Vehicle dealers who keep seventh-day Sabbath from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday may operate on Sundays instead.

As an evangelical church, it follows the Bible's teachings that God sanctified the seventh-day Sabbath, and the new moons in addition to it.

For other uses, see Biblical Sabbath, Sabbath in seventh-day churches, Shabbat, High Sabbath, and Sabbath year.

Most people who observe first-day or seventh-day Sabbath regard it as having been instituted as a " perpetual covenant the people of Israel " and proselytes (,, ), a sign in respect for the day during which God rested after having completed Creation in six days (, ).

The New Testament epistles contain Sabbath teachings interpreted variously by Christians as affirming seventh-day rest, first-day worship, and / or freedom from legalistic requirements to observe days.

In the first centuries, the first day, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest was still observed by " almost all churches ".

According to classical sources, widespread seventh-day Sabbath rest by Gentile Christians was also the prevailing mode in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

Early Christian observance of both spiritual seventh-day Sabbath and Lord's Day assembly is evidenced in Ignatius's letter to the Magnesians ca.

Pseudo-Ignatius amplified this point by combining weekly observance of spiritual seventh-day Sabbath with the Lord's assembly: " Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness ....

The 1st-or 2nd-century Epistle of Barnabas or Pseudo-Barnabas on regards " Sabbaths of the present age " as unacceptable in favor of one spiritual seventh-day Sabbath that ushers in " the eighth day " and commencement of a new world.

Often first-day worship ( Sunday morning or Saturday night ) was practiced alongside observance of seventh-day Sabbath rest and was a widespread Christian tradition by the 2nd century ; over time, Sunday thus came to be known as Lord's Day and, later, a rest day.

Some church authorities opposed widespread seventh-day Sabbath observance as a Judaizing tendency.

Catholics count the prohibition of servile work as transferred from seventh-day Sabbath to Sunday ( 2175-6 ), but do not hinder participation in " ordinary and innocent occupations ".

The Bible records that the followers of Christ kept the seventh-day Sabbath that immediately followed the crucifixion of Jesus ().

The Worldwide Church of God ( Armstrongism ) taught seventh-day Sabbath observance.

The United Church of God teaches seventh-day Sabbath observance.

Justin Martyr, writing in the 2nd century, rejected the need to keep literal seventh-day Sabbath, arguing instead that " the new law requires you to keep the sabbath constantly.

Several Christian denominations, such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Seventh Day Baptists, and the True Jesus Church, observe seventh-day Sabbath.

Seventh Day Baptists are Christian Baptists who observe Sabbath on the seventh-day of the week in accord with their understanding of the Biblical Sabbath for the Judeo-Christian tradition ( Genesis 2: 2 – 3, Exodus 20: 8 ).

Mumford, for his part, arrived in Rhode Island in 1665, and was mentioned as an advocate for seventh-day Sabbath in many records of that time.

Other interpreters believe these references do not support the concept of transfer of the seventh-day rest, and some add that they do not sufficiently prove that Sunday observance was an established practice in the primitive New Testament church.

This was consistent with Constantine's personal position towards Jewry, which has been described by the primitive Christianity movement as being anti-Semitic, antinomian, and persecution of seventh-day observers.

However, in AD 363 a seventh-day Sabbath was prohibited by Canon 29 of the Council of Laodicea.

Garner Ted Armstrong ( February 9, 1930 – September 15, 2003 ) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of seventh-day Sabbath, holy days typically associated with the Jewish faith, and other observances derived from the Old Testament scriptures.

The second was the celebration of several holy days including the seventh-day Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the first centuries, Sunday, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest was still observed by " almost all churches ".

Often first-day worship ( Sunday morning or Saturday night ) was practiced alongside observance of seventh-day Sabbath rest and was a widespread Christian tradition by the 2nd century, attested in patristic writings of the 2nd century ; over time, Sunday thus came to be known as Lord's Day.

* Armstrong taught a form of Sabbatarianism, explaining that ; by creating the Sabbath ( on the seventh day of creation, through resting-not work ) God " HALLOWED the seventh-day of every week ( Ex.

Herbert W. Armstrong is inaccurately described by some of his critics, as well as by supporters of Christian Identity, as having supported Christian Identity, due to his belief in a modified form of British Israelism, and the fact that during his lifetime, he propounded observances favoured by many Christian Identity groups, such as seventh-day Sabbatarianism and biblical festivals.

This body teaches Theocratic government and teaches that the whole Bible is the inspired word of God ; salvation by accepting Jesus as Saviour ; the seventh-day Sabbath ; the nine gifts of the Spirit and five gifts of ministry ; and the post-tribulational premillennial return of Jesus Christ.

During the spring of 1845 Bates accepted the seventh-day Sabbath after reading a pamphlet by T. M. Preble.

The Church of God, International ( CGI ) is a seventh-day Sabbatarian Christian church currently headquartered in Tyler, Texas founded by evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong ( 1930-2003 ).

" Other early church fathers similarly saw weekly observance of seventh-day Sabbath sometimes followed the next day by Lord's Day assembly.

A strict adherence to the Royal Law, the Ten Commandments and in particular the seventh-day Sabbath, separation from the " world " by forming large communities in the jungle areas of Peru, under a movement called " Fronteras Vivas " leading Israelites back to farming and living off the land.

The Church of God at Jerusalem Acres observes the seventh-day ( Saturday ) Sabbath.

The General Conference of the Church of God ( Seventh-Day ), or simply CoG7, is a seventh-day Sabbath-keeping Christian denomination.

" Similarly, Irenaeus wrote that the Christian " will not be commanded to leave idle one day of rest, who is constantly keeping sabbath ", and Tertullian argued " that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all servile work always, and not only every seventh-day, but through all time ".

In Tonga, Seventh Day Adventists ( who usually observe seventh-day Sabbath ) observe Sabbath on an official Sunday due to an anomaly in the International Date Line which places the line east of Tonga ; as Tonga lies east of the meridian of 180 ° longitude, Sunday as observed in Tonga ( as with Kiribati, Samoa, and parts of Fiji and Tuvalu ) is considered for this purpose to be the same day as Saturday observed in most other places.

In comparable terms, earlier primitivist movements, including the Hussites, Anabaptists, Landmarkists and the Puritans, have been described as examples of restorationism, as have many seventh-day Sabbatarians.

Continental Baptist churches generally disagree with other Baptists in the Reformed tradition concerning the function of the moral law and the ten commandments in the Christian age, maintaining, for instance, the seventh-day Sabbath position that Christians have no obligation to observe the first day of the week as Christian Sabbath because of the fourth commandment.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that Biblical prophecy foretells an end time scenario in which the United States works in conjunction with the Catholic Church to mandate worship on a day other than seventh-day Sabbath ( Saturday ) as prescribed in the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20: 8-11 ), thereby bringing about a situation where one must choose for or against the Bible as the revealed will of God.

Doctrines of this church include the unity of one God ( Unitarianism ); the inspired infallible original texts of God's Word as the final authority of faith and practice ; receiving the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues ; the pre-millennial return of Christ ; observance of weekly seventh-day Sabbath, new moon Sabbaths, and feast days ( Pentecost, Unleavened Bread, First fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles ).

Bates is also credited with convincing James White and Ellen G. White of the validity of the seventh-day Sabbath.

Te Ua's followers identified themselves with the Jews, calling their ministers Teu ( Jews ) and accepted the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath.