WHEN GOD BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED THE SEVENTH DAY CREATION WEEK IT REMAINED BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED FROM THAT DAY FORWARD. IT MATTERS NOT THAT THERE IS NO RECORD THAT ENOCH, OR NOAH, OR ABRAHAM, ISAAC OR JACOB HONORED THE SEVENTH DAY AND KEPT IT HOLY. IT WAS HOLY TIME NONETHELESS. THERE IS NO RECORD ENOCH EVER UTTERED A PRAYER. ARE WE TO THEREFORE CONCLUDE HE DID NOT? IN GENESIS 6:12 WE READ, “AND GOD LOOKED UPON THE EARTH, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS CORRUPT; FOR ALL FLESH HAD CORRUPTED HIS WAY UPON THE EARTH.” THERE WAS NO KEEPING OF GOD’S SABBATH. HIS BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED DAY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AS SURELY AS HIS NAME HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN, CAUSING MOSES TO ASK GOD CENTURIES LATER, “WHEN I COME UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SHALL SAY UNTO THEM, ‘THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS HATH SENT ME UNTO YOU,’ AND THEY SHALL SAY TO ME, ‘WHAT IS HIS NAME?’ WHAT SHALL I SAY UNTO THEM?” (SEE EXODUS 3:13).
BUT DON’T OVERLOOK THE RELATIONSHIP ABRAHAM HAD WITH GOD, FOR GOD APPEARED TO ISAAC AND INFORMED HIM THAT “ABRAHAM OBEYED MY VOICE, AND KEPT MY CHARGE, MY COMMANDMENTS, MY STATUTES, AND MY LAWS.” AND THIS WAS MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS PRIOR TO MOSES’ TIME. (SEE GENESIS 26:1-5). ARE WE TO ASSUME ABRAHAM WAS NOT COMMANDED TO REMEMBER GOD’S SABBATH, A TIME IN WHICH HE COULD REST FROM HIS LABORS AND HAVE SWEET COMMUNION WITH GOD? THINK ON THESE THINGS, FRIEND, AND MAY THE LORD GIVE YOU LIGHT AND LIBERTY TO SEE AND BELIEVE.
CHRIST’S FAITHFUL SERVANT (GALATIANS 1:10-12),
DONALD WILEY