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"If man chooses not to acknowledge his creation, he will cease to seek what was lost in the fall into sin"

The Sabbath is a special sign that continues to tie mankind to Creation and places him in relationship with his Maker.

Scripture says the Sabbath was made for man.  (Mark 2:28)  Way back there, many, many years before Abraham and his descendants were born, God set apart the Sabbath for mankind.  

When the proclamation of the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14 went forth the Sabbath came with it calling people to worship God as Creator. 

The Sabbath  is recognition of that special relationship between a loving Creator and His creation.

Will people recognize their need of restoration from the fall into sin? Will they acknowledge their dependance upon their Creator to "re-create" them?  Will they respond to the Holy Spirit’s pleadings  to come to repentance and restoration?

 

Or some will say, we are now saved by faith -- Sabbath keeping is works.

But Sabbath observance is resting!  Not working.  It's accepting by faith that God created the world in six days and blessed the seventh, making it holy.
It is living in faith that One Who created prefect human beings, can re-create us into new creatures, alive for Him.

Creation  forms the foundation of all the biblical truth that follows.

If God didn't create Adam and Eve perfect, then the fall wouldn't be important, if the fall isn't important then why do we need redemption and restoration?  The cross becomes meaningless, for why would Christ need to die for an emerging humanity evolving into higher levels of being?

The three angels messages present the everlasting gospel -- our need for restoration and Christ's work of refashioning us.

The three angels mesages call for people to return to worshipping the Creator. And has considerable linquistic  similarities with  the forth commandment.

And finally in that chapter a blessing is pronounced on those who keep God's commandments and have the faith of Jesus.


 



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The Sabbath emphasizes and seals the creation week. Six days and then the
seventh day of rest.

Do we believe God created the earth in six literal days?

Let's project that idea into the future.

Our ultimate hope is in a restored earth without the horrors of sin, death,
violence, the strong preying on the weak. Our hope is for a land where there
are no tears, no crying, no death, no more hurting or destroying.

Now when the time comes and the earth is to be restored -- how will it happen?
Will we have the joy and excitement of standing on the walls of the New
Jerusalem and watching as God speaks wonders appear. Will we look over the
desolate landscape purged of all sin, and watch as God speaks grass, trees,
flowers and other beautiful scenery into existance? Like we read in the Genesis
account?

Or does God create through evolution -- and we will look out over a developing
landscape that endures millions of years of brutal natural selection and
survival of the fittest before there is a semblance of livable earth once again.

As the current Sabbath School Lesson points out --
"If God chose to use evolution the first time around to create this world, why
would He do something different the second time? ...The absurdity of the idea
that God would use evolution to recreate the heavens and the earth is more
evidence ointing to the absurdity of His having created the world that way to
begin with."(Glimpses of Our God" p. 19)

The everlasting gospel is about restoration to an original perfection.
The call of the three angels message (Rev. 14) is to worship the Creator who MADE
(not allowed to evolve) the heavens and the earth.

For in six days God made the heavens and the earth and rested on the
Seventh-day. (Gen. 2:1-3 Ex. 20:8-11)

The Sabbath is not only a memorial of Creation, it signifies FAITH in
re-creation of our characters and finally, after this sin experiment is over,
the re-creation of the heavens and the earth.


Genesis 1-2 mirrors Rev. 21-22



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We know the new earth will not be made new through the process of evolution.
Isaiah 65:25 "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat
straw like the ox, they shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says
the LORD".

But the old serpent he will bite the dust. (Did Isaiah mean the old serpent who subverted everything in the beginning?)

Once that old serpent bites the dust, the creation of the earth made new will
not follow evolutionary ideas where the strong root out the weak.

As Isaiah links the Sabbath to New Earth in the next chapter. (66:22) I kind of think it will take exactly six days again to recreate the earth?
I can just imagine standing on the walls of the New Jerusalem watching God
create for six days and then on the Seventh have a great celebration and worship in a sparkling earth made new!
Followed by many more (an eternally more) Sabbaths when all come together for a day of thanksgiving and praise to our Creator and Savior.



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