"Which Day Is The TRUE Sabbath?"

HERE can you PROVE the sabbath -- tradition or scripture?   Those who believe only in the traditional "Christian sabbath" (whichever "weekend" day that might be) treat scripture as either unimportant or of secondary importance when it comes to actually proving their so-called "sabbath," simply because they cannot prove their "sabbath" there!

    If you were alone on a deserted isle with only your bible for guidance, and did not know which day "of the week" it was, could you -- with the help of scripture alone -- discover the true sabbaths and keep them on the correct commanded days?

    When scripture says "the seventh day," how can you be absolutely sure it means the same thing as what the world today calls "the seventh day of the week"?

    What role does tradition play today in proving when the sabbaths are commanded to be kept, and therefore on what day of the week they must be kept today?   How can tradition prove which day of the week is the sabbath?

    These questions have been ignored by every major so-called "sabbath-keeping" church or religion today, for the simple reason that they cannot answer them satisfactorily!

Can you?

    Think about it. If we're supposed to "PROVE ALL THINGS" (I Thessalonians 5:21), then why doesn't anyone seem to want to prove their supposed "sabbaths" in scripture!?

    And why do those who at least appear to be trying to do so, invariably end up adding their own words into the scriptures -- such as: "the seventh day of the week" -- which clearly do not say any such thing?

    Could it be because, deep down in their hearts, they really know -- or at least suspect -- that there is absolutely no proof whatever for their false "sabbaths" in scripture?!?

    So they have done what all false ministers before them have done; they turn to Jewish tradition and accept it carte blanche, without question and most certainly without proof that their "Saturday sabbath" is what they claim it to be, the "truth" as revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and preserved from then until now by the Jewish religious tradition.

    But what does scripture reveal about these traditions, however, and what part can or should they play in preserving or determining such truths as the commanded sabbaths?

    Concerning the sabbaths in particular, and the yearly Feast sabbaths as well, scripture tells us that anciently the Yasraelites "hid their eyes" from the sabbaths (Ezekiel 22:26), and as a result, Creator Yahveh said that He had "caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Ziyavon" (Lamentations 2:6).

    Once this happened, as it did during the Babylonian captivity, how were the sabbaths finally restored, since there were obviously no traditional observances left for the returning Yasraelites to use for so-called "proof"?

    (Their entire tradition was, remember, of continually profaning the sabbaths and polluting them, by refusing to keep or remember them; Ezekiel 20:12-24, 22:8, 26, 23:38.)

    Ezra was "a scribe in the law of Moses" (Ezra 7:6), and he sought to learn "the law of Yahveh, and to do it, and to teach Yasrael the statutes and judgments" (verse 10).

    Ezra the scribe "opened the book" and "they read in the book of the law of Yahveh distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading" (Nehemiah 8:4-5, 8).

    What did Ezra, Nehemiah and the Levites prove to the people from scripture?   Notice: "And Nehemiah…and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said to all the people: 'This day is sacred to Yahveh your Almighty One, do not mourn nor weep.   For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law." (Nehemiah 8:9).

    This was the yearly sabbath or Feast of Reva, which was "the first day of the seventh month" (verse 2), and they also discovered and kept the Feast of Tabernacles and the eighth, or Last Great Day (verses 14-18).

    Then, finally, they acknowledged the true sabbath (Nehemiah 9:14), and they finally began to obey this commandment once again (Nehemiah 10:31).

    There were still some who disobeyed and utterly refused to keep the true sabbaths that are found revealed in the law of Yahveh, however (Nehemiah 13:15-22).

    Now if Ezra, Nehemiah and the Levites proved and restored the sabbaths -- not from false sabbath-violating tradition, but directly from the scriptures alone -- then why can't modern supposed "sabbath-keeping" religions do the same?!?

    Could it not be because they have not yet discovered the TRUE sabbaths, nor are they yet keeping the commanded sabbaths on the days they call "the sabbaths," without proof, other than the traditions of people who claim that they've done what none of their supposed ancestors were ever capable of doing for long; keeping the true sabbaths down through the ages on the correct commanded days without ever forgetting or abandoning them!?

    Why, then, can they also not prove their traditional so-called "sabbaths" in scripture?!?   Even when we see scriptures that so obviously contradict their "weekly sabbaths" (such as those concerning the seven complete sabbaths between the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost), must we ignore scripture to follow what is obviously a false tradition instead?

    Didn't the Savior warn us to not follow the sins of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:6, 11-12; Mark 8:15; Luke 12:1), which was to violate the commandments of Yahveh by their traditions (Matthew 15:3, 6; Mark 7:8-13)!?

    How can we "prove" anything in scripture, as the Bereans did (Acts 17:11), if we are to blindly follow someone else's false religious traditions instead?

    So consider yourself challenged.   Can you prove the traditional "sabbaths" in scripture alone?   If not, they simply are not the true sabbaths revealed in scripture, and you should not deceive yourself that you can obey the way of truth by merely following and obeying the traditions of wicked men and their utterly FALSE religions instead!