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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 29.

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THE LAW OF GOD.

Sanctifying the Sabbath.

(Lesson 17.—Sabbath, August 14.)
1. In how many days were the heavens and the earth completed?
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Ex. 20:11.
2. What can you say of the seventh day?—On the seventh day God rested from all his work?
3. After God had rested on the seventh day, what did he do?—“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.” Gen. 2:3.
4. Why did he hallow, or sanctify the seventh day?—“Because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Gen. 2:3.
5. When Moses, according to the Lord's instruction (Ex. 19:12) had set bounds about Mount Sinai, what did he say had been done to it?
“And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.” Ex. 19:23.
6. What did the children of Israel do with certain cities?
“And they appointed [sanctified, margin] Kedesh in Galilee in Mount Naphtali, and Shechem in Mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.” Josh. 20:7.
7. In what words did the Lord, through one of his prophets, command that a fast should be appointed?
“Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.” Joel 2:15.
8. From these instances, what must be the meaning of “sanctify”?—To appoint; to set apart for a special use; to make sacred or holy.
9. Then what is really meant by the expression, “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it”?—That God appointed or set apart the seventh day for a special use; in short, that he commanded that the seventh day should be kept holy.
10. Was any one living to whom such a command could have been given?
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Gen. 1:26, 27.
11. For whom did Jesus say the Sabbath was made?
“And he said unto them, The Sabbath was