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THE DAY OF SPECIAL BLESSING

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 8.

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THE DAY OF SPECIAL BLESSING.

By S. H. Carnahan

BY S. H. CARNAHAN.
By many superstitious persons Friday is considered an unlucky day. They are averse to beginning a new job of work or starting on a journey upon that day. Another class of people will eat no flesh meats, except fish, on Friday. It is worthy of note, too, that most people who do not hold any superstitious ideas in regard to the day have lost sight of its special significance. This occurs just as others, in reading the old myths or traditions of heathen nations regarding the peopling of the earth, the Flood, etc., have, in a measure, lost sight of the true objects of the creation, of the Deluge, and of other events.
The sixth day of the week (a portion of which is now called Friday) was the day which God designed particularly to be used in closing up our work and making preparation for the Sabbath. On this day the people were to gather and cook their food for the Sabbath, so that no boiling or baking should be done on God’s holy day. Ex. 16:22-27. And, of course, they were not to start any secular work that would have to be finished on the Sabbath.
The time was definitely fixed for the beginning and ending of the day, so that they might know when it came, even if they had no watches or clocks.
The day was reckoned from sunset to sunset, the evening and morning composing the day. Compare Lev. 23:32; Deut. 16:6; Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31.
At the time of the death of Christ those who were nearest Him and following His footsteps observed the days from sundown to sundown, and recognized the sixth day as preparation day. Matt. 27:62; Luke 23:54. They also recognized the seventh day as the Sabbath (Luke 23:56) and the first day of the week (counted from Saturday sunset until Sunday sunset) as a working day. See Mark 16:1, 2; John 20:1; Luke 24:1.
Ought not we to be as careful in the observance of the preparation day, the Sabbath, and all the days, for the purpose for which they were ordained (Ex. 20:9, 10), not using the six days in idleness, nor the seventh day in doing our own pleasure (Isa. 58:13)?
In so doing because we love God and truth, we shall be blessed here and hereafter. Isa. 56:2; 58:14; Rev. 22:14.