Another misguided effort to abolish the seven day week.
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[Darris McNeely] This Daily comes from what I like to call the "Romans 1:28 department". You know Romans 1:28. It says, "In that they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, He gave them over to a reprobate mind." Something about human beings that don't like to retain God in their knowledge.
I was reading an article that was advocating the abolishment of the week, the seven-day week which we normally have and has been with us for – really, since creation – but which, when we look on our calendars we see is very, very prevalent. The seven-day week. Now, do away with the seven-day week, and you're tinkering with what God established at creation. In Genesis 2:2, we read where at the end of the creation period, God created the seventh day, and on that day, He rested and created the Sabbath. And thus we have from creation a seven-day weekly cycle that has held true throughout our time until today. But periodically, people have wanted to tinker with that. It's interesting as you study history, to learn what groupings of people, what movements, have sought to do that.
The French Revolution, in the 19th century – they did away with the seven-day week. They had three ten-day decades, within a month, with what they called it – so in effect, a ten-day week. Joseph Stalin, in the Soviet Union in the 1920s – he came up with a five- and six-day weeks. Well, both of those governments, revolutions – we know what happened to them, they're all in the trash can of history, and they didn't do too well. But now people are circling back to the idea because we are turning to an increasingly secularized society. And you see periodically, as I saw in this one article – it was on the internet a few weeks ago – abolish the week, it's unnatural, it's unnecessary, and why the seven-day week has to go. And it looks at it from a completely secular point of view and even says that the Jews from the Bible got the seven-day week from the Babylonians. Well, I think the article betrays a gross ignorance about what the Bible says, plus what the Bible is really all about.
Do away with the seven-day week, and you strike a blow at one of the fundamental points of God's law, His Sabbath, the Sabbath rest which God gave for man. I don't know where this is going to go. There may be some government and some movement at some point in the future that may alter the week, or impact the observance of the weekly Sabbath in some way that could make it rather difficult for those who do fear God and keep His commandments. But don't be caught up in and don't take note of, just because we're an increasingly secular, irreligious society where people don't keep a Sabbath, don't go to church – that that could be done without having an impact upon our society.
In fact, look into the Sabbath, and look into keeping the Sabbath, and looking into what it is all about as a day that was made by God for man.
