God ‘rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. ‘ Genesis 2:3,4.
Adam and Eve would have been told all this by God, but they had to take Him at his word, for they could not prove it. They had no way of finding out if the world had really taken millions of years to develop and then they had appeared. God told them of the six days it took to create the world and what happened on each day, and they believed it and passed the information down from one generation to the next. Even after they sinned, they did not question the origin of the world for this information remained for a long time until it was recorded in writing.
To observe the Sabbath is a sign of our faith in the creation of the world and our faith in the power of the Creator. They shared the Sabbath with God but they had not seen the world actually made. They took God at His Word and kept the Sabbath with God. The Sabbath is therefore a sign of faith. It is a sign of our faith too, when we keep it. In keeping the Sabbath we show publicly that we believe and have faith in the Creator’s Word. To show that faith the seventh-day Sabbath has to believed in, but also observed.
‘Without faith it is impossible to please Him.’ Hebrews 11:6
The devil is angry with those that ‘keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.’ Revelation 12:17. It was Jesus that told Adam and Eve about the days of creation, and they kept and preserved His testimony of it. God’s Word is sure. We need an active living faith in that Word, not just for the present, but also for the past history, and for the future revealed by Bible prophecy. Adam and Eve needed this too, and they kept the Sabbath. This revealed their faith in what God had told them.
Q1. Do you have faith in what God’s Word, the testimony of Jesus, tells us today?
Q2. So do you remember each week to keep the Sabbath day holy? |
