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71561 In Defense of the Faith, p. 91.2 (William Henry Branson)
… original Sabbath.’ ... During the long period before the flood, during the patriarchal age when they had no records; during their slavery in Egypt when even traditional …
71562 In Defense of the Faith, p. 91.3 (William Henry Branson)
This objection to the Bible Sabbath has been so often and so adequately answered in the past that it hardly seems necessary to devote much space to it here, and yet we find that some people are genuinely troubled over it.
71563 In Defense of the Faith, p. 91.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath. Since that time God has carefully preserved the weekly cycle, as can be proved beyond all possible doubt. But we must refrain from replying to …
71564 In Defense of the Faith, p. 92.2 (William Henry Branson)
… holy Sabbath, that one based upon the argument of ‘lost time’ may be called the ‘last ditch.’ When all other arguments fail, persons fall back upon this, and excuse …
71565 In Defense of the Faith, p. 92.3 (William Henry Branson)
… -day Sabbath, and that the Scriptures teach that the seventh day is still the Sabbath, then, behold, these same persons are very ignorant all at once. Time has …
71566 In Defense of the Faith, p. 93.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath commandment, and for Sunday as the Christian Sabbath, the resurrection day. They seem not to realize that if time has been lost, they are as bad off …
71567 In Defense of the Faith, p. 93.2 (William Henry Branson)
… -day Sabbath is binding, it is unreasonable to suppose that God has suffered it to be lost.’ If God has given a law requiring the observance of the day, He certainly …
71568 In Defense of the Faith, p. 94.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath and observed it. Of the antiquity of the week and the Sabbath among all nations, Gilfillan, in his large book on ‘The Sabbath,’ published by the American …
71569 In Defense of the Faith, p. 95.1 (William Henry Branson)
… no Sabbath, at one time honored the seventh day of the week.’ Pages 364, 365.
71570 In Defense of the Faith, p. 95.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath by tradition from them. That the Sabbath would not be lost from Adam to Abraham is manifest when we consider that Adam lived and conversed with …
71571 In Defense of the Faith, p. 95.3 (William Henry Branson)
“The lives of these three men span the whole time from Eden even to the old age of Abraham. How easy and natural for them to hand down the Sabbath from father to son without any probability of losing it.
71572 In Defense of the Faith, p. 96.1 (William Henry Branson)
… a Sabbath unto the Lord: today you shall not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none …
71573 In Defense of the Faith, p. 96.2 (William Henry Branson)
… sanctified Sabbath day.... Truly, had all traces of the Sabbath been lost, it was here so forcibly restored that none could doubt when it came. Here it was certainly …
71574 In Defense of the Faith, p. 97.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, and reads thus: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord …
71575 In Defense of the Faith, p. 97.2 (William Henry Branson)
… ,’ ‘the Sabbath of the Lord,’ the day which God had rested upon, and blessed and sanctified at creation, after working six days. In short, it points out and specifies …
71576 In Defense of the Faith, p. 98.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath. During this time, God often spoke to them by His prophets, and frequently called their attention to His holy Sabbath. (See 2 Kings 4:23; 1 Chronicles …
71577 In Defense of the Faith, p. 98.2 (William Henry Branson)
… His Sabbath strictly enough. Jeremiah 17:17-24; Nehemiah 13:15-18. Would He then allow the Sabbath to be lost so that they could not keep it, and thus frustrate …
71578 In Defense of the Faith, p. 99.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath at that time. So when Christ came, He found them all very strict and over particular in keeping the ‘Sabbath. Matthew 12:1-12; John 5:5-19 .
71579 In Defense of the Faith, p. 99 (William Henry Branson)
Christ and the Disciples Keep the Sabbath
71580 In Defense of the Faith, p. 99.3 (William Henry Branson)
… The Sabbath for over 4,000 years, to the coming of Christ. Here, again, we have another sure way mark: Christ, the Son of God, knew all things. If the Sabbath had been …