约翰福音 17:17
求你用你的真理使他们成圣。你的话语就是真理。
God’s word is truth.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Keep the truth as your very own, and don’t give it up.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
God (Jesus) does not change.
Psalm 89:34
My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My mouth.
God will not break his covenant (law).
Exodus 31:18
And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
The commandments were written with the finger of God.
Matthew 5:17,18
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
Jesus came to fulfill, not change, God’s law.
创世记 2:1-3
天地万物都造齐了。到第七日,神造物的工已经完毕,就在第七日歇了他一切的工,安息了。神赐福给第七日,定为圣日,因为在这日神歇了他一切创造的工,就安息了。
The Sabbath was hallowed, sanctified (made holy) and blessed in Eden.
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.
Jesus kept 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. Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.
Paul kept the Sabbath.
Acts 20:28-31
Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
It was predicted that apostasy would come into the early Christian church.
Daniel 8:12
Because of transgression, an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prospered.
The Truth is cast to the ground (disregarded, or distained).
但以理书 7:25
他必向至高者说夸大的话,必折磨至高者的圣民,必想改变节期和律法。圣民必交付他手中一载、二载、半载。
An attempt is made to change God’s law.
Isaiah 8:16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
The law was sealed (protected, maintained) among God’s disciples (true followers).
出埃及记 20:8-11
当记念安息日,守为圣日。六日要劳碌作你一切的工,但第七日是向耶和华你神当守的安息日。这一日你和你的儿女、仆婢、牲畜,并你城里寄居的客旅,无论何工都不可作。因为六日之内,耶和华造天、地、海,和其中的万物,第七日便安息。所以耶和华赐福与安息日,定为圣日。
The Sabbath contains the three elements of heaven’s official Royal Seal: God’s name (the Lord), His title (Creator), and His territory (the heavens, the earth and the sea).
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.
God’s people will receive the seal of the Sabbath before the end.
Revelation 14:7,12
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.
God’s last message calls us to worship the Creator and keep God’s commandments.