Grace Point! June 2015 | Page 9

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) God