What is the meaning of the word "Sabbath"?
Answer
Rest.
NOTE - Previous to the fall, God designed that man's time should be occupied with pleasant,
invigorating, but not wearisome labor. Gen. 2:15. Laborious, wearisome toll came in consequence of sin.
Gen. 3:17-19. While under the fall the Sabbath, therefore, may bring physical rest to both man and the
beasts of burden (Ex. 23:12) in a way not originally intended, physical rest was not its original and primary
design or purpose. Cessation from the ordinary labors and occupations of the week was ordained, not
because these are wrong or sinful in themselves, but that man might have an appointed time and a
frequently recurring period for the contemplation of the Creator and His works. Under the gospel, the
Sabbath is a sign of spiritual rest and freedom from sin. So we read, "For he that is entered into His rest, he
also bath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." Heb. 4:10.
In what other way is God's love sometimes shown?
Why were many attracted to Christ?
What were some of the results of the preaching of the gospel under the outpouring of the Spirit?
11. Where did the apostle see this same company a little later, and what did they have in their foreheads?
How is the conflict between Christ and Satan described?
17. What great contrast will be seen between the present body and the one to be put on in the resurrection?
Why are its gates not to be closed?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle