"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." (Dan 7:25)
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------From: "Remember" The 4th CommandmentDate: Feb 27, 2008 9:28 PM

Sunday, an apostolic Tradition, replaces the sabbath:
2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath.
2177 "The Sunday celebration of the Lord's Day and his Eucharist is at the heart of the Church's life. 'Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church.' "
Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, published by Liguori Publications, English translation copyright 1994 by the United States Catholic Conference, Inc.--Libreria Editrice Vaticana, bearing the Imprimi Potest of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, page 524.
The Church Transferred Sabbath Observance to Keeping Sunday Holy as the Lord's Day:
The Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's Day. The Council of Trent (Sess. VI, can. xix) condemns those who deny that the Ten Commandments are binding on Christians.
Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Commandments of God, Volume IV, © 1908 by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition © 1999 by Kevin Knight, Nihil Obstat - Remy Lafort, Censor Imprimatur - +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York, page 153.
The Church Sanctifies Sunday, Not the Sabbath day.
OF THE THIRD COMMANDMENTWhat is the third Commandment of God? Note: It's actually the 4th commandment.
Remember that thou sanctify, & keep holy the Sabbath day. In Moses law the people were commanded to sanctify & keep holy the Sabbath day, which day we call Saturday, or the seventh day. For after that almighty God had created all kind of creatures in six days, the seventh day he rested or ceased to create any new creature. But in the law of grace we do not sanctify or keep holy the seventh day, called the Saturday: but we sanctify or keep holy the day following, called the Sunday or our Lord's day: in the which day christ our Lord arose from death, making mankind (that was created earthly) a heavenly creation, in the day of his resurrection. This precept of sanctifying or keeping holy the Sunday, or our Lord's day, does contain under it, all feasts & holy days instituted & commanded by the Church. ...
Source: A Catechisme or Christian Doctrine, by Laurence Vaux, B.D., reprinted from a 1583 edition by The Chetham Society in 1885, Manchester England, (updated to modern spelling for this excerpt) pages 34, 35. Text of A Catechisme or Christian Doctrine online.
Catholic Tradition and Authority Command Sundaykeeping:
[p. 202]Q. What are the days which the Church commands to be kept holy?A. 1st, The Sunday, or the Lord's day, which we observe by apostolical tradition, instead of the Sabbath. …Q. What warrant have you for keeping the Sunday, preferably to the ancient Sabbath, which was the Saturday?A. We have for it the authority of the Catholic Church, and apostolical tradition.Q. Does the scripture any where command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath?A. The scripture commands us to hear the Church, St. Matt. xviii. 17. St. Luke x. 16, and to hold fast the traditions of the Apostles, 2 Thess. ii. 15, but the scripture does not in particular mention this change of the Sabbath. St. John speaks of the Lord's day, Rev. i. 10; but he does not tell us what day of the week this was, much less does he tell us that this day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the commandments: St. Luke also speaks of the disciples meeting together to break bread on the first day of the week, Acts xx. 7. And St. Paul, I Cor. xvi 2, orders that on the first day of the week the Corinthians should lay by in store what they designed to bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea: but neither the one nor the other tells us, that this first day of
[p. 203]the week was to be henceforward the day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that truly, the best authority we have for this is the testimony and ordinance of the Church. And therefore, those who pretend to be so religious of the Sunday, whilst they take no notice of other festivals ordained by the same Church authority, show that they act by humor, and not by reason and religion; since Sundays and holydays all stand upon the same foundation, viz, the ordinance of the Church. ...
[p. 204]Q. What was the reason why the weekly Sabbath was changed from the Saturday to the Sunday?A. Because our Lord fully accomplished the work of our redemption by rising from the dead on a Sunday, and by sending down the Holy Ghost on a Sunday: as therefore the work of our redemption was a greater work than that of our creation, the primitive Church thought the day, in which this work was completely finished, was more worthy [of] her religious observation than that in which God rested from the creation, and should be properly called the Lord's day.Q. But has the Church a power to make any alterations in the commandments of God?A. The commandments of God, as far as they contain his eternal law, are unalterable and indispensable; but as to whatever was only ceremonial, they cease to oblige, since the Mosaic law was abrogated by Christ's death. Hence, as far as the commandment obliges us to set aside some part of our time for the worship and service of our Creator, it is an unalterable and unchangeable precept of the eternal law, in which the Church cannot dispense: but for as much as it prescribes the seventh day in particular for this purpose, it is no more than a ceremonial precept of the old law, which obligeth not Christians. And therefore, instead of the seventh day, and other festivals appointed in the old law, the Church has prescribed the Sundays and holydays to be set apart for God's worship; and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God's commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.
Source: The Catholic Christian Instructed in the Sacraments, Sacrifice, Ceremonies, and Observances of the Church, by the Right Rev. Dr. Richard Challoner, published in Baltimore in 1852 by John Murphy & Co., pp. 202 - 204.=================================================
What does the Catholic Church say about changing the Sabbath?
"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles ... From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrents the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week [Saturday] to the first [Sunday]." -- Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August 1900.
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath day [Saturday]. In keeping Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church." -- Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

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Baptist: "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not sunday.... It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament- absolutly no. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week." -Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual
Catholic: "You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we [Catholics] never sanctify." -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers
Chuch of Christ: "Finally, we have the testimony of Christ on this subject. In Mark 2:27, He says: 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.' From this passage it is evident that the Sabbath was made not merely for the Israelites, as Paley and Hengstenberg would have us believe, but for man... that is, for the race. Hence we would conclude that the Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning, and it was given to Adam, even in Eden, as one of those primeval institutions that God ordained for the happiness of all men." -Robert Milligan, Scheme of Redemption
Congregationalist: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive chuch called the Sabbath" - Dwights Theology
Episcopal: "Sunday (Dies Solis, of the Roman calender, 'day of the sun,' because it's dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as the day of worship. ...No regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor, indeed, is its observance even enjoined" - "Sunday," A Religious Encyclopedia
Lutheran: "The observance of the Lord's day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church." -Augsburg Confession of Faith, quoted in Catholic Sabath Manual
Methodist: "Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications in the New Testament as to how the church came to keep the first day of the week as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the 'Jewish Sabbath' to that day." -Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate
Moody Bible Institute: "The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word 'remember', showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they all will admit that the other nince are still binding?" -D.L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting
Presbyterian: "Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand. ... The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath." =T.C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed
Pentecostal: " 'Why do we worship on Sunday? Doesn't the Bible teach us that Saturday should be the Lord's Day?' ... Apparently we will have to seek the answer from some other source than the New Testament." -David A. Womack, "Is Sunday the Lord's Day?" The Pentecostal Evangel
Encyclopedia: "Sunday was a name given by the heathen to the first day of the week, because it was the day on which the worshiped the sun, ...the seventh day was blessed and hallowed by God Himself, and... He required His creatured to keep it holy to Him. This commandment is of universal and perpetual obligation." -Eadie's Biblical Cyclopedia "Easter" is mentioned once in the New Testament (Acts 12:4 – KJV). Its Greek word, pascha, is used 29 times elsewhere in the New Testament – where it is translated Passover. "Easter" is not found in the Greek or Hebrew lexicons. Why is it inserted in this one verse? This particular verse is noted contextually when James was executed and Peter imprisoned by King Herod – at the time of the Passover and Unleavened Bread. Why "Easter"?
This word is distinctly English. Sometime between the first century and 1611 A.D., when the King James Version was written, it was inserted in a translation. The word goes back to a Saxon word, eostre, from ancient northwest Germany. Eostre was a Germanic pagan goddess related to rebirth or beginning a new life. This, in turn, related to the "estrus" cycle of an animal when it ovulates (is in heat), creating a time for a new birth. A new Anglo-Saxon word was then coined, ostara, which was associated with a goddess related to spring (rebirth of life) and the rising sun (personification of a new beginning).
The first English Bible translation was a handwritten document by John Wycliffe. No one knows how he interpreted Acts 12:4. One hundred and fifty years later William Tyndale printed the first English New Testament (1525–1526 A.D.). Subsequently, this object of the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church led to the burning of most of his Bibles. They then killed him. He deeply wanted the English-speaking people to be able to read God's Word.
In Tyndale's Bible, the word "ester" is used for pascha in Acts 12:4. He relied on the Textus Receptus to a great degree, a non-Latin Vulgate Catholic translation by Dutch scholar, Desiderus Erasmus, dated 1516 A.D. Did this word appear in that Roman Catholic Bible? It is not clear. Was it part of the Anglo-Saxon influence of Tyndal's life? That isn't clear either. Tyndal's translation was even more problematic since in most areas where pascha existed he used either "ester" or "easter." That introduced a foreign element into the gospels because Jesus was now the "ester lamb" or "easter lamb" instead of the Passover Lamb.
In the 1611 A.D. authorized King James Version all of these were removed except for Acts 12:4. It appears as though that was a mistake or oversight. All other English translations since then have the word Passover in that text. The error was corrected.
What hasn't been remedied is the meaning of the goddess Estore in religious practice. Historically, it can be shown to go back to a chief Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility. A sun god, Tammuz, was intimately associated with Ishtar. He died each year and was reborn in the spring. In turn, he was later associated with the male god Baal with the sun often depicted between its horns, representing the same--new birth and life.
In Ezekiel 8 the divine messenger introduced Ezekiel to a series of abominations. Two related to women (God's people in Israel) weeping for Tammuz because he died and men in the temple court facing east, worshiping the sun (8:14-18). Immediately after that (chapter 9) God's true people are sealed, these apostates are slain and the latter rain is poured out (chapter 10). Then typological messages of the last appeal to repent, the fall of Babylon and time of trouble are given (chapters 11–18). Finally the sword of the Lord (chapter 21) follows, which parallels Revelation 19, relating to the final judgment and His coming. These visions relate to the end of time. Honoring the sun and festivals to other gods are issues predicted to be part of who call themselves His at that time!
Why is all this relevant to Easter? It is a pagan holiday celebrated only on Sunday and has as its time of celebration "sun-rise." Historically, those threads of apostasy have wound their way to us today from paganism, religious mythology and early apostate Christianity. It was exactly that abomination, towebah, or disgusting idolatry that brought God to declare to Ezekiel: "Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them." Ezekiel 8:18.
I can hear some say, "Easter, sunrise and worship – how innocent! It represents the resurrection, assurance of the covenant promise and the 'risen Savior.' The Easter bunny and colored eggs are only festive." But there is a deeper issue.
If I bow to an idol representing Jesus and declare it is only symbolic, a representation of the "One I adore" – sounds innocent, doesn't it? But God said, "Thou shalt not." If I steal from the "haves" so I can give to the "have nots," I may even save a life. Sounds logical, doesn't it? But God said, "Thou shalt not." If my Sabbath worship is on a day that God has not sanctified, and especially at the time of the rising sun (a pagan practice), innocence has been lost. The Bible says that very symbolism stirs the wrath of God.
Easter has its roots in paganism, not Christianity. Almost every major culture of Europe and the Middle East has paid homage in one way or another to the mythical goddess and her lover, a sun god – sometimes seen as protector of the dead. Jesus is called the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4:2). He said, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore" (Revelation 1:18). Why does that salvic story have to be linked to pagan tradition, to a god that dies and rises each year? God asked Job, "Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him?" (Job 40:1). Shall we design spiritual truth for God and teach Him the best way religious exercise is to be conducted?
When did this pagan ritual obtain a Christian name and reference? It began during the Roman Empire with Emperor Constantine by the Edict of Milan. Christianity became the legal religion. That civil union with an already corrupt church in Rome soon became the Roman Catholic Church. Roman festivals became Christian holy days.
The abominations that lead to desolation in Daniel 8–12, the abomination in the harlot's cup in Revelation 17 and that of Ezekiel 8, all share the silver thread of false worship. The "transgression" of the little horn of Daniel 8:13 refers to the same abomination and relates to idolatry and sun worship. Something to think about as Easter approaches.

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