Real love requires time. That is why after God made the world in six days, He made one more day for a special relationship time between God the Creator and His creatures.

<p>Real love requires time. That is why after God made the world in six days, He made one more day for a special relationship time between God the Creator and His creatures.</p>

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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

The Rest of Our Work

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Jesus expected his people would still know about the Sabbath in the last days the church has largely forgotten the 1 commandment that he said, remember...

We're so glad to see each of you here tonight.

We want to welcome you to the Landmarks of Prophecy Bible Study Series.

And I always want to welcome those who we remember are watching online, and you're watching via satellite television.

And we're just glad that you could be part of this epic Bible study adventure.

Now, tonight we have a very important lesson that is dealing with a subject that is of great interest among Christians these days, and it does have a very important bearing on the issues of prophecy.

The title of the lesson is called, The Rest of Our Work...

Now we're going to begin with a story in your Bible that's drawn from the book of Exodus.

In Exodus we know that the children of Israel miraculously crossed over the Red Sea and now as they're going through the wilderness and they had a few trying days between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai, their provisions ran low.

God said, look, I'm going to work a miracle for you.

I'm going to rain down bread from heaven for you.

Go out early in the morning, you gather it up, and there will not be any on the seventh day.

It was a Sabbath ever since the Garden of Eden.

And he said, gather twice as much on Friday so you don't have to gather it.

And you can read there, it says, then Moses said, eat that today for today is a Sabbath to the Lord.'' Today you're not going to find it in the field.

40 years there was manna that rained down 6 days a week, but not on the seventh.

Now, some people say the Sabbath command appeared at Mount Sinai and it was given to the Jews only.

You notice it's Exodus 16 where God tells them about the manna coming 6 days a week.

The Sabbath goes all the way back to the beginning.

We're gonna study the subject of the Sabbath tonight, and I'm gonna show you how it is an important factor in prophecy.

First, remember, In the last days, the mark of the beast compels everybody to receive a mark in the right hand or the forehead and whoever doesn't do what?

Is worship going to be an issue in the last days?

In the very first conflict between Cain and Abel, Cain claimed to worship God, Abel claimed to worship God, they both built altars, 1 worshiped God the way God said, that's Abel, Cain said, I'm going to do it my own way.

God said, I'm not accepting your sacrifice, but I am accepting the sacrifice of Abel.

He persecuted and killed his brother, and it was all over worship.

From the beginning to the end, what did the devil want from Jesus?

You fall down and worship me, I'll give it all to you.

If we don't understand this subject, and we don't think that's connected with last day prophecy, friends, you're kidding yourself, it is all very integrated from cover to cover in the Bible.

This is an important issue that I think we need to understand.

And now we're gonna go into the lesson and I wanna be gentle as I share these things with you because what I'm sharing with you, I remember the first time I heard it and it really shook me.

I think it shook me because it was so compelling, but I felt like I should have known these things.

All right, let's go to question number 1 in your study.

What day of the week is the Sabbath, the biblical Sabbath?

Before I give you the answer, I want to make something very clear.

I believe there are loving, spirit-filled Christian people in all kinds of different denominations.

I could start naming religious leaders that you see on TV, I've met many of them that are friends, I respect them, they respect me, and we respectfully maybe disagree on some things, but I don't question that.

I know there are gonna be millions of people in heaven that maybe went to church on the wrong day, but the truth is still the truth.

Here's what the Bible says in Genesis 2, verse 2 and 3.

And on the seventh day, God ended His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made, and God blessed the seventh day.

This is about as far back as you can go in the beginning of your Bible.

So does God say that He made the Sabbath for Jews?

How many people were in the world when God did this?

You know, the Bible says the Sabbath was made for man.

What else did God make for man in the Garden of Eden.

Woman says, it's not good that a man should be alone.

All right, now you notice something else here.

It doesn't say, and on a seventh day, it says on the seventh day.

Is there a difference between saying a and the?

If I were to just call out to the audience now and say, could you please bring me the pen?

You'd look at each other and say, I wonder who has the pen, right?

But if I say, bring me a pen, half of you might jump out of your seats and give me a pen, because it doesn't matter what pen, it's any pen.

So God doesn't say, remember a seventh day, He says, remember the seventh day.

How has God demonstrated the importance of His holy Sabbath?

Exodus 20, verse 8, made it 1 of the 10 commandments.

Why do you think God begins that commandment with the word remember?

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it, the Bible tells us.

Now, you notice that God didn't say, I want you to make it holy or pick a day and make it holy.

God says, I have picked the day and I made it holy and I sanctified it and I blessed it.

I want you to enjoy those blessings that I put into that day." Does he say, everybody just kind of pick your day?

Or does he say, there is a day where we worship corporately?

It says in Leviticus 23, the Sabbath is a holy convocation.

You know what the word convocation means?

They were to come together and worship God.

Now, I know there are a lot of people out there that will say, Pastor Doug, you're focusing on 1 little thing and this is not a big issue and it doesn't matter, or that the law was nailed to the cross.

And how many of you have heard some of these arguments before?

When I first read these things, I said, how can this be right?

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