How do seventh day Sabbatarians explain the lack of Sabbath observing following Spirit led revivals?
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The question of "Sabbath keeping" is found in all four Gospels and as failing to observe the Sabbath would be a sin, Jesus, who was sinless (Hebrews 4:15) legally observed the Sabbath.
Jesus did things on the Sabbath which others deemed inappropriate. One in particular speaks directly to the question of healing and/or bringing salvation on the Sabbath:
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” (Luke 13) [ESV]
The ruler of the synagogue made the legal argument Jesus should have waited until the Sabbath was over before healing the woman. Jesus not only disagreed, He said the woman in bondage to Satan should be loosed from the bond on the Sabbath.
Therefore, bringing salvation on the Sabbath is not a sin, and one could argue the Gospel shows the Sabbath is the ideal day for a revival.
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You've asked an interesting question. I don't accept the premise/assumption on which it is based though so would be interested in any clarifications.
Who decides what is a "spirit-led revival"? You seem to share my skepticism by your parenthetical "(in which the holy spirit is CLAIMED to have moved)" [my emphasis]. Who has the authority to assign this label? Using what metric? The number of conversions or reaffirmations? The number of miracles? Healings? What about the durability of these effects?
It is easy to find pastors of different christian denominations all claiming the "leading of the holy spirit" while preaching entirely opposite doctrines. Some may go so far as to claim the opposing teaching is of the devil! Labeling anything "spirit-led" seems subjective and hence useless for drawing any objective conclusions.
Your logic allows a saturday-keeper to turn your premise around and say that the lack of an increase in saturday-keeping is evidence that these are not spirit-led revivals. That conclusion would be equally flawed though.
Revival attendees consist of at least two kinds of people:
those who already know the gospel and may be "revived", and
those who don't know the gospel and may be converted.
If the revived were already sunday-keepers (likely since that is the majority view), then there is no question what they will continue to do. The converted will seek out churches and since most churches are sunday-keeping, that's where they will go. ergo, there is no outbreak of saturday-keeping.
How many of those revivalists preachers were sunday-keepers? How many of them preach only grace? How many preached that the law applied only to the jews? How many may preach the ten commandments and when reading the 4th, state that the God want you to go to church on sunday ("the lord's day", "the sabbath" even), since that was the day he arose and conquered sin? These pragmatic reasons (and objectively measureable) may better explain (occam's razor) the behavior of the revived and converted rather than relying on the subjective "spirit-led" label to create hypotheses and draw conclusions.
In the end, imho, the holy spirit doesn't impose itself on people. People have to be receptive to and accepting of the spirit's leading. Some percent of christians subjectively believe the holy spirit has led them to conclusions (albeit opposite) on the saturday vs sunday question. The remainder of christians haven't engaged with the question, despite the spirit's leading perhaps.
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This is actually the same time that the Seventh-day Adventist church began. It came out of revivals in the 1800's
Starting in 1844 after the disappointment of the millerite movement.
Joseph Bates who was one of the first to be convinced of the Sabbath and was a revivalist preacher. See: (Joseph Bates (8 July 1792 – 19 March 1872)
This combined with the understanding of Revelation 12:17 that there would only be a remnant of the church that would keep the commandments and have the testimony of Jesus.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. - Rev 12:!7
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