FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
BISHOPS OF DENMARK AND NORWAY HONESTLY ADDRESSED THE SABBATH-SUNDAY PROBLEM
“Bishop Skat Rordam, of Denmark, says:
‘As to whom and how it became customary to keep the first day of the week the New Testament gives no information…..The first law about it was given by Constantine the Great, who in the year 321 ordained that all civil and shop work should cease in the CITIES, but AGrICULTURAL LABOR IN THE COUNTRY was permitted….
‘Still no one thought of basing this command to rest from labor on the 3rd [4th] commandment BEFORE the latter half of the SIXTH CENTURY. From that time on, little by little, it became the established doctrine of the church during its ‘DARK AGES,’ that the holy church [?] and its teachers, or the bishops of the Roman Pope at their head, as the Vicar of Christ and His holy apostles on earth [?!], had TRANSFERRED the Old Testament Sabbath with its glory and sanctity over unto the first day of the week.’ – ‘Report of the Second Ecclesiastical Meeting in Copenhagen, Sept. 13-15, 1897,’ P. Taaning, pp. 40, 41. Copenhagen, 1887.
“Bishop A. Grimelund, of Norway, says:
‘Now, summing up what HISTORY teaches regarding the ORIGIN of Sunday and the development of the doctrine about Sunday, then this is the sum: It is NOT the apostles, nor the early Christians, not the councils of the ancient church which have imprinted the NAME and STAMP of the Sabbath upon the Sunday, but it is the CHURCH OF THE MIDDLE AGES and its scholastic teachers.’- ‘Sondagen Histori’ (The History of Sunday), p. 37, Christiana: 1886.
‘What do we learn from this HISTORICAL REVIEW? ……That it is a doctrine which ORIGINATED IN THE PAPAL CHURCH that the sanctification of the Sunday is enjoined in the 3rd [4th] commandment, and that the essential and permanent in this commandment is a COMMAND from God [?!] to keep it holy one day each week.’ -Ibid, pp. 47, 48.”- “Facts of Faith,” Christian Edwardson, Southern Publishing Asso.,(Revised), 1943, p.108.
“Stamp” is synonymous with “mark,” “seal,” and “sign.” It is critical that we know for a certainty when the Dark Ages began, and what three things had to happen before the papacy could be fully formed!
Stay tuned and connected; remain on the prophetic track we are on! Bless all, NMF