p. 2 | 3076.- Marching around Jericho by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

3076.— Marching around Jericho

By Editor

I learn by Joshua 6:14, 15 that the children of Israel occupied seven days in the taking of Jericho. Did they use the seventh-day Sabbath in doing so?

Yes, in all probability the Sabbath was used in that way. But the marching was not doing their own work. It was by God's command that they did it; and when God commands us to do work for Him on that day, it certainly is not a transgression of the law of the Sabbath. Isa. 58:13 gives us the correct principle. "Not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words."