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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

Seven Days of the Week

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up your pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

From Los Angeles, California, we present the program of The Voice of Prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these latter days, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

And now we invite you to listen to our broadcast and share with us the mutual blessing and inspiration of this hour together.

God won her story, counted once among the lost, yet 1 came down from heaven's glory, Saving us at all for cost.

Will you surrender to this Savior, to His step the humbly bow?

Our heavenly Father, He now, evident heaven interceding.

Our Heavenly Father, Thou art the Almighty Maker of heaven and earth.

We come to thee through thy beloved Son, whom thou hast given to live our example and to die for our redemption, who himself loved us and gave himself for us.

Take away all iniquity, Receive us graciously and love us freely, as thou hast promised in thy word.

In this troubled world, bring the triumph of human freedom, and speak peace to the tempest of war, that thy word may be proclaimed in all the earth through Jesus Christ our Lord.

A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us who wait before thee, near to the heart of God.

Greetings to our radio friends everywhere.

Today's broadcast will prove different and we believe challenging.

God's Holy Word is full of truth, you know, some portions of which have been revealed to all of us and other portions perhaps concealed from some of us.

We think of the old church covenant made by Christians 3 centuries ago, I promise to walk in all God's ways, made known or to be made known to us.

And we think of the words of old pastor John Robinson to the pilgrims as they departed from Holland to find a home in the new world.

I am very confident, said he, that the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.

I wonder, friends, could that be equally true today?

I for light, for Bible light, should be like old King David's.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Open my eyes that I may see glimpses of truth thou hast for me.

Place in my hands a wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free.

Silently now I wait for thee, ready my God, thy will to see.

Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine.

Open my ears that I may hear voices of truth, found senders clear.

I wait for thee, ready my God, I will to see.

In the first place, the word week comes from the same root as the word 7.

It really means a period of 7 days, not 10 days or 5 days or 3 days, but 7 days.

So we see that the word week really signifies 7.

Where did the week start and who started it?

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the week being a period of 7 days has no reference whatever to the motions of the stars, the sun, or the moon.

Those who reject the mosaic recital will be at a loss to assign to it an origin having much semblance of probability." And that's certainly true.

The free running week is not connected with any natural division of time, such as the month or year.

As we trace the records back through the centuries, they lead us closer and closer to the Bible story, which is that God created all things, including man, in 6 days, and then rested on the seventh day, after which he blessed and sanctified it, thus setting it apart for a holy use.

This is clearly stated in the first and second chapters of Genesis.

It is all summed up in the first 3 verses of the second chapter as follows.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

1500 years later we find Noah measuring time by a period of 7 days, Genesis 8.10.

And nearly 700 years later still we read of a young man very much in love who had to wait 7 days in order to be married, Genesis 29.27.

Smith's Bible Dictionary, page 745, says of the week, "...its antiquity is so great, its observance so widespread, that it must probably be thrown back as far as the creation of man.

The week and the Sabbath are thus as old as man himself.

According to the Bible, the week with its 7 days was made at creation, and that's a long time ago.

Nearly 6000 years have passed since God put 7 days in the week, And the week, friends, then came into existence as an act of God over 2000 years before there were any Jews as a nation on the earth.

It has been suggested by some the Sabbath was made by or for the Jews, but you see, According to this, this idea cannot be true.

In the beginning, and in the Bible references, the days of the week were numbered from 1 to 7, or the Sabbath.

But when the people drifted away from the worship of the true God, the days of the week were dedicated by the Chaldeans, Egyptians, and others, to the sun, moon, and planets.

These heathen peoples worshiped as gods the sun, moon, and the 5 planets visible to the naked eye, which together were known as the 7 planets.

They assigned each hour of the day to 1 of these planetary gods in rotation.

The first hour of the first day, as we have it now, was assigned to the sun, so that day was called Sunday.

And so they went through the whole twenty-four hours of the day, dedicating each hour to 1 of the 7 planets in the order that they were supposed to have in their revolutions in the heavens.

And when they came to the first hour of the second day, it was found by this system to correspond to the moon.

So that day was called Moons Day or Monday.

And so on through all the days of the week, the names were given by pagan astrologers who worshipped the heavenly bodies.

And now in this modern age, these names still appear in the days of the week.

Most of them change, however, into Anglo-Saxon form.

In this broadcast we can't take time to explain in detail just how the names of the planet gods were changed to our present names, Mars Day to Tuesday, for instance, but a book by Robert Odom entitled Sunday in Roman Paganism, just from the press lately, makes it all plain and most intensely interesting.

Dio Cassius, the Roman historian, says that Pompey captured Jerusalem by attacking it on the day of Saturn, which was the same as the Sabbath observed by the Jews.

On that day the Jews would not fight, so the city was taken.

So we have the identity of Saturday with the Sabbath made certain from that time to the present, because the millions of Jews still consider the seventh day to be holy, and it still coincides with the day called Saturday in our calendar.

Another thing to remember in this subject is that Julius Caesar made a scientific adjustment to the calendar in the year 46 B.C.

And this same calendar, with a slight change regarding the months, which had nothing whatever to do with the continuity of the days of the week, is the very calendar that is on your desk or that hangs on your kitchen wall right at this moment.

And so, friends, we have the universal fact of the existence and custom of the Jews all over the earth.

We have the testimony of history and the scientific accuracy of the calendar.

To this we must add also the records and practice of the Roman Catholic Church in considering Sunday the first day of the week, the day on which Christ arose from the dead, the Greek Catholics and Protestants who also agree with this idea, and the Mohammedans who also recognize the week by observing Friday as the sixth day.

Now let us go back to the beginning and work forward to modern times.

Genesis 2, 3 we have already read, where God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it at the end of the creation week.

Now, the lives of only 2 men bridge the years from Adam to Abraham.

So the wonderful record of creation and the story of Eden would be passed on from father to son.

We are told that Adam lived 930 years, or until Lamech, the father of Noah, was 56 years of age.

Lamech lived until Shem, the son of Noah, was 93, and Shem lived until Abraham was 150 years old.

How eager the people must have been for nearly a thousand years to see the first man, to talk with Adam, who had himself talked with God, And to hear from his lips a description of that paradise in which he had lived, to hear from the lips of 1 created on the sixth day, the story of creation week, and the very words of the Creator when he set apart his rest day to a holy use.

And this knowledge was handed down through the generations.

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