QUESTION CORNER by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 29, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 35.

QUESTION CORNER

By Editor

1079. J. H. F. Isa. 57:2.—Read as in the Revised Version: "He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness." The sense is that, tho men care not for the righteous nor regard their death as a loss, God cares for them, and all the upright ones rest in His care. Compare with Job. 14:6-15; Rev. 14:12.

1080. H. B. The Sabbath and the Commandments.—A correspondent writes us that he believes the only Sabbath there is is the seventh day, but he does not see that it is binding on the church; yet he does not belong to any church, because he has "never found one that is following the commandments." Now one of the commandments of God's immutable law enjoins the seventh-day Sabbath. The Lord Jesus Christ, our great Exemplar, observed it with all the others, and tells us to follow Him. 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:21. Whether any church does or not, why will not our correspondent follow the commandments? Col. 2:16 refers simply to the yearly feast days and sabbaths, not to the weekly Sabbath. See Lev. 23:24-38. All these were "beside the Sabbaths of the Lord." Romans 14 is one of the strongest lessons in all the Word of God against judging others. It is not for us to judge men, whatever they do. It is for us to see that our own course is such that we can meet it before the judgment-seat of Christ, where we shall be judged by His law. See James 2:10-12; Eccl. 12:13, 14.

1081. "Will you please tell us through the SIGNS whether John 6:53 has reference to the Lord's supper, and if it applies to one who does not partake of the same." C. A. S.

The text reads: "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." No, it does not have reference to the Lord's supper. The next verse says, "Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life;" and the ceremony of partaking of the communion could not give eternal life. The text has reference to the daily life, a continual communion with God, and it applies to every one. Verse 63 says: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Christ was the Word of God made flesh. Chapter 1:1, 14. Eating His flesh signifies partaking of the Word. The blood is the life of the flesh. Gen. 9:4. Therefore to drink His blood signifies the imbibing of His life. Jesus, in replying to Satan's suggestion that He make bread of the stones, said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Matt. 4:4. "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby." 1 Peter 2:1, 2.