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. Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do.
On the first day of every week , each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. It must be remembered that, according to Colossians , the Sabbath was "a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. The Sabbath was a shadow of the redemption that would be provided in Christ. It symbolized the rest from our works and an entrance into the rest of God provided by His finished work. Although the moral principles expressed in the commandments are reaffirmed in the New Testament, the command to set Saturday apart as a day of rest and worship is the only commandment not repeated.
There are very good reasons for this. However, it did not mean that he was fully converted to Christianity.
Ultimately, he chose Christianity for political purposes to unify the whole empire. To take forward these ideas, Constantine later issued a law requiring complete, public rest from work on Sunday. Since Constantine forced all people under the control of the Roman Empire to rest on Sunday by his authority, even the Eastern churches which had continued to observe the Sabbath had no choice but to follow the Church of Rome.
Of course, those who desired to preserve the truth adhered to the Sabbath, hiding in deserts and mountains, but it was impossible to prevent Sunday worship from spreading into all churches. This is the origin of Sunday observance, and it has continued to this very day. I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. Rev God came to this earth according to the prophecies of the Bible, and revealed the truth hidden in darkness to the whole world and let us know the true day of worship we should observe.
That day was the Preparation , and the Sabbath drew near. And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. Now on the first day of the week , very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
This Bible passage shows the chronology of the week including how the Sabbath day and the first day of the week relate to each other. According to Luke , Jesus died on the preparation day which we now call Good Friday.
The next day, Sabbath, the women rested according to the commandment. Finally, after the Sabbath, on the first day of the week, Jesus was resurrected. Therefore, according to the Bible, the Sabbath day can be pinpointed as the day before the first day of the week. Today, we call this day Saturday or the seventh day of the week.
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