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71941 In Defense of the Faith, p. 151.4 (William Henry Branson)
… God’s Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day on which you were born, to one on which you were not born? No. Neither can you change God’s rest day …
71942 In Defense of the Faith, p. 151.7 (William Henry Branson)
6. He made it the Sabbath day in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:1-3 .
71943 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.3 (William Henry Branson)
13. The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath; but always, ‘the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.’ Men should be cautious how they stigmatize God’s holy rest day.
71944 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.4 (William Henry Branson)
14. Evident reference is made to the Sabbath all through the patriarchal age. Genesis 2:1-3; 8:10, 12; 29:27, 28, etc.
71945 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.7 (William Henry Branson)
17. The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living God. Deuteronomy 4:12, 13 .
71946 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.11 (William Henry Branson)
21. God forbade work upon the, Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. Exodus 34:21 .
71947 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.12 (William Henry Branson)
22. God destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. Ezekiel 20:12, 13 .
71948 In Defense of the Faith, p. 152.14 (William Henry Branson)
24. God promised that Jerusalem should stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath. Jeremiah 17:24, 25 .
71949 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.1 (William Henry Branson)
29. God has promised to bless any man who will keep the Sabbath. Isaiah 56:2 .
71950 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.2 (William Henry Branson)
30. The Lord requires us to call it ‘honorable.’ Isaiah 58:13. Beware, you who take delight in calling it the ‘old Jewish Sabbath,’ ‘a yoke of bondage,’ etc.
71951 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.3 (William Henry Branson)
31. After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down ‘many generations,’ it is to be restored in the last days. Isaiah 58:12, 13 .
71952 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.7 (William Henry Branson)
35. Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath ( Mark 2:28 ); that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the Wife, to love and cherish her. 1 Peter 3:6 .
71953 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.8 (William Henry Branson)
36. He vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good. Mark 2:23-28 .
71954 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.9 (William Henry Branson)
37. Instead of abolishing the Sabbath, He carefully taught how it should be observed. Matthew 12:1-13 .
71955 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.10 (William Henry Branson)
38. He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was ‘lawful.’ Matthew 12:12 .
71956 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.11 (William Henry Branson)
39. He instructed His apostles that the Sabbath should be prayerfully regarded 40 years after His resurrection. Matthew 24:20 .
71957 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.13 (William Henry Branson)
41. Thirty years after Christ’s resurrection, the Holy Spirit expressly calls it ‘the Sabbath day.’ Acts 13:14 .
71958 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.14 (William Henry Branson)
42. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, called it ‘the Sabbath day’ in A. D. 45. Acts 13:27. Did not Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it eased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Christ?
71959 In Defense of the Faith, p. 153.15 (William Henry Branson)
43. Luke, the inspired Christian historian, writing as ate as A. D. 62, calls it ‘the Sabbath day.’ Acts 13:44 .
71960 In Defense of the Faith, p. 154.1 (William Henry Branson)
44. The Gentile converts called it the Sabbath. Acts 13:42 .