IN the NEWS - Secular News Outlet Defends Biblical Sabbath

"Occasionally, the secular media—often dismissive of the Holy Scriptures—ends up proclaiming truth more boldly than today’s churches. As Jesus declared, “If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out” (Luke 19:40). In a rare moment of truth and honest journalism, a major television network recently aired a report openly acknowledging what many pastors and religious leaders refuse to admit: Sunday worship is not rooted in the Bible but in pagan Rome’s veneration of the sun—Dies Solis, the “Day of the Sun.”

TeleVen, a contraction of the words ‘Television Venezuela,’ is a national television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela.
On April 6, 2025, TeleVen published an article titled “Do You Know Why Sunday is a Day of Rest? and explained how Sunday replaced Saturday as the day of rest and worship:
• “Sunday is usually considered a day of rest, however, this was not always the case; in fact, it was originally considered the first day of

the week. So why did it become a day to relax? Here’s the scoop.”
• “According to Biblical writings, we are to observe rest on the seventh day of the week, just as God did after creating the world. However, in ancient times, Saturday, the Sabbath, was considered the seventh day, not Sunday.”
• “Despite this, in Ancient Rome, Sunday was especially beloved, called ‘Dies Solis’—Day of the Sun. On this day, devotees dedicated themselves to worshiping the pagan deity known as Sol Invictus. Later, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great united the two traditions during his reign, and then Julius Caesar decreed the aforementioned Dies Solis as a mandatory civil holiday.”
• “This change was endorsed a thousand years later by the Catholic Church. ‘It pleases the Church of God that the religious celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to the Lord’s day – Sunday,’ they announced at the Council of Trent.”
• “For this reason, in almost all countries with Christian roots, manual labor, commerce, and dancing were prohibited on Sundays.”

This public confession, coming not from theologians but from the secular media, tears the veil off this unbiblical Sunday worship tradition. " AdventMessenger