The Sabbath vs Sunday

What is the correct appointed day for rest and worship? Many keep the first day of the week, or Sunday. What Bible authority do they have to do this? Some keep the seventh-day, or Saturday. What Bible authority do they have to do that?

The Following is some Bible truth about both days as plainly stated in the Word of Yahweh:

Bible Truth Concerning the seventh-day called Sabbath

  1. After six periods of time creating the heavens and the earth, the Sovereign Almighty Creator Yahweh ceased creation in the seventh period, ("yome" in Hebrew). (Genesis 2:1-3)
  2. This marked that period of time, a day (in Yahweh's time) for repose, for ceasing of His creation activity, a Sabbath. Sabbath means rest, to cease from normal labor activity. For Yahweh, the Creator of all things, time is "age-less" therefore these six periods may be composed of many millennium. The word "day" here is used as a figure of speech, as a time of indefinite duration, (compare with Gen. 2:4, Isa. 22:5, Heb. 3:8). But for man, who's time is "age-limited," and who's comprehension is limited, days are generally measured in 24 hour periods of time.
  3. The number seven is recognized in Hebrew as the number that signifies complete perfection, therefore the seventh-day must always be Yahweh's Sabbath, the day for repose, to cease normal labor, the day to remember creation as Yahweh's complete perfection.
  4. The Creator blessed the seventh-day (yome/day/time period), and set it apart. (Genesis 2:3)
  5. He sanctified the seventh. (Exodus 20:11)
  6. Yahshua says it was made for "the" man [Adam], that is, it was made for the man's well-being. The man was not made for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)
  7. It is a memorial of Yahweh's creation. (Exodus 20:11; 31:17) Every time we repose by observing the seventh-day, we commemorate that grand event that consummates Yahweh's creation.
  8. The Sabbath was given to Adam, the head of the Adamic race. (Mark 2:27)
  9. It is not some Jewish institution, and has nothing to do with Jews. The Sabbath was declared as a set-apart day over 4,500 years before there were a Jews.
  10. It is called "the Sabbath of Yahweh thy Elohim." Israelites should be very cautious if they attempt to criticize, or minimize Yahweh's set-apart day for repose.
  11. Reference is made to the time period of seven's all through the patriarchal age. (Genesis 2:1-3; 8:10, 12; 29:27, 28, etc.)
  12. It was a part of Yahweh's law before Sinai. (Exodus 16:4, 27-30 )
  13. Yahweh placed the Sabbath in the heart of His moral law to Israel as the 4th Commandment. (Exodus 20:1-17)
  14. The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the Almighty Sovereign Yahweh Himself. (Deuteronomy 4:12, 13)
  15. Yahweh wrote the commandment by Himself. (Exodus 31:18)
  16. He engraved it in enduring stone, indicating its enduring and lasting application. (Deuteronomy 5:22)
  17. The law including the Sabbath was placed in the ark in the holy of holies of the Ancient Temple. (Deuteronomy 10:1-5)
  18. Yahweh forbade work upon the Sabbath, even in the busiest of times, daily labor activities were to cease. (Exodus 34:21)
  19. He condemned the Israelites to the wilderness because they violated the Sabbath. (Ezekiel 20:12, 13)
  20. It is the sign of the true Elohim, Yahweh, by which we are to know Him from false gods. (Ezekiel 20:20)
  21. Yahweh promised that Jerusalem should stand forever if the Yahudi would keep the Sabbath. (Jeremiah 17:24, 25) The Yahudi failed.
  22. He sent the Yahudi into the Babylon captivity, for breaking His law, which included the Sabbath. (Nehemiah 13:18)
  23. He also destroyed Jerusalem for violating His law. (Jeremiah 17:27)
  24. Yahweh has pronounced a special blessing on non-Israelites who desire to keep His Sabbath. (Isaiah 56:6, 7)
  25. Yahweh has promised to bless all those who keep the Sabbath. (Isaiah 56:2)
  26. Yahweh requires us to call the Sabbath "honorable." (Isaiah 58:13)
  27. Yahweh provides blessings to those who observe His Sabbath(s). Isaiah 58:14)
  28. All the holy prophets kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
  29. When the Son of Yahweh came, He kept the seventh-day Sabbath all His life. (Luke 4:16 ;John 15:10). He kept his Father's laws.
  30. The seventh-day Sabbath is "Yahweh's" day. (See Revelation 1:10; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10)
  31. Yahshua, as the First born son, was master of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28)
  32. Yahshua vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful day designed for man's well being, and to do good on it. (Mark 2:23-28)
  33. Instead of abolishing the Sabbath, he carefully taught how it should be correctly observed. (Matthew 12:1-13)
  34. He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was "lawful" and good. (Matthew 12:12)
  35. He instructed His apostles that the Sabbath should be prayerfully considered even during times of future tribulation. (Matthew 24:20)
  36. The women who had been with Yahshua carefully kept the seventh-day after His death. (Luke 23:56)
  37. Even after Yahweh's resurrection, the day it is still called "the Sabbath day." (Acts 13:14)
  38. Paul, the missionary to various Nations, called it the "Sabbath day" in AD 45. (Acts 13:27)
  39. Luke the historian, writing as late as AD 62, referred to the "Sabbath day." (Acts 13:44)
  40. The new converts called it the Sabbath. (Acts 13:42)
  41. When in council, in the presence of the apostles and disciples, James calls it the "Sabbath day." (Acts 15:21)
  42. It was customary to hold prayer meetings on the Sabbath day. (Acts 16:13)
  43. The Scriptures were read in meetings on the Sabbath day. (Acts 17:2, 3)
  44. It was Paul's custom to preach on the Sabbath. (Acts 17:2, 3)
  45. The Book of Acts alone gives us a record of Paul's many meetings held on the Sabbath. (See Acts 13:14, 44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4, 11)
  46. There was never any dispute between believers during those days about keeping the Sabbath day. This is proof that the believers during those days still observed the Sabbath day.
  47. In all their accusations against Paul, he was never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day.
  48. Paul himself expressly declared that he had kept the law. "Neither against the law of the Yahudi, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all."(Acts 25:8).
  49. The Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament fifty-nine times, and always with respect, bearing the same title that it had in the Old Testament, "the Sabbath day."
  50. Not a word is said anywhere in the New Testament about the Sabbath being abolished, done away with, changed, or anything of the kind.
  51. Yahweh has never given permission to any man to do normal labor on it.
  52. No believer of the New Testament, either before or after the resurrection, did ordinary labor on the seventh-day Sabbath. Why should modern believers do differently?
  53. There is no record that Yahweh has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh-day Sabbath.
  54. The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of Yahweh, since it came from His own mouth, and was written by Him on stone at Sinai. (See Exodus 20). When Yahshua began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets." (Matthew 5:17).
  55. Yahshua condemned the Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love Yahweh, while at the same time they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. The keeping of Sunday, the first day is a tradition made by man.

Bible Truth Concerning the First Day of the Week, the day called Sunday


  1. It is recorded that Creation began on the first period of six, the "first day" of "Yahweh's" Creation week. (Genesis 1:1-5) If Yahweh began Creating on "His first period "day" how can it be unlawful for us to work on a Sunday, the first day of our week?
  2. Yahweh commands men to work on the first day of the week. (Exodus 20:8-11)
  3. None of the patriarchs ever observed the first day.
  4. None of the holy prophets ever observed the first day.
  5. By the express command of Yahweh, His holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for at least 4,000 years.
  6. Yahweh Himself calls the first of six "working" days. (Ezekiel 46:1)
  7. Yahweh did not rest upon it.
  8. Yahweh never blessed it.
  9. Yahshua Messiah did not rest on it.
  10. Yahshua was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked six days of the week.
  11. The apostles worked on the first day of the week.
  12. Yahshua never blessed it.
  13. The first day was never blessed by any divine authority.
  14. It has never been sanctified.
  15. No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of the first day, since it is not a transgression to work upon it. "Where no law is, there is no transgression."(Romans 4:15)
  16. The New Testament does not forbid work to be done on the first day.
  17. No penalty is provided for violation of the first day.
  18. No blessing is promised for its observance.
  19. No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed.
  20. It is never called the Sabbath
  21. It is never called the Sabbath day at all.
  22. It is never called the Lord's day. This is only by man-made tradition.
  23. It is never called a rest day, or a day for repose.
  24. No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Why should we call Sunday holy?
  25. It is simply called "the first day of the week."
  26. Yahshua never mentioned it in any way, never spoke the name, so far as the record shows.
  27. The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible.
  28. Neither Yahweh, Yahshua, or any inspired man ever said one word in favor of keeping a Sunday, the first day of the week.
  29. The first day of the week is mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2)
  30. Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.
  31. Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on that day. (1 Corinthians 16:2)
  32. In all the New Testament we have a record of only one meeting held upon the first day, and even this was a night meeting. (Acts 20:5-12)
  33. There is no indication that they ever held a meeting on "the first day" before or after that.
  34. It was not their custom to assemble on the first day.
  35. The Bible does not say that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. This is only by tradition made by man, but one which contradicts the law of Yahweh. (Matthew 15:1-9)
  36. The New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change for keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath, and it says nothing about observing the first day as a replacement for Yahweh's seventh-day Sabbath.

Remember the Sabbath [seventh] day, to keep it set-apart......Exodus 20: 8.
The 4th Commandment has never changed.


These are plain Bible Truths on the worship-rest day question, showing that the seventh-day is the Sabbath of Yahweh in both the Old and New Testament, and is to be kept by all True Believers.

To summarize the seventh-day Sabbath


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