Most Christians believe that the seventh-day Sabbath is for Jews, but the Bible reveals a completely different picture than what you’ve been told.

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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

The Mystery of the Last Day Part 1

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Coming to you from New York City at the historic Manhattan Center with your host, Doug Batchelor.

Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth about Bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of God's word, and see how it relates to our lives today.

Stay tuned, your Amazing Facts adventure begins now.

Tonight's study I think you're gonna find to be a great blessing, but I always like to begin with an amazing fact You know the world record for many years regarding the person who had stayed awake the longest under a measured experiment without sleep was Randy Gardner.

In 1963, he went for 11 days and 24 minutes without sleep.

After several days in the experiment, Gardner displayed increasing cognitive dysfunction and problems with concentration, moodiness, memory, paranoia, hallucinations.

His record since was broken multiple times.

He went 18 days and 21 hours without sleeping.

But you know, since then, in 1997, Guinness World Records refused to accept any new attempts for health and safety reasons.

For decades after his first experiments, Randy Gardner struggled with severe insomnia.

Our lesson tonight is about rest and prophecy and how all of it ties together.

Now, We're gonna be talking about 1 of the commandments tonight, in particular, the fourth commandment, dealing with the subject of the Sabbath.

And you might be thinking, Pastor Doug, how in the world does that fit into a prophecy seminar?

If you read in Revelation chapter 13, it tells us that this beast power makes a law that whoever does not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Well, that would be a problem for God's people because the Bible is pretty clear.

In the 10 Commandments, it says, in the Second Commandment, you shall not make unto you any graven images, the likeness of anything in the heaven above or the earth beneath or the water under the earth, and bow down yourself to them and serve them.

For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy under thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments." Notice, love me and keep my commandments.

There's a commandment that says don't worship images.

You may remember in the book of Daniel, chapter 3, King Nebuchadnezzar told everybody to bow down and worship the image that he made or be killed.

But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they said, we ought to obey God rather than men.

We will not break God's commandment, even if it's a government commandment.

You look in Daniel chapter 6, the king of Persia, Darius, made a law that said, you're not to pray to any God except the king for 30 days.

Well, that's a problem for God's people because the first commandment, who knows?

Thou shalt not have other gods before me.

Actually, the first commandment says, and the Lord God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God that brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, you shall not have other gods before me.

Daniel said, I can't have another god before my God.

And he went to the lions then, and God delivered him.

It was a government law, worldwide law, this empire.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego went to the fiery furnace, and God delivered them.

In the last days, the devil is gonna do the same thing again.

There was a law made to exterminate all of God's people because Mordecai would not bow down and worship Haman because it broke the commandments of God.

See, does everyone here know the devil wants you to sin?

But what the devil's gonna do in the last days, he's gonna be very sneaky.

He is gonna create a law, and it's gonna be requiring people to break the law of God, but it's going to seem like they're obeying.

And he's going to look through the 10 Commandments and he's going to say can I make a law that tells everybody to lie?

What if I tell everybody, remember the Sabbath day, but don't do it on the seventh day.

And a lot of people are gonna go, what difference does it make?

So follow me and I think you're gonna understand why this is gonna be an issue in prophecy in the last days.

Question number 1, We're going to our lesson.

Did God make the Sabbath only for Israelites?

He said unto them, The Sabbath was made for the Jew.

God made man in 6 days, on the sixth day, made the world in 6 days.

Then after he made man, and the word here in Greek is anthropos, you've heard of anthropology, so I can put humanity, not just 1 race of people.

Jesus said the Sabbath was made for humans.

Then you fit, the Sabbath was made for mankind, humanity, not man for the Sabbath.

God did not make the Sabbath and then make man to serve the Sabbath.

He made man and then made Sabbath to be a blessing to man.

And you read in Exodus 23, verse 12, 6 days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest that your ox and your donkey may rest.

And the son of your female servant, and that your stranger may be, what's the word?

Or did the Lord also include even animals in this commandment?

Yeah, when the Lord said the Sabbath was made for man, he meant for the human race.

How many people are struggling with stress-related disease?

Some of you out there, struggling with stress.

Answer, thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done, and he rested.

Man is made in the image of God, we follow his example.

The seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Now I'm gonna continue, it goes on to say, and God bless the seventh day.

You know, right here in the beginning of the Bible, a number is mentioned 3 times.

Go to Revelation, the end of the Bible, there's another number mentioned 3 times.

6667 is a perfect number of God and worship of God.

It's the number of man and man-made worship.

And this is a battle for worship that you're gonna see going on all through the Bible.

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