DR. KENT HOVIND ATTACKS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM?!!

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Dr. Kent Hovind's comments are in the textbox to the right.  His statements and our commentary are as all other text in plain sight on the left.

From Dr. Kent Hovind's Creation Seminar Videos, Questions and Answer video #7 part C, 17mins, 38secs into play:

Dr. Hovind:  What about the Sabbath?  Well I get asked probably every week I get books sent to me, I've got a whole section of our library by every book ever written by any Seventh-day Adventist and they're all trying to convert me over to being a Seventh-day Adventist.  And they send me all kinds of stuff and don't send me anymore, I've already got 'em all, ok?  I don't need anymore.  I've got lots of books--all the books by Ellen G. White, E. G. White, ok? who wrote--she was the prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  I'm not anti-Seventh-day Adventist--I've spoken in some of their churches.  And there's alot of good folks, love the Lord, genuinely saved going to heaven as much as I am. 

[Here Dr. Hovind remarks that he has all the books written by Ellen G. White.  The arguments he then makes later on are in error and rather elementary so for a knowledgeable Adventist.  Because of this our first impression would be that Dr. Hovind erred because he was just being lazy.  Viewing all the research he has done on Creation vs. Evolution and his speaking engagements, we had to change the diagnoses of being lazy, to rather being full of assumptions.  He may have all of Ellen White's books, but the impression given is that those books in his possession are in very good shape, but may be very dusty.  In other words, he didn't read them.  Later on as we progress, we would be able to see other reasons why he made some very serious errors that are frankly, under the training of astute Adventist theologians, rather embarrassing.]

Dr. Hovind:  But what is the truth about the Sabbath?  Are we supposed to, you know, rest on the seventh day? Is that the day of worship? or the day of rest?  What is the truth about the Sabbath?

Well Nehemiah chapter 9 says, "Thou camest down upon Mt. Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good statutes and madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath."

Now wait a minute!  This is Nehemiah talking about the time Moses received the Sabbath from God!  That's 2500 years after the creation.  See, I don't know how Moses was even on that chart, but 2500 years after the creation God made the Sabbath known to Moses.  You mean for 2500 years--for more than a third of human history--nobody kept this?  Apparently so.  He revealed it to Moses. 

[The words said that He (God) "madest known unto THEM" thy holy Sabbath.  In other words, not talking about Moses here, but referring to the group as a whole.  The Israelites were in Egypt under bondage.  When they were finally delivered their numbers were much greater than even their numbers while being among the Egyptians.  The reason for that was because a mixed multitude followed them.  That mixed multitude was rather impressed with the demonstrations of the power of God, but they were by far not converted and didn't know enough about the requirements of God.  The Jews also, coming from among the Egyptians likely lost sight of much of what had been their former glory.

The Lord arranged matters, as always, where He, with glory and heart thumping awe, made known His requirements blaringly to all the people so that there would be no confusion about what He wants, and also to have a permanent record for all future succeeding generations.  This is compared to the arguments for keeping Sunday where no one can find specific or explicit commands or even ceremonies where the Lord said this was to be done.  The same is true about the Mormon teaching of Joseph Smith and the "Golden Plates."  Nobody else but Joseph Smith saw those plates, and, being made of gold, which is much heavier than lead, carried them around.  The Lord doesn't operate on secrecy or any situation where confusion can be created.  If there is confusion it is because of people.]

Dr. Hovind:  He said in Exodus 16: "see the Lord hath given you the Seventh day, every man abide in his place.  Don't go out of your house on the Sabbath day."  Well if that's really one of the laws for the Sabbath, then you can't have a Seventh-day Church that meets someplace cause everyone's going out of their house to get there.  Right?

[Actually it is clear that the story Exodus 16 is trying to show that the Lord caused manna to rain down from heaven in the mornings and quail to fall at night so that the children of Israel can eat.  Moses then instructed the Children of Israel that they were to gather twice as much of the manna on the preparation day (Friday) SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES, WORK AND GATHER ON THE SABBATH.

Exodus 16 verse therefore says:

4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

Here it says the Lord will even test the Children of Israel to see if they will walk in His law by keeping the Sabbath.  Notice THAT THIS WAS BEFORE THE LAW WAS GIVEN AT MT. SINAI.  Hey, although they were a mixed multitude, is it true even the Egyptians didn't know the religious practices of the Jews while they were with them?

Will the Lord really expect the Children of Israel to already know about the Sabbath before He actually proclaims it from Mt. Sinai?  Actually all of the Children of Israel, including the mixed multitude, knew and understood in some way the requirements of the Sabbath.  We maintain that the Sabbath was created and practiced since creation.

In Exodus 16 the Lord responded to the murmurings of the Children of Israel who were saying that Moses brought them out into the wilderness to kill them with hunger.  After the Lord provided the means to satisfy their hunger, this is what happened:

16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
 

So we see first that the Lord did not make a grandiose display of fire, explosion and power to make the Children of Israel know about the Sabbath yet even to avoid confusion.  He knew that they already knew about it.  The later demonstration on Mt. Sinai was to further eliminate confusion and to make sure the lesson penetrated through all the coming ages lest they or any other successive generation may be prone to forget.  The Lord therefore told the Children of Israel not to leave their houses on the Seventh-day, meaning not to leave their houses to gather manna on the Sabbath.  It did not mean they were to stay indoors.  It did not mean that they couldn't even go on meditative nature-walks, etc.]

Dr. Hovind:  They talk about a Sabbath-day's journey in Acts chapter one.  Jesus traveled on the Sabbath.  Ok?  What's He doing out of His house?

[What were the other Jews there doing out of their houses?  Even the strait-laced Pharisees were out of their houses.  Why?  Why didn't they warn Jesus to go back inside?  Because the Sabbath didn't wholesale prevent God's people from leaving their houses.  The Lord told the Children of Israel in Exodus 16 not to leave their houses to gather manna on the Sabbath].

Dr. Hovind:  The bible says remember the Sabbath, and if thou shalt not do any work, don't you do it nor your son nor your maidservant nor the stranger:  Not only can you not work, you can't make anybody else work.  Which means that if you really want to honor and obey the Sabbath, according to Scripture, you cannot work and you can't make anybody else work, which means you cannot use any utilities, 'Cause if you're using the city water, the city lights, the city gas, you're making somebody work.  If you're watching TV, you're making somebody work on the Sabbath.  If you go out to eat, you're making somebody work.  You can't do that.

[Translation: Please don't keep the Sabbath, for if you do and turn off the lights, you raise the unemployment rate.  You mean if one Adventist keeps his lights off he would effect the economy of the country, state or city where he lives?  Why hurt the economy where you live?  You mean if every Adventist keeps his lights off during the Sabbath, one person would be laid off?  Actually, not even a single person would be laid off if Adventists did that.  It's like utility companies wanting to make money and keep their employees hired putting out stickers for wall switches saying, "Save a Watt!"  Turn off the lights when you're not using them.

Therefore the claim is that Seventh-day Adventists can't even, in major metropolitan areas, pay bus fare to get to church.  Is that true?  No that is NOT true.  Not only would the bus driver be working anyway, but if the entire cities, if they kept the true Sabbath and kept it in the right way, would have transportation systems operating if even for emergencies sake.

Turning on lights is not a problem for a Sabbath keeper.  It is far different from kindling a fire mentioned in the Old Testament.  It is no work at all to flick a switch.  It is just that there are assumptions being placed upon the concept which was a major reason why Jesus condemned the Pharisees: for corrupting the Sabbath command with all their assumptions about the requirement.

As we progress we will find more ways we are being tangled by the assumptions that are being raised here.  The question was whether or not God required Christians to keep the Sabbath.  That argument has already diverted to whether or not Adventists, or anybody else, have been or CAN keep it.  The actual question was supposed to be whether or not God required it and not whether or not it was possible to keep.  Most who attack the Sabbath try to make the command appear most miserable.  Can people keep the Sabbath?  Can they keep the Sabbath in the way the Pharisees said it must be kept?  What then about keeping the Sabbath the way Dr. Kent Hovind says it must be kept.  If Dr. Hovind is saying he hasn't seen anyone keep the Sabbath yet and then can find that the Lord wants people to keep it, then what should he do?  Answer:  He should keep the Sabbath the way no one else can!  The two arguments are different.  Does God want us to keep the Sabbath?  Can anyone keep the Sabbath?  Even the Jews?  He broke up the arguments and aided confusion here.

There's no reason to make up these burdensome and overblown requirements to imitate the Pharisees.  That is one main reason why the Sabbath wasn't mentioned much in the New Testament: because of the overblown and over-prescribed way the Pharisees pushed it.  Is keeping the Sabbath a burden?   Is refusing to light a candle and say, "Ceasar is Lord," a burden?  Many people were inhumanly slaughtered for refusing to do that in imperial Rome.  Too much of a sacrifice for the Lord?  The issue is, does the Lord command us to keep the Sabbath!  Not, CAN WE KEEP IT.

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
 

It is here saying that if you keep the Sabbath and call it a delight, THEN you will be specially blessed.  Why?  THAT IS BECAUSE YOU WILL BE HOLY!  If it is a burden to you, then you are not holy.]

Dr. Hovind:  So, He rested THE seventh-day.  The bible says that if they work on the seventh day (Exodus 31) they are to be put to death.  So you gotta kill people that work on the Sabbath: it's punishable by death.

[We don't have to do anything of the like.  The difference between Sabbath-keeping Christians and the Jews at that time rested with the fact that they were an autonomous and independent entity: being God's people and a sovereign nation at the same time.  They had their own law enforcement system.  Their rules were stricter back then because more responsibility rested upon them the more God's direct presence was among them, and because of the prevailing method the Lord used back then to spread the Gospel and deal with national iniquity that had reached forbearance: through military superiority.  Because bold transgressions by the nations even threatened their mission to spread the truth over the world and conquer the nations (as a necessity since those nations were wicked and hardened in wickedness), that burden must start with members around them who would boldly transgress.  Christians don't follow the "eye for an eye" rule or even rules for dealing with captured enemies and servants because we now have law enforcement systems in the governments where we live and are in a dispensation where different methods are used to spread the Gospel.  The entire history of the earth are used as periods of testing different methods of the Lord's dealing with men.  The days of the Israelites showed what happened when the Lord blessed His people with military superiority: whether or not they will keep Him supreme in their minds or forget Him.  Our dispensation started with the persecuted Christian faith, then to show what would happen if this unbelievably persecuted and humble faith sought for and acquired temporal power.]

Dr. Hovind:  Exodus 31 is a key passage on this.  The Lord said unto Moses, speak thou to the Children of Israel saying My Sabbaths ye shall keep.  It is a sign between me and you.  The Children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath.  I mean it's right there in Exodus 31.  It's pretty clear the Sabbath was for the Children of Israel.  I'm Norwegian.

[That means that we don't follow the 10 Commandments, but we follow the 9.  Here is how confusion is created: by the very fact that many words even the Apostle Paul may say that sound like we no longer have to keep the Sabbath, is it possible all the confusion could have been eliminated if he merely told us we have to keep 9 of the 10 commandments except the Sabbath?  It is quite obvious that the by far majority of Christians today are consciously trying to keep 9 of them.

Only the Jews are to keep the Sabbath?  Even the promises of salvation were only for the Jews.  The Lord promised the whole land and the whole world to Abraham.  What then was to happen to the nations around them that the promises did not pertain to?  They were to be destroyed.  Why?  Because they were not Israelites?  No BECAUSE THEY WERE WICKED: they were incorrigibly wicked!  They saw even all the great miracles of the Lord for Israel even to the destruction of other wicked nations steeped in idolatry.  Although the gods of these nations couldn't help them, the remaining nations still would not acknowledge the one and only true God.  The presence of these signs, miracles and wonders heightened the responsibility of all who saw them and continued to worship gods of wood, stone and iron.

Please remember that this is the reason Rome claims she has to kill and destroy all others.  She imagines herself to be the reincarnated Israelites even imitating the priestly order of the Jews.  Even the garments the cardinals and high official wear are imitations of the Jewish priesthood.  She claims she has to destroy all others because they are wicked.  She, however, actually infiltrates all of them, takes control of their governments, churches and industries of entertainment, and actually teaches them how to sin.  She then moves in to destroy them.  She shows no special supernatural sign of any kind to prove her divine calling in order to make the other nations responsible.  Even the political maintenance of Catholic countries all throughout history showed they were rather inferior in prosperity at least to Protestant countries.  One main calamity that then befell such Catholic countries is rather the consistent way it was only those countries that fell to Communism.

Please see the article: Is Rome and the Protestants the same throughout history?

Deuteronomy 9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
 

The Sabbath was established in Eden.  On the Seventh day God rested from His work of creation.  God's commandments were around in those days too, for they define what sin is.  From Adam eating the forbidden fruit to Joseph refusing to partake of Potiphar's wife--all taking place before the Sinai event, what is being referred to in those cases is sin:

Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

There was no and can be no sin without the law.  If the law was not around, adultery would merely be an act.  The laws of the state work wrath also, for even if you break the law and go to jail, if the law you broke that put you there was repealed, the jail then cannot hold you.  We're trying to show that the law of 10 commandments were in existence before Sinai also.

Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Do we have to speculate what those commandments and laws were the scripture here says Abraham obeyed even before the Sinai event?  But what we're trying to say here is that God did give the Sabbath to the Israelites, but His very words said that He gave salvation to them also and that other nations were not entitled to it because they were wicked.  Dr. Hovind then continues:]

Dr. Hovind:  God made some strange rules for the Children of Israel because they were to be a "peculiar people."  People were to look at them and say, "Wow!  That's strange!  What's different about you guys," and they were to be a testimony to the world.  But He didn't command all the world to keep this.  He said the Children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath.  So it's pretty clear in Exodus 31.

This is what we mean by elementary error.  The Lord did not orient the Children of Israel with rules so that they can look "peculiar" or weird to the surrounding nations.  He gave them rules because those rules were right.  They were an embodiment and expression of His own nature.  They were rules He Himself would obey if He were on the earth.  This was proven centuries later at the First Coming of Christ.  Why make the Israelites look weird to the other nations so that they can refuse to imitate them, and then punish those other nations for refusing?

No, the Lord gave right judgments and true laws as Nehemiah 13 described to the Israelites so that the other nations can see the superior wisdom of the Lord in figuring out the better rules for life.  NOTICE HERE THAT NOT ONLY THE SABBATH COMMAND WAS GIVEN AT SINAI.  And still yet sin existed before then:

Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

Dr. Hovind continues:

Exodus 35 say ye shall kindle no fire, which means you couldn't start your car.  Don't they run on internal combustion? you know, you're starting a fire.  So if your really want to keep the Sabbath, you can enjoy yourself.  I've never met anybody, anybody, who keeps the Sabbath.  Never met one person, ok?

That command was given because back in those days it was quite a job to start a fire.  It is not like today when all that's needed is a cigarette lighter.  The Sabbath was meant for uninterrupted communion with the Lord.  Work was therefore prohibited.  To build a fire back in those days meant groups of people gathering sticks and other materials to start it with, because they were rather communal, to start large fires.  It was quite an event.  The Lord would have preferred if the fire was already built where the job then would be to merely maintain it.  Especially at very cold times, there would be no prohibition to keep fires going.

Dr. Hovind:  The elders of Israel, He said in Ezekiel 28.  He says "I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them.  The Sabbath is for the Children of Israel again it tells us in Ezekiel chapter 20.  Jesus went on the Sabbath day going through the corn.  He plucked the corn cause they were hungry and they ate it.  First of all what's He doing out of His house?  And what's He doing working on the Sabbath day?  Did He not keep it?

It just so happened that in their work for the Lord they had not been able to prepare before hand for a meal, so they saw the corn and began to partake.  Although this is not an excuse for people to not pre-plan for the coming of the Sabbath, it is still not a sign for people to go hungry just because it is the Sabbath.  The Pharisees entered and found fault.  Today no one seems to care that they are adopting the very arguments of the Pharisees that made the Sabbath a burden.

Then the question what is Christ doing out of His house on the Sabbath?  Question then why the Pharisees didn't notice and tell Him He should be inside?  Then better question then of Jesus asking the Pharisees back why they're not inside?

Much of these issues are issues that were first adopted by the Pharisees themselves.  Make sure you don't copy them and put your ideas of what Sabbath-keeping should be on others.

Dr. Hovind:  The bible says in Mark chapter two: the Pharisees said, "Why do you do that which is not lawful, and He said the Sabbath was made for man and not man made for the Sabbath."  What's He doing out of His house and what's He doing working on the Sabbath?  Jesus said in Mark 3: "It's lawful to do good on the Sabbath day, to save life," and they looked about--they got angry at Him for His answer.  And people today get angry at me because I don't keep what their idea of the Sabbath is.

So Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.  Here we see that Jesus did not say the Sabbath was made "for the Jew and not the Jew for the Sabbath.  He said it was made for man.  Then, when asked why Jesus is breaking the Sabbath, Dr. Hovind follows with the Pharisees and believes Jesus broke the Sabbath, forgetting that Jesus didn't say, "The Sabbath is only for the Jews," nor "The Sabbath is finished now, for I am the Lord of the Sabbath!"  Instead Jesus replied,

Matthew 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Here He never said the Sabbath was done away with, but said it is in accordance with the Sabbath to do well.  He was therefore also saying here that the common Pharisee practice of lifting their sheep out of a pit if it falls into one on the Sabbath is LAWFUL to do on the Sabbath.

Dr. Hovind:  I said, "look I keep everyday as holy.  I work seven days a week for the Lord.  My whole life is soaked up into God's work.  I do nothing else!  This is it!"  So people say, "You keep the Sabbath?" "Oh yeah.  And Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday--I keep 'em all!  Yeah--I keep 'em all!"  Ok?  Do 'em all!

Jesus went outside on the Sabbath, He took His disciples with Him.  What's He doing--we can then see Him--He picked corn, He healed people, He got angry at the hypocrites.  He's not resting and being refreshed, that's for sure.  He's getting angry with the hypocrites on the Sabbath. 

He is here arguing against the wisdom of the Lord.  The Lord could have come to that conclusion and not made a special day where all Christians can come together to specially worship the Lord.  It is for that reason why Rome says that she has "transferred" the "rest" of the Sabbath to Sunday.  Churches were meant for the gathering of the Saints, but not some on Monday, or Tuesday, or Thursday.  If some want to also gather on those days, then so be it.  If every Christian can worship the Lord seven days a week, why wasn't God intelligent enough to understand that, instead of committing Christians to be lazy and not get any work done even for their own personal lives?  The Sabbath was made for extra special worship with work taken out of the way.  It was done in such a way that even the political systems had to bend around it and prescribe a workweek typically leaving Saturday and Sunday open for worshipers--not to have some having Thursday morning worship when they should be on their jobs.

Dr. Hovind:  ....

So, if you want to keep the Sabbath, you just enjoy yourself.  But it's interesting in Romans 13, he (the Apostle Paul) listed some of the commandments:  Owe no man anything but to love one another for this thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not cover, and if there be any other commandment, like the Sabbath, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."  He didn't list the Sabbath here in Roman's 13.

It wasn't listed there because it was the number one commandment misrepresented and over-emphasized by the Pharisees.  It is the most ritualistic of the Ten Commandments where the outward show of compliance to duty with it to untold extremes made the Pharisees appear holy.  No one had to teach the new Christians about the Sabbath because it was already over-taught.  That's why Paul had to tell the brethren in Corinthians when he was with them that he didn't want to hear about anything about genealogies or other things the Pharisees were likely to obsess upon, but rather:

1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

You must remember that Jesus emphatically stated that He didn't come to destroy the law, but that neither one jot nor one tittle (meaning specific letters in the wording) shall pass from the law till heaven and earth pass and all be fulfilled.  Remember 2 Peter 3:10 telling us how the heavens and the earth will pass with a great noise and how the elements will melt with fervent heat.

Dr. Hovind:  The first day of the week the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.  And I know there's arguments back and forth of which day are we supposed to meet on--I don't care! ok?  Most churches meet on Sunday.  I don't think they call it a day of worship, though some do.  It's the day that they meet.  The Sabbath was not designed to be a day of worship.  It was designed to be a day of rest.  You worship God all seven days.  You rest one, that's all.  If you wanna rest Saturday, that's fine.

Dr. Kent Hovind, holding up a book entitled, "Why I am Not a Seventh-day Adventist."

This is incorrect.  The Sabbath was meant for a day of worship.  Sunday came afterward through Rome.  Again, that's why the workweeks of the nations bent to allow for all of the Christian faith to come together.  Hebrews 4 and other scriptures say that the Sabbath was a day of rest, but it means REST FROM OUR OWN WORKS:

Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

The Sabbath was not a day for sleep and slumber.  There was work to do, and that work was primarily prevailing prayer and communion with the Lord.  That was a spiritual refreshing primarily referred to here.  Physical refreshing can come from the work days.

Dr. Hovind:  So the first day of the week the disciples came together to break bread.  It's a New Testament tradition that they met on the first day of the week.  1 Corinthians 16: then on the first day of the week let everybody lay by in store.  Come bring your tithes and offerings and, that's when most churches meet, ok? 

Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Even that is far more than disputable.  Nowhere in the scriptures nor even in historical writings is there reference to the Disciples saying that meeting on Sunday is a tradition that transforms a common work day to a day of worship.  Just like we commonly meet for Wednesday night prayer meetings, perish the thought that descendants throughout history will look at that example and say the whole world must make a tradition out of that to then defend that tradition to the very spiritual death.

The Everlasting Covenant takes the form of a will where, after the testator dies, it cannot be changed by anyone.  Sunday keeping was a practice adopted centuries after the death of Christ with absolutely no statement from Christ Himself authorizing it.  It therefore is not a part of the Everlasting Covenant.  Click here to see a clear explanation of this principle.

Dr. Hovind:  Let no man judge you in meat or drink or holy days or the Sabbath--don't let anybody tell you you're wrong on that. 

Click here to see a clear explanation of this area of contention.

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