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(16) Therefore the children of Israel shall keep
the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a
perpetual covenant. (17) It is a sign between Me and the children of
Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.""
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On the flip side, the
world seems to keep every day except the one that God assigns. He made holy
a period of constantly recurring time so that anybody familiar with His
children—those who show His characteristics—would be able to observe their
example and be witnessed to, without a word having to be said. The Sabbath
commandment contains the holy days within its scope.
If we respect, fear, and love
God, we will believe what He says and submit to it. What does the world do in
regard to this commandment? The world's churches argue against keeping it and
resolve not to. They denigrate it as being of no value except as ceremonial and
easily replaceable. They apply the commandment as an injunction merely to keep
one day in seven—and then do not even keep that one day.
However, they profess Christianity, to follow Christ, just as the Jews
professed that their spiritual father was God. In John 8:44, Jesus calls them liars. The world does
this despite the fact of the clear witness that God left in His Word that Jesus,
by His own admission, said He did not come to destroy the law. He obviously kept
the Sabbath Himself, and the apostles (that He instructed for three-and-one-half
years) continued to keep it as an example to the church. No command anywhere in
the Bible does away with the Sabbath command or any other of the Ten
Commandments.
— John W. Ritenbaugh
To learn more, see:
The Christian and the World (Part 2)
Related Topics:
Period of Time
Sabbath as Identifying Mark
Sabbath as Perpetual Covenant
Sabbath as Sign
Sabbath Commandment
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