is the golden clasp that unites God and His people in a unique and special way. To keep Sunday is to stop too late and lose the blessing. To have Sunday as a rest day is to hold back from activity when the body clock is ready to launch into action for another week. Man cannot alter God’s blueprint.
Dies Domini , the papal document about the Sunday rest day, has shown in a closely reasoned way the Bible
arguments for keeping a Sabbath, but it has taken those arguments and transferred them to Sunday keeping.
The more powerful arguments for keeping the Sabbath, in the times in which we live, are found in the prophetic framework, and these are noticeably absent. There is Truth, but there is also Present Truth. Noah could have told the story of creation. That was and is truth, but he had to warn of the Flood. That was Present Truth at that time. In each generation God reveals a Present Truth. The Sabbath is today’s Present Truth, but only when placed in its correct setting – that of prophecy and the warning of the final events that are to come upon this world, when the supremacy of God will be challenged by the counterfeits of an anti-Christ system.
Each of us will have to make a decision, either for the counterfeit Sunday that will become the mark of the beast, to be placed in the forehead or in the right hand; or for the Sabbath which will become the seal of God. Prophecy shows us that the issues of worship will become political issues too. Read revelation 12-14. The fact that the seal of approval of God will be placed in the forehead only, shows that it will be a conscious decision. Those who receive it will have chosen their actions in the light of God’s Word and will be unshakeable in their trust and loyalty to God in spite of threats, fines, loss of personal and family reputation, and even attempts against their lives. The mark of the beast can also be a deliberate decision, but for the majority it will be a matter of convenience in order to buy and sell and support themselves or they will have drifted along with the views of the majority, to be politically correct.
To find today’s context for Sabbath keeping, we will look again at the prophecies that first began to be studied in depth and with understanding in the 1800’s.
Prior to that there had been partial understanding and certain principles in interpretation of prophecy had been laid down as sure, and had been proved valid by the passage of time.