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evidence of His creative power. "All the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord
made the heavens." Psalm 96:5. "To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things." "Thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the
earth and made it: . . . I am the Lord; and there is none else." Isaiah 40:25, 26; 45:18.
Says the psalmist: "Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us, and
not we ourselves." "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker." Psalms 100:3; 95:6. And the holy beings who worship God in heaven state,
as the reason why their homage is due to Him: "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things." Revelation 4:11.
In Revelation 14, men are called upon to worship the Creator; and the prophecy
brings to view a class that, as the result of the threefold message, are keeping the
commandments of God. One of these commandments points directly to God as the
Creator. The fourth precept declares: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God: . . . for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and
hallowed it." Exodus 20:10, 11. Concerning the Sabbath, the Lord says, further, that
it is "a sign, . . . that ye may know that I am the Lord your God." Ezekiel 20:20. And
the reason given is: "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day He rested, and was refreshed." Exodus 31:17.
"The importance of the Sabbath as the memorial of creation is that it keeps ever
present the true reason why worship is due to God"--because He is the Creator, and
we are His creatures. "The Sabbath therefore lies at the very foundation of divine
worship, for it teaches this great truth in the most impressive manner, and no other
institution does this. The true ground of divine worship, not of that on the seventh
day merely, but of all worship, is found in the distinction between the Creator and
His creatures. This great fact can never become obsolete, and must never be
forgotten."--J. N. Andrews, History of the Sabbath, chapter 27. It was to keep this
truth ever before the minds of men, that God instituted the Sabbath in Eden; and so
long as the fact that He is our Creator continues to be a reason why we should worship
Him, so long the Sabbath will continue as its sign and memorial. Had the Sabbath
been universally kept, man's thoughts and affections would have been led to the
Creator as the object of reverence and worship, and there would never have been an
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