Secular news outlets are increasingly using emotional storytelling and nostalgic imagery to reshape public perception and steer society back to a time when Sunday was universally observed as a day of rest. They romanticize the era when businesses were shuttered, church attendance was expected, and families spent the day together—painting it as the solution to our modern chaos. But this tactic is not just marketing—it’s manipulation. It targets the uninformed, those who do not read, study, or search the Scriptures for themselves to find the truth.
The Weirton Daily Times is the primary daily news source for Steubenville, Ohio, serving the Upper Ohio Valley region, including neighboring areas of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. On May 24, 2025, The Weirton Daily Times published an article titled “Sundays Are No Longer What They Used To Be” and was advocating for Sunday sacredness, cloaked in appeals to family unity and rest.
The Weirton Daily Times expressed the following in their article:
• “Sundays used to mean something. They were a day of rest. Does anyone else remember that? I can recall moments growing up and certain places would be closed. Restaurants, malls, banks.” [1]
• “Today, almost everywhere operates as if it is a weekday. We might even forget it’s a Sunday if we are on the schedule to work. When did we start working again on the one day of the week God specifically told us is a day of rest?” [1]
• “Heck, we can go out to eat and stop by the mall after visiting the bank’s drive thru if we want. And we do because it is 2025, not 1961.” [1]
• “I’ve seen deliveries made to peoples’ homes on a Sunday. There was even a time when alcohol wasn’t sold on the Sabbath.” [1]
• “I can recall every Sunday going to church and then having lunch or dinner with my entire family. But after my grandparents died, things changed.” [1]
• “I knew what Sundays were all about. They are about time spent with the ones we love the most.” [1]
The article appeals to emotions rather than examining God’s truth. The Bible makes it unmistakably clear that the true day of rest, worship, and family time is not Sunday, but the seventh-day Sabbath—Saturday (Exodus 20:8–11; Isaiah 58:13–14; Mark 2:27–28). Sunday rest is not based on any biblical mandate—it’s a tradition rooted in Rome and enforced through centuries of compromise and persecution.
The push for Sunday sacredness is part of a calculated agenda designed to prepare the world for a counterfeit revival and false worship. Under the guise of unity, rest, and spiritual renewal, Sunday sacredness is being exalted in a way that directly opposes the Creator’s authority by replacing the seventh-day Sabbath with a man-made institution rooted in papal tradition. Those who love truth must resist the tide of popular opinion and emotional persuasion and instead cling to the plain, unchanging Word of God. To compromise now is to surrender our allegiance in the final crisis between the commandments of God and the traditions of men.
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Amen Bro Andy.
The fact that they are using the family, rest, and all these attractive benefits makes it clear that this is a Counterfeit day of worship. Because a Counterfeit looks like the real or genuine thing; and more it appears like the real thing, the more deceptive it is! For deception to work it has to be a good Counterfeit. And according to the context of the Sabbath, mixing truth with error makes it clear the real intent and purpose; the mark of the beast!
“Today, almost everywhere operates as if it is a weekday. We might even forget it’s a Sunday if we are on the schedule to work. When did we start working again on the one day of the week God specifically told us is a day of rest?”
There is nothing in the Holy Word of God, where God specifically or vaguely told us that Sunday is a day of rest! People please read your Bibles! Sunday is the First day of Creation:
“3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. ” Genesis 1:3-5 KJV
All the days of Creation were numbered from the first day to the 6th day; The only day that was given a name was the Sabbath which was on the seventh day of Creation; the Sabbath was instituted on the 7th Day:
“1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. ”
Genesis 2:1-3 KJV
For the simple fact that God never gave names to the first 6 days of Creation, and now the first 6 days of the week have names, with the first day called ‘sunday’ reveals a lot. The naming of the week days except for the 7th Day Sabbath, came from paganism; those who worshipped their many gods, named the week days after their gods. The first day of the week was named after the sun God- the day of the sun. God’s moral Law told us:
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ” Exodus 20:3 KJV