Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

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DISCOVERING THE NEW COVENANT
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the
earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on
the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and made it holy. Ex. 20:11 (NIV)
Now again, at first glance this seems to indicate that
this was a Creation ordinance that had been established at
Creation. And the text definitely allows for that. But it also
allows for the other notion that since God is Creator you
are to worship Him as such. His blessing and sanctification
of the seventh day at Creation is now, since the manna
instruction, being called the Sabbath, the Sabbath part of
the institution being established here in Exodus 16. God has
the right to demand this of His followers because they are
His created beings. Again, two possible interpretations are
permissible here; a Creation ordinance, or a later
establishment by the same Creator in the manna incident.
One additional point needs to be addressed. The first
five books of the Bible are all attributed to Moses according
to the New Testament. Therefore, was Moses speaking
from the vantage point of the Law when He wrote the following
in Genesis? Was he writing after the Law had been
given on Mount Sinai?
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of
them, were finished. And on the seventh day God
ended His work which He had done, and He rested on
the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it,
because in it He rested from all His work which God
had created and made. Gen. 2:1-3
If I am traveling through Texas and I ask for the
directions to President Bush’s birth place, the people will
assume that I know that George W. Bush was not president
when he was born. I call him President Bush from my
vantage point. Bible writers had a vantage point for their