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The Time of Sabbath Restoration – Introduction
IN THE STUDY OF GOD’S WORD we become aware of God’s patience with humanity as we come out of ignorance into His wonderful truth.
The words of Jesus bear witness to this in John 16:12: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
The Apostle Paul also addresses this in the words of Acts 17:30: “And the times of this ignorance God winked at”.
Indeed, God patiently waits for us to become enlightened. However, by His Holy Spirit, God works to bring us out of our ignorance, as Jesus said: “When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.” (John 16:13).
When this takes place, then the remaining words of Acts 17:30 apply: “But now commandeth all men every where to repent.”
As we come to the time of the end, humanity is brought to testing times to determine whether they will submit to the “restitution of all things” cited in Acts 3:21.
Among these things is the restoration of the seventh-day Sabbath, which God, in Isaiah 58:13, calls “my holy day”.
In this lesson we are studying closely the time when the Sabbath test comes for the people of God by which they will be sealed to constitute the 144,000 and stand in resistance to the mark of the beast which is being enforced during the time of the end.
There are many who fail to see that the messages of the three angels of Revelation 14 and of the other angel of Revelation 18 constitute the testing of the Sabbath for all humanity. So this section of the lesson will clarify what is meant in the following quote:
“Thus the substance of the second angel’s message is again given to the world by that other angel who lightens the earth with his glory. These messages all blend in one, to come before the people in the closing days of this earth’s history. All the world will be tested, and all that have been in the darkness of error in regard to the Sabbath of the fourth commandment will understand the last message of mercy that is to be given to men.” —Selected Messages Book 2, p. 116.
May God grant us understanding to be used in His hands to communicate this testing truth to the people of God in Babylon.