Revelation Reveals of Loving Creator

Revelation 10:5, 6  The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven  and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer,

Revelation 4:11  You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”

Too frequently when studying Revelation we become bogged down in the apocalyptic symbols of locust, plagues, marks, beast, dragons, etc. All these are true and need to be studied, but they should not be studied without remembering the theme and context of the entire book of Revelation. Behind all those strange and fearful symbols is a loving God revealing what the future holds for His people here in this world. Revelation begins with loving messages to the churches in John’s day and extending all the way to the end of time. Then a view is given into the throne room of the universe. There in that throne room, praise, songs and prayers raise before the Loving God whom we serve. In this grand scene is revealed the reason why our God is worthy to receive this glory and honor—because He created all things and through Him they continue to exist. Whatever we study in Revelation, we must remember our Loving Creator behind it all. He is the One who allows it to come. He is the one who brings judgments upon the unrighteous to deliver His faithful. He is the Creator-God who is worthy to be praised, and it is Him that all of Revelation is centered upon. The war against the Creator, the judgment upon the despisers of the Creator, the reward of those who worship the Creator, the Creator at home with His people in His recreation. If we forget the Creator in studying Revelation, we have missed the entire point and purpose of the book. So let us study about the Creator of heaven and earth and the call He gives to America and the world.

A Prophetic Call to America

Revelation 14:6, 7  Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

In the heart of Revelation is revealed the last messages of mercy to go to our world. Three messages of solemn import are given by the representation of angels flying in the midst of heaven and then, as these messages are concluded, the picture of Christ coming upon a cloud to harvest both the righteous and the wicked is revealed. The first of these solemn messages is a call to every nation, tribe, tongue and people—that includes America. The message that prepares for the subsequent two is a call to worship the God of heaven. To worship Him as the Creator who made the heaven and earth, sea and springs of water. A call to remembrance of the Creator. Until we heed this call, we are unprepared for the other two. We must acknowledge the God of heaven as our Creator and learn to worship Him as our Creator. This is a prophetic call to each of us individually and this is a prophetic call to America today.

Today it has become popular to deny or ignore the Creator of heaven and earth in preference for the decrees of science. Science has declared that there is no God. Darwin made rejection of a Creator popular and gave an intellectual standing for those who desired to be freed from the cumbersome restraints of a Higher Power to acknowledge. Today many have taken for granted that science has disproved the existence of a god, but the prophetic call comes to us today, “Remember and Worship your Creator.”

Despite the vicious attacks upon a god by the world of science, claiming the scholastic upper hand, science has failed to answer the most basic questions of life. Namely, if there is no god and no Creator, where did life come from? How did life come into existence? For over one hundred years science has attempted to answer this question, but to no avail. It was thought that in 1952 with the Stanley Miller experiment that there was a tremendous break through. It was thought that soon life would be formed in a test tube. Over fifty years later, we are still waiting for the goods. It is true that some scientists have, through manipulations, formed a few amino acids, but what is that to the task? It is as if someone thought that because they have whittled a toothpick that proves they can spontaneously generate a tree. The origin of life has never been answered by any competent scientist, and thus the question still looms, where did life come from? Science has utterly failed in its attempts to answer this question.

Thus to a country and world immersed in scientific dead ends, a prophetic call comes. To a world gasping from the horrid revelations of the depravity of human nature a call comes. A call to worship the Creator who made heaven and earth and all things therein. Will we heed this call today? Will America heed the call of her loving Creator?

The Seal of our Creator

Revelation 7:1-3  After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

Revelation 9:4  They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

The Seal of God in Revelation is something of utmost importance. It identifies the people of God and distinguishes them from those who receive the mark of the beast. Those who have the seal of God are not only protected from the troubles and judgments that come upon this world, but they are sealed for eternity. In the last generation, it is only those who have the seal of the God, the seal of our Creator upon their foreheads that will be admitted through the heavenly gates. The seal is of such importance that time is being held until the servants of our God receive this seal of heavenly origin. It would be very beneficial to study this seal throughout the sacred pages, but space will not permit an exhaustive study, but a cursory examination will prove beneficial.

A seal is even something that is still used today. If you look on a passport you will find the seal of the country of origin. In order for the passport to be valid it must be issued by a legitimate country and by a department that has jurisdiction and authority to issue it. In a seal there are three necessary elements: dominion, authority and name. In the example of a passport the dominion is clearly stated all over the passport: the United States of America (my passport). This is stated on the front, the back page and almost every page in between. In the passport you can find the authority (it uses the same word even): Passport Agency. The name is also stated in this same line differing where your passport was issued. Mine is Houston; my wife’s is Charleston. In a passport you find the seal of our government and the three essential elements in a seal. We have a seal for the President of the United States. For a document to become a binding statute or law it must have his seal upon it. His seal contains the three simple elements: name, title, territory. So the law must have his signature—George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush, or whoever the president is. It must contain his title: President; and it must contain his territory: the United States of America.

Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 8:16  Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.

Our God has a seal and this seal contains these three elements, as well. The very first verse of the Bible contains the seal of our God. It contains His name: God. It contains his title: created (Creator). It also gives his territory: the heavens and the earth. Thus the Lord has stamped his seal of approval and authority upon the very first verse in the Bible. The Lord has said, I am your God. You live in my realm—heaven and earth, and I am your Creator. This evidence of God being our Creator is frequently used as His challenge that He alone is the true God. If we loose sight that our God is our Creator, we miss his seal and the proof of His superiority to all other supposed gods.

This seal is so essential that those who have this seal are preserved while those who do not are marked for destruction. While we understand the elements behind the seal, how is this seal placed upon his disciples? How do we receive God’s seal of protection?

God’s Seal of Protection

Revelation 14:1, 7, 12  Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads… Saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water”… Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Elsewhere in Revelation, those who receive God’s seal are described as having their Father’s name written in their foreheads, worshipping the true Creator God instead of the Beast, and keeping God’s commandments. Those who receive God’s seal will have God’s character written in their hearts and in their minds. They will have loved the Lord so much that they will be obedient to all that He asks them to do. God’s seal is not actually a literal mark on their foreheads, but a mark of character—their Father’s name or character engraved in their thoughts and affections. This symbolism is seen elsewhere in the Bible.

I Samuel 16:7  But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’”

Psalm 37:37  Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; for the future of that man is peace.

Hebrews 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.

God’s name, representative of God’s character (throughout the Bible an individual’s name represents his character—Abram to Abraham; Jacob to Israel; Saul to Paul), is the symbolic mark that God’s people receive. It is on the inside, because that is where the Lord is looking, not on the outside. God is not concerned so much about what the outside looks like, but what He is really concerned about is the condition of our hearts. If we have God’s character written in our minds and hearts, we are sealed with the seal of the Living God. God’s Law is actually a transcript of God’s perfect character. When you compare the descriptions of God’s character to the Law, it can easily be seen that they are nearly identical. God’s people show to the world that they have the seal of the Living God by obedience to God’s Law, particularly the commandments that point to the God of heaven as the only Creator. The seal of God’s character is keeping His commandments.

                            God is:                     Law is:

Light                I John 1:5             Proverbs 6:23

Good                Luke 18:19            I Timothy 1:8

Holy                Isaiah 5:16             Romans 7:12

Perfect                Matthew 5:48                   Psalm 19:7

Pure                 I John 3:2,3           Psalm 19:8

Just                  Deuteronomy 32:4   Romans 7:12

True                 John 3:33              Psalms 19:9, 119:142

Spiritual            I Corinthians 10:4   Romans 7:14

Faithful             I Corinthians 1:9     Psalm 119:86

Love                 I John 4:8             Romans 13:10

Unchangeable     James 1:17, Mal. 3:6  Matthew 5:17,18

Eternal             Genesis 21:33         Psalm 111:7,8

How Much of God’s Law is Important?

Matthew 7:21-23  Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”

James 2:10-12  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

Jesus records that many are going to come to Him, calling Him Lord (only Christians call Jesus Lord) and lauding all the good deeds that they have done. They went to church. They did all the right things. They thought that they were saved. They even argue with the Lord when He tells them that they are lost. What was their problem? They broke God’s Holy Law, and because they rejected God’s Law, they rejected His character or His seal and received the mark of the beast. These Christians thought that they were following the Lord, yet ended up receiving the Beast’s mark instead. When we realize this, it should make us do some serious thinking. Are we, perhaps unknowingly, breaking God’s Law and jeopardizing eternal life? These Christians apparently were. How many commandments need we break in order to be considered lawless? Only one. If we are going to receive the seal of protection of our loving Creator, we must be keeping all His holy Law. God’s Law is sealed among his disciples. Is there a commandment that many are forgetting about today? Is there a commandment that could give us a deeper understanding of the seal of our God? Is there a commandment that would tell us how to heed the prophetic call to America of worshipping our Creator?

The Forgotten Commandment

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor you female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Searching through the commandments, there is only one commandment that nearly the entire world is disregarding today. It is the commandment that says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” This commandment, commonly referred to as the fourth commandment, states exactly which day is the Sabbath. It does not tell man that he can choose any day that he likes. It does not say that the majority can decide which day is the Sabbath. It does not say that God is not particular about which day is the Sabbath. It states all the opposite. God has told us in His Law that He, not we, has set aside a special day that we are to rest and spend in communion with the Lord. This day is the seventh day. Which day is the seventh day? “Saturday, n., the seventh day of the week, following Friday.” (Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, Barnes   Noble Books) Saturday, not Sunday as many people think, is the seventh day of the week. The Lord has specifically designated that Saturday is the day in which we are to rest from temporal labor and our own pleasure. So that we are not confused as to which day is the Sabbath, the Lord has given us undeniable evidence as to which day is the seventh day in His Word.

Luke 23:54-56; 24:1  That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near. And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

The inspired record states that Jesus was crucified on the Preparation day, He rested in the tomb “on the Sabbath according to the commandment,” and He was raised and took up His work of saving mankind again on the first day of the week. In order to find out what day is the “Sabbath according to the commandment”, all we have to do is ask ourselves, “On which day was Jesus resurrected?” There is almost universal agreement that it was Sunday. (This is the reason many give for worshipping on Sunday.) Every year in the springtime, a holiday comes around to remind us which day is the Sabbath. There is Good Friday, Saturday and then Easter Sunday. By comparing this with the Biblical record, it is easy to see that the “Sabbath according to the commandment” comes in between when Jesus was crucified and when He was raised. There is only one day in between, Saturday, the day that Jesus Himself rested in the tomb. There is no doubt that Saturday is the seventh day, the Sabbath of the Bible. Could it be that this is the seal in God’s Holy Law? Could it be that obedience to this commandment is the differentiating mark between those who follow God and those who follow the Beast?

A Memorial of Creation

Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

When Jesus gave the fourth commandment, He prefaced it with the word “remember”. Why did God say remember? With His foreknowledge, did He see that man would forget God’s Holy Day? Undoubtedly, but there is more than that. The Sabbath had been instituted at the very beginning of Earth’s history, on the seventh day, in fact. God created this world in six days, but on the seventh day God gave to mankind the most wonderful gift imaginable—He gave them a special appointment with their Maker. The Lord said, “I am going to spend some special time with you. Every Sabbath day, I am going to come especially near you and bless you. I am going to take time from my busy schedule to make a weekly appointment with you.” It was to be a reminder of their Creator who made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Every Sabbath, they were to REMEMBER what God had done for them. When man fell, the Sabbath became even more special. Now not only were they to remember what God had done for them, but they were to REMEMBER what God is doing in each of His children in recreating in them a new heart. The wonderful blessing of the Sabbath was not exclusively for the Jews or any other race, but was for all mankind, as Adam is the father of us all.

The Sabbath Through the Centuries

Genesis 26:5  Because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.

Exodus 16:23-30  Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’” So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.” Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” So the people rested on the seventh day.

As we scan the centuries between Adam and the cross, we see that every patriarch, prophet, and holy man of God kept all of God’s commandments, including the Sabbath day. Abraham, who is the father of all the faithful, kept God’s commandments; so we know that he kept the seventh-day Sabbath, as well. Every week for forty years, the Lord taught the children of Israel the importance of the Sabbath, by giving a double portion of manna on Friday, the preparation day, and by giving none on the Sabbath. They were taught how the Lord wants His people to prepare for the Sabbath before it comes, so that we can enjoy the great blessings that the Lord has in store for His people.

Our Savior and the Sabbath

Luke 4:16  So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

Matthew 24:20  And pray that your flight may not be in the winter or on the Sabbath.

John 15:10  If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Jesus, as our example, kept the Sabbath. It was Jesus’ custom to keep the Sabbath. It was not just something that He did every now and then. It was something that He did every week—it was His custom. Jesus kept the Sabbath over 1700 times in His life. That is quite an example and should give us an idea of how important keeping the Sabbath really is to the Lord. The Pharisees accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath, but Jesus said that He and His disciples were innocent. Jesus said that He had kept His Father’s commandments. If we say that Jesus broke the Sabbath we are seconding the lie of the Pharisees. Not only did Jesus Himself keep the Sabbath, but He also expected His disciples to be keeping the Sabbath many years after He left. He told them to pray that they would not need to flee from Jerusalem in the winter or on the Sabbath day. This escape was over thirty-five years after His death, but He still expected them to keep His Holy Sabbath day.

Has the Calendar Been Changed?

Yes, the calendar has been changed, but the weekly cycle has never been changed. Today we are using what is called the Gregorian calendar, which is just a slight modification of the Julian calendar. In 1582, Pope Gregory made a correction to Julius Caesar’s calendar by dropping ten days in order to align the calendar with the solar calendar. Thursday, October 4, 1582 was followed by Friday, October 15, 1582. Then the leap year system was instituted that we are on today, so that another correction would not need to be made. Did this change the weekly cycle? Absolutely not. The United States Naval Observatory has stated that from their calculations there has never been a change in the weekly cycle. Has the calendar been changed? Yes, but that has not disturbed which day is the Sabbath.

The Apostles and the Sabbath

Acts 13:42, 44  So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath… On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

Acts 16:13  And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.

Acts 17:2  Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures.

Did the apostles think that the Sabbath had been changed? Did the apostles think that the Sabbath was unimportant? Certainly not! On the contrary, the apostles sacredly kept the Sabbath day, as they had done with their Master. Even the apostle Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, religiously kept the Sabbath day. It was His custom to worship God on the Sabbath day. It was not just because the Jews were in the synagogue on that day; but even when there was no synagogue, Paul went outside the city and worshipped God by the river. We have eighty-four recorded times of Paul keeping the Sabbath, and not one instance of him keeping Sunday. Paul was accused of many things, but never once was he accused of breaking the Sabbath. Why? Because he kept the Sabbath according to the commandment, the way that Jesus had taught His followers to keep it. Was the Sabbath still significant to the early church? Undoubtedly. Was it still to be kept by the Gentiles?

Isaiah 56:2, 4-7  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil… For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose what pleases Me, and hold fast My covenant, even to them I will give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant—even them I will bring to My holy mountain.”

The one commandment that man wants to say is for the Jews only is the only commandment that God has specifically stated is for the strangers as well. The Jews only kept the Sabbath because they were God’s people. When Gentiles joined themselves to God’s people, they likewise kept the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the mark or the seal that shows that we truly love God and that we want to follow Him all of the way. Even the beloved John was keeping the Sabbath over fifty years after Jesus death in AD 96.

Revelation 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet.

Mark 2:27, 28 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

The Lord’s Day, as Jesus explained in Mark, is the Sabbath. The Lord’s Day is not Sunday. Nowhere in the Bible is it referred to as such. The Sabbath is the day that especially belongs to the Lord. It is the Sabbath that Jesus made; and because He is the Lord of it, He is asking all of His people to keep it.

The Sabbath in the Earth Made New

Isaiah 66:22, 23  “For as the new heavens and the new earth which I shall make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendents and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

All of the patriarchs kept the Sabbath. All of the prophets kept the Sabbath. Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath every week. All of the apostles kept the Sabbath. The church throughout the Bible kept the Sabbath, and God’s Word has even prophesied that we will be keeping the Sabbath in heaven. If the Sabbath was kept before paradise was lost and it will be kept in paradise restored, do you think that we should be keeping the Sabbath now? This is exactly what the Lord is asking of us today because the Sabbath is God’s special sign or seal of protection.

The Seal of the Living God

Isaiah 8:16  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Ezekiel 20:12, 20  Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them… Hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

Romans 4:11  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,

God’s Word declares that the Sabbath is the sign that we are God’s people. Then, as can be seen from Romans 4:11, sign and seal are used interchangeably in the Bible. The Sabbath is the sign, or it is the seal, that we are God’s people. The keeping of the Sabbath is the seal of the Living God. If we desire to be shielded from the terrors of the last days, we must be keeping God’s holy, seventh-day Sabbath.

With any law, what gives it force, is the fact that it is sealed. A law does not go into effect until the president has signed it. The signing or the sealing of the law is what makes the entire law binding. Without the sign or seal, the law is merely another piece of paper in the stack. With the Presidential seal, as with any seal, there are three essential characteristics—the name, the title, and the dominion. The name states who is making the law, the title gives the authority for making the law, and the dominion states where the law is in effect. Without these three essential elements, a law is meaningless. God’s Word states that God’s Law also is sealed. What is the seal in God’s Law? What is the only commandment that has all three essential elements in a seal? The Sabbath commandment is the only commandment in the entire Law that contains the elements of a seal. In the fourth commandment is seen the name: “the Lord your God”. The Lord’s title is given: “the Lord made”— He is the Creator, the Maker, and that is His authority and why He can give the Law. The Lord’s dominion is also given: “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them”. (Exodus 20:10, 11) The Sabbath commandment is the only commandment that contains the seal of the Living God. If the seal is removed, the Ten Commandments become a meaningless document. This is why there is nearly universal disregard of God’s Great Law of Love today, because ministers have taken away God’s seal from the Law; and without God’s seal, the entire Law sinks into insignificance. If we are going to receive God’s seal, if we are going to be saved from the coming destruction, if we are going to refuse the mark of the beast, we must be keeping God’s seventh-day Sabbath.

Do You Love Me?

When I was first confronted with this subject, I resisted. I felt that there was no way that the entire world could be wrong. There was no way that the church I loved could be so misled. I knew that it was a deception from the devil. I still remember kneeling down and praying beside my desk, Lord show me the truth. I knew that I was right and that those presenting this were absolutely mistaken; but as I continued to study, my eyes began to open. Although I had been certain that this was wrong, as I opened the Scriptures and began to investigate, I saw that the Sabbath had never been changed. I saw that it was actually man who changed the day of worship (this will be fully covered in another session). I saw that the Lord is asking us to keep His holy day, just as He asked His people thirty-five hundred years ago. I saw that if I truly loved the Lord, I had to obey Him. I urge you to search this out for yourself. You will be no worse for investigating the Scriptures to see whether these things are so. Jesus is standing at the door of our hearts tonight saying, “Do you love Me? Do you love Me enough to keep My Law? Do you love me enough to keep My day holy?” What will be your answer?

John 14:15  If you love Me, keep My commandments.