Worship should be a daily event

To the editor:
So, the full-page ads came out this week again, saying if you worship the Lord on Sunday, you have taken the mark of the beast.
All across the USA, in the major newspapers, those who believe this doctrine spent millions of dollars hoping to warn people and catch a few new members in their church.
With that said, the disciples of Moses teach that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday by Constantine, 321 A.D., and by the Catholic Church, 364 A.D. But history says otherwise.
In Volume 1, pages 63 to 82, of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, who lived at the time of the Apostles, 30 to 107 A.D., he, like Polycarp, was a disciple of St. John and one who should know Christians practice among the early Christians as to the Sabbath.
He wrote: “And after the observance of the Sabbath (that the Jews kept), let every friend of Christ keep the Lord’s day as a festival, the resurrection day the queen and the chief of all the days of the week, on which our lives sprung up again, and victory over death was obtained by Christ. It is absurd to speak of Jesus Christ with the tongue, and to cherish in the mind a Judaism which has come to an end …”
Eusebius, the father of church history, who made a history of the time between the birth of Christ and Constantine, and who lived from 265 to 340 A.D., says “From the beginning, Christians assembled on the first day of the week, called by them the Lord’s day, for the purpose of worship, reading of the scriptures, to preach and to celebrate the Lord’s supper, the first day of the week (Sunday) on which the Saviour obtained victory over death. Therefore, it has the pre-eminence, first in rank, and is more honorable than the Jewish Sabbath.”
In the “Teachings of the Twelve Apostles,” Volume VII, page 381, written about 80 A.D., we read “But every Lord’s day (Sunday) do ye gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving.”
Origen, about 200 A.D., wrote “John the Baptist was born to make ready a people for the Lord, a people for Him at the end of the covenant now grown old, which is the end of the Sabbath. It is one of the marks of a perfect Christian to keep the Lord’s day.”
And the list goes on and on.
We know the mark of the Beast (Revelation 13 etc.) has not been distributed yet. We do know who the anti-Christ is. According to First and Second John, the anti-Christ is anyone or any church who denies that Jesus Christ was God Almighty in the flesh (read Hebrews 1:8; Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7; Micah 5:2; John 1:1-2; and Revelation 1:8-11).
In Philippians 2:6, in commentaries this verse says, Jesus, “who subsisting in the form of God (by which He from eternity had appeared to the inhabitants of Heaven) yet, not thinking that this equality with God should be clung to or retained, Jesus emptied Himself of it, so as to assume the form of a servant and become like man!”
Instead of fussing and arguing over what day we should go to church on, why don’t we as believers just worship Jesus every day? Because Jesus is lord! Jesus has risen from the dead and He is the almighty king of kings and lord of lords.
Jesus is God in the flesh as He dies on the cross. Jesus is God when he ascended to heaven. Jesus is God now in the heavens. He said he was God (Revelation 1:8). Believe it and be saved.
In Jesus’ name,
Phill Jellison
Portland