This is how the Passover -- sometimes called Lords Supper or Eucharist -- was gradually rejected. The Lords Supper on Saturday! Remember that up to this point the Churches of God universally understood that Jesus rose after three days -- on Saturday evening shortly before sunset. With the rejection of Gods Sacred Calendar by many in the professing Christian world, the many now began to do what seemed right to them. Not only did they begin to miscalculate the annual occurrence of the Passover, but in the East they began to observe the Passover weekly on Saturday, the Sabbath, believe it or not! Here is the proof: For over 200 years this custom was a universal practice of the Eastern churches. The church historian Socrates wrote in his Ecclesiastical History, book V, chapter 22: While therefore some in Asia Minor observed the day above-mentioned [he means that some continued to observe the Passover on the 14th of Nisan as the apostles did] others in the East kept this feast on the Sabbath indeed.... By Sabbath all early writers meant Saturday! So universal was the custom of observing the Lords Supper on Saturday that he continued to write: For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this. Did you catch the real significance of this quotation? The Passover was transformed from an annual memorial in memory of the death of Christ into a weekly memorial in honor of His resurrection, which occurred on Saturday. These weekly Passovers were called the sacred mysteries. A part of those ancient mysteries was later the festival of Easter. But Easter did not enter suddenly. It entered slowly, under the pretext of being a Christian custom. Many faithful were still observing the practices of the original true Church. Others began to hold the sacred mysteries every Saturday to honor, as they thought, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But how were the false teachers going to alter the knowledge that Jesus was three days and three nights in the tomb?
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:33:35 +0000
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