Prophecy

Seminar

How the Little Horn

Changed God’s Law
 The Commandment
that helps Establish a
Relationship

1. What is it the little horn attempts to

change? Daniel 7:25
 Daniel 7:25

“And he shall speak great words

against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most
High, and think to change times
and laws: and they shall be given
into his hand until a time and
times and the dividing of time.”
 The Commandment
that helps Establish a
Relationship

2. Which of the Ten Commandments in

the law deals with Time? Exodus 20:8-11
 Exodus 20:8

“Remember the
Sabbath day, to
keep it holy.
 The Seventh
Day

3. Which day has God specified to be set

aside as the special day in which God and
His people build a solid relationship?
Exodus 20:10
 Exodus 20:10

“But the seventh day is

the Sabbath of the
LORD thy God…”
 The Seventh
Day

4. Which is the seventh day?

Luke 23:50-24:1-8

Saturday
 The Seventh
Day

5. Has there been any change in the

calendar that has affected the weekly
cycle?
 The Seventh
Day

October 1582
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 2 3Sat 4 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30
The weekly
31 cycle was not
broken
 The Seventh
Day

6. What other evidence are there that the

day of the week called Saturday is the
same as the Biblical seventh-day?
 The Seventh
Day

In 105 languages in use today the word

Saturday has as its root meaning
“Sabbath” For example
The Latin Sabbatum,
The Greek Sabbaton
The Russian Subbota
The Spanish Sabato
 The Seventh
Day

7. What further evidence is there that the

Seventh-day is Saturday? Mark 15:42
Luke 23:56 Mark 16:1
 Mark 15:42

“And now when the even was

come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day
before the Sabbath..”

`Friday`
 Luke 23:56

“And they returned, and

prepared spices and
ointments; and rested the
Sabbath day according to
the commandment.”
 Mark 16:1

“And when the Sabbath was

past, Mary Magdalene, and
Mary the mother of James, and
Salome, had bought sweet
spices, that they might come and
anoint him. And very early in the
morning the first day of the
week, they came unto the
sepulchre at the rising of the
sun…”
 Mark 16:1,2,9

“Now when Jesus was

risen early the first day
of the week, he appeared
first to Mary Magdalene,
out of whom he had cast
seven devils.”
 The Change of
the Sabbath

8. Who did Daniel declare would think to

change the times and the law? Daniel
7:25
 Daniel 7:24-25

“..Another shall rise after them;

(Little horn) and he shall be diverse
from the first, and he shall
subdue three kings. And he shall
speak great words against the
most High, and shall wear out the
saints of the most High, and
think to change times and
laws…”
 The Change of the
Sabbath
THE TESTIMONY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
CONCERNING THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH

‑Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to

command feasts and holy days?
‑Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday,
which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict
themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly and breaking most other
feasts commanded by the same Church‑‑‑ ("An Abridgement of
Christian Doctrine‑, p 58, by Henry Tuberville. New York,
Kenedy, 1833 approbation).
 The Change of the
Sabbath

‑‑‑ “It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus
Christ, has transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance of the
resurrection of our Lord. Thus the observ-ance of Sunday by the
Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the
authority of the Church‑‑‑ ("Plain Talk about the Protestantism
of Today", p 213, by Monsignor Segur. Thomas B. Noonan & Co.,
Boston, 1868).
 The Change of the
Sabbath
‑‑‑The Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday; why, then, do we keep
Sunday holy instead of Saturday? The Church altered the
observance of the Sabbath to the observance of Sunday ...
Protestants who say that they go by the Bible and the Bible only,
and that they do not believe anything that is not in the Bible, must
be rather puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly
said, 'Keep holy the Sabbath day'. The word Sunday does not come
anywhere in the Bible so, without knowing it, they are obeying the
authority of the Catholic Church‑‑‑ ("The Catechism Simply
Explained‑, p 89, by H. Canon Cafferata. Burns Dates &
Washbourne Ltd
 The Change of the
Sabbath

‑‑‑in the year A.D. 321, the Roman Emperor Constantine decreed
that the first day of the week, Sunday, was to be observed as a civic
day of rest from ordinary work and business. That did not impose
any obligations of religious observance upon Christians. But in
A.D. 336 the Catholic Church, at the Council of Laodicea, made the
ecclesiastical law obliging the faithful to attend Mass and to abstain
from servile work on Sundays‑‑-(pp 23, 24, Roman Catholic Tract
entitled "Seventh‑day Adventists, by Dr. L. Rumble).
 The Change of the
Sabbath

‑Question: Which is the Sabbath day? ‑‑‑Answer: Saturday is the

Sabbath.
‑Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
‑Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the
Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336) transferred
the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday(‑‑‑The Convert's
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine‑, p 50, by Peter Geiermann,
London, 1934. Sanctioned by the Vatican, Jan. 25, 1910).
 The Change of the
Sabbath

‑Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church.
has power to institute festivals of precept?
‑‑‑Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in
which all modern religionists agree with her‑she could not have
substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for
the observance of Saturday, the seventh day a change for which
there is no Scriptural authority‑ (Ibid, pp 124, 125).
 Origin of the
Sabbath

9. When did the Sabbath originate?

Genesis 2:1-3
 Genesis 2:1-3

“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.”
 Origin of the
Sabbath

10. With what word does God begin the

Sabbath commandment? Exodus 20:8
 Exodus 20:8

“Remember the Sabbath day, to

keep it holy.
 Origin of the
Sabbath

11. What three things did God do when

He instituted the Sabbath at creation?
Genesis 2:2-3
 Genesis 2:1-3

“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.”
 Origin of the
Sabbath
Genesis 2:1-3
1. God Rested on the Seventh-day.
2. God Blessed the Seventh-day
3. God Sanctified the Seventh-day
(made it holy)
 Origin of the
Sabbath

12. Did the Sabbath exist before sin, or

only after sin? Genesis 2:2-3
 Genesis 2:1-3

“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.”
 Origin of the
Sabbath

13. Was the Sabbath given for the Jews

only? Mark 2:27
 Mark 2:27

“And he said unto them,

The Sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the
Sabbath..”
 The perpetuity
of the Sabbath

14. Will the human race still keep the

Sabbath in the New Earth?
Isaiah 66:22-23
 Isaiah 66:22-23

“For as the new heavens and

the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before
me, saith the LORD, so shall
your seed and your name
remain. And it shall come to
pass, that from one new
moon to another, and from
one Sabbath to another, shall
all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the LORD.”
 The perpetuity
of the Sabbath

15. Of what is the Sabbath a sign?

Ezekiel 20:12
 Ezekiel 20:12

“Moreover also I gave them

my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that
they might know that I am
the LORD that sanctify
them.
 The perpetuity
of the Sabbath

16. Of what else is the Sabbath a sign?

Ezekiel 20:20
 Ezekiel 20:12

“And hallow my Sabbaths;

and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that ye
may know that I am the
LORD your God.
 Prophecy
Seminar

Next weeks study is Did God Authorize the little

horn to change the Sabbath. In this lesson we will
discover the shocking story of the little horn’s
attempt to change God’s Commandments.