Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 26th October 2016 in Eschatology | eighth day,early church,new creation,baptism,resurrection,eschatology,sabbath,Lord's day,Festival of Booths
What is the “
eighth day” you may ask; surely we know there are only seven
days in a week!
But in ancient times, Sun
day – which was also known as the first
day of the week, was also referred to as the
eighth day by Christians.
This
day was considered a holy
day from the earliest of times by Christians (despite some weak arguments that Constantine, or the Pope, “changed the Sabbath” some 400 years later), and this was because it was the
day on which Christ rose from the dead!
I will make a beginning of the
eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. For that reason, also, we keep the
eighth day with joyfulness, the
day on which Jesus rose aga...