God gave us God's law which lead us to the heaven. But Satan always want to lead us to the hell,so Satan changed God's law. Any law that has been changed from God's is not the truth of God, no matter how plausible Satan's excuse for it is. Let's see what path God let the people, who neglectedthe Sabbath and profaned Him,follow.
(Eze 20:20~25)Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God. 'But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws--although the man who obeys them will live by them--and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the desert. But I withheld my hand, and for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their fathers' idols. I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by;
What happens to those who do not keep the Sabbath?
(Eze 22:26) Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things;
they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there
is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to
the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Who are the people violating God's law? They are those who worship on Sunday, not onthe Sabbath.Today many people are doing unholy things to profane God instead of giving glory to God, not distinguishing between the holy and the common. Being bound to the chain of lawlessness, they fail to come to the blessings of the Sabbath, so they can see nothing-neitherGod the Father, norGod the Mother, nor the kingdom of heaven, nor salvation, nor eternal life.
Satan tries to abolish the Sabbath by changing the set times and the laws and spreading a different gospel. However, the Bible shows God's firm will for the Sabbath.
(Eze 20:10~12) Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the desert. I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. AlsoI gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.
On the Sabbath, God pours out spiritual blessings from heaven upon His children, and cleanses them from all the impurities of this world. That's why God tells us to keep the Sabbath. God has prepared a way of life before us-the Sabbath-to make us holy,to bless us and to lead us to eternal peace and rest.
(Gal 1:6~10) I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervertthe gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God?Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
(Da 7:24~25)The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.
The distorted truth comes from Satan the devil who opposes God. The truth ofthe Sabbath was distorted and changed by Satan who tried to changed the set times and the laws, and it disappeared from the world for over a thousand years.
As a result, God's law has been changed and lawlessness is now prevailing throughout the world. However, HeavenlyFather Ahnsahnghong-nim andGod the Motherhave restored the truth ofthe Sabbath again to clothe us, Their children, with holiness. It is because we can enterthe kingdom of God only when we are clothed with holiness.
Even now Satan is hindering and slandering the true Church that keeps the Sabbath, by every means possible. His ultimate goal is to make one more soul fall down, but it is God's will to save all souls, without losing even a single soul.
So, in order to hinder God's children from attaining salvation, Satan put Sunday, the day to worship the sun god, right beside the Sabbath day.
The truth of the Sabbath began to be obscured from the 2nd century after the Apostolic Age, and in 321 it was officially abolished as the Roman emperor declared Sunday as a day of rest. Sadan hinders the truth, which God has given human beings for their salvation, using all kinds of lies and lawlessness.
(Dt 5:9~15)You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. "Observethe Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
The Sabbath is a command of God. To lead human beings to the way of salvation, God has given them the Sabbath, a blessed day. So Jesus keptthe Sabbath as a holy law, and Jesus'disciples and their disciples also keptthe Sabbath, considering it as an important part of their life of faith. We can see this history of the early Church in the Bible.
(Lk 4:16) He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to
read.
(Ac 16:13) On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river,
where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to
the women who had gathered there.
(Ac 17:2)As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and onthree Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
(Ac 18:4)Every Sabbathhe reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade
Jews and Greeks.
As a country's national holiday is important to its people but it is just an ordinary day to people in other countries, so the Sabbath is a truly precious day to God's children but it is meaningless to people who are not God's children.
Thus, the Sabbath serves as a sign to clearly distinguish between the people of God and those who are not.
"Rememberthe Sabbath dayby keeping it holy." This is not merely a law, but it is the command of God our Father and the request of God our Mother, our Elohim who want everything to go well for us, Their heavenly children.
We must obey the words of our Heavenly Parents,Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother, as Their children. Another thing we have to consider carefully is that the Sabbath was already established even before the Age of the law-from the beginning of the world.
(Ge 2:1~3) Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
The Sabbath becomes a sign of the "rest of the woman's offspring" when God finds them (Rev 12:17; 14:12; Eze 20:12). But as you know, about for 1600 years,people have not known the exact date ofthe Sabbathand the meaning. Therefore Our 2nd comingChrist Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother came down to this earth and taught us the Sabbathand the meaning. Christ Ahnsahnghong andGod the Motherhave only wish for us to be saved. So, They have walked on the way of sacrifice and lead us to the blessing,to the God's commandment,the Sabbath, for us not to be confirmed as the false child. When God confirms whether someone is His real child or not, He will separate him from his children if he does not have the Spiritual DNA called"the Sabbath,"even though he apparently looks like a Christian.
First, let's consider how God relates the Sabbath, one of His commands, to our salvation. At the time of Moses, 3,500 years ago, God declaredthe Sabbathas the fourth commandment of Ten Commandments.
God personally wrote these words on the tablets of stone. Those who do not obey these words cannot enter God's rest, the eternal kingdom of heaven. We can confirm this fact through Hebrews 3. Every word of God is for our salvation. So we must not forget that God's teaching aboutthe Sabbath is also absolutely related to our salvation.
Before Christ Ahnsahnghongcame to this earth and showed us the real God's word, we have not followed God's word, in spite of believing in God. Nevertheless,we had thought we believe in God well keeping the Sunday worship. But Sunday worship is not the God's word. But we had not known this fact! Therefore Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother came to us and taught us the real God's word,the Sabbath day. Here, obedience refers to "obedience to God's word." Through the Bible, God makes us fully realize the fact that those who do not obey God's word cannot enter eternal rest God has prepared-the kingdom of heaven-in the end
Salvation only comes from God. So if we do not obeythe word of God who is the source of salvation and has control over our salvation, it is no different than giving up our salvation. God has already made known to us His purpose and plan for our salvation through the Bible.
If we truly look for salvation and hope for heaven, we must follow God's word. That's why the Bible tells us not to add to or subtract from the words of the Bible which is able to make us wise for salvation.
Until the 2nd coming Christ Ahnsahnghong preached the gospel to us,we had not known the God's law leading us to heaven. Now,Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Motherhave already come and have been giving us the water of life,the new covenant given by Jesus. Among them,Sabbath day restored by Christ Ahnsahnghong is the God's law that is promised eternal rest. We should obey and preach everything God has taught us-from the smallest things to the greatest. It is because every word of God is related to our salvation.
(1Pe 1:8~9)Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
The Bible tells us that the goal of our faith is the salvation of our souls. Among many things God has taught us in regard to salvation, there is the Sabbath.
Many people today do not keepthe Sabbath, neither knowing the will of God nor understanding the way of salvation God provides. In this condition, 2nd comingChrist AhnsahnghongandGod the Mothercame to this earth in the flesh and reminded us the Sabbath day and lead us to keep it. Therefore we can keep the Sabbath day holy by the God's will and can understand the way of salvation God provides. This is the age of prophecy when God's judgement is near and kingdom of heaven is also close at hand, just as Jesus said,"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." Thinking of the kingdom of God, let's take some time to carefully the Biblical teachings about the Sabbath. It is only when we obey God's word that we can enter the kingdom of heaven. Sabbath dayis the seventh day,the Saturday,not Sunday! God promised us so many blessing through the Sabbath day.
(Isaiah 56:2) Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil." Blessed is the man who keeps the Sabbath and hold it fast.
When Elohim God created all thinks in the beginning, God the Father and God the Mother worked for six days and rested from all Their work on the seventh day, and They especially made the seventh day holy. 3,500 years ago, when Elohim God declared the law, They personally wrote the words, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy," on the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. It is not too much to say that the Sabbath is closely related to salvation and it is an absolutely essential part of our salvation.