Christ and the Sabbath

CHRIST THE AGENT IN CREATION

It was through Christ as the agent that God created all things. “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” John 1:3. And that is not true of material things alone, for we read again: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him, and for him.” Colossians 1:16. That is, Jesus Christ was the agent through whom the power of God was manifested in creating the world. “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.... For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” Psalm 33:6-9. It was God speaking through his Son Jesus Christ, and it was the voice of Christ which was heard. When we read in the first chapter of Genesis, “And God said,” “And God said,” it is clear that the speaking was through Jesus Christ. CAS 9.1

So when God said, “Let there be light,” it was Christ, who is himself “the light of the world,” who spoke that word. It was through Christ that God has spoken in every place in the Scripture where we have the record “God said,” or “Jehovah said,” or “the Lord spake and said.” It was Christ who indited all the writings of the Scripture. For we read in 1 Peter 1:11, speaking of the prophets: “Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.” It was the Spirit of Christ speaking through the prophets. So all the way through the prophetic record which gave to the world history in advance, it was Christ who told the world what was to come. It was his Spirit that inspired the prophets. So it is Christ, it is Christ all the way through, Christ the agent in creation, Christ the spokesman for God, Christ whose Spirit inspired the prophets. CAS 9.2

Having learned that it was Christ through whom all things were created, we are prepared to understand the lesson which these things are intended to teach. “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in [margin “to”] them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.” Romans 1:19, 20. All created things, when rightly interpreted, speak of the eternal power and divinity of God. But Christ is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:24), and in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9); therefore it follows that all created things serve to show forth, to give abundant proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ. CAS 9.3