Why is there so much controversy over this
one Commandment, and why do Christians
have so many different reasons to why they
do not keep it? If the Sabbath was moved to
Sunday or abolished, there should be one
clear reason that everyone agrees on, but no
so!
Some say it is Ten Commandments and some
say it is nine and others say all Ten
Commandments are gone. And if that isn't
enough contradiction, some say the Sabbath
was moved to Sunday in the Bible, and yet
those arguing this fallacy do not keep the
Sabbath as God Commanded anyway. Hence
there is no doubt that something is seriously
wrong here and when you have so much
confusion, you know that Satan is behind it.
Scripture informs us that Satan wants to be
worshipped like the most high (Isaiah
14:12-14) and that God's Holy day of worship
is the Seventh Day being Saturday. So Satan
set out to do two things. One was to rob God
of the worship He desired on His Holy day
that He instituted at creation, and two, to
institute his own day of worship in place of
God's day of worship by setting up his own
counterfeit Christian Church.
Satan used idolatrous sun worship from
Babylonian paganism that God despised to
begin implementing his plan. Babylon was
the seat of Satan worship until its fall to the
Medes and the Persians in 539 BC. At this
time the Babylonian pagan priests left
Babylon and went to Pergamos and some to
Alexandria. So for many centuries after the
fall of Babylon, Pergamos became the new
seat of Satan (Revelation 2:12-13).
Opportunity arose around 129 B.C. for the
priests to leave Pergamos and go to Rome
and thus Rome became the final seat of
Satan and where he set up his church. Hence
sun worship, which was practised on Sunday,
was most prevalent in Alexandria and Rome
by the time of Christ. It is no coincidence
that Sun-day worship in the Church began in
these exact same two locations that sun
worship went! So here is very significant
evidence of the origin of Sunday worship in
the Church.
Church historian Socrates Scholasticus (5th
century) observed this also and wrote: “For
although almost all churches throughout the
world celebrate the sacred mysteries [of the
Lord's Supper] on the Sabbath of every
week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at
Rome, on account of some ancient tradition,
have ceased to do this.” – Socrates
Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, Book 5,
ch. 22.
Babylonian priests rightly calculated the
Romans would be willing to learn and follow
their teachings. So it was not long before all
of Rome was filled with their religious
practices. It eventually became so pervasive
that people called Rome the “New Babylon.”
Early Christians also used the term Babylon
as a veiled code word for a particular city, so
as to avoid persecution from that pagan
power. That city was also Rome. (See also 1
Peter 5:13)
When the Christian Church came along, the
religious practices of Babylon followed right
into the Church. Historians said it seemed as
though the entire city of Rome converted
virtually overnight to Christianity, but what
actually happened is that the Babylonian
religion was simply brought into the Church.
This made it easy for followers of the
Babylonian religion to convert to Christianity
though it certainly was not a genuine
conversion.
Some dispute that Church leaders
incorporated pagan Babylonian religious
practices into the Catholic Church but even
Catholic historians admit it. Cardinal Newman
in his Development of Christian Doctrine,
pages 372, 373 says that the Church
incorporated many pagan religious practices
into the Church. He claims that the Church
sanctified them and that made it safe to
bring these practices into the Church. God of
course will never accept pagan practises.
The pagan Babylonian priests had a chief
priest who held the title Pontifex Maximus
(translated to Latin meant that he was head
pagan priest or literally the Greatest Pontiff).
Most have heard the Pope called “Pontiff”
and history explains where that term comes
from.
Satan now began his plan to use persecution
and hatred of Judaism along with his
influence to cause the so called early Church
fathers to switch to Sunday using the
resurrection of Christ as their justification.
Needless to say, there was no command
from God to do this. So some in Alexandria
and Rome only began the switch to avoid
persecution as early as 90-120 AD before the
enforced change that came about 240-270
years later.
So Satan’s plan to lay the foundation for and
establish his own counterfeit church was
under way. Under Satan’s direction paganism
would get a new face. As the Roman Empire
was near disintegration, the pagan Caesars
did not want to lose their power in
controlling the world, so they decided on a
plan by which to keep their power and
influence in the world. The Roman Caesars
simply exchanged their Roman togas for
religious costumes. Thus they could control
the world’s governments and their economies
through religion.
After Constantine defeated Maxentius in 312
AD in a battle for the throne of Rome, Satan
continued in his clever plan to build his own
version of a “Christian Church.” After his
ascension to the Roman Throne, Constantine
issued his Edict of Toleration in 313 AD to
stop the persecution of the true believers in
Christ. Under Constantine the Christian
Church for a time found relief from
persecution. Satan had now temporarily
stopped his persecution of the Christian
Church from without, but he would now
proceed to attack the Church from within.
Under Satan's direction, Constantine set up
the “Council of Nicaea” and presided as
“Summus Pontifex”, the official title of a
Pope. The Catholic Church claim Peter was
the first so called Pope of this Papal system
but it was in fact Constantine. So under
Constantine as its first Pope, the Roman
Catholic Institution as we know it today had
its beginning.
Constantine was a devout sun worshipper and
a shrewd political genius and his plan was to
unite paganism and Christianity to strengthen
his disintegrating empire. Constantine knew
that pagans throughout the empire worshiped
the sun on “the first day of the week,” and
that many Christians especially in Rome and
Alexandria had switched to Sunday to avoid
persecution. So Constantine developed a plan
to unite both groups on the common
platform of Sunday keeping. So on March 7,
321 A.D., he passed his national Sunday law.
Those claiming that the Sabbath was moved
to Sunday say it is also the Lord's Day
despite scripture revealing the Sabbath to
still be on the day we call Saturday. Lucium
who was an early church historian exposes
this lie also, as he wrote it was in the fourth
century when Christians begun calling Sunday
the Lord's Day and of course against the will
of God.
In 330 A.D., Constantine moved his capital
from Rome to Constantinople preparing the
way for the Roman Catholic Popes to reign in
Rome as the successors of Constantine. As
the Roman Church grew in power, it opposed
Sabbath observance in favour of Sunday
sacredness and made the day change official
in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 363-364). So
Constantine’s law resulted in the final change
of the Sabbath to Sunday.
Around 364 AD, the Roman Catholic Church
outlawed resting on the Sabbath in the
Council of Laodicea when they decreed 59
Canon laws. Here is the final law.
Canon XXIX: “Christians must not judaize by
resting on the Sabbath, but must work on
that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day;
and, if they can, resting then as Christians.
But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let
them be anathema from Christ.” (Percival
Translation).
While resting on the Sabbath was outlawed in
favour of resting on Sunday as per
Constantine’s Sunday Law, Cannon law 16 was
also issued by the Bishops in the Council of
Laodicea (A.D. 363-364) that confirms that
Christians were in fact still worshipping on
the Sabbath.
Canon XVI: “The Gospels are to be read on
the Sabbath [i.e. Saturday], with the other
Scriptures.”
The fact that the council of Laodicea found it
necessary to deal with this issue verifies that
more than 330 years after the cross that
there were many Christians who were still
observing the Sabbath according to the
Commandment.
Four hundred years after the death of Christ
and one hundred years after Constantine’s
linking of Church and State by his Sunday law
edict, Rome and Alexandria were the only
places in the world where many Christians
kept only Sunday and not the true Sabbath.
Why? Because this is where the pagan
practices of Babylon landed after it was
conquered. And what was the dominant
pagan practice that the Babylonian priests
brought with them? Sun worship which was
done on Sun-day! See the history of Sunday
worship for more.
So one can understand why Rome and
Alexandria did not bother to keep the true
Sabbath as they had not done so for 200
years. Throughout the entire history of the
changeover from Sabbath to Sunday, Rome
and Alexandria had worked together.
Alexandria provided the philosophical reasons
for the changes and Rome provided the
decrees and anathemas. Constantine’s help
was given only to the worldly Church leaders
at Rome and those Christians that resisted
the errors that were being introduced into
the Church met with his opposition. “Unite
with the bishop of Rome or be destroyed,”
was Constantine’s position.
“Great as were the favors which Constantine
showed to the church, they were only for
that strong, close-knit, hierarchically
organized portion that called itself Catholic.
The various [so-called] heretical sects could
look for no bounty from his hands.” –
Williston Walker, A History of the Christian
Church, page 105.
The change of the Sabbath to Sunday was
totally completed by the seventh century as
the Popes consolidating their enormous
power persecuted all who resisted their
innovations. Those found keeping the
Seventh day Sabbath were tortured and burnt
at the stake. By the time the Protestant
reformation began, the Sabbath had almost
been murdered out of existence by this
Apostate Church. But God had a plan and
scripture says that God would raise a
remnant of His original Church to restore His
Commandments. Sabbath keeping
denominations has now spread to more than
530 other denominations, and the count of
Sabbath keeping Churches continues to grow
as we get closer to the end times as those
who truly love God search out the truth
instead of perpetuating the last excuse they
heard.
So Who Moved the Sabbath to Sunday?
You can see why some have different
answers as to who moved the Sabbath to
Sunday. It was Satan who planned the
change, and while he used many people over
hundreds of years to achieve his goal, it was
the Papacy that enforced the final law with
the death penalty.
God also calls the Catholic Church Mystery
Babylon and one should now know why. It
was through the origins of Babylon that Satan
brought about a change to God's law and
brought many other pagan practise’s into the
Church. See Catholic Church paganism for
more.
God told us in Daniel 7:25 that the Papal
Church would change His law and there can
be no doubt Satan was behind it. Despite
this, most Christians do not want to know
and fight with all their heart, might and soul
to see how many different reasons they can
come up with to avoid this one
Commandment and many of these reasons
even contradict each other. So Satan claps his
hands with his victory over the Christian
Church and achieving his goal, and keeping so
many in the dark on this one special
Commandment that is a sign that defines the
worship of our Creator and that we are His
Holy children!
You can read more detail on the Constantine
and origin of Babylon and sun worship
and did Constantine change the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday
from these pages.
Since God has been robbed of the worship
He desired for most of Church history
because of the counterfeit day Satan
instituted, what is God going to do about it?
The beast that enforces the mark is the
Catholic Church, and they say their mark was
the ability to change the law of God and have
most of the Protestant world follow her. And
Revelation 14:12 says those who do not get
the mark of the beast endure tribulation but
keep the Commandments of God through
Christ like faith. Could the mark from the
beast be the final climactic event over this
century long issue that defines who we
worship? Do we worship God according to His
Commandment or on the day Satan instituted
through the Roman Catholic Church?

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