God has not asked people to remember two days a week for Sabbath observance. Everyone is asked to "remember to keep holy" the 24 hours from sunset to sunset as the Sabbath reaches them. But yes, it does take THE Sabbath two days to give all the inhabitants of the earth 24 hours of Sabbath blessedness.

We are now advancing the conversation into the "dateline" debates again.

When does a day begin?

A day is measured by one rotation of the earth on it's axis.

We know each day circles the earth, as the point on earth where you live moves into the shadow and darkness and then rotates on its axis around to face the sun.

No matter where one is in the world, they will experience 24 hours of Sunday, 24 hours of Monday, 24 hours of Tuesday, 24 hours of Wednesday, 24 hours of Thursday, 24 hours of Friday and 24 hours Sabbath as the earth's rotation brings each day to them.

But where does it begin? Where does it end? A ball has no real "beginning and ending".

It's back to the "dateline" question.

On earth's globe -- one point is regarded as the "center" point. (The center of civilization in a sense)

Right now that "center point" is acknowledged as Greenwich, England. Determined at a time in history when the "sun never set on British Empire". Though at creation the center point of civilization would have been the Garden of Eden. The "day line" or "dateline", the place where the day begins (and ends) is on the opposite side of the globe from the "center of civilization" point.

I personally believe (and I don't expect you to agree) but from the Genesis one account, I believe the earth had just one huge continent at the end of the third day of creation. Science seems to confirm that once there was only one huge land mass. The
Americas were attached to Europe and Africa.
Genesis says the water was gathered in one place, the dry land appeared. Eden was planted "eastward" possibly somewhat east of the center of that huge continent.

The day began at the outer eastern edge, or eastern coast, of the huge continent and moved westward (as it does today) until it reached the western edge or coast. The "day line" was in ocean, as it is in the Pacific Ocean today.

Since originally civilization spread out from Eden, moving both east and west, they probably didn't even know there was such a thing as a "day line", they measured time by the sun, and days by the cycle of dark and light.

During the flood the land mass was broken up into continents, but the same general principle applies. People radiated out from the point where the ark landed -- the day line is on the opposite side of the globe -- somewhere in the Pacific. Until Magellan sailed around the world, no one was even aware that there was a dateline. They measured the days by the sun.

We have Biblical confirmation as to which day is the seventh day in the middle east. That same day stretched east and west from the middle east without any controversy as "which day it was" as it was governed by the setting sun -- the same as it is today.

After the dispersion, the Jews didn't have any trouble knowing what day was the Sabbath, even though some lived hundreds of miles east or west of the original homeland. The day is defined by a period of darkness and light.




It is only as one crosses the Pacific Ocean that one discovers that indeed there is a dateline. It's when Magellan sailed around the world that it was discovered that the day began on the east "coast" of earth's original land mass, before the day ended on the west coast, but it didn't change what day it was on the main land.

There still is no controversy as to what day it is on the continents of earth -- it's only the tiny Islands in the Pacific; as we don't know where exactly in the Pacific the dateline resides.

All of the above when all the 4th commandment is asking is that the last day of the week be a day of rest; and that SDA should behave themselves properly and not spend the day ridiculing those who worship God on Wednesdays.

Who is ridiculing people worshipping God on Wednesdays? (or any other day) We need to be walking with God every day, every day should find us worshipping God. Also you can take off work on any day to rest, if you need rest. Nothing wrong with that. But we, human beings, can't transfer the solemnity God placed on the Sabbath, from THE Seventh day, to any day of our choosing.

But Wednesday is NOT the last day of the Biblical week. It is the 4th day of the Biblical week.

The above post, written by me, which you quoted, was NOT answering your post, it was answering Kland's question (sorry for not making that clear)
Kland originally asked -- when, or where, do you think a day begins?
Which he actually first asked you -- but received no answer.

We were talking about the SABBATH of scripture -- the day God blessed and sanctified and set apart for us to come apart and rest in Him, and delight ourselves in Him in a special way!
That day isn't just any day of the week. It's a special day -- a blessed day, for scripture tells us God specially blessed and sanctified it, and asked us to remember it to keep it holy.

A day when we do NOT rely on our works, either for our living or our salvation, but spend the day KNOWING it is God that loves us, cares for us, and sanctifies us.

It seems to me you, James, have only seen the 7th day Sabbath as a burden, not a blessing -- maybe it stands in the way of your job -- I don't know.


But I do know that the more I walk with Christ, the more I realize what a blessing the Sabbath is on a very personal level. God is good -- we need to trust in Him to take care of us.

The Sabbath hours are now approaching in this part of the world -- some are already in the Sabbath hours --
May you all have a blessed Sabbath day!!! God bless.

We know each day circles the earth ...

Every command has as much authority as the one commanding. The holiness of the Sabbath is derived from He who gave it.

Is the holiness of the day and the blessing of God so flimsy that humans can declare it to be unholy through choosing another day? This would bring God too low. Are humans holy that we can sanctify another day as holy? This would assume us to be too high.

We honor the Sabbath set by God not simply because it is a law, or because there's wages associated with the breaking of it, but because we are honoring God who blessed not only the Sabbath, but in giving it to us also blessed us.

You have it all upside down.
[list][*]The commandment does NOT say, "Remember Saturday because it is holy ..." as if Saturday were inherently holy in and of itself and therefore given authority over people to bring them into judgment over whether they approached the day looking solemn or not.

Rather, the commandment says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy ...." meaning that the day derives its state from the (un)holiness of people's actions during its stateless hours, hours that are as stateless as any other during the week.

As said in your reply to kland, everybody has their own Sabbath day on a round earth.