Tim
Puritan Board Graduate
This just occurred to me.
Some advocate a sunset to sunset Sabbath observance, instead of midnight to midnight. The are also other views that are based on sunrise or sunset.
How would this be possible in the arctic? I am sure that there are believers in the Arctic regions. In the summer, you might get "trapped" in a Sabbath that lasts for weeks. In the winter, you might never have a Sabbath for several months.
Now, this would not have been a problem for those living before Christ, in the broad region we know as the Holy Land, since that is a mid-latitude area of the world. God's people were confined to that geographical area, so there would be no problem to observe a sunset to sunset practice.
Not so now. There are believers everywhere. To me, this supports midnight to midnight.
Some advocate a sunset to sunset Sabbath observance, instead of midnight to midnight. The are also other views that are based on sunrise or sunset.
How would this be possible in the arctic? I am sure that there are believers in the Arctic regions. In the summer, you might get "trapped" in a Sabbath that lasts for weeks. In the winter, you might never have a Sabbath for several months.
Now, this would not have been a problem for those living before Christ, in the broad region we know as the Holy Land, since that is a mid-latitude area of the world. God's people were confined to that geographical area, so there would be no problem to observe a sunset to sunset practice.
Not so now. There are believers everywhere. To me, this supports midnight to midnight.