My Journey to Life, Step 5—The Sabbath
6. How do we know today’s seventh day is the Sabbath of Jesus’ time?
Here are four ways we can know that Saturday today is the Sabbath of the Bible: (1) Historical records kept by the Jewish people through the centuries indicate they have observed the same weekly Sabbath as their ancestors; (2) Jesus was crucified on the preparation day (Friday); His followers rested as commanded on the Sabbath (Saturday); Jesus rose from the dead on the first day (Sunday); (3) In over 106 languages in the world, the word for the seventh day is “Sabbath”; (4) Leading astronomers observe that the weekly cycle has never changed. The U.S. Naval Observatory in the United States and The Royal Observatory in Greenwich England both affirm a perpetual weekly cycle. JTL5 3.7