The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

THE PRESENT TRUTH - April, 1850.285to overcome them,“ „the council ofOrleans prohibited the conntry laboron Sunday, which Constantine, by hislaws permitted.„From this time, the observance of thefirst day was gradually but forciblyurged upon the people, and theSabbath dismissed wherever they owedallegiance to the Pope as head of thechurch, and in England and Scotlandas late as the thirteenth century. Then itwas decreed that it should be holy timefrom Sunday noon until Monday.„And he [little horn] shall speak greatwords against the Most High, and shallwear out saints of the Most High, andthink to change times and laws; andthey shall be given into his hand untila time and times and the dividing oftime.“ Dan. Vii, 25.The Pope had power to change thelaws of men, and did change them, andDaniel saw him speaking great wordsof blasphemy against the Most High,and thinking to change to laws in God.The saints, times and laws were givenin to his hand for 1260 years. He waspermitted to trample down the Sabbath,and the saints for that time. The formerhe caused to be desecrated, and thelatter put to death.Then as the observance of the firstday as a day of holy rest, instead ofthe seventh, is a mark of the beast, itundoubtedly is the mark mentioned .inthe solemn message of the third angel. -This is strongly established by thisplain fact that the mark of the beastis in direct opposition to keeping thecommandments of God {YAHWEH}.One class keep the commandments ofGod {YAHWEH}, and of course theykeep the Sabbath, and they are seen onmount Zion with the Lamb. The otherclass have the mark of the beast andthey drink of the unmingled cup of thewroth of God. O, my brethren, whatan awfully solemn subject is this nowbefore us! And what an hour will soonburst upon the world like a thief! Neverdid I have such feelings while holdingmy pen as now. - And never did I seeand feel the importance of the Sabbathas I do this moment. Surely the Sabbathtruth, like the rising sun ascendingfrom the east, has increased in light, in.power and in importance until it is thegreat sealing truth.-Its rays of holy light cheer and sanctifythe true believer, and condemn thosewho reject it.The second angel‘s message reachedto the fall of 1844, where the cry -„Come out of her my people“ closed:then the time for the third came. A partof the third angel‘s message is - „Hereis the patience of the saints; here arethey that keep the.commandmentsof God {YAHWEH},“ &c. We knowthat the saints patient waiting timehas been since their disappointmentin 1844. - Well here it is, and we allknow it, We cannot be mistakenhere. We know then that the time forthis third message is now. We knowalso that the time for keeping all thecommandments right has been since1844, since God {YAHWEH} calledus out of. Babylon. It we had stayedthere, bound down by ministers andcreeds, the glorious light of the HolySabbath never would, have reachedus; but glory to God {YAHWEH}, thesecond angel‘s message called us outfrom the fallen churches where we arenow free to think, and act for ourselvesin fear of God {YAHWEH}. It is anexceedingly interesting fact, that theSabbath question began to be agitated