Comments on: Major Global Media Company: “Why Sunday Should Still be a Day of Rest—Shops Should Close so that Families can Stay Together” https://adventmessenger.org/major-global-media-company-why-sunday-should-still-be-a-day-of-rest-shops-should-close-so-that-families-can-stay-together/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 By: Tom Magnusson https://adventmessenger.org/major-global-media-company-why-sunday-should-still-be-a-day-of-rest-shops-should-close-so-that-families-can-stay-together/comment-page-1/#comment-67053 Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:06:42 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=21678#comment-67053 “Whenever we hear calls to bring back Sunday as the weekly day of rest, we can know for certain that these are attempts to mobilize people into political action for sinister purposes.”

True but this does not apply to the Isle of Lewis where Sunday observance has been ongoing for hundreds and hundreds of years. While the USA abandoned Blue Laws long ago, they have remained on Lewis. The people there are trying to prevent Tesco from overturning them.

]]> By: Darlene Otts https://adventmessenger.org/major-global-media-company-why-sunday-should-still-be-a-day-of-rest-shops-should-close-so-that-families-can-stay-together/comment-page-1/#comment-67042 Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:25:07 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=21678#comment-67042 10 Rememberthe 7th day and keep it holy 6th day, thou shalt labour and do all that work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work thou thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle nor thy stanger that is within thy gates
11 For in six day the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the day and hallowed it.
Exodus 20 please read it for yourself

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