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This Week: “Prophecy – The Seal of God” - Part 2
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This week we are going to look at three things God did to the seventh day to make it special. God made the Sabbath on the seventh literal day of that first creation week. 

It was before sin entered this world and 2500 years before the first Jew.

 What three things did God do at creation that made the seventh day special? Genesis 2:2,3 “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”

Note- First, God rested. Then God blessed and sanctified the seventh day. What God blesses, stays blessed forever, 1 Chronicles 17:27 “Now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for You have blessed it, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forever.” 

"Sanctify" means to set aside for sacred or holy use. Just as the Bible is different from any other book, and the American flag is different from any other piece of cloth, so the seventh day is totally different from the other six days. God made that twenty-four hour period holy. 
 
For whom did God make the Sabbath? Mark 2:27,28. “And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.””

Note- God made the seventh day Sabbath for all of mankind everywhere.
God saw that men would forget His Sabbath. So with what command did He begin the fourth commandment? Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

Note- "Remember" means DON'T FORGET!  

The question is then asked, “But didn’t Jesus ever repeal the Ten Commandments which mandate Sabbath-keeping?  

Luke 16:17,18 “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail. Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.”

Note- God's law and His commandments are the same thing and Jesus was specific here in identifying one of those ten. 

Matthew 5:17-19 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Romans 13:8-10 “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”

Which day did Jesus keep holy and how should that affect me personally? Luke 4:16 “So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.”; 1 Peter 2:21 “For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:”

Note- Christ was our example in all things including keeping the seventh day Sabbath. Read this as if your eternal life hangs in the balance. God's word states it clearly. If anyone says it reads other then plainly stated, then they speak against God Himself. They will be considered least in heaven, because they won’t be there. It is important how you regard God’s seventh day Sabbath, and how much more important is it for the pastors who shepherd the sheep.

I appeal to every brother and sister in Christ. Jesus is coming soon. Will you choose to worship God and keep holy His seventh day Sabbath, or will you choose to continue to trample God’s Sabbath and uphold the counterfeit Sabbath that Satan instituted through the Papacy in the fourth century after Christ?

 This week we are going to look what Jesus said that lets us know that He had no plans to change the Sabbath after His resurrection?
Matthew 24:20 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.”

Note- Jesus said that they should pray that they would not have to flee in winter or on the Sabbath day. He was speaking of a time that was 40 years in the future, since He knew the fall of Jerusalem would occur in 70 AD.
How does Revelation refer to the people living in the last days who will be saved into God's kingdom? Revelation 14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”; Revelation 12:17 “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

Note- they will be Ten Commandment keepers and that includes the seventh day Sabbath.  In Isaiah 58:1 “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.”, God says, “Cry aloud and spare not” and “Tell My people” their sins. What sin is He specifically referring to in verse 13? “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,”

Note- In Isaiah's day they were trampling on God's Sabbath seal. Mankind today is doing the same serious thing. God says that His own dear people that love Him are trampling His Sabbath underfoot. His command is to "cry aloud" and explain the Sabbath to them, because His loving sheep will gladly follow Him in Sabbath-keeping when they understand. 
 
What day will the saints keep in the new earth? Isaiah 66:22,23 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”

The Sabbath created in Eden will be kept in Eden anew and throughout eternity. The breach made in God's law in the fourth century will be repaired, Isaiah 58:12 “Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.” 

The sin of old Israel and modern Israel is the same. Trampling God's Sabbath. It will be Sabbath throughout eternity and not Sunday. True Sabbath-keepers are the repairers of the breach made in God's law and by keeping it holy and telling others, they are restorers of streets to dwell in. Will your allegiance be to God or the Papacy? Will you receive God's Seal or the Papacy's Mark? No matter how uncomfortable it may be to serve God faithfully, He calls you to step out and follow.

God's people, who He calls "My people”, are in many denominations throughout Christendom. But now, He is calling His people to COME OUT OF HER. Revelation 18:4,5 “And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Her being the corrupt, apostate church. 

The Papacy initiated the change of God's Sabbath, and Protestantism today lingers in the apostasy of Sunday sacredness. Sunday is the day that was never blessed by God; rather it had its roots in Paganism. God commanded us to work on Sunday through Friday, Exodus 20:9 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work."

Is God calling you? Do you worship God on Sunday? Then if you will hear His voice, He is calling you as one of His people to COME OUT of her TODAY!

The choice is yours friend. God loves you and would not force Himself or His law on you. You have the opportunity to embrace God's Sabbath and walk these last days of earth's history with His remnant people, or you can reject it. You will be marked either way by your choice. God's seal or the mark of the beast? Those who keep God's commandments are truly free.

Friends, I encourage you to find a Sabbath keeping church near you. You are always welcome to worship with us each seventh day Lord’s day at the Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church located at 117 W. Danville Street in the center of South Hill, VA.

Next Week: “Prophecy – The Image to the Beast – Part 1”

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Come Lord Jesus.