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Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Fear God and keep His
| commandments: for this Is the whole
duty of man" Eccl 1918. It is mans
duty to keep Gods commandments
Yet the majority OF men feel 1t not
their duty to keep one Of these com
D mands, which says: Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work; but the seventh d; Y is the SAP.
bath OF the Lord thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work" etc. Elk. 70:
| 8-11. Instead they keep the first day
I Of the week as the Sabbath.
p I proved in my first article upon tie
law Of God that Gods law is unchaage
able and eternal, and this should be
sufficient proof to the readers or these
columns that the Sabbath which this
law designates as the seventh day Is
still binding upon men.
Some think 1t not their duty to keep
this fourth command because it is
said that the Christian Sabbath Is the
first day Of the week and that the sew
enth day Of the week Is Jewish
, Sabbath Let us consider Gods word
q in reference to this. Mark 2: q
reads: "And he said unto them. The
st Sabbath was made for man, and not
man for the Sabbath" E.ark says that
the sabbath was made for man. not
for the Jews, or for the Gentiles, but
for the species, for all mankind, as
long as there shall be mankind. fhe
next verse says, Therefore the Son OF
Man is Lord also of the Sabbath" The
Sabbath is the Lords, not the Jews.
The Fourth Commandment corrobor-
ates this: '"The seventh day Is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God" Elk. TO-:
10; Deut. s: IA.
Now let us consider Elk. 81: 1917. 1t
Is said this text proves that the Sab.
bath was given to be sign between
God and the Jews, or Israel, through
out their generations The text says
4 the reason why the Sabbath was a
sign between God and Israel was that
'in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, and on the seventh day He
rested and was refreshed" BY keep
ing the Sabbath they acknowledged
Jehovah. the Maker of the heavens
and the earth. as the only true God,
and declared themselves to be His
worshipers. And SO long as they did
this, He had pledged Himself to sane
tify them, or regard them as set apart
to TYSro 90 nop,11iQr NaOnI1 EHi
We know that for o-'er fifteen hum
dred years the Jews we're Gods chos-
en- people, but when Christ came into
the world. they did not receive Him
as their Saviour, but rejected him as
an "imposter," and so God rejected
them from being His chosen people.
The gospel began to go to the Gentiles
at that time, and they who have &C
copied Christ, whether Jew or Cen
tile. have become Gods peculiar peo-
pie. Some Of the olive branches (the
Iews.) have been broken off and the
Wild olive tree (the Gentiles) has been
grated in (Read Johns allegory OF
the olive tree in Romans I'D
Let us return to Elk. 81 49,: "erily
NV Sabbath We shall keep: for it is a
sirn between Me and you throughout
your generations This text might
nroye that the Seventh day of the
week is Jewish Sabbath ii the gener.
atoms OF the Jews ceased at the same
time the Jews ceased to be Gods
people, but their generations did not
cease then. The Jews are today,
though scattered among all nations, q
standfng fulfllment of prophecy In the
preservation Of their distinct nation
Atty. and the marvel Of the world for
this reason.
But Is the Sabbath, which the Jews
still observe, sign between them and
God today that they may know that
am the Lord that doth sanctify
you"! Will any Chrvistian say that 1t
la Not one. But their generations
still continue during which our friends
claim the Sabbath was to be sign
between God and them.
Romans Q: 1929 says in part, "For
he is not a Jew who is one outward
" 49, but he is Jew which is
me inwardly." Rom. 9: 6-s says,
"For they are not all Israel which are
of Israel: neither because they are
the seed OF Abraham, are they all chill
dren. but, in Isaac shall thy seed be
called That is, They which are the
children Of the flesh, these are not the
children Of God: but the children of
the promise are counted for the seed. "
"Know We therefore that they which
are OF faith, the same are the children
Of Abraham" And If We be Christ's,
then are We Abraham's seed and heirs
according to the promise Gal. g.:
1929.
60. whether Jew or Gentle, you
who have faith in Christ, are the true
Israel. You are Abraham's seed. and
10 you the Lord says. Wherefore the