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1. Why I Wrote This Book

July 16, 2020 Sydney Cleveland Books, Feature, White Washed

I was a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist. Ellen White was as much a part of my childhood training as was the Bible. During my sixteen years of education in SDA schools […]

27. Sunday-Keeping is Not the Mark of the Beast

July 8, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

“Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast.”—The Marvel of Nations, by U. Smith (page 183). “The seal of God is his holy Sabbath.”—Thoughts on Revelation (page 452). […]

26. The Pope and the Sabbath

July 2, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

By constantly crying in the ears of the people: “Sunday is a heathen day; and all who observe it keep ‘the venerable day of the sun’” “The bishop of […]

25. How the Lord’s Day Should be Observed

June 25, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, General, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

Since the rigorous, severe Sabbatical character of the Jewish Sabbath does not belong to the memorial day of the gospel, some have gone to the opposite extreme, […]

24. The Lord’s Day Prefigured in the Old Testament

June 18, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

The great memorial day of the gospel seems to have been clearly prefigured in the law of shadows. The Feast of Harvest. “Speak unto the children of Israel, and […]

23. Why Christians Keep the Lord’s Day

June 11, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

With the exception of a few small sects, Christians universally regard Sunday as a sacred day. This has been true down through the centuries from the days of the […]

22. First Day Observance

June 4, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

Adventists are continually crying, “Sunday is the pope’s day.” They tell the people that it was the pope who started the observance of the first day of the week; […]

21. The Great Memorial Day of the Gospel

May 28, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

There is nothing in the events of Saturday—the seventh day—to inspire a Christian under the gospel. Christ was in the tomb. A guard of Roman soldiers were carefully watching […]

20. The Lord’s Day

May 21, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

While John was on the Isle of Patmos he testified, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day” (Rev. 1:10). This is the first place in the Bible […]

19. The Old and New Sabbaths Contrasted

May 14, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

The shadowy Sabbath was the observance of every seventh day. “The seventh day is the Sabbath” (Exod. 20:10). The new-covenant Sabbath is not the observance of this particular day. “One […]

18. The Gospel Rest

May 7, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

“Sabbath” means “rest.” Sabbatarians admit this. Hear Uriah Smith (leading Adventist), “The word ‘sabbath’ means ‘rest.’ That is the one sole idea it conveys, first, last, and all the […]

17. The Christian’s Law

April 30, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Law of God, The Sabbath

Sabbatarians are constantly crying, “We must keep God’s commandments.” This is true. But where they err is in applying the term “commandments” exclusively to the ten written on stone. […]

16. The Law of Christ

April 23, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Law of God, The Sabbath

“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). “Jesus the mediator of the new covenant testament, margin “ (Heb. 12:24). […]

15. The New Covenant

April 16, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

“Behold, I make all things new.” This is the message of the gospel. Christ came to inaugurate a new creation, an entire new order of things. The seers of […]

14. The Jewish Sabbath Abolished

April 9, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.…Let […]