The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-06

idea All the Mosaic saehaths are
. fixed daNs, tor example. the ninth,
day OF the seventh month Also ~
I cry seventh dAy intended 10 he
kept IL provided With legislation fog
that day and the .number ot days
thus provided for falls tar short ~
the number for year a! $50 DAYS
the old Testamep SYSTEM Joshua
certainly did not keep seventh
day when he marched around Jer..
/ cho for seven consecutive dAys ina
also under the PERSONA direction Of
( God ~ is very eviden, lhA Joshua
understood Mo1ic law hctter than
any man livins since tho time ~
, Christ
In order To understand sabbath we
must call IN mind tina: every Jewish
institution was founded upon some
historical fact e r Passover was
founded upon the escape from deaf
OF al the flrst-born OF the iurael.lcJ
In Egypt
The book OF Exodus records the
sabbath bui docs not give The n
tor.cal event which - back or H.
Bl the expression "Uemcm bcr. '
Moses speaks OF tho sabbath In the
wear OF Exodus rs well known to tho
Jews In the past We must there
tore look In tho proceeding book or
Genesis II Ne are 10 find tho his.
torical event upon which the Sab
bath Nas founded The narrative
oi the flood rewards this search
and II answers all requirements. God
certainly sepatated and called
Noah out from among the unrlEhl.
cous who perirhed Tho "revens
which In the commemora .idea Of
me sabbath, appears throughout tho
narrative or the flood II was In the
seventh generation or period OF
Noshs NE he waited seven" DAYS
and sent out the dove
That thero IL n relation between
the sabha,hs and the flood can he
proven by the similar points OF
chronology In the accounts OF both
Tho record Of the SAbbaths In the
year Of the Exodus IL on the same
day that Noah entered tho ark and
II Ia also the same day that the Lord
ascended inio heaven before pente-
cost at the end ~ forty" DAYS. This
day before Pcntecos' a fixed sab
bath In both The old Testament and
New Testament Also that every
mention Of Sabbath day in IN.
New Testament Ia al that period Of
the year covered ny the forty" dsvs
or both the flood and OF Moses 20.
ms into the mountain There Is
much which could he introduced in
thls article but space forb.ds H.
The early Gentle church never
Understood tho system used nv the
Jews in reference Ia chrome, ,oEical
events in the time Of Chr'st and the
destruction Of Jerusalem with near.
" the whole Of The jewish people
was such an Appalling disaster that
the remaining descendants have not
recovered 10 dhis dav from Ia sf.
fecis and have themselves lost
knowledge Of the system in vogue
al that time, which would clearly
reveal the historical even, back OF
the 4abbaths
Although the Jews Of today claim
or think OF the Sabbaths ~ extend.
ing throughout the year periodically,
yet their claim can he disproved by
the fact that the first controversy
among themselves over shifting"
day each sscceedinR year. as Is nee
essarily the case In their present
Idea, which did not then and does
not now 1T the systsm Of the Mosaic
law--this controversy came up after
the Christian era with The "karai-
tes' and this shows thsr the idea OF
a continuous periodir seven" day
throughout tho year is about the
same age as the Chrisiian era
The early Gentle church sim ply
established a new" institution on
the first" instead OF on the "s.y.
enth" which was known to the Jews