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The Sabbath Can Never Be Changed

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 35.

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The Sabbath Can Never Be Changed

By Adolphius Smith

ADOLPHIUS SMITH
The ten commandments given at Sinai were not a new law, but a drawing out of the two great precepts of the law of God to which they were appended as the thumbs and fingers to the hands. See Matt. 22:36-40. The Sabbath existed in the first great commandment from eternity.
God has emphatically declared that he will not alter that which he has once spoken. See Ps. 89:34; Ex. 20:1, 8-11; Isa. 55:11; James 1:17.
If God were to change his law, of which the Sabbath command is a part, it would be an alteration of the fundamental principles of his government, and would affect every world in the universe.
Man has undertaken to change the Sabbath, and in so doing, like Lucifer, he has exalted his own wisdom and judgment above that of God. See Isa. 14:12-14; Dan. 7:25.
Many true, honest-hearted Christians have been deceived, supposing Sunday to be the Sabbath of the Lord. They will be forgiven, but God will hold the deceiver accountable. See Isa. 28:18. Compare with Deut. 4:13.
It is not well for any man or church to insert into the fourth precept of God's law any wording or meaning that has not been placed therein by Jehovah.
Grand Rapids, Mich.