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The Ensign of the Holy One.—The distinguishing characteristic of the true God is creative power. The ensign of his power is the Sabbath, around which cluster the great facts of a completed creation. It is the only commandment in God’s holy law which reveals him for what he is, Creator and Redeemer, mighty to save, the Holy One of Israel. And yet when the badge of God’s authority is lifted before the people, many ridicule, despise, and reject it. This the Lord himself foretold in Isa. 30: 8-11: “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever [marginal, Hebrew, “the latter day”]; that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord; which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits; get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” Men may hide God now, and may hide his truth from their eyes, but they will sometime meet it all in the judgment. They will then also meet their own delusions, which they have chosen, ripened to their own destruction. See verses 11, 12. Now the Lord says, “Turn and live.”