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God’s High Standard
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specified in the fourth commandment] the Lord made heaven and
earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.” Please
read carefully the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy. God says again,
“Remember [do not forget] the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.... For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
Yet with the living oracles before them, those who claim to
preach the word present the suppositions of human minds, the max-
ims and commandments of men. They make void the law of God by
their traditions. The sophistry in regard to the world’s being created
in an indefinite period of time is one of Satan’s falsehoods. God
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speaks to the human family in language they can comprehend. He
does not leave the matter so indefinite that human beings can handle
it according to their theories. When the Lord declares that He made
the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, He means the
day of twenty-four hours, which He has marked off by the rising
and setting of the sun.
God would not present the death sentence for a disregard of the
Sabbath unless He had presented before men a clear understanding
of the Sabbath. After He had created our world and man, He looked
upon the work that He had done, and pronounced it very good. And
when the foundation of the earth was laid, the foundation of the
Sabbath was laid also. “When the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy,” God saw that a Sabbath was
essential for man, even in Paradise. In giving the Sabbath, God
considered man’s spiritual and physical health.
Not Any Day in Seven
God made the world in six literal days, and on the seventh lit-
eral day He rested from all His work which He had done, and was
refreshed. So He has given man six days in which to labor. But He
sanctified the day of His rest, and gave it to man to be kept, free
from all secular labor. By thus setting apart the Sabbath, God gave
the world a memorial. He did not set apart one day and any day in
seven, but one particular day, the seventh day. And by observing