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If you look at most calendars, you’ll see that Sunday is the first day of the week. Saturday is the seventh day of the week. This weekly pattern hasn’t changed since creation. Like your birthday, the seventh day is a specific date. God’s Sabbath has always been celebrated on the seventh day as a memorial of creation. This means that the seventh day, Saturday, is God’s Sabbath. In many languages, the word for Saturday is Sabbath, such as the word Sábado in Spanish. |
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God made the Sabbath when He made our world. He rested on the seventh day. He blessed it (made it a day with special benefits for us) and made it holy (set it aside for a special spiritual use). It’s a memorial of Creation—both of God’s power to create our world and also His power to create a new life in us. He asks us to worship Him on the seventh-day Sabbath and to keep it holy.
So why do so many people go to church on Sunday, the first day of the week, instead? After all, the Bible doesn’t say anything about the Sabbath being changed to a different day. Jesus and His disciples didn’t change the day. History tells us that it was church and government leaders who decided to have people worship on Sunday instead of the seventh-day Sabbath. Some examples are the Roman leader Constantine and the church councils a number of years after Jesus’ death.
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