On April 19, 2022, Crisis Magazine, a prominent Catholic conservative website, called for the restoration of Sunday in our “Christian culture.” To that end, they’re looking at Sunday, the first day of the week, as the “eighth day.” This is a reference that is used to try to demonstrate that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday.
Here is what Crisis Magazine published on April 19, 2022:
“Reclaiming such ideas like the Eighth Day is no small part in the requisite work for the restoration of Christian culture. To that glorious end, we look to the Eighth Day—a poetic device that, like all true poetry, symbolically breaks the boundaries of the material world and expresses something intangible yet essential. When the Good News of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ spread over the world, it came with a marvelous piece of poetry. Christians referred to Sunday, traditionally considered the first day of the week, as the Eighth Day.” [1]
This concept of an “eighth day” is based on Catholic tradition and is not supported by the Bible. We are essentially being asked to reject the Bible, the true Sabbath day, Saturday, and the seven-day week in favor of their interpretation of how Christ instituted a new eight-day week at His resurrection. Crisis Magazine continued:
“In ancient times, the Sabbath Day (Saturday) marked the seventh and last day of creation when the Lord rested from His good work. But after the Resurrection, when the Passover became the Pascha, Christians began referring cryptically to Sunday, the first day of the week and the day Christ rose from the crypt, as the Eighth Day.” [1]
“The Eighth Day hailed the Resurrected Christ as the beginning and end of time, and it also symbolized a mystical movement beyond the seven days. God created the world in seven days, and when His Son rose from the dead, a new creation was begun.” [1]
They claim that because Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, an “eighth day” was created, and that God’s creative work extended beyond the seven-day week in some way, even though nothing new was created. That is their belief. So, for some reason, they teach that Sunday became the new eighth day of God’s creation. This is a conclusion based solely on speculation and assumption. There is no biblical evidence that God created something new or that Sunday became the Lord’s Day. However, they continue to promote this grave doctrinal error by claiming the following:
“If, however, the day after the Sabbath was the first day of the Jewish week, then the Sabbath must be the last day as well as the first, which introduces a growing understanding, bestowed by time and revelation, between the relation of the Sabbath Day and the Lord’s Day and the idea of giving Sunday a double significance.” [1]
“It is Jesus Christ, Who declares Himself the Alpha and Omega, Who is the firstborn of every creature, by Whom and for Whom all things were created and in Whom they hold together, Who is truly and preeminently the Eighth Day.” [1]
The claim that the “eighth day” is superior to all other days, including Saturday, is unsubstantiated. This is based on the false assumption that somehow there are 8 days in a week, and that God rested on the 8th day from His labor. This is a weak attempt to establish Sunday-keeping based on a convoluted argument that claims that when Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, it ushered in a new creation, making Sunday the eighth day as well as the first day, and thus the most important day of the week. Of course, no biblical evidence is provided.
The truth is that Sunday is not a Sabbath and that a week does not have eight days. These assertions are based on Catholic tradition rather than God’s clear teachings in the Bible. Many attempts have been made to argue that the Sabbath has been changed, and that this alteration was made by divine appointment. We agree that the Sabbath was altered, but it was not by divine decree. It was man who did it, not God. If God had made this change, it would have been in accordance with His will, and He would have revealed it in His word:
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7.
This call to bring Sunday back into our Christian culture has nothing to do with the gospel and everything to do with politics. When Crisis Magazine calls for Sunday to be reclaimed, it’s more about mobilizing political action than anything else. True social reforms cannot be achieved through political action or by enforcing Sunday as a day of rest through state power. Laws can limit people’s actions, but they can’t change their hearts. And if churches want to impose Sunday by legislation, forcing men to rest, this means that they have abandoned their gospel commission and have become political lobbyists, relying on the state’s strong arm to impose church doctrine on society.
Human traditions, church doctrines, men’s opinions, and the politicization of the gospel through Sunday rest legislation are all things we emphatically reject. It is our responsibility to cling to pure Bible truth. Only the gospel can bring righteousness. Our hope is that we will all obey God’s Word, which is the standard of righteousness by which we will be judged at the end of time. All false doctrine and oppressive dragon-like actions by governments will soon vanish. Our only hope is to rely on God’s Word.
Sources
[1] https://www.crisismagazine.com/2022/easter-and-the-eighth-day
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The “eighth” day is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard yet. It’s no wonder that more and more people will start coming out of these false churches and accepting the true Sabbath. People aren’t that stupid, But the Catholic Church is sure betting on it that they are.
no matter what or who try to change god word his word stand for ever and every one that try to change his word going to dye like every one else then we see who gets the last laugh
To have eight days in a week would mean there are 416 days in a year, or one yearly rotation of the earth around the sun, it’s impossible and does not work out in science. or 34.666 days in a month. notice the 666
Thank you Sharon, can’t be said any better than that!
Is this the kind of gibberish that our leaders are listening to during these interfaith dialogs?
Thanks for sharing.
This is pure Babylon, confusion. Their talk about the 8th day is nonsense.
Talk about confusing!!! We know that Babylon is confusion, but this is the ultimate confusion. If they make Sunday the “eighth day”, then you move the whole week, every week. Doing that, you may end worshiping on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.. What nonsense. Satan is really pulling out all the stops, knowing his time is short.
I say if people want to believe such nonsense, then they deserve what they get! Of course, look how the world is “wondering after the beast power now”. So sad.
The third angel’s message which is supposed to call out people from the babylon will reach its peak when the final crisis will spark across the globe . Millions of people from the babylon will heed the call and come out of her very quickly and they will get a clear insight who is the real antichrist and they will get mesmerised and shocked because she has led them to deception for many years an her sins shall be put bear in front of the world.
This is another example of how the papal system has “thought to change times and laws”. They are convoluting the Eighth Day–the most beautiful of the Feast Days, symbolic of the restoration of all things in the earth made new after our millennium in heaven.
Amen! That is so true
There isn’t an 8th day in creation. The world was created in 6 days and God rested the 7th. So should we.
Thank you for your articles and updates!