AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Fourth Commandment
accomplishment. Since the very Creator has so commanded, we
can keep the Sabbath day of rest and spiritual rejuvenation with
complete confidence that God will bless and prosper us, because
we have done this!
A Paid Vacation
Normally speaking, if you would quit working every few days
to take a needed rest, you might naturally expect to get behind with
your work and finances. But God Himself has set in motion a great
law. God’s Ten Commandments are living, active laws—just like the
law of gravity. They are in operation—they work automatically. The
law of the Sabbath backed up by the very power of the Creator—
says that if you will pause to rest and worship Almighty God on the
seventh day every week, you will be so blessed during the work of
the six days that this will more than make up for what you might
have accomplished by laboring on God’s Sabbath!
Do you realize what this amounts to? In one way of looking at
it, God is giving us a paid vacation every seventh day! But this vacation
is not only for the purpose of physical rest, it is also a time for
worship, for spiritual rededication, for the contemplation and exercise
of the spiritual purposes and laws of life that God has set. In
the observance of the seventh day, which God has made holy—and
which alone points to creation—man is brought into close communion
with his Maker and his God. For God’s very presence and His
divine blessing are especially evident in this day that He has set
apart and sanctified.
These are the busiest days that humanity has ever seen. These
are days in which most men seem to have little or no time for the
contemplation of the spiritual purposes and goals of life—the most
important questions that mankind ought to be considering. The
tremendous blessing of God’s true Sabbath is that it enables human
beings to take time to fully consider and weigh these most important
of all questions in life—and to commune with our God and
Creator in a way that few in this age have ever experienced. The
true observance of the Sabbath would keep mankind in contact
with God! Without that contact, we are cut off from the very pur-
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