Churches which keep sabbath

We can read the Bible and other books of scripture. And we can talk with God in prayer. These activities can help us feel closer to God, even after the Sabbath has passed.

Without some planning, Sundays can easily become just as busy as other days of the week. Run errands, clean your house, and get other tasks taken care of on Saturday when possible.

That way, the Sabbath day really will feel separate and holy. We can choose to do activities that focus on God, family , and providing service. God has promised amazing blessings to those who keep the Sabbath day holy.

It will strengthen your family relationships. 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. The Sabbath that the Church of God keeps holy on Saturday, the seventh day, is the pure truth of the early Church which Christ restored at His second coming.

It is not so much what you or what I think about this question, but "What is truth? The Word of God is our only source of truth. God's Holy Book is to be our yardstick for measuring truth. Let us never use the argument that the majority must be right, for it is deceptive. Beware lest it lead us astray and we thereby reject our Lord as He was rejected long ago by the Pharisees who used this same argument.

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? Languages Study in More Languages. Why do Christians worship on Sunday not Saturday? The minority throughout history Consider this, when, in all history, has truth been in the majority?

Sabbath and the early Christians In the early Christian Era, the church was a small minority against the cold, hard world. Sabbath or Sunday? There are no conditions for the fulfillment of this prophecy. You be the judge of whether or not she is true. Read Deuteronomy When Advent people and Mrs. White were disappointed in because Jesus did not come as they had thought, they revised their interpretation of certain prophecies. The date was not wrong, they reasoned, but the significance attached to the date had been "misunderstood.

White says in Great Controversy , edition page , "In , attended by heavenly angels, our great High Priest entered the holy of holies, and there appears in the presence of God, to engage in the last acts of His ministration in behalf of man, to perform the work of investigative judgment, and to make atonement for all who are shown to be entitled to its benefits.

This a direct contradiction of the Bible. Romans says that "we have now received the atonement," and Christ's sacrifice was "finished," John , at the stake.

We "are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all," Hebrews Christ is our mediator, I Timothy , by virtue of the fact that He had made full atonement for the sins of all the world when He died in place of us.

Christ did not have to wait until to appear in the presence of God for us. The Bible teaches that when Jesus ascended to heaven He went directly into the most holy place "within the veil," Hebrews , When Jesus died, the veil between the holy and the most holy place was rent in twain, Matthew This signified that Christ's sacrifice made it possible for the believer's prayers to reach the very dwelling place of God, which is the true Most Holy Place.

This happened immediately after Christ's ascension, not in ! His sacrifice on Cavalry was sufficient for all time; there was no need of another "phase" of an atonement in see also Hebrews , , But SDA's disagree with these truths.

White said that no sins were blotted out until "At the close of the days, in , began the work of investigation and the blotting out of sins," Great Controversy , page Again, this statement is totally contrary to the Bible. Acts RSV says "Repent therefore and turn again that your sins may be blotted out, that [literal Greek says 'in order that'] times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

Thus the Bible teaches a complete removal of sins at the time a sinner truly repents. SDA's believe that all confessed sins until were "transferred to the heavenly sanctuary" thus "defiling the sanctuary" which began to be "cleansed" in How the heavenly Jerusalem, Hebrews , could be defiled yet be inhabited by a holy God and Christ, separate from sin and sinners, is something that has never been explained to my satisfaction by Seventh-day Adventists see Hebrews Other Adventist groups admitted the gross error in assuming that October 22, was the Day of Atonement and the date of the return of Christ to the earth.

But the White party never recanted, and instead changed their interpretation of what happened prophetically on that date. Based on a vision of Hiram Edson in , the date was re-interpreted to state that on October 22, , Christ cleansed the heavenly sanctuary and began His work of "investigative judgment. For about ten years after , the White party taught that probation had closed for all the world except the Advent believers. This is called the "shut door doctrine.

White clearly expressed the belief that non-Adventists could not be saved. James White in Present Truth , page 22, said that the time of non-Adventists' salvation was past. In later editions, these revealing portions were expunged. See also Present Truth , May, , pages As a result of this teaching, public evangelism was not done, but Sabbath Adventists labored exclusively among those that had been in the Adventist movement during the years leading up to Ellen White's "Camden Vision" stated that the wicked could not be benefitted by prayers of Adventists because they were lost.

Later, these firm "shut door" teachings were conveniently forgotten, to pave the way for new converts. More damaging than believing in the shut door idea is denying that they ever taught it. Yet that is what a number of SDA apologists would have you believe.

The only cases considered are those of the professed people of God," Great Controversy , page The truth is, the fate of the righteous is settled at the time of their death. Righteous men and women in Hebrews 11 are plainly said to be in the coming "better resurrection" verse God knows who are His, II Timothy , He does not need a judgment beginning in to determine their fate.

The ones whose fate is not yet determined are those who come up in the second resurrection, after the 1, years, Revelation , Says Mrs. White, "the judgment is now passing in the sanctuary above. For many years this work has been in progress.

Soon - none know how soon - it will pass to the cases of the living" page Christian, a notable SDA writer, in his book Facing the Crisis adds, "In this work of judgment which began in heaven in when the 2, years ended, the eternal fate of every soul will be decided.

Beginning, no doubt, with Abel, the first to die, one by one the names of all are called and the destiny of each is decided. From that decision there will be no appeal. We know not what hour the Lord will come to our name and decide our case forever.

It may be today, it may be tomorrow" page If one's case is decided when he is still living, then nothing you do either way from then on will matter?

What confusion! In Testimonies Volume I, pages , Mrs. White says that the Lord showed her that pork is "nourishing and strengthening food. She hadn't yet had a "vision" on this subject, so he was being a troublemaker, since all truth must come through her.

You should read this passage in the original. White received "light" on the subject of pork J. In spite of all the evidence that the Whites originally taught that pork was nourishing food, Uriah Smith, an apologist for Mrs. White, wrote in that Mrs. White's visions never taught that swine's flesh was good and nourishing food The Visions of Mrs. White claims a vision against pork: "God never designed the swine to be eaten under any circumstances. She didn't even follow her own visions for a time!

White maintained that "I am just as dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord in relating, or writing a vision, as in having a vision. Are you bold enough to dare to check out what she said, or will you succumb out of fear, or the majority belief? The subject of food must be one of great embarrassment to Seventh-day Adventists. It is readily apparent that not all SDA's are vegetarians, yet the predominant teaching is against eating meat. Why this dichotomy?

White's visions are to be treated as the prophets of old, why do they not all listen to their prophetess? Why didn't Ellen G. White follow her own prophecies? She said in Testimonies , Volume III, page 21, that her visions gave "positive testimony against tobacco, spirituous liquors, snuff, tea, coffee, flesh meats, butter, spices, rich cakes, mince pies, a large amount of salt, and all exciting substitutes used as articles of food.

However, the Bible contradicts Mrs. Jesus ate fish, Luke He prepared a "fish fry" for the disciples, John The Messiah was prophesied to eat butter, Isaiah God's people eat eggs, Job , which are "good gifts" of His blessings to us, Luke David ate cheese, II Samuel We agree that tobacco, and excessive amounts of coffee, tea, salt, and spices are harmful to the body, as well as excessive amounts of intoxicating beverages there are many Scriptures on this topic.

However, God created the alcoholic fermentation process. The Savior drank wine not grape juice , Matthew , John Paul told Timothy to drink a little wine for his stomach's sake, I Timothy When SDA's are confronted with the Bible facts on wine, they are totally dishonest and try to say that the Greek word for wine, oinos , means "grape juice. Let us be honest with God's Holy Word!

White's writings are held to be as inspired as Isaiah and all the prophets of old. Yet she contradicts the Bible and herself. Seventh-day Adventists today are not honest. White's published vision says that we are positively not to eat flesh meats. Yet the SDA church does not follow this teaching. A recent Adventist Review magazine "Friendship Issue" states that she merely gave "advice to abstain from flesh foods" and "not all members have adopted a non flesh diet" page If many members of the church founded by Mrs.

White do not even believe what she said, when she claimed infallibility, why should I believe Ellen G. White at all? I'd rather believe I Timothy , "Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,. Seventh-day Adventists claim to be very health conscious.

They speak of the body as the "temple of the Holy Spirit. Like Adventists, we believe in prayer and anointing the sick. But there is a vast difference between us and Adventists on the subject of health. Adventists operate a series of hospitals that dispense harmful drugs, are said to perform abortions, perform needless or destroying operations, and in short, are little different than the rest of modern "health science" which is founded on pagan Egyptian and Greek medicine.

The true way of the Creator Yahweh is the way of obedience to His laws of cleanliness in diet and total living, and of faith in Him to heal you when sick. We should seek and use natural substances such as herbs, which the Creator has given for our health "herb for the service of man," Psalm Read our book, Biblical Health and Healing. On the other hand is the way of "doing your own thing," and then going to medical "science" to operate on you, or to pump harmful drugs into your body, in order to repair the damage.

Those who know how drugs and vaccines are made and of what substances they are composed, understand why there is great hypocrisy in avoiding unclean substances such as pork, while at the same time freely taking drugs and vaccines. Some vaccines are made from putrefied pus of animals such as horses, calves, and monkeys.