Overview — Part Two
1. Religion in Rome
A summary view of Roman religions during the time of Jesus.
2. The Jewish Sabbath
Strict Sabbathkeeping marked the Jews as unique.
3. The Sabbath Reformer
The Bible protrays Jesus as a revolutionary Sabbathkeeper.
4. Prophecy
Jesus predicted that His followers would be still be keeping the Sabbath at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
5. Christians and Jews
The two groups shared a view of a personal God and of the weekly Sabbath, but Christians found new meaning in the holy day.
6. The Christian Sabbath
Clear evidence for Christian observance of the seventh-day Sabbath in the first century AD.
7. Sundaykeepers
Second-century Christians in Alexandria and Rome begin observing the first day of the week instead of the Sabbath.
8. The Day of the Sun
Roman sun worship and its link to Christian Sunday observance.
9. Sunday Law
Emperor Constantine legalizes Sunday as the weekly day of rest in the Roman Empire.
10. The Sabbath Survives
Proof of seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath observance into the middle of the fourth century.