3204.—The Eighth Day, and So Forward
By Editor
Please explain Eze. 43:27. Does this scripture refer to either the seventh-day Sabbath or the first day of the week? It has been handed to me as proof that Ezekiel prophesied of the change of the Sabbath. All that our correspondent needs to do is to read the context from verse 19 to 27 inclusive. She will there learn that the sanctuary which was shown to Ezekiel, after it was built, was to be dedicated, and that on each day a definite offering was made, and that offering was kept up for seven days. Then the altar was purged and purified and ready for service. Then he tells us, "Upon the eighth day, and so forward," all the regular offerings should be brought forward upon the altar. It has absolutely no reference to any day of the week, but simply the seven days of that dedicatory feast or service, and the beginning of a new time of service, which was the first day of that dedicatory feast, or what is called "the eighth day, and so forward." All common days following were to be like that eighth day. The use of that text to prove a change in the Sabbath shows how hard pressed people are for arguments. We knew one writer—we hope he repented—who quoted the text "upon the eighth day of the week."