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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 47.

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The Origin of the Sabbath

1. For whom was the Sabbath made? "And He said unto them, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, and not man for the Sabbath." Mark 2: 27.
2. When was it made? "It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever: for IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, and on the SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED, and was refreshed." Ex. 31: 17.
3. What was the first step in its making? "And HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY from all His work which He had made." Gen. 2: 2.
4. What was the second step? "And GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY." Gen. 2: 3.
5. What was the third step? "And God blessed the seventh day, and SANCTIFIED IT." Gen. 2: 3.
6. Why did He do this? "BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED from all His work which God created and made." Last part of Gen. 2: 3.
7. What does the psalmist declare that God has done concerning His wonderful works? "He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion." Ps. 111: 4.
8. What great twofold truth then is revealed in the Sabbath? "And hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD." "Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I AM THE LORD THAT SANCTIFY THEM." Eze. 20: 20, 12.
NOTE: In the Sabbath God has made His wonderful works to be remembered. Just so long as man kept the Sabbath as God gave it they did not know idolatry. His own people never went into idolatry until they had forsaken the Sabbath. Just as long as they observed the Sabbath they kept in mind two great things concerning God. One was that He was God and God only, the Creator of the heavens and the earth; and the other that He was not only the Lord who created them, but He was the God who sanctified or saved them. That is what the design of the Sabbath is now just as truly as it was in the past.