The 12 Hour Sabbath Theory - What do you know about it?

A Case for the 12 Hour Sabbath

A Case for the 24 Hour Sabbath

I didn't know anything about this - until now. It seems that as the end approaches the enemy is trying to confuse the minds of people. First the lunar Sabbath, now this.

Many of the Lunar Sabbath people claim a daylight only sabbath.

There are Sabbath keepers who start the Sabbath at 6 PM on Fridays until 6 PM on Saturdays. Others who keep it from midnight to midnight.

Is there any reason to go through this again?

This is one doctrine that cannot be proven from the NIV. So, in order to have a proper study, one must first persuade someone to use the KJV. That gets involved.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

The fact Jesus didn't inspire someone like Paul to address this shortly after Jesus returned to heaven is evidence it wasn't a problem, that is, observing the weekly Sabbath from sunset to sunset is correct. We use the same logic to help prove the Sabbath wasn't changed to Sunday after Jesus returned to heaven. In other words, the fact no one like Paul wrote anything about it is proof it didn't happen.

I have never had any problem with this question without using the KJV. What is your problem?

Johann,

I'm sure you are well versed in the one major support for how we are to keep Sabbath (hours) in the Bible. Look at that verse in the NIV and then you can tell me why it's flawed.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

This is one doctrine? What, the 12 hour Sabbath Theory? And it cannot be proven from the NIV but can from the KJV? Good reason not to use the KJV, no?

I don't believe you ever claimed have a full understanding of the scientific method.

And they are fully without scriptural support!

When Jesus began His work of creation it was dark. The first day of creation began when it was dark. "And the evening and the morning were the first day." Gen 1:5. The same is true of each day of creation week.

"And the evening and the morning were the second day." Verse 8.
"And the evening and the morning were the third day." Verse 13.
"And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." Verse 19.
"And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." Verse 23.
"And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Verse 31.

In each case the word "day" includes the dark and light parts of the 24 hour period. However, the account of the seventh day is different:

"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Gen 2:2-3.

It doesn't conclude with "and the evening and the morning were the seventh day." Are we supposed to deduce Jesus only blessed the light part of the seventh day?

I see no flaw. Where do you see it? Are you using different texts than the Seventh-day Adventist Church is using?

KJV
Lev. 23:32 It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

NIV
Lev. 23:32
It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your Sabbath.



KJV
Exodus 12:18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

NIV
Exodus 12:18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty first day.



KJV (speaking of Sabbath)
Mark 1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased,

NIV
Mark 1:32 That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick,



KJV
Matt. 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea named Joseph...
Luke 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

NIV
Matt. 27:57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph....
Luke 23:54 It was the preparation day and the Sabbath was about to begin.