A Journey to
When God put this whole thing together, He
set it up with a ‘clause in our contract’-to
put it in today’s legal terminology He told us
to work during the six days, and rest on the
seventh. (Ex. 20:9, Deut. 5:13)
It is a sign between me and the children of
Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day he rested, and was refreshed.
(Ex. 31:17)
So, what happened to Israel when they did
not give the Lord His sabbaths?
He took into exile in Babylon those [of
Israel]...to fulfill the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had
enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay
desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy
years. (2 Chron. 36:20-21)
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