Even Fashion and Beauty Magazines Promote Sunday as the Special Day of Rest, the Day for Families, and the Day when Stores are Closed

RBA Group is a leading publishing company that produces 48 different newspapers and magazines in Spain, Italy, and Portugal with millions of readers. [1] One of its magazines is named “Clara” and is available online and in print. Called “the most complete magazine for today’s woman” by RBA Group, “Clara” includes features on diet, cooking, beauty, fashion, and health. [2] Earlier this year, Clara Magazine published an article in which it called Sunday the “last day” of the week and referred to this day as the “special” day of rest.

The magazine expressed the following:

• “Happy Sunday! Phrases and images to say good morning on the last day of the week.” [3]

• “Happy Sunday! This day of the week is usually special for all families, since after all it is a day when everyone usually rests. Even shops usually close on this day of the week! That’s why it becomes a day of rest, family and, if all goes well, fun.” [3]

• “For a day as special as this, it is best to always start with a phrase that activates us and helps us give it our all. So we leave you here happy Sunday phrases to say good morning and start the day on the right foot.” [3]

First of all, what in the world does skincare, haircare, and fashion have to do with Sunday rest? Absolutely nothing. Secondly, are you going to get your theology from a publication that is passionate about cosmetics? Unfortunately, we live in an age where people are not reading the Bible for themselves and have given up the privilege to think for themselves. And yes, many will most likely believe that Sunday is the last day of the week and the special day of rest simply because fashion experts tell them so.

What we see happening here is that the Sunday rest movement is targeting everyone. They are targeting mothers, wives, young teenagers, and even children of every persuasion. The problem we see is that this type of marketing is deceptive because Sunday is not the last day of the week, but the first.

“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.” Luke 24:1.

And the day that God rested was on the seventh-day Sabbath, or Saturday:

“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.” Hebrews 4:4.

Basically, what we are witnessing is just one more example of numerous attempts to provide false or misleading information about God’s true day of rest. Unfortunately, the counterfeit is what is actively being promoted with much vigor by the churches, politicians, the news media, social organizations, trade unions, and now beauty and fashion magazines. Satan is definitely doing his work. Why can’t God’s people show the same zeal and urgency to get the truth about God’s true day of rest?

“While Satan has been making a success of his plans, the people of God have failed at their post. God had an earnest work for them to do for the honor of his law. The religious liberties of the people are at stake; and yet the watchmen failed to discern clearly the deceptions of the enemy, and to give the trumpet a certain sound … We must take a firm stand that we will not reverence the first day of the week as the Sabbath, for it is not the day that was blessed and sanctified by Jehovah, and in reverencing Sunday we would place ourselves on the side of the great deceiver. The controversy over Sunday observance will open the subject to the people, and an opportunity will be given to present the claims of the genuine Sabbath” (Review and Herald, March 9, 1911).

Sources

[1] https://www.rba.es/general/revistas_36

[2] https://tienda.rba.es/revistas/clara

[3] https://www.clara.es/estilo-de-vida/frases-de-la-vida/frases-feliz-domingo-buenos-dias_24916