The Seventh Day Sabbath | Page 7

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least. Then the others, which include the fourth, of course were greater
than these. Matt. v: 17, 19, 21, 27, 23, and were not to be broken nor
pass away. Then the Sabbath stands unchanged.
Almost every writer which I have read on the subject of abolishing or
changing the seventh day Sabbath, call it the Jewish Sabbath, hence
their difficulty. How can it be the Jewish Sabbath when it was
established two thousand years before there was a Jew on the face of
the earth, and certainly twenty-five hundred before it was embodied in
the decalogue, or re-enacted and written in stone by the finger of God
at Sinai. God called this HIS Sabbath, and Jesus says it was made for
man, (not particularly for the Jews.)
"Well," says one, "what is the meaning of the texts which you have
quoted, where it speaks of Sabbaths?"--Answer: These are the Jewish
Sabbaths! which belong to them as a nation and are connected with
their feasts. God by Hosea makes this distinction, and says, "I will also
cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons and her
Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts." These then belong to the text
quoted, and not God's Sabbath. Do you ask for the proof? See xxiii
Levit. 4. "These are the FEASTS of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim
in their [13]seasons, EVERY THING UPON HIS DAY"--37th v. (May
we not deviate a little? If you do it will be at your peril.) Fifteenth and
sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse
says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in
the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of
blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation."
"Also on the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of
atonement. It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest." 27, 32.
"Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month when ye shall have

gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord
seven days. On the first shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall
be a Sabbath. 39v. And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
FEASTS of the Lord." 44v. Now here we have FOUR kinds of Jewish
Sabbaths, also called "FEASTS of the Lord," to be kept annually. The
first fifty days or seven weeks Sabbath ends the third month, seventh.
In three months and twenty-four days more commences the second
Sabbath, seventh month, first; the next, the tenth; the last the fifteenth
of the month. Between the first two Sabbaths there is an interval of one
hundred and twelve days; the next two, ten days, and the next, five days.
Now it can be seen at a glance, that neither of these Sabbaths could be
on the seventh day any oftener than other annual feast could come on
that day. These then are what Hosea calls HER Sabbaths. Paul calls
them HOLY DAYS, new moons, and Sabbaths; and this is what they
are stated to be. The first day of the seventh month is a new moon
SABBATH, the tenth is a Sabbath of rest and Holy convocation, a day
of atonement, and the fifteenth a feast of Sabbaths. Do you ask for any
more evidence that these are the Jewish Sabbaths, and that God's
Sabbath is separate from them? Read then what God directed Moses to
write in the third verse: "Six days shall work be done, but the seventh
day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation, ye shall do no work
therein, it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." Now
Moses has here declared from the mouth of the Lord, that these are
ALL the feast of the Lord, (there is no more nor less) and every thing is
to be upon his day, and he has clearly and definitely separated his
Sabbath from the other four. And in the 28th and 29th chapters of
Numbers the sacrifices [14]and offerings for each of these days are
made so plain, beginning with the Sabbath, 9v, that we have only to
read the following to understand. 26. xxix: 1. First day, seventh month,
(new moon;) 7v, 10th day Sabbath; 12v; 15th day Sabbath, and 35v,
23d day Sabbath. And in the days of Nehemiah when Ezra had read the
law to the people, viii (more than one thousand years after they were
promulgated,) they bound themselves under an oath "to walk in God's
law which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God." "And
to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord." x: 29.
And that there might be no