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Exodus 31:13 calls the Sabbath God's sign. The word sign in this verse is Strong's H226.
The KJV translates Strong's H226 in the following manner: sign(s) (60x), token(s) (14x), ensign(s) (2x), miracles (2x), mark (1x).The central issue that decides whether you receive the mark of the beast or the Seal of God is worship. We can see this repeatedly in Revelation.
אוֹת ʼôwth, oth; probably from H225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.
- sign, signal
- a distinguishing mark
- banner
- remembrance
- miraculous sign
- omen
- warning
- token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof
Knowing this, detail is important. Are we worshiping God as He specified? This is the key issue of the end time that determines whether we receive the mark of the beast or the Seal of God.
Notice that the mark of the beast can be received in the forehead or in the hand.
By contrast, the Seal of God can only be received in the forehead.
- Worship by choice (conscientious thought).
- Worship by action (going along with it, even if you don't believe it).
And you can't separate the Sabbath from the end time, nor the new heaven and new earth. Notice: Not "rest in Jesus", not Sunday, but God's seventh day Sabbath.
- Worship by choice (conscientious thought).
- Notice that you can't "go along" with Christianity. Scripture makes that clear.
- Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
- Revelation 3:15-16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
- Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
It makes no sense that, if the Sabbath is still a binding commandment during the great tribulation and if the Sabbath is observed in the afterlife, that somehow the Sabbath is irrelevant in-between. Jesus made it a point to mention the Sabbath and link His Seal (God, the creator, who made the heaven and the earth) in the verses of Revelation 14:7, Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11. It is quite deliberate that the same phrase shows up in all of these verses, pointing to creation; it's giving emphasis to the Sabbath.
- Matthew 24:20-21 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.Just what is the broad way and what is the narrow way? Is it a worship issue as Revelation says? I think so. Just what worship issue is narrow? Could it be the Sabbath? Could Sunday be the broad way that Jesus was speaking of?
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High [Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus], and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
You are bypassing a clear passage that states God sends angels to place His seal(not mark) on the forehead. There is a reason why it is translated like that.
In the haste to make a text say something, the SDA has added to the book of Revelation by saying God's seal is a mark.
While the beast allows his mark to be placed on either the hand or forehead, God's is only placed on the forehead.
If the literal day Sabbath(Saturday as you would call it) were the mark, then anyone who chose to worship on that day could be said to be placing the seal on themselves.
We know this is not true by simply reading the passage. No matter how you twist it, you cannot make it say the seal is Sabbath (Saturday) worship.
Instead, maybe if you stepped back, you would see that God's Children, who have entered into God's rest, who have the only 'seal' spoken of in the New Testament - the Spirit - those are the ones who have had the seal of God placed on them.
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