The Farmer Asks the Pope about the Sabbath

The Following is an article from Jim Searcy, an ambassador for Jesus Christ www.dccsa.com/greatjoy

Dear Friends,

A number of years ago, a farmer sent a letter to the pope, inquiring about the Bible Sabbath. The letter was sent to Chicago for reply. There are many similar verifications of the facts regarding this subject. Years ago people spoke more directly with much less subtleness. The letters from the farmer to the pope and the reply speak clearly and directly to the truth and facts. Here are both letters:

Thomaston,
Georgia - May 22, 1934
Pope Pius XI - Rome, Italy

Dear Sir:

Is the accusation true, that Protestants accuse you of: They say you changed the Seventh Day Sabbath to the, so-called, Christian Sunday: identical with the First-Day of the Week. If so when did you make the change, and by what authority?

Yours very Truly,
(Signed)J.L. Day,
Extension Magazine - Published by The Catholic Extension Society of the United States of America 180 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago

Dear Sir:

Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to the facts:

(1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.

Definition of "stultify" given by www.dictionary.com
1. To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
2. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
3. Law. To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.

(2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church instituted by Christ, to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the Ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept the change of the Sabbath to the Sunday. We frankly say, "Yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday Abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of the Catholic marriages, and a thousand other laws."

(3) We also say that of all Protestants, the Seventh-day Sabbath observers are the only group that reason correctly and are consistent with their teachings. It is always somewhat laughable to see the Protestant Churches, in pulpit and legislature, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in the Bible.

With best wishes,
Peter R. Tramer,
Editor

By Rome's own statement, very few people are keeping God's 4th COMMANDMENT - for only a few are keeping God's Bible Sabbath. The (Roman Catholic) Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of "the divine, infallible authority of the Vatican Pope."

"Every week over a billion people testify to the world their obedience to the pope and disobedience to God. Over a billion people every week testify to the world that they prefer to obey the traditions of the pope which make the COMMANDMENTS of God of NONE effect. Every week over a billion people reject the SIGN which God gives to His people and embrase the SIGN of being people of the pope. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday."

Exo 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily MY sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Exo 20:8-10 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Heb 4:4-9 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Jesus and His apostles NEVER spoke of another day. The pope did. Jesus Christ, who is the I AM, who wrote those 10 COMMANDMENTS in Stone for Moses, and on His people's heart by His Holy Spirit of TRUTH, never spoke of another day. The pope did. Jesus Christ IS the SAME yesterday, today, and forever. The Word of God does NOT change the Commandments of God. Popes and perversion version profane bibles change what God has said. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. To the pope and all pope followers the Word of God still says:

Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
James 2:10-11 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

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To go to Heaven, or To go to Hell.

The time has come to totally adhere to God's Word. We have two choices:

1. To go to Heaven.
2. To go to Hell. (that sounds so evil...well, it is!)

We either do what God has said in His more sure Word, or what man says in his blasphemous manner as it has always been. The following is some hard truth to take in - but it MUST be God's way, or our way. Only God's way will take us to Heaven.

We need a little more depth in understanding, NOW, why Yeshua said in Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

It was the "church fathers" who established religion to destroy THE FAITH of The Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, it was the Roman Pope who put Mohammed in the religion business, to "kill people of the book" as the Koran of Islam calls Jews, and REAL Commandment KEEPING Christians. It is the religious perversions of the "church fathers" that are responsible for all of the blood shed by the martyrs for THE FAITH through history. The global laws are NOW in place, to give this new pope full force to bring about the great fulfillment of this prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ in John 16:2-3. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. It should be no wonder why Islam, the religion to "Kill people of the Book," has been the favored religion of the antichrist, and global elitists in these last days.

The term "pope" is a Greek word meaning "father." Yeshua says - "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." (Matt 23:9) Call no man on earth father in the spiritual sense of the word. Why are priests in many religions called father? It is a direct contradiction of a COMMAND of the Lord Yeshua. Calling the pope, Holy Father, is almost blasphemous if one were to really think what Holy Father means, as Yeshua taught His disciples. God is our spiritual Father, for He is the only one who is able to forgive our sins. Only His Spirit can and will convict us of our sins. We are made new creatures, part of the family of God, by the grace, and the finished work, of our Savior Yeshua, THE Messiah. The only true Holy Father is the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua. The Holy Father, pope title, is somewhere in the range from disgrace to blasphemy.

1. A disciple of Messiah is a disciplined one. A few characteristics of a "disciplined one in Messiah":

   • He READS His Word.
   • He HEARS His Word.
   • He DOES His Word.
   • All true disciples have the keys of doctrine AND discipline.
   • Their doctrine comes only from the scripture.
   • Only the scripture orders their lives.
   • Their lives show what is acceptable to God, AND what is not acceptable to God, according to the scriptures.

Which "LAW" still applies to Christians?

The Following is a quote from www.dccsa.com/greatjoy written by Jim Searcy, an ambassador for Jesus Christ.

"Obedience is even essential for REAL Faith. That will shock some socks off. Legalism is obeying the doctrines and traditions of men, rather than God. Blessings follow obedience, and curses follow disobedience. Children can understand that."

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The Catholic Church admits to the Sabbath being Saturday, NOT SUNDAY!

There is NO, zero, zip, nada, biblical grounds anywhere in the KJV Holy Bible for the pope's changing of the 4th Commandment, or doing away with any of the 10 Commandments of God's Royal Law of Love, Life, and Liberty.

Even the Roman Catholic Church likes to demonstrate their sound bible scholarship on that PARTICULAR issue using the bible to make this point over, and over, and over. Rome's bible scholars love to prove that the authority of the Pope, and not ANY scripture, is the basis of Sunday assembly and/or worship. The following Roman Catholic quotes will illustrate the PRIDE that the Roman Catholic Church takes in the obeisance that many Protestant Churches pay to Rome and the Pope every Sunday.

Roman Catholic Quotes Affirming that particular Bible FACT and TRUTH:

"No such law in the Bible "Nowhere in the bible do we find that Jesus or the apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is, the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Today, most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman] church outside the bible."

Catholic Virginian, Oct. 3, 1947.

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctified."

James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp.72,73.

"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church."

Albert Smith, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the cardinal in a letter of Feb. 10, 1920.

"Question: "Have you not any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?" Answer: "Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her - she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority"

Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed. p. 174.

"Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holydays? Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church."

Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine (1833 approbation), p.58 (Same statement in Manual of Christian Doctrine, ed. by Daniel Ferris [1916 ed.], p.67).

"The Catholic Church,... by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."

The Catholic Mirror, official organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893.

1. Is Saturday the 7th day according to the Bible and the 10 Commandments? I answer yes.
2. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the 7th day, Saturday, for Sunday, the 1st day? I answer yes.
3. Did Christ change the day? I answer no! Faithfully yours, J. Cardinal Gibbons" Gibbons' autograph letter.

"Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined Sunday as the day of worship in the NEW LAW, that he himself has explicitly substituted Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as holy days. The church chose Sunday (Not God), the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days."

John Laux A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies 1936, vol.1 p.51.

"Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."

Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1946 ed.), p.50. Geiermann received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius X on his labors, January 25, 1910.

"The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] church."

Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today (1868).

"The Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her Founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant, claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh Day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant."

The Catholic Universe Bulletin, Aug. 14, 1942, p.4.

(In this matter, TODAY, an ERROR should be noted. There are MILLIONS of Christians who are NOT Seventh Day Adventists, who ALSO do

NOT bow to the pope and the Roman Catholic Church's USURPED authority to change God's commandments, of His Royal Law.

Today, the number of Christians who honor and observe God's 4th Commandment, vastly outnumbers the 7th Day Adventists. The Seventh Day Adventists are only a fraction of the total number of Christians who do NOT give weekly testimony to the pope's or Rome's USURPATION. Millions of Christians, in addition to them, honor God, and do NOT honor and bow to Rome every Sunday.)

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YeshuatheChrist.com joins the AnswerBlogs network

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The purpose of the blog is to communicate God's unconditional love, as well as, properly prepair all believers and non-believers for the 2nd coming of Christ.

Anyone can see that the World is going through immense changes. People are having a hard time finding the "answers". We live in a time of tolerance where people are told what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. This scripture-specific based blog will guide you to what God really has to say.

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Your "Law Questions" Answered

Courtesy of Steve Wohlberg www.endtimeinsights.com

"In Part 1 of The Ten Commandments Revisited, it was proven from the New Testament that Christians who are saved by grace should - out of love for Jesus Christ - earnestly endeavor to keep the Ten Commandments. In Part 2, we discovered that when the New Testament speaks of a certain 'law' being 'abolished' by Jesus Christ, it is referring to 'the law of sacrifices' written by Moses, not the Big Ten written on stone by the finger of God. In Part 3, we will analzye a number of oft-quoted New Testament texts which are now being misinterpreted as meaning the Ten Commandments should no longer be strictly obeyed. The truth is, the Ten Commandments remain - not a jot or title has changed - and should be honored by all believers in the Crucified one."

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Is Antichrist only One Man?

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"Paul called the Antichrist, 'the man of sin... the son of perdition' 2 Thess. 2:3. It is primarily because of this verse that millions have come to believe that there will be only one super-sinister Mr. Sin who will rise to power after the Rapture. Is it true? Will there be only one man - the Antichrist? Is this what Paul really meant?

First of all, in the little book of 1 John, the Bible plainly says there are 'many antichrists' 1 John 2:18 and a 'spirit of antichrist' 1 John 4:3. John also wrote that any person who denies the true doctrine of Jesus Christ is 'a deceiver and an antichrist' 2 John 7,9. Thus, so far, the idea of there being only 'one' antichrist fails the biblical test."

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In the Twinkling of an Eye?

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"Paul wrote about a certain event taking place - 'In a moment, in the twinking of an eye...' 1 Cor. 15:52. Many apply this to the sudden disappearance of Christians in the Rapture. Supposedly, in less than the time it takes to blink, all true believers will vanish from the earth before the Tribulation and the rise of Antichrist. Is this really what Paul meant? Or could such an idea be one of the many 'fables' (see 2 Tim. 4:4) taught as truth in these last days? To find out the answer, all one has to do is read the context of the verse."

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The Good News of God's Love for You!

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"A young boy etched the name of his girlfriend near the base of a tall tree. After drawing a heart around her name, he added the finishing touch of a Cupid arrow. Years later, the now married couple visit this place of childhood memories, and lo, the words are still there - I love you. Nearly 2000 years ago outside Jerusalem, on a lonely hill called Calvary, the arms of Jesus Christ were stretched out on a tree. As He cried out, 'It is finished', drops of blood smeared the wood. Although that tree has long since perished, the message is still there - I love you."

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Biblical Prophecy Summed-Up

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"Perhaps you are new to the study of biblical prophecy. If so, the more you delve into this arena the more confused you may become! one purpose of this website is to clarify 'Facts vs. Fiction' concerning God's 'sure word of prophecy' 2 Peter 1:19. The following sequence reveals what the Bible says is on the horizon. Other articles throughout this web site explain these events in greater detail."

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Seven Signs of the End

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"Will there be an 'end of the world,' or is such an idea simply the opinion of kooks who stand on street corners waving signs reading, 'The End Is Near'? Believe it or not, according to the Bible, yes, there will be an end. Jesus Christ promised His followers, 'Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world' Matthew 28:20."

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"Caught Up" - When?

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"One of the most controversial passages in the Bible is found in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. Currently, these words are being interpreted as describing a secret Rapture at the beginning of a supposed seven-year period of Tribulation, which will then be followed by the visible Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The purpose of this short article is to demonstrate clearly that 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17 is really a description of the Second Coming of our Lord, and that it is at that time that the truly faithful will be 'caught up.' "

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