Healers of the Breach

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 15.

Healers of the Breach

ONCE God’s people held His holy law in its integrity. Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and all the prophets, even to Jesus Christ and His apostles, loved God’s law and observed His Sabbath. They did not even question it; they ever affirmed its authority. But in the Christian age a change came. “The foundations of many generations” in the church of God were broken up; waste places were made in the moral hedge; a breach was opened in the Decalogue, and the sign of the Creator has been obscured by a day which the apostasy claims as the mark of its power.

And yet God’s law is the same, immutable, perpetual, and is to be restored in His remnant church. Noble souls will seek out the truth, will turn from the errors of pagan apostasy, will “ask for the old paths, where is the good way” (Jer. 6:16), and will hold up to the world once more the banner of God’s truth.

Of this remnant, those who will break from every form of unholy tradition, the Lord says: “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.” And a prime condition is, “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable.” Isa. 58:12, 13.

In Rev. 12:17 it is said of this remnant people that they “keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Here also is predicted the persecution of those who observe the Sabbath of the Lord. It is said that “the dragon [the devil] was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” The beginning of that wrath has been manifest the last few years in Maryland, Tennessee, Arkansas; and increasingly so in the effort to obtain religious legislation. On which side of this great struggle are you standing?