[Sabbath Controversy #3] A Vindication of the Seventh-day Sabbath, and the Commandments of God

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CHRIST NOT REPRESENTED AS AN ANGEL

Christ is nowhere represented as an angel, in Rev. unless it can be proved that he is so, in the 8th ch. 3-5 vs. He tells us that the 7 stars in his right hand are the angels, or messengers; see 1:20 He is called “one like unto the son of man.” Read his description 1:13-18; 14:14; the same in Daniel 7:13; 10:5, 6; 12:6, 7 He is also called the Lamb 26 times; see 5:6, 8, 12, 13 vs.; 6:1, 16; 7:9, 10, 14, 17; 12:11; 13:8, 11; 14:1-4; 15:3; 17:14; 19:7, 9; 21:9, 14, 22, 23, 27; 22:1, 3 This Lamb is the Lord of Lords, and king of kings; and they that are with him are called and chosen, and faithful; see 17:14; 19:16 He is called the word of God, and “the armies” the “chosen and faithful” ones follow him; see 19:13, 14 He is called the first and the last 1:8, 17; 2:8; 22:13 And the one which was, and is, and is to come, 1:4, 8; 4:8; 11:17 He is the true and faithful witness 1:5; 3:14 Also the root of David, the morning star, 22:16; 2:28; also Micah 2:7 And faithful witness 1:5; 2:14; 19:11 Please examine this subject: SC3 230.1

TYPE. Now turn to Leviticus 23:10, 11; when you reap the harvest (in the spring,) then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits, and the Priest shall wave it before the Lord - on the morrow after the Sabbath, (as in 3rd v.). And ye shall count from the day after the Sabbath, (the same 7th day Sabbath in 3rd v.) the day after ye offer the wave sheaf, 7 Sabbaths shall be complete; that is, counting the next day after the 7 Sabbaths, which will make 50 days, 16, 17 vs.; then with the sacrifices they are to offer two wave loaves, the bread made from the harvested grain; see 17-20 Now turn to Exodus 34:21, 22: here we see God required the people to keep the 7th day Sabbath, i.e. to rest in earing time, and harvest, but they were to observe the first fruits in their place, Deuteronomy 16:9, shows where; begin to count the 50 days from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. Now send the reapers forth the next morning after the Sabbath, what day is that? why, it is Sunday in the morning; so we see in the anti-type the morning of the resurrection instead of being a holy day (and as the world will have it the Sabbath) it was the day for the laborers to go out into the fields to reap the spring harvest. How could that be a holy day. SC3 230.2