What is the biblical truth of Sunday in the Bible?
The days of the week have been known since the beginning of the Creation. They were given no name but were enumerated as first, and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth, and sixth, and seventh. As men evolve on earth and speak different languages, the days were assigned names.
There is no evidence that man lost track of the sequence of the days, as to be unsure today whether a day of the week is in reality the correct day.
Whatever the attempt may be to cast doubt on the sequence of the days of the week, it is certain that in the Old Testament and before Jesus, the seventh day has been kept and recognized as Saturday. Emperor Ceasar legislated in favor of Jewish worship on Saturday, as mentioned elsewhere on this website. In the Book of Genesis, the first day is the day of light ‘let there be light’ Genesis 1:3-6.
Genesis 1:3-6 KJV
(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.
(6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
In Israel, Sunday is one annual sabbath known as the fiftieth (Pentecostal) day, after the counting of the seven sabbaths (Leviticus 23:15-22). In the New Testament, the Disciples received the promise of the Holy Spirit on that 50th day after te seven sabbaths. Lately, someone gave me the baptism of the Holy Spirit on Pentecostal day as his reason to elevate Sunday. That is probably an emerging attempt to steer away from the historical evidence of the brute force of Sunday acceptance over Saturday.
Mankind associates light to the sun. In English, we have the sun day as Sunday, the first day of the week. The Romans of antiquity refer to the first day as ‘Dies Solis’. We read that Christians used to gather casually on Sunday as the day of the resurrection of Jesus until Emperor Contantine decreed Sunday as the day of rest in the cities, except for those work in agriculture. LEARN MORE