THE UNCHANGEABLE SABBATH.
By A. Smith
WHEN was the Sabbath made? — On the seventh day of the first week of time. "On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Gen. 2:2, 3. On the first day of that week, God had worked in the creation of our world, resting on the seventh day only. A good example for man. By whom was the Sabbath made? — "All things were made by Him [Christ]; and without Him was not anything made that was made." John 1:3. For whom was the seventh-day Sabbath made? — "The Sabbath was made for man." Mark 2:27. Then, reader, the seventh-day Sabbath was made by the Saviour for you. Will you accept it as the gift of God? Had sin never entered our world, man never would have thought to change the Sabbath. Sunday-keeping, therefore, is a blot upon creation, caused by sin. If redemption from sin and its consequences is to be complete, Sunday-keeping must, as an offense, be5purged from the earth. And thus it will be; for in the new earth the only Sabbath recognized in the Bible will forever be observed by all mankind. "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 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. 66:22, 23. A. SMITH.