Gods Sabbath

K ADESH B ARNEA

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The Great Commission

“Therefore go and make dis ciples of all nations, baptiz ing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching

them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19, 20.

etc.

Where? When?

In what capacity?

on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” Genesis 2:3. The Roman Catholic church declares her willingness to accept and follow God’s general order to worship Jehovah on one day in seven, but then usurps His right to designate which day it will be. So bold has she become in her confident assumption that God is pleased with her actions, that her representative writers have actually stated that although the church accepts God’s general orders she has changed the details. “It is to be noted that the Church did not change the divine law obliging men to worship, but merely changed the day on which such public worship was to be offered.” The Faith of Mil lions , 543, by John A. O’Brien, London, W. H. Allen, 1962. Whereas God has designated the seventh day as the day of worship, the Roman Catholic church has instead selected Sun day, the first day of the week. Accordingly she professes to follow God’s general orders, but in fact usurps His authority and re sponsibility. Satan is exceedingly pleased with this arrangement and prefers it far above one in which people openly reject both God’s general and specific orders. There are millions in this cat egory of rejecters, but they are not the ones whom the enemy us es most effectively, for he is intent on building a counterfeit of God’s kingdom in which he will be the plan maker in place of the true Head. To do this, he must persuade those who serve him