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A Vision of the Sabbath Commandment, May 28
The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do
any work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor
your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor
your stranger who is within your gates, that your manservant and your
maidservant may rest as well as you.
Deuteronomy 5:14
, NKJV.
Jesus stood by the ark, and as the saints’ prayers came up to Him, the incense
in the censer would smoke, and He would offer up their prayers with the smoke of
the incense to His Father.
In the ark was the golden pot of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables
of stone, which folded together like a book. Jesus opened them, and I saw the ten
commandments written on them with the finger of God. On one table were four,
and on the other six. The four on the first table shone brighter than the other six.
But the fourth, the Sabbath commandment, shone above them all; for the Sabbath
was set apart to be kept in honor of God’s holy name. The holy Sabbath looked
glorious—a halo of glory was all around it....
And I saw that if God had changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day,
He would have changed the writing of the Sabbath commandment, written on the
tables of stone, which are now in the ark in the most holy place of the temple in
heaven; and it would read thus: The first day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
But I saw that it read the same as when written on the tables of stone by the finger
of God, and delivered to Moses on Sinai, “But the seventh day is the sabbath of
the Lord thy God.” I saw that the holy Sabbath is, and will be, the separating wall
between the true Israel of God and unbelievers; and that the Sabbath is the great
question to unite the hearts of God’s dear, waiting saints.
I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have
not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we
were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more
fully.—
Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 100, 101
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