The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

THE PRESENT TRUTH - July, 1849.297The Weekly Sabbath Instituted atCreation, and not at Sinai.„And on the seventh day GOD endedhis work which he had made; and herested on the seventh day from all hiswork which he had made. And GODblessed the seventh day, and sanctifiedit: because that in it he had rested fromall his work which GOD created andmade.“ Gen ii: 2, 3.Here GOD instituted the weekly restor Sabbath. It was the seventh day. HeBLESSED and SANCTIFIED that dayof the week, and no other; therefore theseventh day, and no other day of theweek is holy, sanctified time.GOD has given the reason why heblessed and sanctified the seventh day.„Because that in it he had rested fromall his work which GOD had createdand made.“ He rested, and set theexample for man. He blessed and setapart the seventh day for man to restfrom his labor, and follow the exampleof his Creator. The Lord {Master} ofthe Sabbath said, Mark ii: 27, „TheSabhath was made for man.“ Notfor the Jew only, but for MAN, in itsbroadest sense; meaning all mankind.The word man in this text, means thesame as it does in the following texts.„Man that is born of woman is of fewdays and full of trouble.“ Job xiv: 1.„Man lies down and rises not, till theheavens be no more.“ Job xiv: 12.No one will say that man here meansJews, or Christians; but the wholehuman race. The Sabbath was madefor man, for the whole race of man.Adam, Noah, and Abraham were men,therefore the Sabbath was made forthem, as well as for Moses, and theJews. We are men, and the Sabbath ismade for us.GOD has given the following reasonin the decalogue, why man should keephis holy Sabbath - „FOR in six‘days theLord {YAHWEH} made heaven andearth, the sea and all that in them is,and rested the seventh day: whereforethe Lord {YAHWEH} BLESSED theseventh day and HALLOWED it.“Ex. xx: 11.Here our minds are directed backmore than twenty-five hundred years,to the creation and holy rest in Eden,for the origin of the Sabbath. This plainfact every candid miad must see. GODdid not bless and hallow the Sabbathday at Sinai – no, no. This he had donein Eden twenty-five hundred yearsbefore.„And GOD blessed the seventh day,and sanctified it: Gen. ii. 3.The Sabbath was marked andguarded with miracles by YAHWEHand kept by Israel in the wildernessof Sin, thirty days before they came toSinai.„And it came to pass, that on the sixthday they gathered twice as much bread,two omers for one man: tomorrowis the rest of the Holy Sabbath to theLord {YAHWEH}: bake that whichyou will bake today, and seethe thatyou will seethe; and that which remainsover, lay up for you to be kept until themorning.“„And Moses said, eat that today,for today is a Sabbath to the Lord{YAHWEH}: today you shall not findin the field. Six days you shall gatherit; but on the seventh day, which is theSabbath, in it there shall be none.“And it came to pass, that there wentout some of the people, on the seventhday for to gather, and they found none.