JEWS AND ADVENTISTS KEEP PAGAN SATURDAY

Can people which don’t believe in God explain his Creation? Creation is a revelation before it is anything else. The world is not simply matter arranged by forces; it is meaning arranged by a Mind. Scripture does not begin with physics, nor with chemistry, nor with astronomy. Scripture begins with a declaration that frames everything that follows: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” This is not simply the origin of matter. It is the origin of order, purpose and intention. The heavens are not silent structures drifting through space. They are appointed, assigned and governed by divine decree. They exist because God willed them into being, and they function according to His design. Because of this, creation cannot be understood apart from its Creator. To interpret the work, one must know the Artist. To interpret the signs, one must know the Author. To interpret the calendar, one must know the Lawgiver. Without belief in God, the interpreter stands outside the gramm...

THE HEAVENS KEEP THE SABBATH Time is the first creation that reveals the mind and order of the Creator because it is the one dimension which humanity can neither command nor reshape. The mountains can be carved, the rivers dammed, the air manipulated by machines, yet time proceeds independently from all human will. It does not pause for kings, slow for armies or bend for empires. It is the single element of existence that remains entirely under the dominion of the Creator. For this reason the Sabbath cannot be a tradition, a preference, a cultural inheritance or a product of religious evolution. The Sabbath is not written first in commandments or liturgy. The Sabbath is written into the heavens. When Scripture begins with the pattern evening then morning, one day, it is describing a structure as ancient and unchanging as the lights in the firmament. The biblical day begins at Erev, not at midnight. Midnight is a civil invention, the arbitrary zero point of a man-made device called a cl...