I am not sure if this question has been asked yet. If it has, please point me in the right direction.
Adventists teach that "Nowhere does the Bible command us to observe any weekly day other than the Sabbath. It delcares no other weekly day blessed or holy." (SDAB p. 254) This is false.
In Leviticus it says :
*The LORD said to Moses,
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"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap your harvest, you shall bring a **sheaf of the first fruits **of your harvest to the priest,
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1 who shall wave the sheaf before the LORD that it may be acceptable for you. On the day after the sabbath the priest shall do this. 12
On this day, when your sheaf is waved, you shall offer to the LORD for a holocaust an unblemished yearling lamb.
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Its cereal offering shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine.
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2 Until this day, when you bring your God this offering, you shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels. This shall be a perpetual statute for you and your descendants wherever you dwell.
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"Beginning with the day after the sabbath, the day on which you bring the wave-offering sheaf, you shall count seven full weeks,
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3 and then on the day after the seventh week, the fiftieth day, you shall present the new cereal offering to the LORD.
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For the wave offering of your first fruits to the LORD, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven.
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Besides the bread, you shall offer to the LORD a holocaust of seven unblemished yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams, along with their cereal offering and libations, as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
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One male goat shall be sacrificed as a sin offering, and two yearling lambs as a peace offering.
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The priest shall wave the bread of the first fruits and the two lambs as a wave offer ing before the LORD; these shall be sacred to the LORD and belong to the priest.
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On this same day you shall by proclamation have a sacred assembly, and no sort of work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute for you and your descendants wherever you dwell. *
In the New Testament, St. Paul teaches us that the first fruits of the harvest, the first sheaf, represented the Risen Jesus.
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7 8 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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9 For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being.
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For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life,
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but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ;
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then comes the end, 10 when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power. *
Can anyone shed some light on this? To me, this shows Adventists are in error on the prefigure of Sunday.
Sincerely,
Maria1212