The First Day (Sunday) is the New Testament Sabbath Day!
Comment on EBF's YouTube page:
"you have just taught something outside of the Bible! Heresy! The LORD did say to keep the 7th day Holy. He also told us to "REMEMBER THE SABBATH" something the mainstream Christians Churchianity persists in appeasing the traditions of man. Heresy! Yeshua fought with the religions (churchianities) every day NOT to follow the traditions of man because we are transgressing His law Yeshua (the Word). I am not 7th day Adventist or Hebrew Roots. I follow Yeshua the Nezerine I am a Netsrim. Follow the Way to the Truth of everlasting Life. Sunday worship IS NOT should not be holy it came from a pagan day of worship, institutionalized by Roman Catholicism as "its MARK of ecliastical authority". HERESY! The Sabbath is in the Bible and Sunday is not. I speak the Truth! Now put aside man's traditions and seal out Yeshua for yourself! The LORD, YeHoVaH, be with all y'all."
EBF response:
The last 7th day Sabbath was when Jesus was in the tomb. The spiritual meaning of doing no work but resting on the 7th day Sabbath was fulfilled by Jesus as He went to the cross and died demonstrating His atonement for sins performed at the foundation of the world. And since the Bible tells us that the works were finished at the foundation of the world (Hebrews 4:3), Christ's death in 33 AD showed forth that He had done all the necessary work to save His people from the penalty of their sins. Thereby fulfilling the deeper meaning of the 7th day Sabbath. And allowing God to end the 7th day series of Saturday Sabbaths and begin a new series of 1st day Sunday Sabbaths at the point of Jesus Christ's rising from the dead – early Sunday morning.
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
The King James translators made a couple of errors in this translation. First, the word "Sabbath" is plural and should have been translated “Sabbaths.” And second, the word "week" is the identical Greek (plural) word that was translated as “Sabbath” in the first part of the verse. So not only did the translators not translate the plural correctly, but they also badly translated it as “week” when it should have been translated as “Sabbaths.”
Once we correct the translation, Matthew 28:1 reads this way:
"In the end of the Sabbaths, as it began to dawn toward the first of the Sabbaths, came Mary..."
Again, the context is extremely important. Jesus has just risen from the dead early Sunday (1st day) morning. And He is our Sabbath rest:
Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
And as Christ finished the demonstration of His atoning work – the 7th day Sabbath was fulfilled and done away with upon the point of His rising from the dead.
But a new series of Sabbaths was begun: "… as it began to dawn toward the first of the Sabbaths". From that day forward Sunday (1st day) would be the Sabbath day for the New Testament era.
The N.T. corporate church had many faults. But observing Sunday as the Sabbath wasn't one of them. God made the change. And they rightly went along with it.
Anyone resisting God's change in Sabbath and still trying to observe the 7th day Sabbath is rebelling against God's sovereign right to fulfill His Word as He so chooses to do. Just as sacrifices ceased to be offered after Jesus (the Lamb of God) went to the cross, so, too, did the 7th day Sabbath cease.
Response to a man who insists upon worshiping God on the 7th day:
It’s obvious you wish to continue (in rebellion against God) worshipping on the day you want to worship on. Go ahead. No one's going to stop you. Only the Bible (Matthew 28:1 and other Scriptures) will not allow it. The day for worship in the N.T. era is Sunday. The first thing God did upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ was to point out it was the end of the Sabbaths (7th day) and the dawning of the beginning of the Sabbaths (1st day) which shows how important this change in Sabbath was to God. And God is a jealous God who has brought down the entire corporate church for their rebelliousness against His law. Personally, I would not want to be in your shoes or anyone else's shoes who not only trample under foot God's holy day (Sunday), but despise it to such a degree that they worship on another day.