Memorial For All Time.

 The Sabbath - created by God as a memorial for all time - even if we had NOT sinned. The Sabbath was created before mankind sinned. Think about that for a moment, a long moment. The Sabbath was to forever be recognition of creation, and by that a recognition of our Creator. Our Creator MADE the heavens, our Creator made the earth, our Creator made all of Creation that surrounds us, and when He originally made it- nothing was made with any deadly attributes, not a single thing. Sin's evil degraded so many, many things. The instantaneous result of sin was felt through the entire earth, nothing was left untouched by sin's evil, nothing. When people point out the evil results of sin and blame God they ignore the fact completely that Satan instigated the evil into the world and that altered everything. We don't think about the sheer reality of sins evil. When we lost our covering of Christ's righteousness, the light of His glory our very clothing, we realized our nakedness. All creation lost its covering of Christ's righteousness and all of creation was suddenly naked in sin's result. The lion was never to have the teeth of a predator, to rip and tear flesh from other animals. Those teeth of death were the result of sin. The poison in the venom of bees, snakes, frogs and so on-- did NOT exist before sin. Do you understand the reality of sin's evil? 

The Sabbath given before man sinned, continued after man sinned. The Sabbath was instituted into the royal law- the ten commandments because it is truly so important we are NEVER to forget it, never.  

Read the following excerpt and by the grace of God through the power of the Holy Spirit, by the righteousness and love of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, may we comprehend the truth of our need for the Sabbath forever!

EXCERPT EJ Waggoner-

'Since the Sabbath is a memorial of God's wonderful work of creation, and is given that we may know that He is God, therefore the Sabbath is given that we may know God as a rewarder, for He is not anything else but a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. this is conclusively proved in Ezekiel 20:12. "Moreover I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them."

Then the object of giving the Sabbath to man was that he might know that that God who gave it was a God that sanctifies him. That idea of sanctification is the one we want to make prominent in this connection.

It may be objected that the Sabbath was given before the fall of man, so that at the time it was given he was sanctified and therefore did not need Christ to save him from sin. Adam was placed in the garden of Eden by the Lord. He lived in spotless purity, but he could keep that purity only by faith in God. It was the power of God that kept him. Adam did not live in himself. Yes, he did at last--and he fell. But just so long as he was kept from falling, it was by the power of God and the Word of God. Then he needed the power of God to keep him from falling, as he did afterwards, when he had fallen, to save him from the sins which he had committed and to keep him from committing others.

We make the same mistake regarding the time after probation is closed. We think that because there will be no mediator then, that we stand in our own strength. There will come a time when there will be no mediator, but those who stand at that time will not stand in their own strength, but in the power of Christ that will keep us at that time, because we will be without sin, we shall need no mediator, but we shall need a Saviour every moment. Christ is the one "who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 1:8.

 Adam had never fallen, the Sabbath would have been there, as the memorial of the power of God to keep him from falling from the position and place in which God had made him.

 That is just exactly what the Sabbath is for now. It is to prove to us that God is our sanctification and that He puts His righteousness on us and in us by the same word by which He made the heavens and the earth.

Then the Sabbath is for the purpose that we may meditate upon the power of God and to remember that that same power which made the earth is the power that keeps us from sin unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.