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THE PERFECT LAW OF GOD

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 2.

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THE PERFECT LAW OF GOD.

1. WHAT is the character of God's law? "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." Ps. 19:7.
2. How was the law conveyed to man? "These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me." Deut. 5:22.
3. To what people was the law intrusted? "What advantage then hath the Jew? . . . Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." Rom. 3:1, 2.
4. How many commandments does God's law contain? "And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." Deut. 4:13.
5. How is the fourth commandment the key-stone of the whole code?—It shows to man that he who created the heavens and the earth is the only true God.
6. What did God give as a sign between him and his chosen people? "Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them." Eze. 20:12.
7. How long is the Sabbath to continue a sign? "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever." Ex. 31:16, 17.
8. How did the Saviour magnify the law? "I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart." Ps. 40:8.
9. What did Christ say of the law? "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt. 5:17, 18.
10. How did he briefly state the commandments? "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matt. 22:37-40.
11. For what did Christ teach his disciples to pray? "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven." Matt. 6:10.
12. Are God's commandments then obeyed in Heaven? "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." Ps. 103:19, 20.
13. What is the sure word of prophecy that this prayer will finally be fulfilled? "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." Dan. 7:27.
14. When will this prophecy be accomplished? "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever." Rev. 11:15.
15. What has God promised concerning the earth? "Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. . . . Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy." Isa. 65:17, 18.
16. What prophecy will then be fulfilled? "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Hab. 2:14.
17. Will the Sabbath exist in the new earth? "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord." Isa. 66:23.
It is thus evident that the Sabbath, although down-trodden, and though the utmost human genius be employed to destroy it, will yet survive the purifying fires of the day of the Lord, "in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up," (2 Pet. 3:10); for "it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."