BIBLE FACTS CONCERNING

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BIBLE FACTS CONCERNING THE SEVENTH DAY

1.   After working the first six days of the week in creating this earth, the great God rested on the seventh day, blessed and sanctified it. (See Genesis 2:1-3.)
2.   It was made before the fall; hence it is not a type, for types were not instituted until after the fall of man.
3.   Jesus says it "was made for man" Mark 2:27; that is for the race as the word man is here unlimited; hence for the Gentiles as well as the Jews.
4.   It is a memorial of Creation. (See Exodus 20:11; 31:17.) Every time we rest upon the seventh day as God did at Creation, we commemorate the grand event.
5.   It is not a Jewish institution, for it was made 2300 years before there was a Jew.
6.   The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath, but always "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Men should be cautious how they stigmatize God’s holy rest day.
7.   It was part of God’s law before Sinai. (See Exodus 16:4, 27-29.)
8.   God placed it in the heart of His moral law. (See Exodus 20:1-17.)
9.   The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living God. (See Deuteronomy 4:12,13.)
10.   He wrote the commandment with His own finger. (See Exodus 31:18.)
11.   He engraved it in the enduring stone, indicating its imperishable nature. (See Deuteronomy 5:22.)
12.   It was sacredly preserved in the ark in the Holy of Holies. (See Deuteronomy 10:1-5.)
13.   God forbade work upon the Sabbath even in the most hurrying times. (See Exodus 34:21.)
14.   God destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. (See Ezekiel 20:20.)
15.   It is the sign of the true God, by which we are to know Him from false gods. (See Ezekiel 20:20.)
16.   God has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who keep it. (See Isaiah 56:6,7.)
17.   This blessing is in the prophecy that refers wholly to the Christian dispensation. (See Isaiah 56.)
18.   God has promised to bless every man who keeps the Sabbath. (See Isaiah 56:2.)
19.   The Lord requires us to call it "honorable." (Isaiah 58:13.) Beware, ye who take delight in calling it the "old Jewish Sabbath," "a yoke of bondage," etc.
20.   After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down for "many generations," it is to be restored in the last days. (See Isaiah 58:12,13.)
21.   All the holy prophets kept the seventh day.
22.   When the Son of God came, He kept the seventh day all His life. (See Luke 4:16, John 15:10.)
23.   The seventh day is the Lord’s day. (Revelation 1:10; Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10.)
24.   Jesus was the "Lord of the Sabbath." Mark 2:28.
25.   He vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good. (See Mark 2:23-28.)
26.   The pious women who had been with Jesus carefully kept the seventh day after His death. (See Luke 23:56.)
27.   Thirty years after Christ’s resurrection, the Holy Spirit expressly calls it "the Sabbath day." (See "Acts 13:14.)
28.   Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, called it "the Sabbath day" in A.D. 45. (See Acts 13:27.) Did not Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it ceased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Christ?
29.   Luke, the inspired Christian historian, writing as late as A.D. 62, calls it "the Sabbath day." Acts 13:14.
30.   The Gentile converts called it the Sabbath. (See Acts 13:42.)
31.   In the great Christian council in A.D. 52, in the presence of the apostles and thousands of disciples, James called it the "Sabbath." (See Acts 15:21.)
32.   It was Paul’s custom to preach upon that day. (See Acts 17:2.)
33.   The book of Acts alone gives a record of his holding eighty-four meetings upon that day. (See Acts 13:14, 44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4, 11.)
34.   There was never any dispute between the Christians and the Jews about the Sabbath day. This fact is proof that the Christians still observed the same day that the Jews did.
35.   In all their accusations against Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why not if he did not keep it?
36.   But Paul himself expressly declared that he had kept the law. "Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended in any thing at all." Acts 25:8. How could this be true if he had not kept the Sabbath?
37.   The Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament 59 times and always with respect, bearing the same title it had in the Old Testament, "the Sabbath day."
38.   Not a word is said anywhere in the New Testament about the Sabbath’s being changed, done away with or anything of the kind.
39.   God has never given permission to any man to work on the Sabbath. Friend, by what authority do you use the seventh day for common labor?
40.   As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the Fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the resurrection. (See Isaiah 66:22, 23.)

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