In several places in the Old Testament, God warned the Jews that He would put an end to the sabbaths.
Hosea 2:11 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
Isaiah 1:13, 14 13Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
The sabbath was a sign to the Jews that they were God’s people, and here He is telling them, the day will be forgotten, that God now hates it, that it will be ended. The people of God were losing their sign! One would think that would put the fear of God into them! But no, they kept on their merry way, and when the promised Messiah came, only a comparatively few people accepted Him as their Lord and Saviour.
In the book of Hebrews it says that the old covenant, of which the sabbath was the sign, was now obsolete and fading away (Hebrews 8:13)
But we have a new covenant, ratified by the blood of the Saviour, and His body and blood is the sign of the new covenant. The sign of the covenant between God and the children of Israel had been the sabbath. That had pointed back to their redemption from Egypt and forward to the Messiah, their Redeemer, who was also their rest, their sabbatismos. They rejected the Messiah for their sabbath, only to have that taken from them.
And along comes Ellen White, who instead of pointing her followers to Christ points them back to the sabbath, with which she burdens them, and includes her own commandments on how to keep it. She insisted the sabbath was the seal of God (which it never was).
Wrong again, Ellen.
The sabbaths have gone. The Messiah is here. Those of us who are His followers have sabbath rest in Him. Not a day.
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