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Mystery of Iniquity
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the first day of the week, He changed the Sabbath from the seventh
to the first day of the week.
Thus Satan used the resurrection to serve his purpose. He and his
angels rejoiced that the errors they had prepared took so well with
the professed friends of Christ. What one looked upon with religious
horror, another would receive. Thus different errors were received
and defended with zeal. The will of God, so plainly revealed in His
Word, was covered up with errors and traditions, which have been
taught as the commandments of God. Although this heaven-daring
deception will be suffered to be carried on until the second appearing
of Jesus, yet through all this time of error and deception, God has
not been left without witnesses. Amid the darkness and persecution
of the church there have always been true and faithful ones who kept
all of God’s commandments.
I saw that the angelic host were filled with amazement as they
beheld the sufferings and death of the King of glory. But I saw that
it was no marvel to them that the Lord of life and glory, He who
filled all heaven with joy and splendor, should break the bands of
death, and walk forth from His prison house, a triumphant conqueror.
Therefore, if either of these events should be commemorated by a
day of rest, it is the crucifixion. But I saw that neither of these events
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was designed to alter or abrogate God’s law; on the contrary, they
give the strongest proof of its immutability.
Both of these important events have their memorials. By par-
taking of the Lord’s supper, the broken bread and the fruit of the
vine, we show forth the Lord’s death until He comes. The scenes of
His sufferings and death are thus brought fresh to our minds. The
resurrection of Christ is commemorated by our being buried with
Him by baptism, and raised out of the watery grave, in likeness of
His resurrection, to live in newness of life.
I was shown that the law of God would stand fast forever, and
exist in the new earth to all eternity. At the creation, when the
foundations of the earth were laid, the sons of God looked with
admiration upon the work of the Creator, and all the heavenly host
shouted for joy. It was then that the foundation of the Sabbath was
laid. At the close of the six days of creation, God rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had made; and He blessed
the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it He had rested