Another excuse Sunday worshipers use to condone their keeping of Sunday service, is that Paul asked the believers in Corinth to set aside their offerings on the first day of the week so that they may be collected. They say that this proves the believes were meeting together on the first day of the week.
1 Corinthians 16:2 — On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
Now we have to understand when you read the whole chapter in context these collections mentioned here were special offerings for the church at Jerusalem (1 Corinthians 16:3). In order to make the people prepare in advance a gift which they had already decided to give, the Apostle Paul said that they should set aside a sum of their income, saving it up on the first day of every week, so that it could be ready as a generous gift, not as a grudging obligation, when he came to Corinth (2 Corinthians 9:1-5). “Set aside” meant that Paul wanted them to prepare in advance so that when he came to collect the contribution it did not feel like a grudging obligation.
“On the first day of every week, you should set aside a sum of money…” This words tells us that on the first day of the week (Sunday) they worked to get their income, rather then worship. There was no weekly paychecks at that time
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The Lords Day in Revelation 1:10 is not Sunday. Why?
Has Jehovah or Jesus, our Lord, ever said, ‘Sunday is My Day’? God called the seventh day (Saturday) ‘My Sabbath’ (Ezekiel 20:12). And Jesus also said that He is Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28). So, it is clear that the Lord’s Day is the Sabbath (Saturday).
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