."(761)

These words apply in the Christian age, as shown by the context: "The Lord
God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others
to him, beside those that are gathered unto him."(762) Here is
foreshadowed the gathering in of the Gentiles by the gospel. And upon
those who then honor the Sabbath, a blessing is pronounced. Thus the
obligation of the fourth commandment extends past the crucifixion,
resurrection, and ascension of Christ, to the time when His servants
should preach to all nations the message of glad tidings.

The Lord commands by the same prophet, "Bind up the testimony, seal the
law among My disciples."(763) The seal of God's law is found in the fourth
commandment. This only, of all the ten, brings to view both the name and
the title of the Lawgiver. It declares Him to be the Creator of the
heavens and the earth, and thus shows His claim to reverence and worship
above all others. Aside from this precept, there is nothing in the
decalogue to show by whose authority the law is given. When the Sabbath
was changed by the papal power, the seal was taken from the law. The
disciples of Jesus are called upon to restore it, by exalting the Sabbath
of the fourth commandment to its rightful position as the Creator's
memorial and the sign of His authority.

"To the law and to the testimony." While conflicting doctrines and
theories abound, the law of God is the one unerring rule by which all
opinions, doctrines, and theories are to be tested. Says the prophet, "If
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them."(764)

Again, the command is given, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like
a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sins." It is not the wicked world, but those whom the Lord
designates as "My people," that are to be reproved for their
transgressions. He declares further, "Yet they seek Me daily, and delight
to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the
ordinance of their God."(765) Here is brought to view a class who think
themselves righteous, and appear to manifest great interest in the service
of God; but the stern and solemn rebuke of the Searcher of hearts proves
them to be trampling upon the divine precepts.

The prophet thus points out the ordinance which has been forsaken: "Thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
called, The repaire