2172.—"Turn Away Thy Foot from the Sabbath."
Please explain Isa. 58:13. The first of the verse reads as tho a blessing is promised to some if they would turn away from the Sabbath. A. D. K. It depends how we turn away. Please notice that the chapter is a reproof to the people of God because of their sins. The same thing is taught in the 56th chapter. In the 56th chapter the Lord declares that the man is blessed that keepeth justice and righteousness, that holdeth it fast, that keepeth His Sabbath from profaning it. In other words, God's children had been trampling upon the Sabbath, treading it under foot. Yet He says that there will be some among them that will build the old waste places that have been broken down, that will raise up the foundation of many generations that have been broken and razed, and that these would be called "the repairer of the breach," "a restorer of paths to dwell in." Then He lays before them the true conditions, "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath," from treading it under foot; "from doing thy pleasure on My holy day." They had followed their own way, but instead of this they should "call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words." It is a prophecy of conditions in the last days of the Gospel dispensation, when a class of people would restore God's Sabbath to its rightful place among them.