The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the CommandmentBates, Joseph
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The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
Bates, Joseph
Sabbath; Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrines
day,) from the day they kept the first, or from the resurrection. Here
then is proof positive that the Sabbath in this year was the day before
the Pentecost. See Luke xxiii: 55, 56. If President H. is right, then
was there two Sabbaths to be kept in succession in one week. Where is
the precept? No where! Well, says the inquirer, I want to see the bible
proof for this '_Christian Sabbath observed by the disciples, and owned
by our Lord_.' W. Jenks. Here it will be necessary for us to understand,
first how God has computed time. In Gen. i. we read, "And [32]God said
let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day
from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days
and years." 14 v. 16 v. says, "the greater light to rule the day,"--from
sunrise to sunset. Now there are many modes invented for computing time.
We say our day begins at 12 o'clock at night; seamen begin theirs twelve
hours sooner, at noon; the Jews commence their days at 6 o'clock in the
evening, between the two extremes. Are we _all_ right? No! Who shall
settle this question? God! Very well: He called the light day, and the
darkness he called night, and the evening and the morning were the first
day. Gen. i: 5. Then the twenty-four hour day commenced at 6 o'clock in
the evening. How is that, says one? Because you cannot regulate the day
and night to have what the Saviour calls twelve hours in the day,
without establishing the time from the centre of the earth, the equator,
where, at the beginning of the sacred year, the sun rises and sets at 6
o'clock. At _this_ time, while the sun is at the summer solstice, the
inhabitants of the north pole have no night, while at this same time at
the south it is about all night, therefore the inhabitants of the earth
have no other right time to commence their twenty-four hour day, than
beginning at 6 o'clock in the evening. God said to Moses '_from even,
unto even, shall you celebrate your Sabbath_.' Then of course the next
day must begin where the Sabbath ended. History shows that the Jews
obeyed and commenced their days at 6 o'clock in the evening. Now then we
will try to investigate the main argument by which these authors, and
thousands of others say the Sabbath was changed. The first is in John
xx: 19, "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week
when the doors where shut where the disciples were assembled _for fear
of the Jews_ (mark it) came Jesus and stood in their midst, and said
peace be unto you." Here we understand this to be the same day of the
resurrection. On that same day he travelled with the two disciples to
Emans, sixty furlongs (7-1/2 miles), and they constrained him to abide
with them, for it was toward evening and the _day was far spent_. Luke
xxiv: 29. After this the disciples travelled the 7-1/2 miles back to
Jerusalem and soon after they found the disciples, the Saviour, as above
stated, was in their midst. Now it cannot be disputed but what this was
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