The Sabbath: The Identical Day by Asa Smith

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 10, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 15.

The Sabbath: The Identical Day

By Asa Smith

THE SABBATH. No. 2.

The Identical Day.

1. Which day is the Sabbath? "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. 20:10.

2. Did the children of Israel lose the day while wandering forty years in the wilderness? "He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days." "On the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none." Ex. 16:29, 26. "The children of Israel did eat manna forty years." Ex. 16:35.

3. Did they still have the right day after the Babylonish captivity? "I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath." Neh. 13:19.

4. What day was Sabbath after Christ died? "The Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56.

5. What relation between the Sabbath and the first day of the week? "When the Sabbath was past, . . . early in the morning the first day of the week." Mark 16:1, 2.

6. Then can Sunday be the seventh day? It can not be, as it is the day after.

7. What day is the Lord's day? "The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Mark 2:28. "Turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day." Isa. 58:13.

8. Then does Rev. 1:10 mean Sunday? No; for the Lord never claimed that day as His.

9. Are you sure you are keeping the right day? The seventh day is the Sabbath. It was not lost during the forty years of wilderness wandering nor the seventy years of Babylonish captivity. It was still kept by the followers of Jesus after His death, "according to the commandment," on the day just before the resurrection day. It is the only day the Lord ever called His own, and the other days are called "six working days." See Eze. 46:1. It is the "Lord's day" of Rev. 1:10, and we may be sure that it has never been lost and never will be lost. Asa Smith.