May We Know the Day?-Why not?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 30, 1896

May We Know the Day?—Why not?

Adam knew it when God appointed it to his use. Gen. 2:1-3. He could make no mistake. Toward three millenniums later the people of God knew it again. They heard God's voice proclaim the law of the Sabbath from heaven amid such grandeur as earth has never known. Ex. 20:8-11. They had in the fall of the miraculous manna, a manifest threefold weekly demonstration that but one day of the week was the Sabbath, namely, the seventh. See Ex. 16:23-30. This threefold weekly miracle demonstrated the true Sabbath day for forty years. Surely Israel knew the day. Verse 35. When our Lord Jesus Christ came, the power of God, and the wisdom of God, he who made the Sabbath, he knew the day and observed the day. Luke 4:18; Mark 2:27, 28. And Inspiration tells us that the Sabbath day was the day just before “the first day of the week.” Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1, 2; Luke 23:56; 24:1. Since that time there has been no mistake made in the reckoning of the days of the week. Commerce, astronomy, history, and religion identify the week then and now as the same. The seventh day now is the Sabbath of the Lord.