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God’s Law Never Changes, May 7
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him
upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the
finger of God.
Exodus 31:18
.
During the Christian dispensation, the great enemy of man’s happiness has made
the Sabbath of the fourth commandment an object of special attack. Satan says, “I
will work at cross purposes with God. I will empower my followers to set aside
God’s memorial, the seventh-day Sabbath. Thus I will show the world that the day
sanctified and blessed by God has been changed. That day shall not live in the minds
of the people. I will obliterate the memory of it. I will place in its stead a day that
does not bear the credentials of God, a day that cannot be a sign between God and
His people. I will lead those who accept this day to place upon it the sanctity that
God placed upon the seventh day”....
Through the setting up of a false sabbath, the enemy thought to change times
and laws. But has he really succeeded in changing God’s law? The words of the
thirty-first chapter of Exodus are the answer. He who is the same yesterday, today,
and forever has declared of the seventh-day Sabbath: “It is a sign between me and
you throughout your generations.” “It is a sign ... for ever” (
Exodus 31:13, 17
). The
changed signpost is pointing the wrong way, but God has not changed. He is still
the mighty God of Israel. “Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very
little thing” (
Isaiah 40:15
).... And He is just as jealous for His law now as He was in
the days of Ahab and Elijah.
But how is that law disregarded! Behold the world today in open rebellion
against God. This is in truth a froward generation, filled with ingratitude, formalism,
insincerity, pride, and apostasy. Men neglect the Bible and hate truth. Jesus sees
His law rejected, His love despised, his ambassadors treated with indifference. He
has spoken by His mercies, but these have been unacknowledged; He has spoken by
warnings, but these have been unheeded. The temple courts of the human soul have
been turned into places of unholy traffic. Selfishness, envy, pride, malice—all are
cherished....
Those who believe that word just as it reads are held up to ridicule. There is a
growing contempt for law and order, directly traceable to a violation of the plain
commands of Jehovah (
Prophets and Kings, 183-185
).
Jehovah engraved His ten commandments on tables of stone, that all the inhabi-
tants of the earth might understand His eternal, unchangeable character (
Counsels
to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 248
).
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