Chapter 16—Time to Begin the Sabbath
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I saw that it is even so: “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate
your Sabbath.” Said the angel: “Take the word of God, read it, un-
derstand, and ye cannot err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find
what even is, and when it is. I asked the angel if the frown of God had
been upon His people for commencing the Sabbath as they had. I was
directed back to the first rise of the Sabbath, and followed the people
of God up to this time, but did not see that the Lord was displeased,
or frowned upon them. I inquired why it had been thus, that at this
late day we must change the time of commencing the Sabbath. Said
the angel: “Ye shall understand, but not yet, not yet.” Said the angel:
“If light come, and that light is set aside or rejected, then comes con-
demnation and the frown of God; but before the light comes, there is
no sin, for there is no light for them to reject.” I saw that it was in the
minds of some that the Lord had shown that the Sabbath commenced
at six o’clock, when I had only seen that it commenced at “even,” and
it was inferred that even was at six. I saw that the servants of God
must draw together, press together.
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