Chapter 21: The Witnesses That Cannot Be Silenced

Before you decide, consider the witnesses. These are not preachers, theologians, or traditions, but witnesses that cannot be bribed, intimidated, or silenced.

Sabbath keepers through history (interactive timeline): https://theremnantthread.com/studies/sabbath-keepers

I. The Stone

God wrote the fourth commandment with His own finger.

"And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

Exodus 31:18

These words were written not by Moses, a prophet, or an angel, but by God Himself.

Of all the ways God could have delivered His law, He chose stone, making it permanent and unchangeable. What is carved in stone cannot be erased by papal decree.

Every other commandment (do not murder, do not steal, do not commit adultery) Christians accept as binding. Only the fourth commandment, the one God specifically wrote in stone, do they claim was "changed" or "fulfilled."

The stone testifies: What God wrote, man cannot unwrite.

II. The Word

Only one commandment begins with "Remember."

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."

Exodus 20:8

Why "Remember"?

Because God knew they would forget.

Before the forgetting happened, God embedded the warning in the commandment itself. Not "observe," not "keep"; "Remember." As if to say: They will try to make you forget this one. Don't let them.

For 1,700 years, the Church has worked to make Christians forget. Councils declared it abolished. Emperors made it illegal. Reformers rationalized the change. Theologians explained it away.

And still the commandment stands: "Remember."

The word testifies: God anticipated the forgetting before it happened.

III. The Enemy

The Roman Catholic Church admits everything, not under torture, not in secret, but openly, proudly, in print.

Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers:

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday."

The Catholic Mirror, September 1893:

"The Catholic Church, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."

Father Thomas Enright, 1889:

"The Bible says, 'Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.' The Catholic Church says: 'No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.' And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church!"

They call Sunday their "mark of authority" over Scripture.

The enemy testifies: When they tell you it's their mark, believe them.

IV. The Math

The numbers cannot be argued.

2.3 billion Christians × 52 Sundays × 0 biblical commands = infinite presumption.

Show me one verse. One command. One apostolic example where the day was changed. The math requires a dividend: something divided by something. Sunday worship is divided by nothing. It's undefined. It doesn't exist.

1,260 years predicted. 1,260 years fulfilled.

Daniel 7:25 foretold a power that would "think to change times and laws" and persecute the saints for "a time and times and the dividing of time" (1,260 prophetic days).

538 AD: The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church gained civil authority over Western Christianity. 1798 AD: Napoleon's general Berthier captured Pope Pius VI, ending papal temporal power.

538 + 1,260 = 1,798. The prophecy fulfilled to the year, not approximately but exactly.

The math testifies: Prophecy fulfilled cannot be unfulfilled.

V. The Blood

They died rather than worship on Sunday.

These are not theories or abstract arguments, but named witnesses with dates and methods of death.

For 1,260 years, The Roman Catholic Church hunted Sabbath-keepers across Europe. The Waldensians in the Alps. The Sabbatati in Germany. The scattered remnant wherever they hid.

They could have recanted. They could have "just gone along" with Sunday worship and believed the Sabbath privately. They chose death instead.

Their blood cries from the ground.

The blood testifies: Truth worth dying for is truth worth living for.

VI. The Voice

In September 2025, Charlie Kirk (founder of Turning Point USA, voice of conservative evangelicalism, with millions of followers) was assassinated at Utah Valley University."What We Know About the Shooting of Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk," ABC News, September 10, 2025. https://abcnews.go.com/US/plans-estimated-600-people-event-charlie-kirk-shot/story?id=127610821 (Archive.org)

He left behind an unfinished book: Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.Charlie Kirk, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life (New York: Broadside Books, forthcoming December 2025). Pre-orders reached #1 on Amazon before release.

Not Sunday. The Sabbath. Seventh day. Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.

Kirk's own words:

"The Sabbath was instituted at the Garden of Eden and Sunday sacredness was established by the Catholic Church."

He was a mainstream conservative evangelical (not Adventist, not Messianic, not Hebrew Roots) who was publicly stating that the Roman Catholic Church changed the day.

He had kept the Saturday Sabbath since 2021, learned from Dennis Prager.Adam Kovac, "Charlie Kirk Kept a 'Jewish Sabbath' from Friday Night to Saturday," The Forward, September 10, 2025. https://forward.com/culture/769042/charlie-kirk-jewish-sabbath-book/ (Archive.org) His posthumous book will reach millions who would never read Adventist literature.

This is not about Kirk's politics or the circumstances of his death.

This is about an unexpected witness (a man with no theological connection to Sabbath-keeping Christianity) who discovered what Scripture plainly teaches and publicly stated what the Roman Catholic Church openly admits: they changed the day.

The voice testifies: The truth is spreading beyond traditional channels.

The Verdict

Six witnesses. Six testimonies. Six lines of evidence that cannot be dismissed.

The Stone: God wrote it Himself. Who has authority to unwrite it?

The Word: God said "Remember." Why would He warn against forgetting something He planned to abolish?

The Enemy: The Roman Catholic Church admits they changed it. Why follow the institution that admits the change?

The Math: 1,260 years to the exact year. Coincidence or prophecy fulfilled?

The Blood: Martyrs died rather than comply. It prompts one to consider what they knew that might be missed.

The Voice: A mainstream evangelical discovered the Sabbath. Why is the truth spreading now?

These witnesses don't need your agreement. They don't care about your traditions. They simply testify.

And their testimony stands.