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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 30.

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THE LAW OF GOD.

The Day of the Sabbath.

(Lesson 18.—Sabbath, August 21.)
1. How many days are there in a week?
2. How are the first six days of the week to be occupied?
"Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work." Ex. 20 : 9.
"Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings." Lev. 23 : 3.
3. What example have we of such a use of the first six days of the week?
"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20 : 11.
4. What is to be done on the seventh day?
"But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates." Ex. 20 : 10.
"Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings." Lev. 23 : 3.
5. On what day was Jesus crucified?
"And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on." Luke 23 : 54.
6. What day followed the preparation day?
Ib.
7. How did the women who followed Jesus pass that day?
"And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23 : 56.
8. What did they do "when the Sabbath was past"?
"And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun." Mark 16 : 1, 2.
9. On what day was this?
"Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them." Luke 24 : 1.
10. Since they rested on the day before the first day of the week, on what day did they rest?—On the seventh day of the week.
11. In so doing, with what did they agree?
"And rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23 : 56.
12. Then what day of the week is enjoined in the commandment?—The seventh day of the week.
13. And what is the name of the seventh day of the week?
"But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20 : 10.
14. Was it a particular day of the week, or only the Sabbath in a general way, that God blessed and sanctified?
"And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Gen. 2 : 3.
15. Is there any doubt as to which day is the seventh day, the true Sabbath?—Bishop E. O. Haven, of the M. E. Church, while president of Michigan University, said: "There is no good reason for denying that the Jewish Sabbath [by this he meant the Sabbath which the Jews keep] is the true seventh day, reckoning from the creation of man, and that the Christian Sunday is the first day of the Hebrew week, or of the genuine week."—Pillars of Truth, p. 89.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines Saturday as follows: "The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday."
16. For whom was the Sabbath made?
"And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." Mark 2 : 27.
17. On how much of the earth did God design that man should dwell?
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation." Acts 17 : 24-26.
18. Then did not God design that the Sabbath should be kept in every part of the world?—Most certainly.
19. Since it is evident that God designed that the Sabbath, the seventh day, should be kept in every part of the world, what can you say as to the possibility of doing so?—Simply that it must be possible to do so, for God never commands us to do impossibilities.
20. Upon whom does the Lord pronounce a blessing?
"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." Isa. 56 : 2.
21. Is this promise extended to any besides the Jewish people?
"Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servant, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant." Isa. 56 : 6.