The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-06
The Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, General Overseer

itish Sabbath, is the one great hobby of this
peculiar church. To them, the keeping of
Saturday is the sum of all righteousness,
because the keeping of Saturday, the seven
tn day, was given to Israel in the fourth
of the ten commandments These Seventh
Day Adventists make the word command
ment, wherever found in the Bible, refer
to the fourth commandment of the ten.
For instance, John "a reads:
He that saith, know Him, and keepeth
not His commandments, is liar and the
truth is not in him."
Now, note the Seventh Day Adventist's
way of reading and teaching this wonderful
passage:
"He that saith, know Him, and keepeth
not His Sabbath commandment, is liar,
and the truth is not in him. .
Thus they change the word command
ments" in the passage to their tradition
Sabbath commandment and thus falsify
the Word Of God.
Another great passage with them is
Revelation 22:14:
BLESSED are they that do His command
ments
They change the word commandments"
to the singular again, and add Sabbath"
and read it as follows:
BLESSED are they that do His Sabbath
commandment that they may have right to
the tree of life, and may enter in through
the gates into the city.
Their preachers are so densely ignorant
that they do not know that the proper and
correct translation of this passage reads:
IL, A. -
that they may have the right to come to the
tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates of the city"
The thought is that men and women
have their robes washed in the blood of the
Lamb, in order to bring them salvation
rather than by the DOING of any COM
mandments. Men are not saved by obeying
or doing commandments, or by works, but
by the Grace of God, when we simply be-
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and wash
our robes
Some legalist, like our present Seventh
Day Adventists, was not satisfied with the
Word of God and so changed this passage,
and thus puts men under law rather than
under grace.
Under separate cover, am sending you
copy Of the LEAVES OF HEALING Of Sept
ember IA, 1918, in which you will find an
article by myself entitled, "Bible Nuts for
Seventh Dayists to Crack - If They Cam,
in which | show why Christians are not to
keep Saturday, the seventh day, the last
day Of the week, but the first day.
These Sabbatarians, or Seventh Day Ad--
ventists, constantly overlook a fundamental
principle of Biblical Interpretation, namely,
the proper division of the Word of God.
They fail to recognize the statement in
| Corinthians O:32, that part of the Bible
applies to the Jew, part to the Gentle, and
part to the Church of God Thus, they
take the Scriptures applicable to the Jew,
or Israel, and apply them continually to the
Church.
The Bible says again and again that in
the crucihxion Christ became the end of
the law (the law embraced the Sabbath,
even as it did circumcision) for righteous
ness to everyone that believeth. The Bible
further says that the Jews themselves could
not keep the law of Moses, and that God
foresaw that they never could 1t was given
to them to show them their inability to be
saved by law requirements, and thus to
show them the necessity of the coming Re-
deemer, Who would keep the law for them
and thus redeem them from their failure
under the law. See Acts 1910.
In this Fifteenth Chapter of Acts, ques-
ton arose, whether it was necessary to cir
cumcise those who accepted Christ from
among the Gentiles and compel them to keep
the law of Moses, including circumcision
and the seventh day Sabbath In the con-
ference upon this matter after various ar
guments, decision was arrived at That
decision may be seen in Verses Nineteen,
Twenty, Twenty three, Twenty-four, and
Twenty to Thirty-one. Especially
note the statement in Verse Twenty -four,
in which the Apostle enphatically states
that they gave no such commandments for
the Gentle Christians to be circumcised and
to be under the law Of Moses, including
seventh day Sabbath keeping.
It is a significant fact that everyone of
the ten commandments is positively re-
affirmed in the New Testament, except the
fourth, concerning keeping the seventh day
Sabbath.
Read Romans 10 :8-1O Ephesians OIL, 2,
James 5:12, l John SCI. Colossians 2:16,
II plainly declares that keeping the seventh
day Sabbath is not binding upon Christians,
Gods people, since the crucihxion.
Those who keep the seventh day Sabbath
venerate and worship dead Christ, for He
was dead and in Joseph's tomb every mo-