5-17-2020 Weekly Message Meditation of the week: Psalms 91: 1-16 Text: Exodus 20: 8-11 Word Title: The Sabbaths are the sign of Christ’s Millennial Kingdom
Jews still observe the Sabbath from Friday evening to Saturday evening. Churches of God also call the first day of the week (Sunday) the Lord’s Day, and consider this day as the Sabbath to be one of the most important thing of faith. Also, the believers in Seventh Adventist church insist that worship service on Saturday is the way to observe the Sabbath.
Through this week’s message, let us understand the will of God who gave the Sabbath searching the scriptures in detail about what God’s will appears in the fourth commandment of the Sabbath given unto the Israelites through Moses.
Then, when we realize through the Bible why God blessed and sanctified the seventh day, and what kind blessing God gave as well as how much sanctified that day, we are able to rejoice greatly in the hope of blessing.
In God’s own words, we can see that the Sabbath is not a day of rest
for man, but God himself. In addition, we can see that God blessed the seventh day, as He said in the Ten Commandments, because it is the day of rest God Himself.
Then, if wetry to find when God is to rest, we are able to know when that day shall come to pass. In order to find out that day, we have to look closely into the words of God.
God rested on the seventh day after creating all things, but God has not rested ever since the old serpent, Satan
that is the Devil brought sin into the Garden of Eden. He created all things as well as man in his own image and his likeness, but because Satan, the Devil devastates all things as well as men, God cannot rest to work to destroy Satan the Devil, who brought sin, death, and cursing to the world. He is working until now without resting.
God called Moses and gave the Israelites the commandment of Sabbathday, so that the Israelites may keep the commandment of Sabbath for them to rest on seventh day to look forward the blessing and sanctification in the final resting day of God after he destroy the Devil.
By the way, there is something we should definitely know
This is the fact that Gentiles or Christians in the Church of God must know. It is the fact that God gave the Sabbaths to the Israelites as a sign between God and them. It was never given to the Seventh Adventist church. And the Sabbaths that were given to them are that God will make the people of Israel as the holy people when the Sabbath day of God come to the earth .
God judged the Israelites committing the Sabbath day so cruelly with human thoughts. Such a cruel judgment of God against a man who broke the law of Sabbath day gave a great warning to the Israelites not to lose the most blessing on the earth prepared for them to be forsaken from the holy nation. This is an example how God judged against a man not observed the Sabbath Day:
Because the Israelites had not kept the Sabbath year for 490 years, God had moved them to the land of Babylon as captivity to make the land rest for 70 years.
But who could say that the Sabbath is observed? Can we say that the believers in the Seventh Adventist church keep the Sabbath by worshiping on Saturday and doing all their daily work? Can we also say that all Protestant believers only worship on Sunday to keep the Sabbath? The resurrected Jesus appeared to Apostle John and spoke of self-proclaimed Jew. Jesus spoke about them insisting that they received the commandment of Sabbath not as Jews, and also about them claiming themselves as 14400 in the book of Revelation:
Apostle Paul testifies in the book of Hebrews of God’s Sabbath that the Israelites are going to enter in the future, that is, on the seventh thousand years as day of the seventh day in the God’s time, that is the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ:
Apostle Paul testifies that in the future, the remnant of Israel shall enter into His Millennial Kingdom by the guidance of Jesus Christ, not Joshua. The Millennium Kingdom is the day when Jesus Christ returns and cast Satan into the bottomless pit before the seventh millennium. In addition, Christians who believe in the gospel of Christ and are born again with the Holy Spirit now are resting in the spiritual kingdom of God, resting from their own work, and enter eternal resting with righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
The Bible testifies that when the Millennium of Jesus Christ comes, the resurrected David shall be the king of the Israelites, and the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ shall rule over the twelve tribes of Israel: and the bride of Christ shall come back to the earth with the Christ to rule the gentiles with his, as the bile testifies:
Those who forsake the only Christ Jesus to join with WCC, WEA, and NCCK today are denying the Christ Jesus. They shall be denied by the Christ to be cast into the Hell. However, Christians who have kept their faith to the end, like Apostle Paul, shall enjoy the blessings of reigning in ten or five cities according to as much as they worked for Christ on the day of His Millennial Kingdom, as the Lord said in the parable of Pound in the book of Luke 19.
Apostle Paul testified of the glory that faithful Christians who were in persecution in Rome at that time would receive in the kingdom of Christ: