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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (863267)	6/7/2015 5:45:25 PM
From: POKERSAM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584617

A day, when referring to one of the seven making up one week, consist of an evening and a morning. Many Sabbath keepers for various reasons have kept and do keep the Sabbath from 6:00 PM Friday to 6 PM Saturday. Many stress that it is the Spirit of the act rather than the exact second of sunrise or sunset that is important. When does evening begin? Is it as the sun begins to wane? When does Morning begin? IMO these are questions with no exact answer for every place and time. The Savior died just after "the ninth hour," Matthew 27:45-50. During the time of the spring equinox, sunrise is about 6:00 AM. Counting from sunrise, the ninth hour would be about 3:00 PM. Christ was crucified at the time of the Spring equinox at the Feast of Passover. Jesus said "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" John 11:9-10. There are twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness at the time of the equinoxes. During the summer, there are more than twelve hours of daylight. During the winter there are less than twelve hours of daylight. Twelve hours of daylight is the median. Now consider that in the Polar regions the sun rises and sets once per year. It would make sense to accept the twelve hours Christ referred to as the length of a morning and 12 hours as the length of an evening. Stated another way it would be 12 hours in the day and twelve hours in the night.This was the case in the time and the place of the Passover when Christ was crucified. This explains why many sabbath keepers of the past and present use 6 PM Friday to 6 PM Saturday throughout the year and regardless of latitudinal location as the beginning and ending of the Sabbath. The Belmont Stakes post time was 6:35 PM. For many Sabbath keepers this was after the Sabbath was over. Not that it makes one twit of difference to me or one twit of difference to the horse. For further study of the true meaning of the Sabbath in the New Testament see: biblegateway.com Here you will learn from the words of Christ that it was the spirit of the matter and not the jot and tittle of the Pharisees that was important. Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: IMO in the life of a Cristian there is no instruction to keep the Sabbath. If you believe there is then you should keep it, It is a matter of not violating one's own conscience, Paul teaches: Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.