On August 7, 2025, the Haver Daily News, a secular media outlet in Montana, published an article by Lutheran Pastor Michel O’Hearn titled “Reclaiming a Day of Rest.” In it, he described those who violate the Sunday commandment to rest as people who are causing harm. Pastor O’Hearn claims that Sunday breakers are threatening the health of individuals and society at large. The article then went on to persuade the public to adopt Sunday as the time for church, family times, and spiritual rest.
The Haver Daily News expressed the following:
• “I am a chronic commandment-breaker. I do it every week. In fact, my job as a pastor demands it. Every Sunday, I go to work and violate the Third Commandment: ‘Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy’ (Exodus 20:8).” [1]
• “Our Sabbath habits are shared by ever-growing numbers of people, who work or shop or play organized sports on Sundays. We’ve lost our day of rest, and this concerns me, because I’m convinced that nonstop activity harms people—it threatens our health as individuals and as a society.” [1]
• “The place to begin is to see that a day of reflection and relaxation is a performance-enhancer, not a productivity-robber.” [1]
• “We are children of God, not servants to a particular shop, office, sports activity, recreational activity, firm or corporation. The Sabbath reminds us of this fundamental identity, one that we need to share with our kids—young people who may be thinking they are beholden to school and sports and so many other time-consuming activities.” [1]
• “So go ahead: Reclaim a day of rest. For a pastor, it may be a Monday instead of a Sunday, but the important thing is to embrace the Sabbath principle. You’ll be amazed by how much better you feel.” [1]
The Sabbath is not a day of human invention or preference, nor should it be kept on Monday, Sunday, or any other day that men may propose. From creation itself, God sanctified and blessed the seventh day—Saturday—as His holy day of rest (Genesis 2:2–3). It stands apart from all other days because it was ordained by the Creator, written with His own finger in the Ten Commandments, and confirmed by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. No council, decree, or human tradition has the authority to change the day that God Himself set apart. The true Sabbath remains the seventh day, a perpetual sign between God and His people throughout all generations (Exodus 31:16–17).
In recent years, there has been a growing movement to restore Sunday as the official day of rest within society, often promoted as a remedy for the pressures of modern life. Supporters argue that a weekly pause from work and commerce is necessary to escape the relentless demands of a 24/7 consumer-driven culture, which they claim is eroding mental health, family relationships, and community well-being.
While the concern for rest is valid, the movement’s reasoning is misguided, as it seeks to enforce a man-made tradition in place of the seventh-day Sabbath established by God. Rather than looking to human authority to legislate a day of rest, society should acknowledge and honor the divine rhythm of time set at creation, which alone can provide the true physical, mental, and spiritual restoration that people need.
When the mainstream media begins to promote Sunday as the Lord’s Day, it sets a dangerous precedent, shaping public opinion and policy toward accepting the counterfeit Sabbath. Sunday observance directly conflicts with God’s moral law, which commands rest on His seventh-day Sabbath—Saturday—and, according to Scripture, Sunday remains nothing more than an ordinary working day in the eyes of God.
“False religion will be exalted. The first day of the week, a common working day, possessing no sanctity whatever, will be set up as was the image at Babylon. All nations and tongues and peoples will be commanded to worship this spurious Sabbath [Sunday]. This is Satan’s plan to make of no account the day instituted by God, and given to the world as a memorial of creation.” (Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 976).
“God’s memorial, the seventh-day Sabbath, the sign of His work in creating the world, has been displaced by the man of sin. God’s people have a special work to do in repairing the breach that has been made in His law; and the nearer we approach the end, the more urgent this work becomes. All who love God will show that they bear His sign by keeping His commandments” (Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 265).
Below is a video about the the coming Sunday law by our friend Mark Fox:
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Now some argue that in the New Testament there is no explicit command to keep the 7th-day Sabbath.
I would ask, does the New Testament really need to have an explicit command to keep the 7th-day Sabbath? Even the New Testament Christians understood that God’s Holy Law was immutable, and that they had to keep all 10.
These Individuals might use this as their argument, however I can also say there is no explicit command to keep sunday or any other day as a Holy day of rest in the entire Bible – both in the Old and New Testaments.
Nonetheless I have good news for those who believe that the New Testament does not have no explicit command of keeping the 7th-day Sabbath. Lets take a look at Hebrews chapter 4. Also, that God gives a serious warning for those who will not enter into His rest/7th-day Sabbath:
“1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 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.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. ”
Hebrews 4:1-11 KJV
Breakdown:
Verse 1: Let us reverence and respect God as the Creator and Redeemer by keeping His 7th-day Sabbath Holy, lest we miss the promise and blessings that come from it.
Verse 2: The Gospel was preached but some did not profit from it because it was not mingled with faith – not demonstrated.
Verse 3: Those of us who believed the Gospel, demonstrated our faith in it by resting(keeping the 7th-day sabbath Holy) as God did in Genesis 2:1-3. But there are consequences if we do not.
Verse 4: more support for verse 3. He spoke in a certain place of the 7th day in this manner… This is a direct reference back to Genesis 2:2.
Verse 5: Because I created them and can redeem them they are to keep my rest day – God’s 7th-day Sabbath.
Verse 6: There are some, who do not know about His 7th-day Sabbath and have not kept it yet. But there are those who do not keep it because of unbelief.
Verse 7: God limited a certain day, or He set aside or instituted the 7th-day Sabbath, peculiar from all the others days. If you have heard the 7th-day Sabbath Truth, harden not your hearts against the Word of God.
Verse 8: If Jesus had given them another day of rest or another Sabbath day, He would have spoken of it.
Verse 9: Therefore, their remains the 7th-day Sabbath for God’s people.
Verse 10: When we keep the 7th-day Sabbath Holy, we will cease from our own works as God did in Genesis 2.
Verse 11: Let us strive to keep all of God’s Commandments – His Holy Law including the 7th-day Sabbath Holy.
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“Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. ”
Revelation 14:7 KJV
Worship Him that made…. This is a direct reference to Creation in Genesis 2:1-3 and the 4th Commandment in Exodus 20:8-11:
“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
“8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ”
Exodus 20:8-11 KJV
Let no one feel the necessity by coercion, force, or fear-mungering by men to keep commandments of men. Only God the Creator and the Redeemer deserves worship:
“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ”Matthew 15:9 KJV
Martin Luther was a catholic monk, who started the protestant reformation in the 16th century,he started the changes that changed completely the nature of christianity. He seperated from Rome ,after realising that the Catholic Church was the long prophesied ”Apostacy of( 2 thessalonians 2:9-12). He published 95 theses at the wittenburg chapel where he studied theology after reading the Holy scriptures in the Book of Romans 5:1, that a man can be justified and saved through righteousness by faith not actions as it is being taught by the Catholic church. He was then later summoned by Pope Leo X, but he had previously threatened with excommunication he was summoned in the council of Diet of worms but he refused to recant his faith. That was back in the year 1520.
Luther was officially excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church on January 1521, and the council released the edict of worms and banned Luther’s writings he was later to be declared to be a ”convicted heretic”this made him condemned and a wanted man. Friends helped to hide in wartburg castle. He believed that the Pope was tha antichrist of the Bible prophecy and that he sitteth at the seat of Satan. If today Martin Luther resurrected from the death, he will be shocked to see his lutheran descendants now praising and paying the homage to Rome.
All the gains that were made by protestant reformation were reversed, and that all protestant churches have renounced the bible and have embraced Rome and it’s traditions. In 2017, all the protestant churches convened an ecumenical meeting and declared that Pope of Rome is ”Brother in Christ” all the roads all leading to Rome. This was a very sad day for protestanism after 500 years.The Jesuits succeeded by infiltrating all the protestant churches and the last church to be controlled by Rome was the Seventh Day Adventist church.