While the worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their regard for the fourth commandment,-since this is the sign of His creative power and the witness to His claim upon mans reverence and homage,-the worshipers of the beast will be distinguished by their efforts to tear down the Creators memorial, to exalt the institution of Rome. It was in behalf of the Sunday that popery first asserted its arrogant claims (see Appendix); and its first resort to the power of the state was to compel the observance of Sunday as the Lords day. But the Bible points to the seventh day, and not to the first, as the Lords day. Said Christ: The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath. The fourth commandment declares: The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. And by the prophet Isaiah the Lord designates it: My holy day. Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13. - {GC 446.3} The claim so often put forth that Christ changed the Sabbath is disproved by His own words. In His Sermon on the Mount He said: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 5:17-19. - {GC 447.1}
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