About Sabbath
Why do Adventists keep the Old Covenant Sabbath?
First, it’s important to know that all Christians have been worshipping on Sunday, The Lord’s Day, since the Pentecost. Christians all throughout the early church years, Medieval times, throughout the Renaissance, Reformation and modern times have worshipped on Sunday. The early church document Didache mentions assembly on Sunday, as do the writings of Justin the Martyr and Ignatius.
So why do Seventh-day Adventists keep the Old Covenant Sabbath as holy?
To start, here is Wes Ringer explaining it from this article:
“Ellen White claimed she saw in visions that Sabbath had become a testing truth for all Christians after Christ entered the Most Holy Place for the first time in October 22, 1844, and that the Sabbath would divide true Christians from false Christians just before Christ comes with those failing to keep the seventh-day Sabbath receiving the Mark of the Beast and persecuting those keeping the true Sabbath.”
This is craziness. It’s not biblical.
As Dale Ratzlaff said, for Seventh-day Adventists the Sabbath holds considerable significance, more than Christians realize. It is seen as the “testing truth” for the last days. They believe that sometime “soon” true Christians will be separated from also “Christians” and the point of separation will be loyalty to God as manifested by the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Those who reject the “truth” of the seventh-day Sabbath message will at that time receive the mark of the beast, which they believe to be enforced Sunday worship. Thus, according to their eschatology, all Christendom will fall into one of these two camps: true seventh-day Sabbath keepers who have the “seal of God” and those who worship on Sunday who will receive the “mark of the best.”
This is not some sideline theology withing the SDA church; it is the very heart of Adventism. It’s called “The Third Angel’s Message” (from Revelation 14:6-12).
Seventh-day Adventists teach that the seventh-day Sabbath is the “seal of God.” But the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the seal of God.
Ellen White claimed her writings were superior to the Bible for people living in her time of the supposed “last days.” She wrote:
“In these days He speaks to them by the testimonies of His Spirit. There was never a time when God instructed His people more earnestly than He instructs them now concerning His will and the course that He would have them pursue” (Testimonies for the Church, p.147).
But Ellen White was clearly a false prophet. See the YouTube Channel Test The Prophet. It’s only a few videos.
You can also see these two books: