This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... resting from the six days' work and toil and from their own pleasures, and delighting in the spiritual worship of that God who in Christ Jesus had cleansed, sanctified, and re-created an Israel indeed. The Sabbath would now, as never before, become a sign between God and his true Israel forever, whereby Israel should ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... resting from the six days' work and toil and from their own pleasures, and delighting in the spiritual worship of that God who in Christ Jesus had cleansed, sanctified, and re-created an Israel indeed. The Sabbath would now, as never before, become a sign between God and his true Israel forever, whereby Israel should know that it was the Lord that did sanctify them, and that it was not possible for this sanctification to come through man as man, or by man as priest. The weekly observance of the seventh-day rest of Jehovah would not simply stand on the tables of stone in the ark of the testament in the heavenly sanctuary, where Christ officiates as the true High Priest, but it should be engraved by the Spirit of God upon the hearts of the true Israel, according to the promise of the new testament, so that there would be no need of human laws and prescriptions to perpetuate this observance. In full harmony with this divine purpose, Christ left this charge to the new-testament Israel: "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day."4 Remembering their Master's charge, the true Israel prayed, for forty years after his death, that his wish might be granted them, and that they might not be obliged to leave doomstricken Jerusalem in the depths of winter, nor on the day of God's rest. And while, according to Josephus, the carnal, unbelieving Israel of his time began the siege of the castle of Antonia on the Sabbath, and set fire to the palace of the Herods on the Sabbath, and also committed treacherous attack upon the Roman troops who had found refuge behind strong towers, the real Israel of God, in striking contrast with this, and in remembrance of the bequest of their Master, still regarded the Sabbath of Jehovah, as did als...
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