Sunday Worship

Sun-day Worship isn't anything new. In the days of Ezekiel, he was showed how the priest had turned their backs on the ways of God and began to "FACE" the sun in worship. The passage says:

And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. (Ezekiel 8:16)

As you read the text, you discover that twenty five (25) men were said to have done this. Some have conjectured that it referred to the high priest and the heads of the 24 courses (see on 1 Chron. 24:1). If so, this represents the entire body of the priests.

Not only that, but they were standing in the inner court, between the porch and the altar, a most sacred part of the court. Yet, at this place of meeting God, they turned their backs on Him and worshipped the sun.

This still wasn't new in Ezekiel's time, for it had been practiced by the Canaanites before and they called it Shamash. Interestingly, however, it found it way into the worship of the kings and people of Judah (2 Kings 23:5, 11; cf. Deut. 4:19; 17:3; Job 31:26).

So here you have it, the guardians of God's word, of Truth itself, with their backs to Him, worshipping the sun. What a slap in the fact, what a flagrant insult to God as they displayed their sin openly. No wonder scripture describes it as the greatest of the abominations (see 2 Chron. 36:14).