The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

THE PRESENT TRUTH - July, 1849.301second vail. Here in the holiest placeon earth God placed his covenant,his law, his testimonies, even theten commandments. St. John in holyvision, in the isle, Patmos, A. D. 96,saw the true sanctuary which the „Lord{YAHWEH} pitched, and not man,“of which Christ {the Messiah} is aminister or priest, in the third heavens,and has written -„And the temple of God{YAHWEH} was opened in heaven,and there was seen in his temple the arkof his testament.“ Rev. xi: 19.The typical sanctuary, pitched byman on earth in which was placed theark of the testimony, was destroyedA. D. 70, 26 years before John had hisrevelation; therefore he could see noother Temple of God {YAHWEH}, andark but those in the third heavens. Johnwhile in prophetic vision, looked downthe stream of time to the great antitypicaltenth day of the seventh monthatonement, (the only time for Jesusto open the „temple of the tabernacleof the testimony in heaven;“ Rev. xv:5-8, and pass within the second vail,and cleanse the sanctuary,) and saw theMost Holy of the Heavenly Sanctuaryopened, and in it he saw the ark of theten commandments. Yes, reader, God‘scovenant of commandments is aneverlasting covenant, perpetuated andpreserved in the Heaven of Heavens.A change of dispensations has notbroken, nor altered it.„If they break my statutes, andkeep not my commandments; Thenwill I visit their transgressions.“„My covenant will I NOT BREAKNOR ALTER THE THING THATIS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS.“ SeePs. lxxxix : 31-34. God first spoke theten commandments from Sinai, thenwith his holy finger wrote them ontables of stone. The Pope has alteredthe Sabbath commandment from theseventh, to the first day of the week.God has not done it. He said he wouldnot „break, nor alter“ his covenant.Read what God has said on thisimportant subject by Isa. xxiv: 1-6.„Behold, the Lord {YAHWEH} makesthe earth empty, and makes it waste.And it shall be, as with the people, sowith the priest.“ „The land shall beutterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: forthe Lord {YAHWEH} has spoke thisword.“ „The earth also is defiled underthe inhabitants thereof; BECAUSEthey have transgressed the LAWS,changed the ORDINANCE, brokenthe EVERLASTING COVENANT.Therefore has the curse devoured theearth, and they that dwell therein aredesolate: therefore the inhabitants of theearth are BURNED, and few men left.“All this is to come upon the inhabitantsof the earth, (with the exception ofthe „few men,“ who keep the wholelaw,) for changing the ordinance, (theSabbath, from the seventh to the firstday of the week,) and breaking the lawof God. If men could see, and feel theawful importance of keeping God‘sholy law, they would tremble at theword of the Lord {YAHWEH}.The ten commandments are thefoundation of the whole Bible. Theyare God‘s moral, royal law, given toman to live by, and by it he will bejudged. In our courts of justice, menare tried by the same laws that aregiven them to live by. Then we cannotavoid the conclusion, that we are tomeet the ten commandments in the dayof judgement, at the bar of God.„So speak you, and so do, as theythat shall be judged by the law of