When the Roll Is Called - King’s Heralds I Need Thee Every Hour - King’s Heralds Day Is Dying in the West - Del Delker and La Sierra Choir Lord of the Sabbath - King’s Heralds

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

How the Sabbath Began

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and the voice of prophecy speaker, HMS Richards, a Seventh-day Adventist minister.

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more, and the morning breaks eternal bright and fair, When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore, and the roll is called a pionder, When the roll is called a pionder, When the roll is called a pionder, I'll be there.

Let us lay before the Master from the dawn till setting sun.

Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care.

Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done, and the role is called a Pionder, I'll be there.

When the role is called a Pionder, When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.

Our Father in Heaven, we pray that Thou wilt bless this broadcast to every listener.

We pray for religious freedom throughout the world.

Guide, we pray, all who are in authority that they may open the doors to preaching the gospel in all lands.

There is a place of quiet rest Near to the heart of God a place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

The first step in obtaining help from God is to feel in need.

In the well-known hymn, the King's Heralds now express for us all the prayerful confession of our daily need.

I need thee every hour, most gracious Lord.

No tender voice like thine can peace afford.

Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to thee.

0 make me thine indeed, thou blessed Son.

Here now is HMS Richards, the Voice of Prophecy speaker.

I will begin by telling how the Sabbath was kept in our home when I was a boy.

My brother and I always looked forward to the coming of the Sabbath.

It was a very enjoyable and happy time for us.

Let me say right here that we observed the original seventh-day Bible Sabbath which begins not at midnight but at sunset.

For you know the Bible says in Leviticus 23 32 from even unto even shall you celebrate your Sabbath.

As far as the Sabbath is concerned, even means sunset, as written in Mark 1.32.

It's so much easier to welcome the Sabbath at sunset than midnight.

Of course, some of the neighbors looked upon us as rather strange people because we observed the Bible Sabbath the seventh day of the week instead of the first as most of our friends did.

Nevertheless, Sabbath was a happy time for us.

You know it's called the preparation day in the Bible, Mark 15, verse 42.

It was the day when all Sabbath keepers prepare for the Sabbath.

Mother would get everything ready on that day.

She would do all the cooking and plan for something special and extra good for the Sabbath meal, then we children would have to be ready too.

Shoes polished, clothes clean, everything spick and span as though we were preparing for a king.

And we were because God's presence is in his Sabbath.

Then just at sunset or a few minutes before possibly, we would gather together and sing our favorite songs for the opening of the Sabbath.

We all knew them by heart and enjoyed singing them together as the western sky turned gold, then crimson, and the last rays of the sun sank behind the Rocky Mountains.

Is dying in the West, Heaven is touching Earth with rest.

The night is giving glimpse of life through all the sky.

God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thee.

Heaven and earth are praising thee, O Lord, most high.

When forever from our side, When from our side, Pass the stars the day, the night, Pass the stars The day, the night, and the sound of angels on our eyes, and the morning bright, and shadows end.

Holy, holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts.

And after singing our Sabbath songs, father would read from the great book of God.

Sometimes he would make a few comments so that things would be clear to us boys.

Then we would all kneel in prayer, each 1 of us taking part, not to close, uniting in the Lord's prayer.

After we rose from our knees we would sing another song, usually number 655 in our songbook, that beautiful hymn by Henry F.

Fast falls the even tide, the darkness deepens, Lord with me abide.

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, help of the helpless.

Each member of the family had a favorite verse in that song.

Mother's favorite, I need thy presence every passing hour.

What but thy grace can foil a tempter's power?

And father would always choose a third verse.

Not a brief glance, I ask, nor passing word, but as thou dwellest with thy disciples, Lord, familiar, condescending, patient, free.

Memories of those wonderful hours together will never fade from the mind, nor die in the heart.

Think of it, there are now over a million Christians around the world keeping the Sabbath in this way every week when it begins at sunset.

1 time Father explained to us how the Sabbath began.

He said that although Jesus was born as a little baby in Bethlehem and grew to be a man here on this earth and died on the cross for our salvation, he was actually with the Father in heaven before the world began.

Then he explained to us by reading the first chapter of the Gospel of John, those words where we're told that he was with the Father and that all things were created by him, that Jesus himself was actually the active agent in the creation of the world.

What a surprise it was to us to know that the blessed Savior about whom we had heard in Sabbath school and whom we had learned to love was the 1 who really created this world.

Then Father read other texts too especially, Colossians the first chapter and 13th verse, where we read that all things were made by him.

That he is before all things and by Him all things consist or hold together as Father explained it.

Not only did Jesus make everything, but He keeps everything going and holds it all together.

Then the last text he read to us clinched forever this great truth in our minds.

He wanted to make things clear and so strong, so solid that we would never doubt and we never did.

Here is the text he read, Hebrews 1, verses 1 and 2.

God, who at sundry times and in divers or different manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds." It was the Son, yes by Him, that God made the worlds, and that includes our world.

So you see, Father said, when we read in the first chapter of the Bible that God made the world in 6 days, and then turn over to the first verse of the second chapter, and find that he rested on the seventh day and called it the Sabbath.

Therefore, the Sabbath made it the beginning of this world.

The seventh day Sabbath was the Sabbath of Jesus.

And of course, Every time we stood up in Sabbath school to repeat the 10 Commandments, the class would realize that we were talking about the work of Jesus.

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