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1st Century A.D - Yashua and Paul

"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on Shabbat, and stood up for to read."  Luke 4:16

Yashua:  "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on Shabbat."  Matthew 24:20

Paul:  "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and for three Shabbats reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." Acts 17:2-3

Paul and Gentiles:  "And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Shabbat.  And the next Shabbat, almost the whole city came together to hear the Word of YHVH."  Acts 13:42,44

2nd Century - Early Christians

"The early Christians had a great veneration for Shabbat, and spent the day in devotion and sermons.  And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the Apostles themselves, as appears by several scriptures to that purpose."  Dialogue on the Lord's Day, p.189. London: 1701. By Dr. T.H. Morer (Church of England).

3rd And 4th Centuries - Orient And Most Of The World

"The early Christians were very careful in the observation of Saturday, or the seventh day. . . . It is plain that all the Oriental churches, and the greatest part of the world, observed Shabbat as a festival. . . . Athanasius likewise tells us that they held religious assemblies on Shabbat, not because they were infected with Judaism, but to worship Yashua, Lord of the Shabbat; Epiphanius says the same." Antiquities of the Christian Church, Vol. II. Book XX, chap 3, Sec. 1 66.1137, 1138.

Council of Laodicea. "From the apostles' time until the council of Laodicea, which was about the year 364, the holy observation of the Jews' Shabbat continued, as may be proved out of many authors; yea, notwithstanding the decree of the council against it." Sunday a Sabbath, John Ley, p. 163. London:1640.

5th Century - Constantinople

"The people of Constantinople and almost everywhere, assemble together on Shabbat, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria."  Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, Book 7, chap. 19.

6th Century - Rome

"About 590, Pope Gregory, in a letter to the Roman people, denounced as the prophets of Antichrist those who maintained that work ought not to be done on the seventh day."  James T. Ringgold, The Law of Sunday, p. 267.

7th Century - Scotland and Ireland

"It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times, in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Shabbat, as a day of rest from labour. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally upon the seventh day of the week."  Professor James C. Moffatt, D.D., Professor of Church History at Princeton, The Church in Scotland, p. 140.

8th Century - India, China, Persia

"Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Shabbat among the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas Christians of India, who never were connected with Rome.  It also was maintained among those bodies which broke off from Rome after the Council of Chalcedon namely, the Abyssinians, the Jacobites, the Maronites, and the Armenians."  Schaff-Herzog, The New Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, art.  Nestorians; also Realencyclopaedie fur Protestantische Theologie und Kirche, art Nestorianer.

10th Century - Church of the East - Kurdistan

"The Nestorians eat no pork and keep Shabbat. They believe in neither auricular confession nor purgatory."  Schaff-Herzog, The New Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, art. Nestorians.

11th Century - Scotland

They held that Saturday was properly Shabbat on which they abstained from work.  Celtic Scotland, Vol. 2, p. 350.

12th Century - Wales

"There is much evidence that Shabbat prevailed in Wales universally until A.D. 1115, when the first Roman bishop was seated at St. David's.  The old Welsh Shabbat-keeping churches did not even then altogether bow the knee to Rome, but fled to their hiding places."  Lewis, Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Vol. 1, p. 29.

13th Century - Waldenses of France

"The inquisitors. . . [declare] that the sign of a Vaudois, deemed worthy of death, was that he followed Christ and sought to obey the commandments of YHVH."  History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, H.C. Lea, Vol. 1.

Revelation 12:17 & 14:12  "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of Yahveh and have the testimony of Yashua HaMashiach. . . Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of YHVH and the faith of Yashua."

15th Century - Norway

"We are informed that some people in different districts of the kingdom, have adopted and observed Saturday keeping.  It is severely forbidden - in holy church canon - one and all to observe days excepting those which the holy Pope, archbishop, or the bishops command.  Saturday-keeping must under no circumstances be permitted hereafter further than the church canon commands.  Therefore, we counsel all the friends of Yahveh throughout all Norway who want to be obedient towards the holy church to let this evil of Saturday keeping alone; and the rest we forbid under penalty of severe church punishment to keep Saturday holy."  Catholic Provincial Council at Bergen. 1435 Dip. Norveg. 7, 397.

Daniel 7:25  "He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and decrees."