Building on the Foundation

  Would it surprise you to know that the world has not always followed a seven-day week? That past civilizations often had no knowledge of the seven-day week we know today? Afterall, the seven-day week comes from God’s Word, and they didn’t have God’s Word. Let’s start from the beginning. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Creation took six days. Then, in Gen. 2:1-3, we find this: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” In the beginning, God established a seven-day week: six days for work, the seventh day for rest. He blessed and sanctified the seventh day, that is, He made it holy. As Ex. 20:11 reminds us, “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the eart...

In the spirit of serving God and following Christ’s example, what are commonly called the “ten commandments”  become central to the life of a christian. Christ said “ If you love Me, keep my commandment s.”¹  One of the most overlooked and underrated of these is the fourth one. It is the Sabbath command. “ Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy… ”   Nearly all self-proclaimed Christians keep the Catholic Sabbath (aka Sunday), even those who readily reject the paganism of the Catholic church.  Is there a better way?  Absolutely!   “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and res...