Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 KEEPING THE SABBATH 79
tion is carried on by means of generation, and the work
of the whole world, not onlyof man but of all flesh, is to
produce its kind, to look out for its interests, and to
bring it to maturity. Concerning this work of generation,
it was said to Adam that there should be labor, sorrow,
and death. In the quotation before us it says, "If thou
turn away thy foot from the sabbath," and this means,
in other words, from treading it down, from ignoring it,
from going your own way,which way is the way of labor.
If the Sabbath means cessation from labor, and if the
labor of all flesh is based on the generation of its kind,
then these verses clearly refer to the work of regeneration,
to the overcoming of generation in one's own person.
Therefore it says, "If thou turn away thy foot from
the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day,"
the Lord's holy day comes when the work of creation is
finished in the world.
We read that the Lord said, "Let us make man in our
image and after our likeness, and let them have dominion, "
etc. Do you think that the Lord simply said this, and that
it never will be fulfilled? Is he not as wise as any me-
_
chanic of the world?
the house is built and completed,
If a mechanic builds a house, when
he ceases to work on
the house. So it is at the present time, God _began the
work of creation, of making man in his own image and
likeness, and there are but few persons in the world to-day,
who think who do not feel that the time is now at hand
for the completion of that work in the lives of men. This
makes it necessary that men should turn away their foot
from the Sabbath, from doing the things that have been
their pleasure in all the centuries that have past, and that
they should now begin to live the life of regeneration, as
it says, they shall "call the sabbath a delight, and the
holy of the LORD [YAHVEH] honorable; and shalt honor it,
not doing thine own way, nor finding thine own pleasure."