When Jesus was Resurrected, Didn He Change the Sabbath?
Various texts are used to support this view. A very commonly used one is found in Hebrews 10:9, “He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.” Of course there are other misused texts, but, by showing the problems with this one, we will address the principles of the others, setting the whole matter straight. The text quoted above does not refer to Christ as changing His holy day from Saturday to Sunday. Paul (the assumed author) never dreamed when he wrote this scripture that a person in the twentieth century would misunderstand his point. Here Paul states only that Christ supersedes the first, or earthly sanctuary service, by His own death on the cross, thereby making unnecessary the sacrifice of animals which pointed forward to the death of Jesus (the Lamb of God). This is the clear significance of the temple veil being torn from top to bottom by unseen hands at the moment of Christ’s death. The sanctuary in Heaven thus annulled the earthly sanctuary. The earthly was go
