Yes we can! Many people have found comfort in believing that we cannot find the true seventh day Sabbath. It has comforted many in their disobedience of the fourth Commandment. Here are three positive proofs which identify the true Sabbath today:-
1. According to the scriptures, Christ died on Friday and rose on Sunday, the first day of the week. Practically all churches acknowledge this fact by observing Easter Sunday and Good Friday. Here is the Bible evidence: "This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on." Luke 23:52-54
Here is proof that Jesus died the day before the Sabbath. It was called "the preparation day" because it was the time to get ready for the Sabbath. Let us read the next verses: "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:55-56
But the very next verse says, "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared...And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre." Luke 24:1-2
How clearly these three consecutive days are described for us. He died Friday, the preparation day, commonly called "Good Friday." He rested in the tomb on the Seventh day, Sabbath, "according to the commandment." that was Saturday. Then on Sunday, the first day of the week, "Easter Sunday" to many, Jesus arose from the grave.
Anyone who can locate 'Good Friday' or 'Easter Sunday' will have absolutely no difficulty finding the true Sabbath.
2. The second evidence for the true Sabbath Day is that the Jewish people have been observing the seventh day from the time of Abraham and they still keep it today. Here is a whole nation - millions of individuals - who have been counting off time meticulously, week after week, calendar or no calendar, for thousands of years. There has been no change or loss of the Sabbath since God made it in Genesis. Many other people in Africa, Europe & Asia have also kept the Seventh-day Sabbath for many centuries.
3. Proof number three lies in the fact that in over 100 languages of the earth the word for "Saturday" derives from the 'root' word "Sabbath". For example, the Spanish word for Saturday is "Sabado" In Italian, it is "Sabato", which means "the Sabbath". In Russian it is "Subbota". In Polish it is "Sobota" etc. Interestingly enough , in Ghana the day for Sunday, literally translated, means "White man changed this day!". What does this prove? It proves that when those hundred languages originated long, long ago, Saturday was recognized as the Sabbath day and was incorporated into the very name of the day. From these facts we may conclude that not only those people who called the last day of the week "Sabbath", but all other peoples and races, as far as they recognized any day of the week as "Sabbath", rested on the seventh-day.
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