By Frank M. Walker, from a tract by Raymond Clark, D.D.
“Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city,” Revelation 22:14.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” John 8:32.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God. I will also forget thy children,” Hosea 4:6.
“…here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,” Revelation 14:12.
It seems that most mainstream Christians cannot fully grasp the tremendously important role God’s Holy Sabbath has played in church history. For instance, what part did the Sabbath play in the Reformation? The reformers paid a terrible price for their rejection of the seventh-day Sabbath and for their refusal to accept it as an article of revolt against the Catholic Church. They flatly rejected the Sabbath rest of the Scriptures. They claimed to follow the written word only (the Bible as we now call it), and to refuse the traditions of the Church. (Sunday is a tradition of the Roman Church that has not one text word of divine authority.)
Martin Luther was not the staunch advocate of truth that many suppose. He is highly praised for claiming to follow the Scriptures only. He stated that he was discarding all tradition. He and the reformers (so-called) were challenged at the termination of the Council of Trent by the Archbishop of Reggio. He said all their claims of discarding tradition were false as long as they retained Sunday. This rejection of the seventh-day Sabbath was also a tradition instituted by the Catholic Church. This change in the day of worship is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures.
Sabbath Truth Presented, But Rejected by Luther