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To Be Kept in Eternity, January 31
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and
from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before
me, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 66:23
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How beautiful the earth was when it came from the Creator’s hand!
God presented before the universe a world in which even His all-seeing
eye could find no spot or stain. Each part of the creation occupied the
part assigned to it, and answered the purpose for which it was created.
Peace and holy joy filled the earth. There was no confusion, no clashing.
There was no disease to afflict man or beast, and the vegetable kingdom
was without taint or corruption. God looked upon the work of His hands,
wrought out by Christ, and pronounced it “very good.”
The Sabbath was hallowed at the creation. As ordained for man, it
had its origin when “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of
God shouted for joy.”
Job 38:7
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The Sabbath was not for Israel merely, but for the world. It had
been made known to man in Eden, and, like the other precepts of the
Decalogue, it is of imperishable obligation. Of that law of which the
fourth commandment forms a part, Christ declares, “Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.”
Matthew 5:18
. So long as the heavens and the earth endure, the Sabbath
will continue as a sign of the Creator’s power. And when Eden shall
bloom on earth again, God’s holy rest day will be honored by all beneath
the sun. “From one sabbath to another” the inhabitants of the glorified
new earth shall ... “worship before me, saith the Lord.”
God teaches that we should assemble in His house to cultivate the
attributes of perfect love. This will fit the dwellers of earth for the
mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for all who love Him. There
they will assemble in the sanctuary from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one
new moon to another, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and
thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever
and ever.
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