Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition....
2 Thessalonians 2:3
"History shows that when the “falling away” came, and the
festival day of the sun was adopted and christened, the Sabbath was still formally retained as a rest day, and Sunday was observed by professed believers after the manner of the heathen, not as a day of rest, but as Tertullian says, writing about AD 200, as a day of special mirth and license.
With the growth of apostasy even a formal recognition of
the Sabbath ceased in the great body of the worldly church,
and by the Council of Laodicea (about AD 361) the body of believers who kept the Sabbath of the Lord and refused to follow the lead of apostasy were anathematized." E.J. Waggoner
With the growth of apostasy even a formal recognition of
the Sabbath ceased in the great body of the worldly church,
and by the Council of Laodicea (about AD 361) the body of believers who kept the Sabbath of the Lord and refused to follow the lead of apostasy were anathematized." E.J. Waggoner
