Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work.
When observed carefully, there is not a single thing harmful, or detrimental to the human family in the 4th commandment, for all God is instructing us to do is to take a rest which we need anyway. Even popes agree that it is a good idea to take a break from the hum drum of life, to focus on God and your eternal interests. The problem is that God says that the day of rest is the 7th day of the week, while Rome says it should be the 1st.
Thus, the crux of the problem is not the issue of rest, it is the issue of the day, because God, in His capacity as Creator, and Ruler over His domain says that the 7th day Sabbath is the only stipulated day of rest. Thus, to the very end of the great controversy which started in heaven and came down to our planet, the attacks against God’s law will continue, until in the final conflict of the ages, it will reach its zenith when every person on our planet will have to take a side.
This is the issue that is just on the horizon, and this is what the remnant people of God are called upon to declare to the world at this time. The Lord will do a strange work that many are not expecting, and He will use human instrumentalities that are guided by His Spirit, rather than the institutions and strategies of men… [Last Day Events pp 206] In the last solemn work few great men will be engaged.... God will work a work in our day that but few anticipate.
Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!