The Seventh Day - Revelations from the Lost Pages of History - 5 Part Series

The Seventh Day - Revelations from the Lost Pages of History - 5 Part Series



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* Summary - Sweeping documentary on the Biblical origin and history of the Seventh Day Sabbath. Hosted by Hal Holbrook.





Overview - Part One

1. Origins

Views of human beginnings from Babylonian and Aztec myths as well as from the Bible and the Koran.



2. The Evolution Explanation

Darwin's theory of evolution challenges traditional view of origins.



3. Beyond Chance

A case against blind chance as a logical explanation of human origins.



4. Intelligent Designer

The Bible's portrayal of Creation and the Creator.



5. The Architecture of Time

The week and the Sabbath in the structure of human life.



6. Point of Contact

The weekly Sabbath in man's relationship to God.



7. A Day for All Mankind

The universal and perpetual purpose for the weekly day of rest.



8. Unholy Sabbath

National disaster strikes the "chosen people" due, in part, to their neglect of the Sabbath.



9. Sabbath Around the World

Somehow the concept of Sabbath extended into the culture and language of many peoples.



10. Reform

Revival of Sabbath observance among the Jews who returned from exile results in acts of heroism and tragedy.





Overview - Part Two

1. Religion in Rome

A summary view of Roman religions during the time of Jesus.



2. The Jewish Sabbath

Strict Sabbath-keeping marked the Jews as unique.



3. The Sabbath Reformer

The Bible portrays Jesus as a revolutionary Sabbath keeper.



4. Prophecy

Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and the continuing Christian observance of the Sabbath.



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

Constantine legalizes Sunday as the weekly day of rest in the Roman Empire.



10. Sabbath Survives

Proof of seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath observance into the middle of the fourth century.





Overview - Part Three

1. Celtic Christianity

The religious background to the story of St. Patrick.



2. The Real Patrick

Once a slave in Ireland, Patrick responds to a divine call and returns to the Emerald Isle as a missionary.



3. Celtic Sabbath

Saturday observed as Sabbath by Celtic Christians.



4. Margaret of Scotland

Margaret comes from England, Marries King Malcolm, and attempts to reform Sunday observance in Scotland.



5. Assault on the Sabbath

The Church of Rome promotes the Sabbath (Saturday) fast as an expression of anti-Jewish sentiments.



6. Power Struggle

The Sabbath fast becomes a key issue in the rivalry between church leaders in Rime and Constantinople.



7. Deceptions

The "letter from heaven" threatens Sunday-breakers.



8. Fight for Truth

Resistance to church/state authority brings tragedy.



9. John Wycliffe: Champion of Conscience

An Oxford professor focuses new attention on the Bible as the supreme authority of Christian faith and practice.



10. The Lollards

They take Wycliffe's views to England and beyond.



11. The Church vs. the Bible

The church-state establishment opposes the spread of the Bible and the ideas of Wycliffe and the Lollards.





Overview - Part Four

1. Russian Reformation

This Sabbathkeeping movement reached to the highest levels of Russian society and led to fiery executions in Moscow's Red Square.



2. Sabbath vs. Sunday in Ethiopia

Jesuit missionaries succeeded in converting the Emperor to Roman Catholicism, but attempts to quash Sabbath-keeping resulted in civil war.



3. Inquisition

Civil and religious authorities united to root out "heresy."



4. Purging the Church in Spain

The "Catholic Monarchs", Ferdinand and Isabella, used the Spanish Inquisition to rid their church of Jewish heresies.



5. Portugal Exports the Inquisition

Inquisitors carried their campaign of religious persecution into the new territories of Portugal's expanding empire.



6. Authority: Sola Sciptura?

Protestant Reformers insisted on the authority of the sacred Scriptures, while Roman Catholic leaders defended their church's stand on Tradition.



7. Anabaptists

Persecuted by Protestants and Catholics alike, these radical reformers stood for strict adherence to biblical teachings. Among them were champions of the seventh-day Sabbath.



8. The Seventh-day Sabbath in Scandinavia

Catholic leaders in Norway and Denmark tried to stamp out Sabbath observance among Catholic and Lutheran church members.



9. The Seventh-day Men

While many Puritan preachers promoted strict Sunday observance, other prominent Englishmen called for a return to the Sabbath of the Ten Commandments.





Overview - Part Five

1. Roger Williams and Religious Liberty

This nonconformist preacher established the Rhode Island colony on the foundation of freedom of conscience for everyone.



2. To the New World

A Sabbath-keeping Baptist couple emigrate from England to Rhode Island and help establish the first Seventh Day Baptist congregation in America.



3. A Song in the Wilderness

Conrad Beisel and his followers establish a Sabbath-keeping community on Pennsylvania's remote Cocalico Creek -- the Ephrata Cloister.



4. A Voice from Germany

Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf directs the Moravian mission to the North American Indians and inspires his community to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.



5. Advent Movement

A Seventh Day Baptist lady shares her Sabbath beliefs with an early Adventist minister, and this leads to the establishment of the Seventh-day Adventist church.



6. Kingdom of Heavenly Peace

19th-century China is shaken by the Taiping REvolution, a huge peasant revolt is shaped, in part, by biblical principles including observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.



7. Eskimo Prophet

In Alaska's Kobuk River valley a man named Maniilaq learns about "seventh-day resting" from the one he calls "the Grandfather".



8. The Shining One

Deep in the South American rain forest Chief Owkwa learns about the Sabbath from a bright celestial visitor.



9. Africa

The Sabbath has deep cultural roots in many parts of this continent, including Ghana and Kwazulu Natal.



10. Saving Sunday

The secularization of Sunday in 19th-century America leads some political and religious leaders to promote laws to protect Sunday as a national day of rest and worship.



11. Sabbath on Trial

People who observe Saturday as the Sabbath instead of Sunday often face financial hardship and legal trouble because of their beliefs.



12. People of the Sabbath

Although still a small minority, seventh-day Sabbath-keepers are increasing in number around the world.



13. Challenges

Seventh-day Adventist theologians respond to critics who contend that observing the seventh-day Sabbath is legalistic or irrelevant for Christians today.



14. Eternal Sabbath

Bible prophecy points to the Sabbath as part of God's plan for a perfect world in the eternal future.