“The Law of God is eternal and cannot be changed, though heaven and earth pass away.”
— Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535)
The oldest heresy was obedience.
When witch hunters spoke of the “witches’ sabbath,” they meant something specific.
They meant those who gathered at sundown on the seventh day.
Some historians now argue the witch trials were never about religion – just fear, famine, and feuds.
They note that executions were carried out by secular courts, not church courts.
But the Church condemned witchcraft as heresy, then handed the accused to the secular arm.
The judgment began in the church courts. It ended at the stake.
Modern scholars claim Christ never spoke of witches – that Scripture barely mentions magic.
The record says otherwise.
Christ warned of false prophets and lying wonders (Matthew 24:24), of unclean spirits that return (Luke 11:24–26), of those who cast out demons in His name but are unknown to Him (Matthew 7:22–23).
He didn’t say the word witch – but He confronted the power behind it.
And Scripture speaks plainly:
“There shall not be found among you one who uses divination or consults the dead.” — Deuteronomy 18:10–12
Saul, forsaken by God, sought the Witch of Endor.
The next day he fell upon his own sword.
Beneath these verses lies the deeper revelation – the Sabbath.
“And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day, and sanctified it.” — Genesis 2:2–3
That seventh day, Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, was blessed before Moses, before Israel, before the Church.
In the fourth century, Emperor Constantine I moved the day of rest from the seventh day to the first.
From Sabbath to Sunday.
From commandment to resurrection.
Those who kept the original Sabbath were condemned as heretics.
And when fear met theology, they were whispered about as witches.
Those who gathered at sundown on the old day were accused of keeping the witches’ sabbath.
They were not conjuring spirits.
They were keeping faith.
🕯️ The truest haunting is forgetting who changed the day.