My Journey to Life, Step 12—God’s Creation

12. What does Creation have to do with worship?

The phrase “worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” (Revelation 14:7) finds its parallel in the language of the fourth commandment which points us to the purpose for worshiping God on His seventh-day Sabbath: “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.” God reminds our neo-Darwinian world that the seventh-day Sabbath is inextricably linked to a short Creation week and the final judgment message of Revelation 14. Worshiping God on the seventh-day Sabbath—the memorial of His literal Creation week—will then become the focus of this earth’s last great conflict. (See My Journey to Life: Step 5—The Sabbath) JTL12 7.6

Before this last great conflict which includes the seven last plagues (Revelation 16), a special message is to be given which calls the attention of the world to the Creator once more (Revelation 14:6, 7). Coming at a time when most humans have chosen the theory of natural selection over the special revelation of Scripture, this last message of loving entreaty includes a call to worship God on the day He has set apart to commemorate His creation, the seventh-day Sabbath. JTL12 7.7

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God, not merely mythical, metaphorical poetry, or a text to be approached with reader-response criticism. Creation texts such as Exodus 20:8-11, Psalm 19:1-6; 33:6, 9; 104, and Hebrews 11:3 should be taken as literal accounts of God’s brief, recent, compassionate Creation work. When God restores everything to His people, you and I and the entire universe will see that God is love. JTL12 7.8