I wasn't around in the 1860 so I wasn't preaching anything in the 1800's. If you mean the SDA church, we were not the first ones to keep the Ten Commandments including the Sabbath either, that we can find right in our Bibles. God has always had a remnant people all throughout the centuries who kept God's commandments the way He said including the Sabbath. You keep looking at people as if that is our authority when we need to be looking at God. God's people will always be a remnant compared to the majority Rev12:17 Mat7:13-14. Not because God does not call on everyone Heb3:7-19, sadly few hear.
Whenever God's people would go away from the word of God, He would always raise up a messenger to bring people back to His word (until there is no more remedy) 2 Chro 36:16 God does not change. God never ordained Sunday, that is a commandment of the Catholic church. They even admit so that they changed God's Sabbath commandment (as we were foretold it would be changed not by God Dan7:25), based on their authority over God's.
The whole nonsense that the CC are the succession from the apostles, if that were true they would have continued on what the apostles did and that was to keep God's Sabbath and obey God and stay faithful to Him. The apostles warned us what would happen after their departure Acts 20:29 which sadly is exactly what happened- men turned to fables instead of staying faithful to God. 2Tim4:3-4
You point back to Catholic doctrine to support your doctrine. You allow the catholic church to define what things mean, instead of allowing God to. God never said we needed a mediator or an earthy priesthood, He did away with both and we can go directly to Him. I would hate to place my faith in my church instead of with Jesus Christ, when Jesus said He is the way John14:6 not the catholic church, that's a lot of trust built on man-made traditions instead of building on our Rock which is Jesus by doing what He says.
Luke 6:46 “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’
and not do the things which I say? 47
Whoever comes to
Me, and hears
My sayings and
does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was [j]founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it [
k]fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”
Col 2:8
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the tradition of men,
according to the basic principles of the world,
and not according to Christ.
Christ is the one speaking the Ten Commandments. Christ is the one who put them under His mercy seat. Christ is the one who sanctified the seventh day Gen2:3 Exo20:11 and told us to keep it holy Exo20:8-11 that He made it for us Mat2:27 Isa59:2 Isa56:6 and sanctifies us when we follow what He asks Eze20:12. Christ is the one who blesses us when we obey Him Isa56:2 Rev22:14 Keeping the Sabbath comes with the power of Christ- the only God who can create heaven and earth Exo20:11 Rev14:7 the only God who can sanctify Exo20:11 Eze20:12 and without His blessings Isa59:2 Exo20:11 Rev22:14 sadly, we really are nothing, we need Him for everything Eze20:20 I would not trade all the promises God gives us through His Sabbath for something that Jesus warned about following mans traditions over the commandments of God, laying them aside as to tell Him No Lord, these are not for me, making His word of no effect, I will seek out my own sanctification, just as those who came before us Eze 20:12-13 Eze20:16 and what that does to Him. Mark7:7-13 Mat15:3-14 Eze22:26
Guess it will get sorted out at His soon return.
