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The Lord Sanctifies Sabbathkeepers, September 12
Examples of Sanctified Lives
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify
them.
Ezekiel 20:12
The Lord’s day mentioned by John was the Sabbath, the day on which
Jehovah rested after the great work of creation, and which He blessed and
sanctified because He had rested upon it. The Sabbath was as sacredly
observed by John upon the Isle of Patmos as when he was among the
people, preaching upon that day. By the barren rocks surrounding him,
John was reminded of rocky Horeb, and how, when God spoke His law
to the people there, He said, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy.”
The Son of God spoke to Moses from the mountaintop. God made
the rocks His sanctuary. His temple was the everlasting hills. The
Divine Legislator descended upon the rocky mountain to speak His law
in the hearing of all the people, that they might be impressed by the
grand and awful exhibition of His power and glory, and fear to transgress
His commandments.... The law of Jehovah was unchangeable, and the
tablets upon which He wrote that law were solid rock, signifying the
immutability of His precepts. Rocky Horeb became a sacred spot to all
who loved and revered the law of God.
While John was contemplating the scenes of Horeb, the Spirit of
Him who sanctified the seventh day, came upon him. He contemplated
the sin of Adam in transgressing the divine law, and the fearful results of
that transgression. The infinite love of God, in giving His Son to redeem
a lost race, seemed too great for language to express. As he presents it
in his epistle, he calls upon the church and the world to behold it.
All who regard the Sabbath as a sign between them and God ... will
represent the principles of His government. They will bring into daily
practice the laws of His kingdom. Daily it will be their prayer that the
sanctification of the Sabbath may rest upon them.
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