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Tampering With the Commandments, March 16
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times
and laws.
Daniel 7:25
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Satan could not hinder the plan of salvation. Jesus was crucified,
and arose again the third day. He [Satan] told his angels that he would
make even the crucifixion and resurrection tell to his advantage. He was
willing that those who professed faith in Jesus should believe that the
laws regulating the Jewish sacrifices and offerings ceased at the death
of Christ, if he could push them further, and make them believe that the
law of ten commandments died also with Christ....
He [Satan] told his angels ... that the Ten Commandments were so
plain that many would believe that they were still binding; therefore he
must seek to corrupt the fourth commandment, which brings to view
the living God. He led on his representatives to attempt to change
the Sabbath, and alter the only commandment of the ten which brings
to view the true God, the maker of the heavens and the earth. Satan
presented before them the glorious resurrection of Jesus, and told them
that by His rising on 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.
Satan, working through unconsecrated leaders of the church, tam-
pered with the fourth commandment ... and essayed to set aside the
ancient Sabbath, the day which God had blessed and sanctified (
Gene-
sis 2:2, 3
), and in its stead to exalt the festival observed by the heathen
as “the venerable day of the sun.”
The Lord has clearly defined the road to the city of God; but the great
apostate has changed the signpost, setting up a false one—a spurious
sabbath.... The enemy of all good has turned the signpost round, so that
it points to the path of disobedience as the path of happiness.... He has
thought to change times and laws.
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