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Old 06-11-2007, 07:07 PM
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What I don't understand is how Sabbath observance became abstaining from "worldly recreations" (WCF), i.e. watching television, or playing sports that are otherwise lawful. Can someone explain to me the biblical justification for this?
Isa 58:13 "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

Isa 58:14 then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
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A reoccurring thought:

Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.