Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts
Richard Vaughn

Today: “Prophecy – The Seal of God – Part 3”
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- 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?
In our next article we will show what Jesus said that lets us know that He had no plans to change the Sabbath after His resurrection?
Next Week: “Prophecy – The Seal of God – Part 4”