Chapter 1
PROVE ALL THINGS
First, it is not my intention to put anyone down who observes the Sabbath from sunset to sunset.
Second, it is not my intention to pretend that I am a "scholar" or a "writer". I am just an average person who is thankful that the scriptures were written for all. I do not claim to have all of the answers.
(Note: Many quotes from scholars / Bible commentators are used throughout this web site.)
Third, it is my intention to provide you with as many reasons as I can to support my stated position. The Weekly Sabbath day does NOT begin on Friday at Sunset. It begins on Saturday at Dawn (civil twilight) and ends at Dark.
WAS I SAD OBSERVING A SUNSET TO SUNSET SABBATH?
One last note before I get to the heart of the matter. When I was attending church on Sunday, I was not sad. In fact, I was feeling very good about my beliefs at that time. As we know, good feelings do not always equal truth.
When the Sabbath was first revealed to me, it put some fear into my heart because I thought I was already doing the will of Elohim by keeping Sunday. I then moved a little closer to the will of Elohim when I discovered that the 7th day was the Sabbath (Saturday). I was very joyful beginning my observance on Friday at sunset and ending it on Saturday at sunset. In fact, this is a position that I never thought I would change. After many years of observing this tradition, I let human nature grab me when the idea of dawn to dark Sabbath was introduced to me. I thought this is crazy, just like I thought a Saturday Sabbath was crazy when I was keeping Sunday. I reasoned that all of these Sabbath keepers cannot be wrong, just like I reasoned that all of these Sunday keepers cannot be wrong. As a result, that fear came into my heart again and I did not look into the matter for some time.
I decided to face the issue once again, when it occurred to me that if I have the truth, what do I have to fear? From that point on, I poured over the scriptures and realized, for the first time, that 99% of my research focused on my desire to find out if the Sabbath was on Saturday, and does it apply to Christians? Although I remember feeling somewhat uneasy with Genesis 1:5, I did not do any major research that asked the question why do we observe the Sabbath from sunset to sunset? I accepted the 2 or 3 scriptures that Sabbath keepers give to support this position. I assumed that as people moved from Sunday to Saturday over the years they certainly had studied this out. I was amazed to find that when I questioned a number of ministers (all had been Sabbath keepers for more than 30 years) from various Sabbath keeping groups, none of them had ever done a major study on this subject.