p. 2 | Be Not Deceived

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 29, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 17.

Be Not Deceived

“Be Not Deceived.”—This is one of the oft-repeated admonitions of Scripture. Apply it to the Sabbath question; for by many devices the enemy of all truth is seeking to confuse and deceive the honest in heart. One of his means is the “chronology” of the world. “How do we know,” he asks, “which is the seventh day?” “Be not deceived.” Chronology makes no difference whatever in the Sabbath question. There are a dozen different systems of chronology, more or less, varying in the aggregate thousands of years between the creation and the present time, and yet those who hold to the various systems have the one week. Russia still reckons time by Old Style, America by New Style, twelve days difference, but the weeks and the order of its days are the same. Jesus, our divine Lord, kept the true Sabbath; there has been no change in the week since that. Be not confounded or deceived by the theories of men; rest in God’s Word.