Protestantism Speaks about the Bible Sabbath and Sunday

The Bible Sabbath is the seventh day of the week and Sunday is the first day. Protestant ministers, writers, and leaders from America and other countries--here unite to tell us the truth about both days:

Baptist: "There was and is a command to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will however be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the Seventh to the First day of the week, with all its duties, privileges and sanctions. Earnestly desiring information on the subject, which I have studied for many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament--absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the Seventh to the First day of the week. . .

"I wish to say that this Sabbath question, in this aspect of it, is the gravest and most perplexing question connected with Christian institutions which at present claims attention from Christian people; and the only reason that it is not a more disturbing element in Christian thought and in religious discussion is because the Christian world has settled down content on the conviction that somehow a transference has taken place at the beginning of Christian history.

"To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years' discussion with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from it's false [Jewish traditional] glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated. Nor, so far as we know, did the Spirit, which was given to bring to their remembrance all things whatsoever that He had said unto them, deal with this question. Nor yet did the inspired apostles, in preaching the gospel, founding churches, counseling and instructing those founded, discuss or approach the subject.

"Of course I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of Paganism, and christened with the name of the sun-god, then adopted and sanctified by the Papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism." --Dr. E. T. Hiscox, author at the Baptist Manual. From a photostatic copy of a notarized statement by Dr. Hiscox.

Presbyterian: "In the interval between the days of the apostles and the conversion of Constantine, the Christian commonwealth changed its aspect. The Bishop of Rome--a personage unknown to the writers of the New Testament--meanwhile rose into prominence, and at length took precedence of all other churchmen. Rites and ceremonies of which neither Paul nor Peter ever heard, crept silently into use, and then claimed the rank of divine institution." --William D. Killen, Preface, The Ancient Church, 1883, xv-xvi [Dr. Killen was professor of ecclesiastical history in the [Protestant] Irish Assembly's College in Belfast, Ireland].

American Congregationalists: "The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament." --Dr. Lyman Abbott, in the Christian Union, June 26, 1890.

Disciples of Christ: "Either the [Ten Commandment] Law remains in all its force, to the utmost extent of its literal requirements, or it is passed away with the Jewish ceremonies. If it yet exists, let us observe it according to law. And if it does not exist, let us abandon a mock observance of another day for it." --Alexander Campbell, "Address to the Readers of the Christian Baptists," part 1, Feb. 2, 1824, pp. 44-45 [Campbell (1788-1866) was the founder of the Disciples of Christ Church].

British Congregationalists: "It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath . . . The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday . . . There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday." --Dr. R.W. Dale, The Ten Commandments, Hodder and Stoughton, page 106-107.

Protestant Episcopal: "Ques. --Is there any command in the New Testament to change the day of weekly rest from Saturday to Sunday? Ans.--None." --Manual of Christian Doctrine, p. 127.

Lutheran: "The taking over of Sunday by the early Christians is, to my mind, an exceedingly important symptom that the early church was directly influenced by a spirit which does not originate in the gospel, nor in the Old Testament, but in a religious system foreign to it." --Dr. H. Gunkel, Zum Religionsgesch. Verstaendnis des NT., p.76.

English Independent: "Sabbath in the Hebrew language signifies rest, and is the seventh day of the week, . . . and it must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day." --Charles Buck. A Theological Dictionary, art. "Sabbath," p. 403 [Buck (1771-1815) was a British Independent minister and author].

Methodist Episcopal: "The Sabbath instituted in the beginning, and confirm ed again and again by Moses and the prophets, has never been abrogated. A part of the moral law, not a jot or tittle of its sanctity has been taken away." -- Bishop's Pastoral, 1874 edition.

Southern Baptist: "Before the giving of the law from Sinai the obligation of the Sabbath was understood. When some of the people went out [four chapters before Sinai] to get manna, God said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My Commandments and My Laws? The Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore He hath given you on the sixth day bread enough for two days' [Ex. 16]. Indeed, it may be questioned if the Law given through Moses on tables of stone disclosed any new truth . . . The fourth commandment does not institute a Sabbath, nor does it sanctify a day; it simply writes the Sabbath among the immutable things of God." --Joseph Judson Taylor, The Sabbatic Question, 1914, pp. 22, 24 [Dr. Taylor (1885-1930) was vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention].

Church of England: "The Lord's day did not succeed in the place of the [Bible] Sabbath, but the . . . Lord's day was merely of ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment, because they for almost three hundred years together kept that day which was in that commandment." --Jeremy Taylor, The Rule of Conscience, 1851, pp. 456-548 [Dr. Taylor (1613-1667) was chaplain to the King of England, and later appointed a bishop and became president of a college in Wales].

Lutheran Free Church: "For when there could not be produced one solitary place in the Holy Scriptures which testified that either the Lord Himself or the apostles had ordered such a transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday, then it was not easy to answer the question. Who has transferred the Sabbath, and who has had the right to do it?" --George Sverdrup, En ny Dag (A New Day), in Sondagen og dens Halligholdelse (Sunday and its Observance), 1879 [Sverdrup (1848-1907) was the Norwegian-born founder of the Lutheran Free Church, and principal of the Augsburg Seminary in Minnesota].

Christian Church (Christian Connection): "The Roman Church . . . reversed the Fourth Commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God's word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday." --Nicholas Summerbell, History of the Christian Church, 3rd ed., 1873, p. 415 [Summerbell (1816-1889) was the president of Union Christian College in Indiana].

American Sunday School Union: "Up to the time of Christ's death no change had been made in the day . . . So far as the records show, the apostles did not give any explicit command enjoining the abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its observance on the first day of the week." --American Sunday School Union, prize Essay, "The Lord's Day," page 185-186.

Disciples of Christ: "There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day 'the Lord's Day." --Dr. D.H. Lucas, in the Christian Oracle, January 23, 1890.

Protestant Episcopal: "The day is now changed from the seventh to the first day; . . but as we meet with no Scriptural direction for the change, we may conclude it was done by the authority of the church." --The Protestant Episcopal "Explanation of Catechism."

Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath . . . There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course any Scriptural obligation." --The Watchman.

Episcopal: "The Sabbath was religiously observed in the Eastern church three hundred years and more after our Saviour's Passion." --Prof. E. Brerewood of Gresham College, London in a sermon.

Irish Protestant Assembly: "The Great Teacher never intimated that the Sabbath was a ceremonial ordinance to cease with the Mosaic ritual. It was instituted when our first parents were in Paradise; and the precept enjoining its remembrance, being a portion of the Decalogue, is of perpetual obligation. Hence, instead of regarding it as a merely Jewish institution, Christ declares that it was made for MAN.' or, in other words, that it was designed for the benefit of the whole human family. Instead of anticipating its extinction along with the ceremonial law, He speaks of its existence after the downfall of Jerusalem [in A.D. 70, 39 years after the crucifixion]. When He announces the calamities connected with the ruin of the holy city, He instructs His followers to pray that the urgency of the catastrophe may not deprive them of the comfort of the Sabbath rest. "Pray ye,' said He, "that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath-day.' Matt. 24.201" --William Dool Killen, The Ancient Church, pp. 188-189 [Killen (1806-1902) was a European church historian and president of a Protestant college].

Baptist: "There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath was not Sunday. It will, however, be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week. - Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not." -- ER. Hiscox, report of his sermon at the Baptist Ministers' Convention, in New York Examiner, November 16, 1893 [Dr. Hiscox was a well-known Baptist writer and author of their Baptist Manual].

Presbyterian: "There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no Divine Law enters." --Canon Eyton, in The Ten Commandments [Dr. Eyton was the Canon at Westminster in London].

Episcopal: "The Bible commandment says on the seventh day thou shalt rest. That is Saturday. Nowhere in the Bible is it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday." --Phillip Carrington, quoted in Toronto Daily Star, October 26, 1949 [Carrington (1892- ), Anglican archbishop of Quebec, spoke the above in a message on this subject delivered to a packed assembly of clergymen. It was widely reported at the time in the news media].

Anglican: "And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day. The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church, has enjoined [commanded] it." --Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism, Vol. 1, pp. 334. 336.

Disciples of Christ: "If it [the Ten Commandments] yet exist, let us observe it . . . And if it does not exist, let us abandon a mock observance of another day for it. 'But,' say some, 'it was changed from the seventh to the first day.' Where? when? and by whom?--No, it never was changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone through again: for the reason assigned [in Genesis 2:1-3] must be changed before the observance or respect to the reason, can be changed. It is all old wives' fables to talk of the change of the sabbath from the seventh to the first day. If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws ex officio. -- I think his name is 'Doctor Antichrist.' " --Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, February 2, 1824, vol. 1, no. 7 [Campbell (1788-1866) was an Irish Protestant who founded in America the denomination known as the Disciples of Christ].

Lutheran: "We have seen how gradually the impression of the Sabbath faded, and how completely the newer thought underlying the observance of the first day took possession of the church. We have seen that the Christians of the first three centuries never confused one with the other." --The Sunday Problem, a study book of the United Lutheran Church, 1923, p. 36.

Methodist: "It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we see that He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the Sabbath base it only on a supposition." --Amos Binney, Theological compendium, 1902 edition, pp. 180-181, 171 [Binney (1802-1878), Methodist minister and presiding elder, whose Compendium was published for forty years in many languages, also wrote a Methodist New Testament Commentary].

Episcopalian: "We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy, catholic, apostolic church of Christ ." --Episcopalian Bishop Symour, Why We Keep Sunday.

Southern Baptist: "In the Scriptures these two days [the seventh day and the first day] are never confounded, nor are they in any way exchanged the one for the other. On the contrary they are set in contrast, and are kept distinct . . . In current usage these two days have two secular names. The seventh is called Saturday, and the first is called Sunday. In no case are these names used interchangeably. The seventh day is never called Sunday, nor is the first called Saturday . . .

The sacred name of the seventh day is Sabbath. This fact is too clear to require argument. The truth is stated in concise terms: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.' This utterance is repeated in Exodus 16:26, 23:12, 31:15, 35:2, Leviticus 23:3, and Deuteronomy 5:14. On this point the teaching of the word has been admitted in all ages. Except to certain special [yearly] sabbaths appointed in Levitical law [Lev. 23], . . . the Bible in all its utterances never, no, not once, applies the name Sabbath to any other day . . .

"Not once did the [the disciples] apply the Sabbath law to the first day of the week,--that folly was left for a later age, nor did they pretend that the first day supplanted the seventh." --Joseph Judson Taylor, The Sabbatic Question, 1914, pp. 14, 15, 16-17, 41 [Dr. Taylor (1885-1930) was vice-president of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention].

Lutheran: "They [the Catholics] allege the change of the Sabbath into the Lord's day, as it seemeth, to the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments]; and they have no example more in their mouths than the change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the Church's power to be very great, because it hath dispensed with a precept of the Decalogue." --The Augsburg Confession, 1530 A.D. (Lutheran), part 2, art. 7, in Philip Schaft. the Creeds of Christendom, fourth edition, vol. 3, p. 64 [this important statement was made by the Lutherans and written by Melancthon, only thirteen years after Luther nailed his theses to the door and began the Reformation].

Anglican: "The Christian Church made no formal, but a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the day to the other."--Frederic William Farrar, The Voice from Sinai, p. 167 [Dr. Farrar (1831-1903), an Anglican clergyman, was the dean of Canterbury in England].

Congregational: "It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping Sabbath, The Sabbath was founded on a specific, Divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday. There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday."--Dr. R.W. Dale, in The Ten Commandments, pp. 106-107.

Church of England: "The seventh day of the week has been deposed from its title to obligatory religious observance, and its prerogative has been carried over to the first under no direct precept of Scripture." --William E. Gladstone, in his Later Gleanings, p. 342 [Gladstone (1809-1898) was a leading British statesman, four times prime minister, and a member of Parliament for 62 years].

Southern Baptist: "There was never any formal or authoritative change from the Jewish Seventh Day Sabbath to the Christian First Day observance.

"There are in the New Testament no commands, no prescriptions, no rules, no liturgies applying to the observance of the Lord's Day . . .

"There is no organic [no actual] connection between the Hebrew Sabbath and the Christian Lord's Day . . . It was only a short while until gentiles predominated in the [early church] Christian movement. They brought over the consciousness of various observances in the pagan religions, pre-eminently the worship of the sun--a sort of Sunday consciousness." --William Owen Carver, Sabbath Observance, 1940. pp. 49, 52, 54 [Dr. Carver (1868-1954) was professor of comparative religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky].

Presbyterian: "For the permanency of the Sabbath, however, we might argue its place in the decalogue, where it stands enshrined on a tablet that is immutable and everlasting."--Dr. Thomas Chalmers, Sermons, vol. 1, pp. 51-52.

Congregationalist: "The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scripture, and was not by the primitive [early Christian] church called the Sabbath." --Timothy Dwight, Theology, Sermon 107, 1818 ed., Vol. IV, p. 49 [Dwight (1752-18 17) was president of Yale University from 1795-1817].

Episcopalian: "The observance of the first day instead of the seventh day rests on the testimony of the Catholic church, and the [Catholic] church alone." --Hobart Church News, July 2, 1894.

Dwight L. Moody: "I honestly believe that this commandment is just as binding today as it ever was. I have talked with men who have said that it has been abrogated [abolished], but they have never been able to point to any place in the Bible where God repealed it. When Christ was on earth, He did nothing to set it aside; He freed it from the traces under which the scribes and Pharisees had put it, and gave it its true place. 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath' [Mark 2:27]. It is just as practicable and as necessary for men today as it ever was --in fact, more than ever, because we live in such an intense age.

"The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word 'remember' showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote this law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine [adultery, murder, lying, theft, etc.] are still binding?" --Dwight L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting, 1898, pp. 46-47 [D.L. Moody (1837-1899) was the most famous evangelist of his time, and founder of the Moody Bible Institute].

Irish Methodist: "There is no intimation here that the Sabbath was done away, or that its moral use superseded, by the introduction of Christianity. I have shown elsewhere that, 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,' is a command of perpetual obligation." --Adam Clarke, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Vol. 2, p. 524 [Clarke (1760-1832) was an Irish Wesleyan minister, writer, and three times Methodist conference president].

Church of England: "Take which you will, either the 'fathers' or the moderns, and we shall find no Lord's Day instituted by any apostolic mandate, no sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of the week" --Dr.Peter Heylyn quoted in History of the Sabbath, Part 2, chapter 1, page 410.

Southern Baptist: "As presented to us in the Scriptures the Sabbath was not the invention of any religious founder. It was not at first part of any system of religion, but an entirely independent institution. Very definitely it is presented in Genesis as the very first institution, inaugurated by the Creator Himself." --WO. Carver, Sabbath Observance, pp. 40-41 [Dr. Carver (1868-1954) was professor of comparative religion in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky].

Lutheran: "When servants have worked six days, they should have the seventh day free. God says without distinction, 'Remember that you observe the seventh day' . . . Concerning Sunday it is known that men have instituted it . . . It is clear however, that you should celebrate the seventh day." --Andres Carolstat [Andreas Rudolf Karlstadt], Concerning the Sabbath and Commanded Holidays, 1524, chap. 4, pp. 23-24 [Karlstadt (1480-1541) joined Luther at Wittenberg in 1517. the year the German Reformation began, and as an important coworker with Luther, he taught the Bible Sabbath].

Congregationalist: "A further argument for the perpetuity of the Sabbath we have in Matthew 24:20, 'Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.' Christ is here speaking of the flight of the apostles and other Christians out of Jerusalem and Judea, just before their final destruction, as is manifest by the whole context, and especially by the 16th verse: 'Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.' But the final destruction of Jerusalem was after the dissolution of the Jewish constitution, and after the Christian dispensation was fully set up. Yet it is plainly implied in these words of the Lord, that even then Christians were bound to a strict observance of the Sabbath."--The Works of President Edwards, reprint of Worcester ed., 1844-1848, vol. IV, pp. 621-622.

Presbyterian: "God instituted the Sabbath at the creation of man, setting apart the seventh day for that purpose, and imposed its observance as a universal and perpetual moral obligation upon the race." --Dr. Archibald Hodge, Tract No. 175 of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, pp. 3-4.

Baptist: "The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath. There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor, of course, any obligation." --Watchman Magazine.

Christian Church: "Now there is no testimony in all the oracles of heaven that the Sabbath is changed, or that the Lord's Day came in the room of it."--Alexander Campbell [founder of the "Christian Church"], quoted in The Reporter, Washington, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1921 [Campbell (1788-1866) was also the founder and president of Bethany College].

Church of England: "The reason for which the [Sabbath] command [of Exodus 20:8-11] was originally given, --namely, as a memorial of God's having rested from the Creation of the World, --cannot be transferred from the seventh day to the first; nor can any new motive be substituted in its place, whether the resurrection of our Lord or any other, --without [first in Scripture receiving] the sanction of a divine commandment . . .

"For if we under the gospel are to regulate the time of our public worship by the prescriptions of the Decalogue,--it will be far safer to observe the seventh day, according to the express commandment of God, than on the authority of mere human conjecture to adopt the first day of the week]." --John Milton, A Posthumous Treatise on the Christian Doctrine, bk. 2, chap. 7 [John Milton (1608-1674) was the most famous poet of English literature, and the author of Paradise Lost].

Lutheran: "God blessed the Sabbath and sanctified it to Himself. It is moreover to be remarked that God did this to no other creature. God did not sanctify to Himself the heaven nor the earth nor any other creature. But God did sanctify to Himself the seventh day . . . The Sabbath therefore has, from the beginning of the world, been set apart for the worship of God." --Martin Luther, Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1, Comment on Gen. 2:3, pp. 138-139 [Luther (1483-1546) is recognized as the one who led out in the great Sixteenth Century Reformation].

Methodist Episcopal: "The Sabbath was made for man; not for the Hebrews, but for all men." --Bishop E.O. Haven, Pillars of Truth, p. 88.

"It is certain that Christ Himself, His apostles, and the primitive Christians for some good space of time, did constantly observe the Seventh-day Sabbath." --William Prynne, Dissertation on the Lord's Day Sabbath, page 33.

"Long should pause the erring hand of man before it dares to chip away with the chisel of human reasonings one single word graven on the enduring tables by the hand of the infinite God." --George Elliott.

"If we had no other passage than of Genesis 2:3, there would be no difficulty in deducing from it a precept for the universal observance of the Sabbath to be devoted to God, as holy time, by all of that race for whom the earth and its nature were specially prepared. The first men must have known it. The words 'He hallowed it,' can have no meaning otherwise. They would be a blank unless in reference to some who were required to keep it holy." --Taylor Lewis, Translator's note on Gen. 2:3, in John Peter Lange, A Commentary: Genesis, 1868, p. 197 [Lewis (1802- 1877) was a respected ancient language and literature professor at Union College and N. Y. City University].

Henry Tabor (1825-1897) was an American Businessman, banker, religious liberal, and promoter of public educational buildings of over a century ago. He was a man who clearly saw facts as they were and generally stated them bluntly: "Why will not Christian people investigate and find out for themselves (which they easily can), that the keeping of Sunday as a 'holy Sabbath day,' is wholly without warrant?

"I challenge any priest or minister of the Christian religion, to show me the slightest authority for the religious observance of Sunday. And, if such cannot be shown by them, why is it that they are constantly preaching about Sunday as a holy day? Are they not open to the suspicion of imposing upon the confidence and credulity of their hearers? Surely they are deliberately and knowingly practicing deception upon those who look to them for candor and for truth, unless they can give satisfactory reasons for teaching that Sunday is a sacred day. There never was, and is not now, any such 'satisfactory reasons.' No student of the Bible has ever brought to light a single verse, line or word, which can, by any possibility, be construed into a warrant for the religious observance of Sunday."

"Quotations from the writings of the 'Church Fathers,' and others familiar with Church history, support this statement, and include the names of Tertullian, Eusebius, Ireneus, Victorinus, Theodoretus, Origen, Chrysostom, Jerome, Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingle, Knox, Tyndale, Grotius, Neander, Mosheim, Heylyn, Frith, Milton, Priestly, [and] Domville. John Calvin had so little respect for the day that he could be found playing bowls most any Sunday.

"The claim that Sunday takes the place of Saturday, and that because the Jews were supposed to be commanded to keep the SEVENTH day of the week holy, THEREFORE that the FIRST day of the week should be so kept by Christians,--is so utterly absurd as to be hardly worth considering. "--Henry Morehouse Taber, Faith or Fact, 1897, p.114.

TIS THE SEASON TO BE CAREFUL...

As we have repeatedly stated, the Satanist believes that numbers contain inherent power. Thus, they literally order their lives by occult numerology - such numerology also is a key component in astrology, another system of divining that Satanists observe very closely. The occult calendar is divided into four (4) segments of 13 weeks each.

The number, "13" is considered divine by the occultist for a couple of reasons:

1. The Bible assigns '13' the meaning of "rebellion against constituted authority", plus the depravity that caused Satan to rebel against God.

2. The occultist assigns '6' to represent the number of man, and the number '7' to represent the number of divine perfection. Thus, as a person climbs that "Jacob's Ladder" toward self-perfection in the realm of the occult, the number '13' represents the state of divine perfection, self-achieved perfection, and Illumination (6+7 = 13).

Thus, the occult calendar is comprised of four periods of 13 weeks each. We list these periods for you, below.

Then, after listing them, we shall come back to talk about each of them in detail.

1. Winter Solstice - 13 weeks - Minor sabbath

a. December 21 - Yule
b. December 21-22 - Winter Solstice/Yule. One of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
c. February 1 and 2 - Candlemas and Imbolg, a.k.a. Groundhog's Day. One of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
d. February 14 - Valentine's Day

2. Spring Equinox - 13 weeks - Minor sabbath but does require human sacrifice

a. March 21-22 - Goddess Ostara - Note: Easter is the first Sunday after the first new moon after Ostara. March 21 is one of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
b. April 1 - All Fool's Day, precisely 13 weeks since New Year's Day!
c. April 19 - May 1 - Blood Sacrifice To The Beast. Fire sacrifice is required on April 19.
d. April 30 - May 1 - Beltaine Festival, also called Walpurgis Night. This is the highest day on the Druidic Witch's Calendar. May 1 is the Illuminati's second most sacred holiday. Human sacrifice is required

3. Summer Solstice - 13 weeks - When the sun reaches its northernmost point in its journey across the sky

a. June 21 - 22 - Summer Solstice
b. June 21 - Litha is one of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
c. July 4, America's Independence Day, is 13 days after Day of Litha and 66 days from April 30
d. July 19 - 13 days before Lughnasa
e. July 31 - August 1 - Lughnasa, Great Sabbat Festival. August - One of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights

4. Autumnal Equinox - 13 weeks - Minor Sabbath but does require human sacrifice

a. September 21 - Mabon - one of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
b. September 21 -22 - Autumnal Equinox
c. October 31 - Samhain, also known as Halloween, or All Hallows Eve. This date is the Illuminati's highest day of human sacrifice

Isn't it interesting how the "profane" - you and me - are led like a flock of sheep to observe the important festival days of the Mysteries' Religion?

You may not understand that you are ordering your year after pagan holidays, but you are! The annual calendar for the entire Western world is ordered by these Satanic festival times and days.
Now that we have seen the entire occult calendar, let us go back to the significant holidays to see how the Western world has slipped into a worship of the same pagan holidays and are using many of the same pagan symbols that are so important to the pagan worshipper.

The human sacrifice required during many of these occult dates needs to contain the following elements, each one of which is exaggerated to the highest possible degree:

1. Trauma, stress, and mental anguish, sheer terror
2. The final act in the drama should be destruction by a fire; preferably a conflagration.
3. People must die as human sacrifices, especially children, since Lord Satan looks upon a younger human sacrifice as his most desirable.

SPECIFIC DATES WITHIN...

THE OCCULT CALENDAR

1. Winter Solstice - 13 weeks

a. December 21- 22

-- Yule - When the sun begins its northward trek in the sky, and days began to grow longer again, pagans celebrated the Winter Solstice by burning the Yule log.

Since the sun had reversed itself and was now rising in the sky, pagans believed this was a sign that the human sacrifices carried out in Samhain (Halloween) had been accepted by the gods.

We continue to sing:

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly ... troll the ancient Yuletide carol ... See the blazing Yule before us. Fa la la la la la la la."

["Pagan Traditions of the Holidays", David Ingraham, p. 71]

The Roman Catholic Church later changed the day of celebration to December 25, calling it Christmas.

Consider the pagan roots of our popular symbols of Christmas:

(1) Christmas Tree - The sacred tree of the winter-god; Druids believed the spirit of their gods resided in the tree. Most ancient pagans knew the tree represented Nimrod reincarnated into Tammuz! Pagans also looked upon the tree as a phallic symbol.

(2) Star - Pentalpha, the five-pointed star. The pentalpha is a powerful symbol of Satan, second only to the hexagram. The star is the sacred symbol of Nimrod, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity.

(3) Candles represent the sun-gods' newly-born fire. Pagans the world over love and use candles in their rituals and ceremonies. Certain colors are also thought to represent specific powers. The extensive use of candles is usually a very good indication that the service is pagan, no matter what the outward trappings might be.

(4) Mistletoe is the sacred plant of the Druids, symbolizing pagan blessings of fertility; thus, kissing under the mistletoe is the first step in the reproductive cycle! Witches also use the white berries in potions.

(5) Wreaths are circular, and so they represent the female sexual organs. Wreaths are associated with fertility and the "circle of life".

(6) Santa Claus - Former Satanists have told me that "Santa" is an anagram for "Satan". In the New Age, the god, "Sanat Kamura", is most definitely an anagram for "Satan". The mythical attributes and powers ascribed to Santa are eerily close to those possessed by Jesus Christ.

(7) Reindeer are horned animals representing the "horned-god" or the "stag-god" of pagan religion! Santa's traditional number of reindeer in his team is eight (8); in Satanic gematria, eight is the number of "new beginnings", or the cycle of reincarnation. The Illuminati views the number "eight" as a symbol of their New World Order.

(8) Elves are imp-like creatures who are Santa's (Satan's) little helpers. They are also demons.

(9) Green and Red are the traditional colors of the season, as they are the traditional pagan colors of winter. Green is Satan's favorite color, so it is appropriate it should be one of the traditional colors for Christmas; red is the color of human blood, Satan's highest form of sacrifice - for this reason, Communism adopted red as it main color!

(10) December 25 is known as the "nativity" of the sun. This date is the birthday of Tammuz, the son, the reincarnation of the sun god. Traditionally, December 21 is known as Yule. The Roman Catholic Church moved the celebration of Yule to December 25.

(11) December 25 is also known to the Romans as "Saturnalia", a time of deliberate debauchery. Drinking through repeated toasting - known as 'wassail' - was a key to the debauchery of this celebration. Fornication was symbolized by the mistletoe, and the entire event was finished with a Great Feast, the Christmas Dinner.

(12) Even the name, "Christmas" is pagan! "Christi" meant "Christ", while "Mas" meant Mass. Since all pagan Masses are commemorating "death", the name, "Christmas" literally means the "death of Christ". A deeper meaning lies in the mention of "Christ" without specifying Jesus. Thus, Antichrist is in view here; the pagans celebrate "Christmas" as a celebration of their coming Antichrist, who will deal a death blow to the Jesus Christ of Christianity.

                            (from CuttingEdge Website)

SDA Fornicators - "One in three middle-aged people admit to sleeping around"!‏

By Daily Mail Reporter

People over 50 are not staid and settled but are in fact among the most promiscuous of the population, according to a survey.

The surprising statistics revealed a quarter of this age group cheat on their partner, while one in six said they never used contraception with a new lover.
The poll, from the Co-operative Pharmacy also found a third admitted they had 'slept around' and admitted to unprotected one night stands with strangers.

A surprising study found a third of over 50s admitted to 'sleeping around'

The main reason people gave for not using contraception was that they 'get carried away in the moment'. This is despite the fact that the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the overs 50s is soaring across the UK.

Natika Halil, director of information at the Family Planning Association (FPA), said: 'The message is the same for teenagers as well as people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s - don't take a risk with your sexual health over the festive period. There is only one protection against most STIs - wearing a condom.' The poll also found young people are less promiscuous than their elders were at the same age.

One in five teenagers said they had waited until the legal age of consent at 16 before having sex for the first time. This compared to one in 20 of those aged 20 or older.
Pharmacist Lisa McCreesh, from the Co-operative, said: 'Our research challenges the belief that teenagers are more promiscuous than older generations.
'They unfairly get a bad name, while those in their 50s, who grew up in the 60s and 70s, are living up to the era's carefree image as they take greater risks with their sexual health.'


If only the above were true just of non-SDAs. Unfortunately, sadly, it is not!

"Fornication is in our ranks. I know it, for it has been shown me to be strengthening and extending its pollutions." - TSBAD, p. 237.


1 Corinthians 5:9-11 KJV:

"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Yet not altogether with [i.e. not] the fornicators of this world... for then must ye needs go out of the world. But .... I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother [and SDA who is]... a fornicator... with such an one no not to eat."

And yet, in many, too many, of our SDA Churches there are open fornicators, sexually immoral and adulterous brethren held in fellowship, some holding offices in the Church and not many would dare seek to have these Achans removed from the camp or at least have them brought before the Church to give an account of themselves.

Many of these are known to the elders, pastors and other members, but no one dares lift his head above the parapet and rebuke and chasten these flagrant sinners in the Church. Ask yourself, do I know any such individuals? If so, have you warned them? Have you rebuked them? If you are afraid to do either of these, then have you even taken the easier option of officially reporting these fornicators and adulterers and adulteress, these fornicators and fornicatresses to the Church Board? No, not just your elder or pastor, but the Church Board, in writing I mean.

I ask myself, Who is on the Lord's side today? Because iniquity abounds, the first love of many SDAs have waxed cold. Sexual sin is so common place in our world that even professed SDAs are not shocked, vexed, and outraged by its presence in the Church. As long as they didn't witness the act they think they are excused from addressing the sin. Wrong!

One of the common reason so many SDAs cannot, will not, or feel uncomfortable about rebuking sexual sins is because they are practicing sins of some kind themselves (sexual or otherwise) or more commonly, because they have themselves been fornicators (either as adults or as teenagers) and so most times they have not even regained their spiritual eyesight [which is always put out/dimmed by sexual sin] and so they cannot see sin as "exceedingly sinful". Other times, it's because such SDAs feel unworthy and condemned by their own past, especially if that past is known to others.

But, because you may have committed sexual sins in the past yourself, God grants you no excuse for not rebuking and pointing out such sins in others. Rather, you must pray the prayer of David: "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.... uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." Psalms 51:10,11.

Repent, seek forgiveness and walk in newness of life. And then, "exhort, rebuke, with all authority. Let man despise thee," says the Apostle Paul (Titus 2:15).

Says Paul, "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly , righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (verses 11-14).

Are you zealous of good works? If you were you would be "exhorting, rebuking" sin "with all authority." If you are not, then you are not zealous of good works, nor are your "peculiar".  Rather, you are just another nominal SDA, warming the pews, 'playing church', maintaining the church program and "keeping the show on the road." These are hard words, and few can bear it, but I say it because I want you to be ready for when Jesus returns. Are you ready? Will you be ready? "Get ready, get ready." And help others to get ready by purifying the church and warning the unruly and ungodly among us. Be for real; be for real with your soul; God is real, therefore we must be real!

For "fornicators and adulterers God Will Judge." (Heb: 13:4).

God displeasure is upon many of you SDAs, because you do not "cry and sigh for all the abominations that be done in Israel [His Church]." - Ezekiel 9:4.

Ellen White wrote in the book Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery and Divorce:

"Fornication is in our ranks. I know it, for it has been shown me to be strengthening and extending its pollutions." - p. 237.

In Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers she warned:

"Cleanse the camp of this moral corruption, if it takes the highest men in the highest positions. God will not be trifled with. Fornication is in our ranks;* .."  - p. 427.

On page 146 of Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers she gives an even starker warning:

"For Christ's sake cleanse the camp by beginning, through the grace of Christ, the personal work of purifying the soul from moral defilement. ..."
 
Today, more than ever before, there is fornication in our ranks! Sexual immorality of every kind is rampant among us! STDs are a common thing among our youth. Sexually provocative dressing is now common in the Sabbath service catwalk. Men, young and old, are overly familiar and downright inappropriate with the opposite sex. And women, oh our SDA women, "have become bold tempters" just as E.G. White prophesied they would.

Yes, like Achan who stole the Babylonish garment because it looked so good, many of our women and girls think it is a trifling matter as to what they wear.

What are you doing about it? Do you think the Lord holds you guiltless?

No. "Cleanse the camp, for there is an accursed thing in it [among you]. The words of God to Joshua are: "Neither will I be with you anymore, except ye destroy the accursed ..." - E.G White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, p. 428.

God's Spirit has already left many of our SDA congregations and unless you do your part in your church, He may never return. Why would you go to an SDA church from where God's pure Holy Spirit has departed, is being repeatedly grieved, or worse, to which He will never return? If you keep attending such SDA churches God's Spirit will soon depart from you also. Cleanse the camp or leave the camp!

God has given you His warning. What will you do? Cleanse the camp before it is too late for your soul or else the Lord's Spirit will depart from you and you will know it not.

Only those who cry and sigh over the abominations that are done in the SDA Church are given a mark--the seal of God for the fast approaching Time of Trouble.

Eze 9:4 And the LORD said unto him: 'Go through the midst of the city, through the
midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.'
Those who cry and sigh over the abominations that are done in Jerusalem [which E.G. White says is the SDA Church] are given a mark on their foreheads that keep them from His anger when judgment is measured out.

In Isaiah 6:8, God said; “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?

Will you answer like Isaiah: ” Here I am Lord, send me.”

A corporate responsibility rests on every member of any church organization. This is clearly taught in Scripture by the Achan principle. It is also taught by the "one body in Christ" principle.


Ellen White also confirmed the Biblical principle of corporate responsibility for sins in the Church:

"The plain straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins. God holds His people, AS A BODY, responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them" Testimonies, vol. 3, 269.

"I was shown that the pointed testimony must live in the church. This alone will answer to the message to the Laodiceans. Wrongs must be reproved, sin must be called sin, and iniquity must be met promptly and decidedly, and put away from us AS A PEOPLE." Testimonies, vol. 3, 260.

"Should a case like Achan's be among us, there are many who would accuse those who might act the part of Joshua in searching out the wrong, of having a wicked, faultfinding spirit...God's displeasure is upon His people, and He will not manifest His power in the midst of them while sins exist among them and are FOSTERED BY THOSE IN RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS." Testimonies, vol. 3, 270.

Remember, Achan's whole family was lost because of Achan's secret sin and Rahab's whole family was saved because of her secret act and faithfulness.

"Unless these evils which bring the displeasure of God are corrected in its members, the whole church stands accountable for them" E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 453, Dec. 23, 1890.

For the morally weak and overcomed, there is still hope in the Lord, BUT NOT IN YOUR SINS. You must learn that there is a science to overcoming sexual sin (indeed all sin).

The first principle is "resist the Devil and he will flee from you." (James 4:7) Another principle is "avoid corrupt company/individuals and corrupting communication/talk". "Be not deceived: evil communications [and bad company] corrupts [ruins] good manners/morals" (1 Cor. 15:33).
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A third principle is obeying all the light that God has given you, including the health message and dress reform. "Submit yourselves [will] to God."

Study the science of overcoming as your soul depends on it.
"Outside [of the kingdom] are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, [AND] the sexually immoral...." (Rev. 22:15, see verse 11 also).

Take heed to yourself.

Man arrested for ejaculating!!!!

Last days events??? 

James 3:1-7
  3:1   This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
  3:2   For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
  3:3   Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
  3:4   Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 
  3:5   Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 
  3:6   For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 
  3:7   Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA pat-down

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A 47 year old gay man was arrested at San Francisco International Airport after ejaculating while being patted down by a male TSA agent. Percy Cummings, an interior designer from San Francisco, is being held without bail after the alleged incident, charged with sexually assaulting a Federal agent.
According to Cummings’ partner, Sergio Armani, Cummings has “multiple piercings on his manhood” which were detected during a full body scan. As a result, Cummings was pulled aside for a pat-down. Armani stated that the unidentified TSA agent spent “an inordinate amount of time groping” Cummings, who had apparently become sexually aroused. Cummings, who has a history of sexual dysfunction, ejaculated while the TSA agent’s hand was feeling the piercings. The TSA agent, according to several witnesses, promptly called for back up. Cummings was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.

A TSA spokesperson declined to comment on this specifc case, but said that anyone ejaculating during a pat-down would be subject to arrest.