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The European Union in Prophecy
aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." It is not the wicked world, but those
whom the Lord designates as "my people," that are to be reproved for their
transgressions. He declares further: "Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My
ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God."
Isaiah 58:1, 2. Here is brought to view a class who think themselves righteous and
appear to manifest great interest in the service of God; but the stern and solemn
rebuke of the Searcher of hearts proves them to be trampling upon the divine precepts.
The prophet thus points out the ordinance which has been forsaken: "Thou shalt
raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer
of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the
Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the
holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight
thyself in the Lord." Verses 12-14. This prophecy also applies in our time. The breach
was made in the law of God when the Sabbath was changed by the Roman power. But
the time has come for that divine institution to be restored. The breach is to be
repaired and the foundation of many generations to be raised up.
Hallowed by the Creator's rest and blessing, the Sabbath was kept by Adam in
his innocence in holy Eden; by Adam, fallen yet repentant, when he was driven from
his happy estate. It was kept by all the patriarchs, from Abel to righteous Noah, to
Abraham, to Jacob. When the chosen people were in bondage in Egypt, many, in the
midst of prevailing idolatry, lost their knowledge of God's law; but when the Lord
delivered Israel, He proclaimed His law in awful grandeur to the assembled multitude,
that they might know His will and fear and obey Him forever.
From that day to the present the knowledge of God's law has been preserved in
the earth, and the Sabbath of the fourth commandment has been kept. Though the
"man of sin" succeeded in trampling underfoot God's holy day, yet even in the period
of his supremacy there were, hidden in secret places, faithful souls who paid it honour.
Since the Reformation, there have been some in every generation to maintain its
observance. Though often in the midst of reproach and persecution, a constant
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