Worship on Saturday, Sabbath or Burn!
By Dale Ratzlaff

Is this really true? You decide. There are about 17,000,000 people who have reached this conclusion and more are joining the Seventh-day Adventist organization every day. Upon what basis do Adventists reach this conclusion?  Good question. They reach it based upon their interpretation of the Bible. For example, consider the following reasoning: The Sabbath was instituted at Creation (Gen 2:1-3) and it finds itself in the heart of the Ten Commandment Law (Ex. 20:8-11). It was the custom of Jesus to keep the Sabbath, (Luke 4:16). At the death of Jesus his disciples kept the Sabbath “according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56).  It was Paul’s custom to worship on the Sabbath (Acts 17:2). The church in Revelation is described as “keeping the commandments of God” (Rev. 12:17). There is no text in the New Testament that states the solemnity of Sabbath was changed Sunday. Then how did Sunday observance start? Adventist teach it was started by the “beast power”.

Adventists believe that the seventh-day Sabbath is “the seal of God” mentioned in Revelation 7:3 and Sunday worship is, or will become, “the mark of the beast” mentioned in Revelation 14. The stakes are high. No one wants to receive the mark of the best. Just read what Scripture says about this group.

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb” (Rev 14:9-10).

Thinking people, especially believing Christians, need to come to grips with what 17,000,000 Adventists teach. Either they are right, and we all ought to join the Adventist church and start keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, or they are wrong. If they are wrong, then we need to have clear, biblical answers to their claims. Adventist “Prophecy Seminars” (they have many different names) use the above logic VERY successfully and persuade over 1,000,000 people each year to become Adventists!

For the best answers to the questions raised in this short article, see Sabbath in Christ and the two DVDs by the same title.