THE Sabbath of Jehovah is not a type or shadow in the sense that it points out or prefigures something in which it ends or expires. It is eternal. The Passover was a type which ended by limitation at the cross. But the Sabbath of the Lord is a memorial of creation and a sign of our acknowledgment of God as creator and redeemer. Ex. 20: 8-11; Eze. 20: 12, 20. It is an emblem of the rest in Christ Jesus. Heb. 4: 1-11. It can never pass away, because the facts upon which it is founded are eternal, and the reasons why God gave it are eternal. But the yearly sabbaths and feasts, of which not less than seven are noted in Leviticus 23, “beside the Sabbaths of the Lord” (verse 38), “are a shadow of things to come.” Col. 2: 17. This was emphatically true of the yearly sabbaths, but not at all true of the Sabbath of the Lord. If sin had never entered, the Sabbath would still exist, even as it will throughout all eternity in the earth made new. Isa. 66: 22, 23. What the priests and kings of the people of God in past dispensations were among men, such were the yearly sabbaths among institutions. Priests, kings, and sabbaths were typical. But what God has always been and will be to His people,—Creator and Redeemer,—such has His memorial, His sign, His Sabbath, ever been and will be. It is like its Author—eternal.