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    THE SABBATH - A SIGN

    And signifies subscribe, represent, notify, mark. This being the signification of a sign, it is the same as seal. God says that he gave the Sabbath for a perpetual covenant and “a sign (or seal) between him and the children of Israel forever. (His reasons for it are,) for, (or because) in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” - Exodus 31:17. How evident it is to any person of sane mind, that God gave this sign at the same time that he made the Sabbath, viz: on the seventh day of creation; not for the tribes of Israel only that lived in the days of Moses, but for the whole Israel of God, from Adam to the resurrection of the righteous dead. This sign then was given twenty-five hundred years before there was a descendant of Jacob on the earth. The reason why Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, was because he wrestled all night with an Angel and prevailed with God. In this sense then all who overcome (and none else) will be the true Israel of God.SLG 23.1

    Again! “Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for it is a sign between me (the children of Israel,) and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.” The generation of Jacob’s descendants have not ended yet, hence the sign. But it was given for all that keep the Sabbath. It never can be a sign to them that do not keep it. Further, the keepers are sanctified by observing it. It is a sign, because no servile labor is to be done on that day. It is a sign because God has given it to us expressly for that purpose. Further, it is a sign that we shall know him, and be forever with him. It will continue with the Sabbath, and that we have proved, never ends.SLG 23.2

    A sign, signifies subscribe, represent, notify, mark, similar to our own usages. A sells B his farm, the contract is closed by giving a deed. How would it look if A first delivered, then sealed, afterwards signed, and then wrote it? You say, wrong: well then, reverse it. A writes it, then signs and seals, and then delivers it. Just so with a letter; just so is God’s order; now trying us, to prove us, by seeing whether we will keep his commandments or no; if we do, then we have the sign of the Sabbath, and ready to be sealed, and then delivered by the voice of god from the time of trouble. Here then the sealing process is proved as Paul has Abraham, “and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had,” etc., Romans 4:11. The sign shows that the seal must follow, and as there is no other truth which god has given his servants that is to be a sign between him and them but the keeping his Sabbath, then “a seal of the living God” is the Sabbath.SLG 24.1

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