The Sure Foundation by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 24.

The Sure Foundation

By Editor

An editorial writer in a paper called Firm Foundation admits that "it is true God wrote ten commandments," but "this law was given exclusively to the children of Israel;" and therefore, the Sabbath of the Lord is not binding upon Christians. There is one great fact this writer has not learned, and that is that all the Bible, the laws, the covenants, the promises, and Jesus Christ our Lord, were given to and through Israel. Jesus said, "Salvation is of the Jews." John 4:22. Paul said, speaking of the Jews: "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen." To the Gentile as such there is absolutely no promise. His hope lies in taking hold of God's covenants with Israel. Does the editor of this paper have hope in "the new covenant"? It was made with Israel. Heb. 8:10. Moreover under the new covenant God's law of ten precepts is written upon the heart. So it was with Daniel and Isaiah and Jesus and Paul and John, and they were all Sabbath-keepers. The new covenant church is built upon "the foundation of the apostles and prophets," the chief corner-stone of which is Jesus Christ. The apostles do not teach one law, and the prophets another. They are both one in Christ Jesus. God will not have two sets of characters in His kingdom, formed by two standards. He is one. His law is one. His people will then be one, delighting in His law. The editor of the Firm Foundation would do well to build upon God's "Sure Foundation." Isa. 28:16.

The Devil's Signature

Some years ago two Roman Catholic papers in Germany got into a dispute over the genuineness of an alleged signature of the devil, as published in a pamphlet at the time. It is said the devil signed himself, "Sanctus Daemus Primarius Praesas (First Presiding Holy Demon)." This matters little; the quarrel and possibly the book are almost forgotten. It is immaterial to us. This we do know, that Satan has written his signature all over this sin-cursed earth, in the faces and lives of the vicious, the vile, the false-hearted, upon and in all who will yield to him, as well as upon every system of false religion. But we also thank God that the blood of Jesus Christ will obliterate it all from heart and face if the sinner will but let them be cleansed, and in its place God will write the name—the blessed character—of Eternal Righteousness. For this we contend. The signature will be genuine. Is it not worth contending for?