AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Fourth Commandment Stated
The Fourth Commandment
We have already discussed the prevalent sin of putting
another god in place of the true God. We learned that God commands
us to worship Him directly and to avoid using any image,
picture or physical object to “remind” us of the great Creator, or
as an “aid” to worship. And we were warned against the vain use
of the name of Almighty God, which stands for His position, His
character, His power, His office as the great Ruler of this entire
universe. The fourth commandment completes the first section
of the Decalogue, which deals with man’s relationship to God. It
provides for the perpetual observance of a sign of the relationship
between God and man. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall
do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your
stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made
the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and
rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8–11).
This command is, in its wording, the longest of any of the
ten. It is placed, protectively as it were, in the very midst of the
Ten Commandments. Yet, sad to say, it is the one command
about which men “reason” and argue most, and which they
would most quickly tear asunder and try to separate from the
rest of God’s law. Notice that it starts out with the injunction to
“remember.” This very statement proves that the Sabbath command
was already understood by God’s chosen people and that,
in incorporating it as part of His covenant, God was reminding
them of a spiritual command of which they already had knowledge.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” You cannot
“keep” cold water hot! And mortal men cannot make anything
holy. Therefore, to fully grasp the significance of this divine
command, we need to learn who made the Sabbath day holy and
when! Jesus said: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the
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