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00:13 Well, here we are
00:16 in our last session, 00:18 in this 20 part series, 00:20 on the Prophetic Panorama. 00:22 I hope, you've enjoyed it. 00:24 I hope, it's been a blessing 00:25 and that you've seen the importance, 00:28 the extreme importance for Seventh-day Adventist 00:30 to understand these things, 00:32 so that we can share them with the world. 00:34 Before we begin our last study together, 00:38 the title is "The Final Test." 00:41 We want to have a word of prayer 00:43 to ask the Lord to be with us. 00:45 Father in heaven, as we study about 00:47 "The Final Test" 00:49 that will divide the world into two groups. 00:52 We ask that You will show us how to be in Your group, 00:57 how to receive the seal of God 01:00 and be faithful until the end. 01:02 Use us also to teach others 01:05 so that they can choose the right side. 01:08 Be with us and lighten us, 01:10 we pray in the precious name of Jesus, amen. 01:16 As we examine the Book of Revelation, 01:18 one thing is very clear, 01:22 and that is that the final crisis 01:24 will involve two objects of worship 01:28 and their respective sign of authority. 01:34 The Bible tells us that on the one side will be 01:38 those who are under the true creator, 01:41 and they will have His seal. 01:45 On the other hand, 01:46 are those who worship the beast, 01:48 and they will have his mark. 01:52 So basically, the end time crisis is all about worship. 01:55 The final test is all about worship. 01:59 In fact, the first four commandments will be 02:02 the point of conflict at the end of time. 02:08 Let me just summarize that, 02:09 so that we can see how worship is involved 02:13 in the final crisis. 02:16 How is the first commandment involved? 02:19 Well, we are told in Revelation 13:3-4, 02:23 that everyone on the earth will worship the beast. 02:28 Would that be a violation of the first commandments? 02:31 Thou shalt have no other gods before me? 02:34 Absolutely. 02:35 What about the second commandment? 02:37 In Revelation 13:14, 02:40 we're told that the beast from the earth 02:42 will make an image of the first beast 02:44 and everyone will have to bow down 02:45 before the image. 02:47 Does that involve the second commandment? 02:49 Thou shalt not bow down before images? 02:52 Absolutely. 02:53 How is the third commandment involved? 02:56 Revelation 13:6, 02:57 we are told that the beast blasphemes the name of God. 03:03 How about the fourth commandment? 03:04 Is that commandment involved in the final crisis? 03:07 Absolutely. 03:09 The Creator has His sign, and on the other side, 03:13 the beast has his. 03:18 However, even though the whole world, 03:22 according to Revelation, 03:24 will worship the beast and accept his authority, 03:28 there will be a small remnant 03:30 that will refuse to worship the beast. 03:35 Thus there will be two groups at the end of time, 03:38 one very large group and one small remnant. 03:43 The large group follows the beast or wanders 03:47 after the beast, 03:49 whereas the small remnant follows the lamb 03:53 wherever the lamb goes. 03:55 And so we are going to study about this end time crisis 03:59 over the issue of worship. 04:03 We wanna begin by finding in Scripture 04:07 what distinguishes the true God from all false pretenders? 04:14 Go with me to 1 Chronicles 16:26. 04:18 We're gonna notice now, 04:19 what distinguishes the true God from all false pretenders 04:24 from those who claim to be. 04:26 1 Chronicles 16:26. 04:32 It says there, 04:33 "For all the gods of the people are idols, 04:39 but the Lord made the heavens." 04:44 What distinguishes the true God from all false pretenders? 04:49 The fact that God is the Creator. 04:54 You see false gods cannot create. 04:57 Only God can create, 04:58 that is the one distinguishing mark of the true Creator. 05:04 Now, because God is the Creator, 05:06 the only true God, 05:08 what do we owe Him? 05:11 We owe Him worship. 05:13 Let's go to Psalm 95:1-6, Psalm 95:1-6. 05:19 When I was pastor at Fresno Central Church, 05:21 we would read this passage 05:22 at the beginning of every worship service. 05:25 It states here, "O come, 05:28 let us sing to the Lord! 05:30 Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 05:34 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, 05:37 let us shout joyfully to him with psalms. 05:40 For the Lord is the great God, 05:43 and the great King above all gods." 05:46 Now notice this, 05:47 "In His hand are the deep places of the earth, 05:50 the heights of the hills are His also. 05:54 The sea is His, for He made it, 05:57 and His hands formed the dry land." 06:00 So, these verses are telling us that God is great. 06:04 He's above all gods, because He's the Creator, 06:07 all belongs to Him, 06:09 and what should our response be? 06:11 Verse 6, "Oh come, 06:13 let us worship and bow down, 06:17 let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." 06:21 So, because God is the only true Creator God, 06:25 we as creatures owe Him reverence and worship. 06:31 We must bow down and kneel before the Lord, 06:34 our Maker that needs to be our response. 06:39 Another text that speaks about the response 06:41 that we should have is found in Nehemiah 9:6, 06:45 and this is referring primarily 06:48 to the heavenly beings. 06:49 Once again, they praise God because He's the Creator. 06:53 They worship God because God is the Creator. 06:56 Nehemiah 9:6, says the following, 07:00 "You alone are the Lord;" 07:03 Why is He alone the Lord? 07:05 "You have made heaven, 07:08 the heaven of heavens, 07:10 with all their host, 07:12 the earth and everything in it, 07:14 the sea and all that is in them, 07:17 and You preserve them all." 07:20 And now notice, 07:21 "The host of heaven worships You." 07:26 Why does the host of heaven worship the Lord? 07:29 Because the Lord is the, what? 07:31 He created the earth and everything in the earth. 07:35 So the first point is that 07:37 which distinguishes the true God 07:39 from all false pretenders, 07:41 is the fact that God is the Creator, 07:43 and our response to Him should be worship 07:46 because He is the Creator. 07:50 But now we notice that God also established 07:54 a memorial of creation. 07:57 So that we would remember, 08:00 that memorial is found in Genesis Chapter 1. 08:04 And before we read about the memorial, 08:06 let's notice the conclusion of the creation story. 08:10 Genesis 1:31 through 2:1, 08:13 actually, 2:1 belongs with Chapter 1. 08:17 That's another place where the chapter division 08:19 is not in the right place. 08:21 You'll see what I mean. 08:23 Genesis 1:31 through 2:1, 08:26 "Then God saw everything that He had made, 08:30 and indeed it was very good. 08:32 So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 08:37 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, 08:41 were finished." 08:44 When did God finish His work of creation? 08:46 Which day did God finish His work of creation? 08:49 Which day? 08:51 Sixth day. The sixth day, it says here. 08:55 But now we've got a little problem. 08:57 Let's read verses 2 and 3 of Chapter 2. 09:01 "And on the seventh day God ended His work 09:03 which He had done." 09:05 By the way, don't get thrown off 09:07 by the fact that in one it says he finished 09:09 and the other says he ended. 09:10 It's the same Hebrew word. 09:13 So it says, "And on the seventh day 09:15 God finished His work which He had done, 09:18 and He rested on the seventh day 09:20 from all His work which He had done. 09:21 Then God blessed the seventh day 09:23 and sanctified it, 09:24 because in it He rested from all His work 09:27 which God had created and made." 09:30 So the big question is, 09:31 how can God finish something twice? 09:34 How could God finish His work the sixth day, 09:37 and then finish it at the seventh day? 09:40 Well, I have an illustration that I think will help us. 09:44 I want you to imagine a master artist, a painter. 09:49 First thing that he does, he gets the... 09:51 You know, the wood and he makes the frame. 09:54 Then he puts the canvas to the frame, staples it 09:57 and the first day he add some add background 10:00 colors to the canvas, 10:04 and after he finishes his work 10:05 the first day he steps back he says, 10:08 it's good. 10:09 The second day, you know, 10:11 he portrays some clouds in the sky, blue sky, 10:13 nice and pretty, the firmament, you know, 10:15 and so he looks now steps back after the second day, 10:19 he says, it's good. 10:21 The third day, he paint some trees 10:23 and some flowers and some green grass 10:26 and when he finishes his work the third day, 10:28 he steps back, he says, it's good. 10:32 The fourth day, you know, he paints the sun in the sky. 10:35 You know, sometimes you see the moon in the daytime too. 10:37 So he makes a little moon there opaque, 10:39 and at the end of the fourth day, 10:40 he steps back, he says, it's good. 10:44 The fifth day, he paints some birds flying in the sky, 10:48 and he paints some fish jumping out of the water, 10:52 and then he steps back at the end of the fifth day, 10:55 he says, it's good. 10:57 On the sixth day, he paints some giraffes, 11:00 some elephants and some cows, 11:02 and some land animals. 11:04 And then he paints a man and a woman 11:07 standing in the midst of this beautiful place, 11:10 and when he finishes 11:11 the last touches on the canvas, 11:13 he steps back and he says, 11:15 it is very good. 11:20 Has he finished? 11:23 Yes and no? 11:25 What is still missing? 11:27 The signature that identifies 11:30 who painted the portrait. 11:34 You see, God painted the picture the first six days, 11:39 and He completed it. 11:40 But if God did not place His signature 11:43 on the work of creation, somebody else could claim it. 11:47 So the seventh day Sabbath is God's signature 11:50 that identifies who made everything. 11:56 So God finished His work the sixth day 11:58 and He signed it on the seventh day. 12:02 Now, God did three things with the Sabbath at creation. 12:06 First, He rested on the Sabbath. 12:09 By the way that word rested, 12:11 the word Shabbat should really be translated, He ceased. 12:15 In other words, He didn't create anymore. 12:17 He stopped creating of the seventh day. 12:19 It tells us what He didn't do on the seventh day. 12:22 It's not talking about quality of rest. 12:24 It's simply saying that God ceased His work of creating 12:26 on the seventh day, He created no more. 12:29 He rested, He blessed 12:34 and He sanctified or made the day holy. 12:38 And which day is the Sabbath according to Genesis 2:2-3? 12:42 The seventh day is the Sabbath. 12:46 It says that three times in Genesis 2:2-3, 12:51 no doubt about it. 12:52 So what I want you to remember 12:54 is that the Sabbath is a seventh day 12:57 and God blessed the Sabbath day, 13:00 He sanctified the Sabbath day 13:01 and He rested on the Sabbath day. 13:05 Now, let's notice some facts about the days of creation. 13:10 There is no doubt that the days of creation 13:12 were literal days of 24 hours each. 13:16 We have several reasons for that. 13:18 Number one, in the Old Testament, 13:21 every time that you find the word day 13:26 with a numeral qualifier, 13:28 such as 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day, etcetera, 13:32 it always refers to a literal 24 hour day, 13:36 there is no exceptions in the Old Testament. 13:38 When the word day is used with a numeral adjective, 13:43 it always means a literal 24 hour day. 13:47 Secondly, the Bible tells us 13:49 that each day had an evening and morning. 13:51 It would be kind of ridiculous to say, 13:53 it was the evening in the morning 13:54 of first million years. 13:56 The expression evening and morning indicates 13:59 that it is a literal day, 14:01 evening when the sun sets 14:03 and morning when the sun rises. 14:05 Furthermore, there's an immediacy 14:07 in the language in the Psalms, 14:09 it says that God spoke, and it was done. 14:14 He said it and it stood fast. 14:16 It doesn't say they took millions of years 14:18 for His Word to be fulfilled. 14:21 There's another interesting expression 14:23 during creation week 14:24 that is used several times in the creation story, 14:27 and that is that God spoke and then it was so, 14:32 that speaks of immediacy, 14:34 not something that was drawn out 14:36 over millions and millions of years. 14:39 But the greatest argument 14:40 that the days of creation were literal days, 14:43 is found in the fourth commandment of God's law. 14:46 Because in the fourth commandment, 14:48 God says, you work six 14:51 and rest on the seventh, 14:53 because I worked six and rested on the seventh. 14:58 So how God tell us to work sixth and rest the seventh, 15:01 as He did, 15:03 if the days were not literal? 15:05 Are you understanding me? 15:07 So there's no doubt and you're gonna see 15:08 why I'm covering all these things. 15:10 There's no doubt that the days of creation 15:12 were literal days of 24 hours each, 15:16 just like we know them today. 15:20 At creation, there was no Jew. 15:23 So you can't speak of the Jewish Sabbath. 15:26 Furthermore, there was no sin. 15:28 So it's not part of the Old Covenant 15:30 because at creation, there was no Old Covenant. 15:33 There was just the covenant between God and Adam and Eve, 15:36 as long as they were obedient. 15:39 Now, it's important to realize that at creation, 15:42 God not only created things, 15:45 God also created measurements of time. 15:49 God created the day, 15:53 which is the amount of time 15:54 that it takes the earth to make one complete turn on its axis. 15:59 He created the month, 16:01 basically the period between one new moon and another. 16:04 He created the year, 16:06 the amount of time that it takes the earth 16:08 to make one complete turn around the sun. 16:11 But there is one measurement of time, 16:14 which God also created that is totally arbitrary 16:18 and has no astronomical explanation. 16:20 That is the week composed of seven days. 16:24 God could have made a week of 10 days, 16:26 a week of 8 days, a week of 5 days, 16:28 but the reason why the week has 7 days 16:31 is because God created the week of 7 days, 16:35 7 literal 24 hour days. 16:38 Henry Morris, 16:40 who was a staunch biblical creationist, 16:42 I think he passed away a while ago, 16:46 he wrote this, 16:47 "The Lord himself had worked six days, 16:51 then rested on the seventh, 16:53 setting thereby a permanent pattern 16:57 for the benefit of mankind." 17:00 So God works six, rest at the seventh 17:02 as a permanent pattern for human beings. 17:06 Now, Ellen White has a very interesting statement 17:09 about the week. 17:11 It's found in Patriarchs and Prophets, page 111. 17:14 Patriarchs and Prophets, page 111. 17:19 "Like the Sabbath, 17:21 the week originated at creation, 17:25 and it has been preserved 17:28 and brought down to us through Bible history." 17:33 The sequence of the week has never been lost, 17:35 is what she say. 17:37 The seventh day today 17:38 is the same seventh day of creation. 17:40 She continues writing, 17:41 "God Himself measured off the first week 17:45 as a sample for successive weeks 17:49 to the close of time. 17:51 Like every other, 17:53 it consisted of seven literal days. 17:57 Six were employed in the work of creation, 18:00 upon the seventh, 18:02 God rested." 18:04 And here comes an important detail. 18:06 "God rested, and then blessed this day 18:10 and set it apart as a day 18:13 of rest for man." 18:17 Now, how do we know 18:20 that the Sabbath today 18:21 is the same Sabbath of creation? 18:24 Somebody came and asked me that question. 18:26 In fact, it's happened more than once. 18:29 And I say, "Are you saying 18:30 that perhaps the Sabbath today is not the same Sabbath 18:34 that Jesus, you know, 18:37 kept while He was on earth?" 18:38 He says, "Yeah, we don't know 18:39 whether the weekly cycle is the same." 18:42 So, I said, "Okay, well, let me ask you a question. 18:45 What day you go to church?" 18:47 Say, "Well, I go to church on Sunday." 18:49 I say, "Okay, why do you go to church on Sunday?" 18:52 "Well, because Jesus resurrected that day." 18:54 I said, "Oh, so you're saying that you keep Sunday today, 18:58 because it's the same day that Jesus resurrected 19:01 when He was on earth, right?" 19:02 He says, "Yes." 19:04 I said, "Well, if Sunday is the same Sunday, 19:05 the Sabbath is the same Sabbath." 19:11 But then he says, "How do you know 19:13 that the Sabbath of the days of Christ?" 19:15 Okay. 19:16 He says, "Granted the Sabbath back in the days of Christ 19:18 is the same Sabbath yesterday, 19:20 how do you know that the Sabbath 19:21 in the times of Christ 19:22 was the same Sabbath of creation, 19:25 that the sequence wasn't lost between creation and Christ?" 19:28 I said, "It's very simple, because my Bible tells me 19:30 that Jesus was the creator of the Sabbath, 19:33 and He was not going to keep the wrong day." 19:39 It's sad that Henry Morris 19:40 after that statement that he made, 19:42 that God worked six and rested the seventh, 19:45 as you know, as a teaching to us, 19:50 a permanent pattern to us. 19:52 Then he says, "Well, 19:53 but the problem is we're not sure that 19:55 whether this weekly cycle of seven days 19:58 has been lost or not? 19:59 So any day will do." 20:02 Now, isn't it interesting 20:04 that in certain countries like in Europe, 20:07 the calendars begin the week with Monday? 20:13 That's interesting. 20:14 What happens if you begin the week on Monday? 20:18 Sunday is the seventh day. 20:21 Is the devil perhaps trying to tell people 20:23 that Sunday is the seventh day? 20:25 It doesn't work, though, because Bible says 20:27 that Jesus resurrected the first day of the week. 20:30 So the Bible can refute that very easily. 20:32 In Colombia, there's a... 20:33 My wife's country of birth. 20:37 There's a program that's called El SA(C)ptimo DA a, 20:40 the seventh day, and it's broadcast on Sundays, 20:43 interestingly enough. 20:46 Because they're trying to give the impression 20:48 that Sunday is a day of rest. 20:51 You know, isn't it interesting that the papacy 20:54 during holy week, 20:56 do you know what holy week is? 20:58 Some of you used to be Catholics, maybe? 21:00 Holy week? 21:01 You know, how many times a year 21:04 do Catholics keep Palm Sunday? 21:09 Once a year. 21:11 How many days do they keep Ash Wednesday? 21:15 How many days a year? 21:18 One day a year. 21:19 How many days do they keep... 21:22 How many days a year do they keep Holy Thursday? 21:25 One. How about Holy Friday? 21:28 One. 21:29 How about the Sabbath of glory as it's called? 21:32 One. 21:34 So why do they keep Sunday weekly? 21:38 Are you with me? 21:41 There's no command in the Bible to keep Sunday weekly 21:43 in honor of the resurrection of Christ. 21:46 All of the other days of Holy Week 21:49 are kept on a yearly basis. 21:51 But they say you gotta keep Sunday every week 21:54 in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ. 21:58 By the way, another point 22:00 that I want us to notice is that 22:01 God is the owner of everything because He's the Creator. 22:07 Notice Psalm 24:1-2, 22:09 Psalm 24:1-2. 22:13 Here, these verses are very well known, 22:16 "The earth is the Lord's, 22:18 and all its fullness, 22:20 the world and those who dwell therein." 22:23 And now comes the reason 22:24 why everything in the world belongs to God. 22:28 It says, for that means because 22:31 "He has founded it upon the seas, 22:33 and established it upon the waters." 22:36 To whom does the light belong? 22:38 To God. 22:40 To whom does the firmament belong? 22:41 To God. 22:43 To whom does the vegetation belong? 22:45 To God. 22:46 To whom does the sun and moon and stars belong? 22:49 To God. 22:50 To whom do the birds and the fish belong? 22:52 To God. 22:54 To whom do the land animals belong? 22:57 To God. 22:58 To whom do men and women belong? 23:01 To God. 23:03 But the Sabbath is of the Jews, 23:05 belongs to the Jews. 23:07 Now you tell me, how much sense does that make? 23:10 Did God make the Sabbath too? 23:12 Of course, He made the Sabbath. 23:14 If He made the Sabbath, then the Sabbath is His too. 23:18 And that's the reason why in the Bible, 23:21 God refers to the Sabbath as My holy day. 23:27 And it's called the Sabbath of the Lord your God, 23:30 because God rested on it first. 23:33 It's His holy day, 23:35 it's not the holy day of the Jews. 23:39 Now, God not only gave the memorial of the Sabbath, 23:43 but God commanded man 23:45 and woman to keep the memorial. 23:49 Not only that He established the memorial, 23:51 but He commanded human beings to keep the memorial. 23:55 Go with me in Exodus 20:8-11. 23:57 And let's see if the Sabbath of the fourth commandment 24:01 is the same Sabbath of creation. 24:04 Exodus 20:8-11. 24:08 Remember... 24:13 Remember what? 24:15 "The Sabbath day, to keep it holy." 24:20 Some say that the Sabbath originated at Mount Sinai, 24:24 or perhaps you know when the manna fell from heaven 24:26 during the Mosaic dispensation. 24:30 But the word remember indicates 24:31 that the Sabbath preexisted the fourth commandment, 24:34 because you can't remember something 24:36 that didn't happen in the past. 24:38 For example, we say, remember the Alamo. 24:41 You can't remember the Alamo 24:42 unless there was an Alamo experience. 24:44 Right? 24:45 So when the commandment says, remember! 24:47 It's saying, remember something that happened in the past, 24:50 God rested, 24:52 He blessed it and He sanctified it. 24:53 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 24:57 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 25:00 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 25:02 of the Lord your God. 25:05 In it you shall do not work: 25:07 you, nor your son, nor your daughter, 25:09 nor your male servant, nor your female servant, 25:11 nor your cattle, nor your stranger 25:13 who is within your gates." 25:14 And now comes the explanation, why? 25:16 For that means because "In six days, 25:20 the Lord made the heavens and the earth, 25:22 the sea, and all that is in them," 25:25 and now listen carefully, 25:26 "and rested," which day? 25:31 "The seventh day, 25:33 therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 25:38 and hallowed it." 25:40 Are those the same three things 25:42 that God did with the Sabbath at creation? 25:45 Did He rest? 25:46 Did He bless? 25:48 Did He sanctify? 25:50 Was it the seventh day? 25:52 Is this the same Sabbath of creation? 25:55 It is. 25:57 And God is commanding human beings to, what? 26:01 Commanding human beings to keep it. 26:07 So the Sabbath is the seventh day. 26:11 The Sabbath God rested, 26:13 God blessed and sanctified both at creation 26:16 and in the fourth commandment of God's holy law. 26:20 And the interesting thing is 26:21 that God made a memorial in time. 26:25 You see, if God had placed a monument in Hawaii, 26:29 and it said to everybody, 26:31 so that you remember that I am the creator, 26:33 go every week and visit the monument, 26:36 those who live close, 26:38 the Hawaiians would have a monopoly. 26:42 But we don't have to come to the Sabbath, 26:44 the Sabbath comes to us, 26:46 wherever we are, 26:49 because the Sabbath moves, time moves. 26:53 And so we don't have to go to a shrine, 26:56 the Sabbath comes to us, it's holy time. 27:00 Now, there's another interesting thing 27:02 and now just mentioned this in passing, 27:04 who was the creator? 27:06 Jesus. 27:08 All things were made through Him, 27:10 it says in John 1:3. 27:13 Jesus was the creator. 27:15 Which day did Jesus finished His work of creation? 27:19 The sixth day. 27:21 What did He do on the seventh day? 27:23 He rested. 27:25 How about in redemption? 27:26 What day of the week did Jesus finished 27:28 His works of redemption? 27:31 What did He say on the cross? 27:33 It is, what? 27:35 It is finished. 27:36 And then what did Jesus, 27:38 the Redeemer do on the Sabbath? 27:41 He rested in the tomb, on the Sabbath. 27:45 So what the Creator did at the beginning, 27:48 the Redeemer who is the same person 27:49 did in redemption. 27:51 Thus the Sabbath is not only a sign of the Creator, 27:54 the Sabbath is also the sign of the Redeemer, 27:58 Jesus Christ. 27:59 Two reasons for keeping the Sabbath, 28:01 to commemorate the Creator 28:03 and to commemorate the Redeemer. 28:06 Nevertheless, 28:08 there are those evangelicals 28:10 and this is a very important point 28:12 that we're gonna look at now. 28:13 Many evangelical say, 28:14 "Yeah, but the Sabbath was not a creation institution. 28:18 Yeah, it's in the fourth commandment, 28:21 where God told man to rest on the seventh day, 28:23 but there's no command in Genesis for man to rest. 28:27 It says God rested. 28:29 It doesn't say that God told Adam and Eve, you rest." 28:32 And so they say, "That proves 28:34 that the rest at creation was God's rest 28:37 and He did not intend man to rest at that time 28:39 maybe later on, the Jews." 28:43 How do you respond to a question like that? 28:45 How do you respond to the reason, 28:47 why God did not command Adam and Eve 28:51 to keep that for Sabbath? 28:53 I'm gonna give you several reasons. 28:55 But first of all, 28:57 I want us to go to Genesis 2:3 again, 29:00 and Exodus 20:11. 29:02 And we're gonna notice something very important here. 29:05 You know, for much of my ministry, 29:07 I thought that God had commanded 29:09 Adam and Eve to keep that first seventh day Sabbath 29:13 after the first six days of creation week. 29:16 I thought that God had said, 29:17 okay, the Sabbath is now beginning, 29:19 keep the Sabbath holy Adam and Eve. 29:21 But then as I study it more carefully, 29:23 and I read from the Spirit of Prophecy, 29:25 I discovered that God did not bless 29:28 and sanctify the Sabbath until it ended. 29:32 In other words, God rested the entire Sabbath day, 29:35 and when the Sabbath, that first Sabbath ended, 29:38 He blessed it and sanctified it. 29:40 You say, "Is that biblical?" 29:42 Not only is it biblical, 29:44 but it's also everywhere in the Spirit of Prophecy. 29:48 Let's read Genesis 2:3. 29:50 Genesis 2:3. 29:52 "Then God blessed the seventh day 29:55 and sanctified it." 29:57 Why did God blessed and sanctified the seventh day? 30:00 "Because in it He rested from all His work 30:05 which God had created and made." 30:08 So why did God blessed and sanctified the Sabbath? 30:10 Because He had what? 30:12 He had rested on that day. 30:15 Notice once again Exodus 20:11, 30:18 Exodus 20:11. 30:21 It says, "For in six days the Lord made the heavens 30:24 and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, 30:27 and rested the seventh day. 30:28 Therefore..." 30:33 God rested the seventh day. 30:35 "Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and," what? 30:41 "And hallowed it." 30:43 So when did God bless and make the Sabbath holy? 30:48 After He had what? 30:51 After He had rested. 30:53 It's God's rest that made the Sabbath holy. 30:57 Every second He rested became holy. 31:00 Every minute He rested became holy. 31:03 Every hour He rested became holy. 31:05 And when He had rested all 24 hours, 31:08 all 24 hours were holy. 31:11 What makes the Sabbath holy is God's rest? 31:14 Now, you say, "Pastor, that sounds different 31:16 than what we've heard." 31:19 Well, let me give you the reasons 31:20 why God did not command Adam and Eve 31:22 to keep that first Sabbath? 31:25 Let me ask you, 31:27 could God give Adam and Eve the Sabbath before He made it? 31:35 Was the Sabbath made for man? 31:37 Did God have to make it before He could give it to man? 31:40 Of course. 31:42 It says in Mark 2:27, "The Sabbath is made for man." 31:45 So God first had to make the Sabbath, 31:48 and then once He had made the Sabbath, 31:50 He can give it to man. 31:52 Point number two, 31:55 God could not command Adam and Eve 31:58 to keep the Sabbath holy until it was holy. 32:03 And it became holy when it, what? 32:06 When it ended. 32:08 You see, God could not tell Adam and Eve 32:10 in that first Sabbath, 32:11 keep the Sabbath holy, it wasn't holy yet. 32:15 Because it was made holy by God's rest as we read. 32:19 Third point, 32:21 how could God tell Adam and Eve, 32:24 how to keep the Sabbath without first giving them 32:27 an example of how to keep it? 32:31 Let me read you from the Spirit of Prophecy. 32:33 This is so clear 32:35 that even a child can understand it. 32:38 This is Patriarchs and Prophets, page 47. 32:42 "After resting upon the seventh day, 32:46 God sanctified it." 32:49 Now, what part of it after, don't you understand? 32:53 "After resting upon the seventh day, 32:55 God sanctified it, 32:57 or set it apart, as a day of rest for man." 33:00 When did God set the Sabbath apart as a day of rest for man? 33:03 After He rested on the Sabbath. 33:06 So that first Sabbath is the Lord's Sabbath. 33:09 He rested on that Sabbath 33:12 and then He gives the Sabbath to man. 33:14 She continues, saying the reason why, 33:16 "After resting upon the seventh day, 33:17 God sanctified it, or set it apart, 33:19 as a day of rest for man. 33:20 Following the example of the Creator, 33:25 man was to rest upon this sacred day, 33:29 that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, 33:31 he might reflect upon God's great work of creation, 33:35 and that as he should behold 33:37 the evidences of God's wisdom and goodness, 33:39 his heart might be filled with love 33:40 and reverence for his Maker." 33:42 Amen. 33:43 Desire of Ages, 281, Ellen White wrote, 33:46 "Because He had rested on the Sabbath, 33:53 God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, 33:55 set it apart to a holy use. 33:57 He gave it to Adam as a day of rest." 34:01 So when did He give it to Adam as a day of rest? 34:04 After He created, after He rested on it. 34:08 Now, the greatest argument 34:09 that why God did not command Adam and Eve 34:12 to keep that first Sabbath, is in the fourth commandment. 34:17 Listen carefully, 34:18 the fourth commandment applies to Adam and Eve, 34:21 beginning with the second week of the history of this world. 34:26 You say, how's that? 34:28 What does the fourth commandment say? 34:31 Work six 34:34 and rest the seventh. 34:37 Could Adam and Eve obey that commandment? 34:40 No, because they had not worked six. 34:45 So what God does is, He works six, 34:49 He rests on the seventh, 34:52 blesses and sanctifies the day, sets it apart. 34:56 Gives it to Adam and He says, Adam, 34:58 now you're gonna work six and next Sabbath, 35:01 you're gonna rest the way you saw Me rest. 35:06 That's why God did not command 35:07 Adam and Eve to keep the Sabbath 35:09 because that was not their Sabbath, 35:10 it was first His Sabbath. 35:13 And then He gives it as a gift to man. 35:18 But you know the Sabbath 35:19 is not only a sign of the Creator. 35:22 It's not only the sign of the Redeemer. 35:25 It's also the sign of the future Restorer. 35:29 Go with me to Isaiah 66:22-23. 35:34 You know, in one of our previous studies together, 35:37 we noticed that this world 35:39 is gonna be reduced to chaos 35:42 and disorder by the plagues and the second coming. 35:45 Jeremiah saw this world, 35:47 he said it was without form and void, 35:50 and the heavens had no light. 35:52 Everything will have been destroyed by the plagues, 35:55 and by the second coming of Jesus. 35:56 This world will be inhospitable, 35:59 uninhabitable. 36:01 So God is gonna have to make a new heavens and new earth. 36:04 He's going to have to do what He did at the beginning. 36:07 He's going to have to recreate, 36:09 if you please, the heavens and the earth. 36:13 Now notice Isaiah 66:22-23, 36:20 "For as the new heavens and the new earth." 36:24 Is that the same new heaven and new earth 36:26 that we find in Revelation 20:21-22? 36:29 Yes. 36:31 "For as the new heavens and the new earth 36:33 which I will make shall remain before Me,' 36:36 says the Lord, 36:38 'So shall your descendants and your name remain. 36:41 And it shall come to pass 36:43 that from one New Moon to another.'" 36:46 Don't get all caught up in the new moon. 36:49 The new moon simply means, month, 36:52 it should be translated month. 36:54 The Spanish version says from month to month. 36:57 You say, "Well, why are we gonna 36:58 worship the Lord every month?" 37:00 The reason is simple because there's a tree 37:02 that produces its fruit every month, 37:05 According to Revelation 22:2, 37:07 we're gonna go to eat from the tree of life 37:08 every month. 37:10 So it says, from one new moon to another, 37:12 that is from one month to another, 37:14 and from one, what? 37:16 "One Sabbath to another, 37:19 all flesh shall come to worship 37:22 before Me, says the Lord." 37:26 What will be the memorial of the new creation? 37:31 The observance of the Sabbath. 37:32 God says, I'm gonna create a new heavens in the north, 37:36 then He says, every Sabbath, 37:37 you're gonna come to worship Me 37:39 to commemorate the fact that I am 37:42 the creator of the new heavens and the new earth. 37:45 Now, let me ask you this, 37:47 in how many days do you think 37:48 Jesus is going to recreate this earth? 37:52 You know, I used to think that God would... 37:54 That Jesus would simply say, let everything be fixed. 38:00 Everything is back like it was at the beginning. 38:03 But then I got to thinking, I said, No, wait a minute. 38:07 When God makes a new heavens and new earth, 38:09 He must use a week like He did at the beginning. 38:13 You say, "Why is that?" 38:15 Because it says that we're gonna go 38:17 the seventh day to commemorate 38:19 the new creation of the heavens and the earth, 38:21 and you can't have a seventh unless you have the first six. 38:27 Did you get that or not? 38:30 So God is gonna... 38:31 Imagine this is the wonderful thing, 38:33 at the beginning Adam and Eve didn't see God create anything. 38:38 Did Adam and Eve see the God create the light, 38:41 the firmament, the vegetation, 38:43 sun, moon and stars, 38:45 the birds, the fish, the land animals? 38:48 Did Adam see his own creation? Of course, not. 38:52 Did Adam see the creation of Eve? 38:53 No, God put him to sleep. 38:56 How could they be sure that God was the creator? 38:59 Because God said so, 39:00 they have to accept it by faith. 39:03 But the beautiful thing is 39:05 that when God makes a new heavens in the north, 39:07 God's people will be alive. 39:10 We will be eyewitnesses of the new creation. 39:13 Imagine the first day God saying, 39:15 let there be light, because the planet is in darkness, 39:18 during the 1000 years. 39:20 God says, "Let there be light. 39:24 Let there be the firmament, a fresh air to breathe. 39:29 Let the earth become a gigantic botanical garden." 39:35 Sun, moon and stars occupy your places 39:38 because they were moved all their places 39:39 by the voice of God. 39:41 So God places them 39:42 where they can benefit the earth. 39:44 And God's people are there, spectators. 39:49 Let there be birds in the air and fish in the waters. 39:52 And it is so. 39:54 Let there be land animals. 39:55 And then when God finishes His work, 39:58 the sixth day, 40:00 He says to Adam and Eve, 40:02 and all of the redeemed He says, 40:05 what do you think? 40:08 Oh, Lord, this is beautiful. 40:11 So God is gonna say, what do you think? 40:14 Don't you think it would be great idea for us 40:16 just to spend all this day together, 40:18 beholding and contemplating that I made? 40:23 Do you think that the redeemer gonna say, 40:25 Lord, how is it that you give us 40:27 this yoke of bondage? 40:30 No. 40:32 They say, wow, 40:33 you made all this new for us? 40:36 Oh, Lord, let's spend all Sabbath together 40:40 to contemplate what You made, 40:42 so that we can see what a wonderful God you are. 40:45 The Bible tells us 40:47 that the observance of the Sabbath is a sign 40:49 between God and His people. 40:52 Exodus 31:16-17, 40:55 Exodus 31:16-17. 40:58 And many have misunderstood this verse here. 41:01 It says, "Therefore 41:03 the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath." 41:05 So, people say, you see, the Sabbath's only for Israel, 41:08 the people, the children of Israel 41:09 will keep the Sabbath. 41:11 Does it say that it's exclusively for Israel? 41:15 No, it doesn't say, it's exclusive. 41:17 Why would God say 41:19 the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath? 41:21 Because those were His people at that moment. 41:24 He wasn't gonna say church keep the Sabbath 41:26 because the church didn't exist yet. 41:29 He's speaking to His people at that time. 41:31 Israel, the Sabbath is a sign, keep it. 41:35 If He was speaking today to the church, 41:37 He would say, like it does through Ellen White, 41:39 keep what? 41:41 Keep the Sabbath. 41:44 By the way, 41:45 God gave all Ten Commandments to the Jews. 41:50 Did God gave all of the Ten Commandments 41:52 to Israel at Mount Sinai? 41:55 Yes or no? 41:56 So all of the Ten Commandments apply only to the Jews. 42:00 We can kill and we can commit adultery and we can covet. 42:03 We can have other gods, and so on, 42:06 because the Ten Commandments were given to the Jews. 42:08 So why do Christians say 42:11 that the Sabbath is for the Jews? 42:14 But the other nine commandments 42:15 that were given for the Jews are for everybody. 42:18 It just doesn't make any sense. 42:20 God gave the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath to the Jews, 42:23 because those were His people at that time. 42:27 So that's why it says, 42:28 "Therefore the children of Israel 42:30 shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath 42:32 throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 42:34 It is a sign between Me 42:37 and the children of Israel forever." 42:39 And then He explains, why? 42:41 "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, 42:44 and on the seventh day He rested 42:46 and was refreshed." 42:49 The Sabbath is a sign between God and His people. 42:53 Notice Ezekiel 20:12, 20. 42:56 Ezekiel 20:12, 20. 42:59 Once again, the Sabbath is spoken of as a sign. 43:02 "Moreover, I also gave them My Sabbath, 43:06 to be a sign between them and Me, 43:09 that they might know that I am the Lord 43:11 who sanctifies them." 43:13 Verse 20, 43:14 "Hallow my Sabbaths, 43:16 and they will be a sign between Me and you, 43:19 that you may know that I am the Lord your God." 43:25 Now, when you look at the three angels' messages, 43:28 you'll find that there's a contrast 43:29 between the first and the third. 43:33 The first angel's message tells us, 43:36 fear God and give glory to Him, 43:39 for the hour of His judgment has come and worship Him 43:44 who created. 43:47 The first angel's message says, worship the Creator. 43:53 The third message says, don't worship the beast. 43:59 Do you see the contrast? 44:00 So the end time contrast 44:02 is between worshiping the Creator 44:05 or worshiping the beast. 44:07 Does God have a sign? 44:09 What is the sign? The Sabbath. 44:11 Does the beast also have a sign? 44:14 What is the sign? It must be a day. 44:16 It must be an opposite day 44:18 that glorifies and honors the beast. 44:22 Now, we have identified the beast 44:24 as the Roman Catholic papacy. 44:27 And I want to share with you now, 44:30 the Roman Catholic view of the day of rest. 44:36 And it's important because the papacy 44:41 is the power spoken of as the Antichrist 44:44 who attempted to change God's holy law. 44:48 Now, in spite of the fact that the Bible, 44:51 without exception, 44:53 refers to the seventh day Sabbath 44:55 as God's day of rest, 44:57 Pope John Paul II, 44:59 in his apostolic letter Dies Domini 45:02 on the Lord's Day. 45:04 And Francis I, in his encyclical Laudato si' 45:09 have declared that the seventh day is Jewish, 45:12 and the Christian Sabbath is Sunday. 45:16 The papacy claims 45:18 that the Sabbath is a relic 45:20 of the Jewish old covenant. 45:24 And yet the Roman Catholic Church 45:26 continues to have all kinds of practices 45:28 that are old covenant practices. 45:30 Like offering sacrifices using holy vestments, 45:34 sprinkling holy water, burning incense, 45:37 lighting candles, making shrines. 45:41 Those are old covenant practices 45:43 that are not commanded in the New Testament. 45:44 They continue the old covenant when they come to these days. 45:48 But when it comes to the Sabbath, 45:49 they say, the Sabbath was something 45:53 that belonged to the Jews in the Old Covenant. 45:57 But even more telling than what these very famous popes 46:01 had to say about the Sabbath, 46:02 that it was for the Jews, 46:04 it was for the Old Covenant 46:05 that Christian Sabbath is now Sunday. 46:07 Even more seriously than that, 46:10 neither John Paul II, 46:12 nor Francis I, actually believe... 46:16 John Paul is dead of course, 46:17 he didn't believe and Francis I does not believe 46:21 that the story of creation happened 46:23 as it is written in the Book of Genesis. 46:28 They believe that story is a legend or a myth. 46:32 It teaches spiritual truth, but it's symbolic. 46:36 The days of creation were not literal. 46:38 They were millions and millions of years. 46:41 And this whole world came into existence 46:44 through a process of evolution, that's what the papacy teaches. 46:50 I wanna read a statement, I have two here. 46:52 One from John Paul. 46:54 I'll just read one little part of it. 46:56 He says, "That the research that has been done 47:00 in the different scientific disciplines 47:02 has proven that this theory of evolution 47:07 is more than just a theory." 47:12 In fact, he says, 47:14 that this research by these different disciplines 47:19 is a significant argument in favor 47:22 of the theory. 47:24 Francis I said this, 47:26 "The Big Bang, 47:28 which today we hold to be the origin of the world." 47:33 You see, he's saying the papacy believes 47:35 that the Big Bang gave origin to the world. 47:38 "The Big Bang, which today we hold 47:40 to be the origin of the world does not contradict 47:43 the intervention of the divine creator, 47:45 but rather requires it. 47:48 Evolution in nature is not inconsistent 47:50 with the notion of creation, 47:53 because evolution requires the creation of beings 47:55 that evolve." 47:58 When we read about... Listen to this. 48:00 When we read about creation in Genesis, 48:02 we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, 48:06 with a magic wand able to do everything, 48:09 but that is not so. 48:13 He created human beings, 48:15 and let them develop according to the internal laws 48:18 that He gave to each one, 48:20 so that they would reach their fulfillment. 48:24 So the papacy today does not teach 48:27 that the story of creation is a literal story. 48:30 That didn't happen that way. 48:33 It's a symbolic story, 48:35 and creation has taken place over millions of years, 48:39 actually, through a process of evolution. 48:42 Now, this has serious implications. 48:45 First of all, 48:47 on what do we base the idea 48:49 that marriage should be between a man and a woman? 48:53 On the literalness of the Genesis story. 48:56 If that story is not literal, 48:59 how can you defend marriage 49:01 as being between a man and a woman? 49:03 The Sabbath depends on a literal story of creation. 49:08 So if you say that there were millions of years 49:11 and not literal days, 49:12 the Sabbath disappears in a midst. 49:17 What about gender identity? 49:20 Is Genesis clear on gender identity? 49:23 Male and female created them. 49:26 But when you throw out the creation story, 49:28 you can have many, many different genders 49:31 invented by human beings. 49:33 Because if the story didn't literally take place, 49:35 how do you know that there's only two genders, 49:37 male and female? 49:40 Furthermore, it becomes even more complicated. 49:44 Francis I is always speaking about the need 49:48 for the strong and the rich to help the poor and the needy. 49:53 His recommendation totally goes against the theory of evolution 49:57 which he believes in. 49:58 Because evolution functions 50:00 on the basis of the survival of the fittest, 50:03 the strong win and the weak lose. 50:06 So how can he say if evolution is the strong win 50:09 and the weak lose? 50:11 How can you say 50:12 that the strong should help the weak? 50:16 His recommendation totally contradicts the theory 50:19 that he teaches. 50:21 And even further, folks, even further than this, 50:25 how many more millions of years 50:27 is it going to take for evolution 50:29 to work out the wrinkles and defects 50:32 so that we have a perfect society 50:34 where everything has reached the climax of evolution? 50:37 How many millions of years more do we have to wait? 50:40 What does that do to the second coming of Jesus? 50:44 It delays it into the distant future, 50:47 after the process of evolution is ended. 50:50 That's the reason why the papacy 50:52 does not talk about the second coming of Jesus. 50:56 Because if they don't believe that creation was literal, 50:59 are they really gonna believe 51:01 that the second coming of Jesus, 51:02 a miraculous event is going to be literal? 51:05 Furthermore, their idea 51:08 that for millions of years, 51:10 there was cruel death in the animal world 51:12 because they teach that for millions of years, 51:16 you know, animals were killing one another. 51:19 The theory of evolution is a very bloody theory, 51:21 this death long before sin in the evolutionary model. 51:25 Let me ask you. 51:27 What does the idea of evolution do to the omnipotence of God? 51:32 You know, isn't God powerful enough 51:34 to make things right from the beginning? 51:37 Can He speak and make things perfect? 51:40 Does He have to use a mechanism like evolution that involves 51:43 death and cruelty, and suffering and pain 51:46 in order to create perfect beings? 51:48 No. 51:50 God can get it right from the beginning 51:52 because He is all powerful, He is omnipotent. 51:55 Can't a wise God get things right from the get go? 51:59 It's an attack on God's wisdom. 52:02 Is that an attack on God's love and mercy? 52:05 He's the God whose heart beats faster 52:08 when a little bird falls out of a tree, 52:10 how could He condone a theory, 52:15 where for millions of years animals are killing, 52:17 animals that are strong are killing the weak 52:19 in the process of evolution? 52:22 Furthermore, if the story of Genesis, 52:24 by the way, they don't believe 52:26 that the stories of Genesis 1-11 are literal. 52:29 If that's true, then the story of the fall of man into sin 52:33 is not literal. 52:35 And if that story is not literal, 52:37 we do not need a savior. 52:39 The only thing that needs to happen is that 52:41 we need to develop to the point of 52:45 where evolution reaches its climax of a perfect race 52:49 and a perfect society. 52:53 Those are the implications of the Roman Catholic view 52:57 of creation. 53:00 And, of course they would attack the Sabbath, 53:02 because the Sabbath is based on a literal creation story. 53:06 So what is the final controversy gonna be about? 53:10 Listen, the greatest controversies 53:12 that Jesus had in His day was over the Sabbath. 53:17 Is that true? 53:19 Constantly Jesus was in conflict 53:22 with the religionists of His day, 53:25 because of the way that they kept the Sabbath. 53:29 In other words, the issue in the times of Christ 53:32 was the way. 53:34 They kept the Sabbath in the wrong way. 53:37 At the end of history, 53:39 the conflict is not gonna be over the wrong way, 53:43 but over the wrong day. 53:46 Are you with me? 53:48 Now, you're saying, "Pastor Bohr, 53:52 you say that the final controversy, 53:53 the final conflict is a conflict over days?" 53:58 There's something deeper than days 54:01 in the final controversy. 54:03 Let me ask you, according to Daniel 7:25, 54:07 who created Sunday as the day of rest? 54:12 According to Daniel 7:25, 54:15 who changed the law in his mind 54:19 and establish Sunday as the day of rest? 54:22 The papacy. 54:23 The Antichrist. 54:25 So what are you doing 54:27 when you observe Sunday as the day of rest? 54:30 Whose authority are you recognizing? 54:33 You are recognizing the papacy's authority. 54:38 By keeping the day 54:40 you're recognizing the authority 54:42 that claims to establish the day as a day of worship. 54:47 On the other hand, when you keep the Sabbath, 54:50 who established the Sabbath? 54:53 God established the Sabbath. 54:55 So when you keep the Sabbath, 54:57 you are recognizing the authority of the person 55:01 who created the Sabbath. 55:03 So behind this issue of one day versus another 55:08 is the issue of authority. 55:11 Do you accept the authority of God 55:14 by keeping His Sabbath, that's a seal of God? 55:17 Or do you accept the authority of the papacy 55:21 by keeping Sunday as a day of rest? 55:24 That is the issue. 55:26 And you know, 55:27 Sabbath and Sunday are exactly opposites. 55:30 You know, we used to look in at the calendar, 55:33 and you know, you have Sabbath, 55:36 which is the seventh day 55:37 and then you have the first day of the week. 55:39 But really, when you look at it more carefully, 55:41 the Sabbath and Sunday are on opposite sides of the spectrum, 55:45 because Sunday is number one, 55:46 and the Sabbath is number seven. 55:48 They're opposites. 55:51 Now, let me ask you, what comes first, 55:53 the genuine or the counterfeit? 55:56 The genuine, right? 55:59 Or do we have a case where the counterfeiter say, 56:02 hey, let's make a counterfeit $30 bill. 56:05 And the government says, that's a great idea, 56:07 let's make a genuine one. 56:09 Of course not. 56:11 You have first of all the genuine, 56:14 and then after the genuine at some point, 56:17 the counterfeiters counterfeit. 56:19 Now, let me ask you, 56:20 what is the original day of worship 56:22 that God established as a day 56:24 to recognize Him as the creator? 56:27 It's the Sabbath. 56:29 Do you think that perchance sometime later in history, 56:33 Satan would establish a day 56:36 that would recognize his authority 56:39 and make it passed off as God's day of rest, 56:42 as a crafty counterfeit? 56:45 Absolutely. That's what he's done. 56:48 Ellen White says, that he's stolen the allegiance 56:51 of the Christian world, 56:54 from the Creator God, to the beast. 56:57 And unfortunately, 56:58 the Christian world doesn't even know it. 57:01 They don't realize that eventually by keeping Sunday, 57:05 knowingly keeping Sunday 57:06 contrary to what the Bible teaches, 57:08 means that they are going to receive 57:10 the mark of the beast, 57:12 they are gonna worship the beast, 57:14 and they will suffer the terrible punishment 57:17 that is mentioned in the third angel's message. 57:20 That's why we have a message to bring to them, to tell them, 57:23 keep the Sabbath in honor of the Creator, 57:26 because you love Jesus. 57:28 Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My Commandments." 57:30 If we love Jesus, 57:32 we will want to spend the whole day with Him. 57:34 Don't we enjoy spending time with the people we love, 57:37 the more the better? 57:38 So is it a great sacrifice for us to say, oh, 57:41 now comes that Sabbath, 57:43 I'll be 24 whole hours with the Lord. 57:46 What a bore. 57:48 No. 57:49 If you love Jesus, 57:51 you're gonna want to extend the Sabbath 57:53 a little bit before and after, because you love Him. 57:56 It's a memorial of His greatness, 57:59 that He's the Creator. 58:00 And may we recognize that 58:03 and share this truth with the world is my prayer. |
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