4316-Jubilee Sabbaths

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 9, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 22.

4316—Jubilee Sabbaths

Why don't we keep the year sabbaths that came every seven years, and the Jubilee sabbaths which came every forty-nine years?

We do not keep these national sabbaths of the Jews, because they were given for a specific time and for a specific purpose, and all those local and national sabbaths were obliterated at the cross. The apostle tells us they were blotted out and nailed to the cross, and we are to "let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." Col. 2:16, 17.

The new moons, the meats and drinks, the holy days, and the sabbath days which were a "shadow of things to come," are no part of God's service in the Christian dispensation; but the seventh-day weekly Sabbath is in the very bosom of God's law, and Christ Himself says it was made for man. Mark 2:27. It was given to man before he sinned, and is for the specific purpose of pointing to the great God as the Creator of all things. The Sabbath day was given to man at creation; and those who have been loyal to God, and who have at the same time had a clear knowledge of His teaching, have observed it in all the ages. The seventh-day Sabbath is in a class by itself, and is given for a distinct purpose; and those who place it along with the ceremonial observances of the old dispensation have a very narrow and limited view of God's mighty truth upon this subject.