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THE HEAVENLY PATTERN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 15.

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THE HEAVENLY PATTERN

By A. F. F.

A. F. F.
IT is admitted by some who oppose the Sabbath truth, that God instituted the Sabbath in the beginning, resting upon the seventh day from all His work. Some who acknowledge this fact say that there is no scripture proving that the Ten Commandments were binding upon man before they were spoken upon Mount Sinai.
God is unchangeable, the Alpha and Omega. Mal. 3:6; James 1:17; Rev. 22:13. His law, like himself, must therefore be unchangeable.
Christ was equal with God (John 1:1, 2), and worked with God from the beginning. Col. 1:16, 17. Christ, who gave God's law to Moses for generations to come, would not change or break that law when He took upon himself mortal flesh in order perfectly to manifest God to the world.
Adam, made in the image of God, must have kept His law until he yielded himself to the power of Satan.
God promised to keep His covenant with Abraham, because Abraham obeyed God's voice, kept His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. Gen. 26:3-5.
Moses was charged to make the ark of the covenant after the heavenly pattern. Ex. 25:8, 9, 40; Heb. 8:5. In the ark that Moses made were placed two tables of stone, upon which were written, with the finger of God, the Ten Commandments. Deut. 9:10; Ex. 24:12. John in vision saw the temple of God opened in heaven; and in that temple he saw the ark of God's testament. Rev. 11:19.
May the Holy Spirit, which opened the blind eyes of the writer, open other blind eyes to behold wonderful things out of God's law.