In many other languages, the word for the seventh day of the week sounds very like our word for Sabbath and it is easy to see how the day was universally known as the Sabbath by many people. The idea of Sunday worship for Christians is not an ancient teaching. The Sabbath was still kept in remoter parts of Wales until the 1700’s. It was also kept in Scotland for several centuries. “They held that Saturday was properly the Sabbath on which they abstained from work.” Celtic Scotland. Vol. 2 p. 350.
There have been attempts to change the length of time of the week, but it has always resulted in mistakes in the factory, accidents with machinery, poor quality goods with mistakes, and in fact lower production rates. When a ten-day week was tried in the French Revolution, there was breakdown in the health of people and animals. To try and achieve extra production of planes in the war, longer weeks were tried but again the experiment had to be abandoned.
The seven-day week remains, with a seventh-day Sabbath at the end of each week. This is the day God has given us as a gift for our well-being and a sign of loyalty to Him. |
