. 

In the Bible it says that Jesus observed the Saturday Sabbath, as did his disciples even after his death and then ascension into Heaven. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to change the Sabbath to Sunday. So who changed it? The Roman Catholic Church, whose religious leaders say they are "God on earth" so have the authority to do so. They believe they had the authority to change biblical principles. Please feel free to look that up. Augustine in 400 A.D. proclaimed that "all glory of the Jewish Sabbath is transferred to Sunday".

I have known for many, many years that the Sabbath should be kept on Saturday, and for a time I did this. But old habits die hard, and Sunday seemed to be more convenient so I slipped right back in with the majority. But in my heart I know, in time, (if the Lord tarries) I will go back to Saturday worship.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do. I'm just providing a little Biblical truth. God gave us all free will. However, if we are trying to keep the Ten Commandments, we should keep this one as well since obviously it is the most important one.

You don't have to take my word for it: feel free to do your own research. You'll be amazed at what you find. Truth.