A Sabbath Reform Predicted

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

A Sabbath Reform Predicted.

In Isa. 56: 1-7 is a prophecy of a reform on the Sabbath just before the second coming of Christ, when his “salvation is near to come” (see Luke 21: 28; Isa. 25: 9). He pleads with the stranger, the eunuch, the outcast, to take hold of his everlasting covenant, and live, and he pronounces a blessing upon the man who will do that, and who will keep the Sabbath from polluting it. Reader, do you not want God’s blessing? He says, “Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.” This is paralleled by our Lord’s words, “Blessed are they that do his [God’s] commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Rev. 22: 14. Reader, do you not want this blessing?