Dec 15, 2011

[WMSCOG] The Sabbath and God’s Salvation 1


WorldMission Society Church of God worships on Saturday. Why? ElohimGod rested on the seventh day after Their creating work and commanded God’s people to keep the Sabbath (the seventh day) holy. Then which day is the seventh day? That is Saturday!! God’s people must keep the Sabbath because that is God’s command and God promised the salvation on that. So Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother came to the earth in this age to restored the Sabbath which disappeared by Satan. Today only WorldMission Society Church of God keeps the Sabbath perfectly. Come WMSCOG, and let’s keep the Sabbath to enter the kingdom of heaven.  



If we look around us, there are truly precious things. However, as we always come in contact with those things, we often forget their importance and neglect them. It is the same with the Sabbath among the many truths which God has taught us.

When God created all things in the beginning, He worked for six days and rested from all His work on the seventh day, and He especially made the seventh day holy. 3,500 years ago, when God declared the law, He personally wrote the words, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy," on the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. It is not too much to say that the Sabbath is closely related to salvation and it is an absolutely essential part of our salvation.

Nevertheless, many people today do not keep the Sabbath, neither knowing the will of God nor understanding the way of salvation God provides. This is the age of prophecy when God's judgment is near and the kingdom of heaven is also close at hand, just as Jesus said, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." Thinking of the kingdom of God, let's take some time to carefully study the Biblical teachings about the Sabbath.

It is only when we obey God's word that we can enter the kingdom of heaven

We should obey and preach everything God has taught us-from the smallest things to the greatest. It is because every word of God is related to our salvation.

1Pe. 1:8~9 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

The Bible tells us that the goal of our faith is the salvation of our souls. Among many things God has taught us in regard to salvation, there is the Sabbath.

Heb. 3:18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?

Here, obedience refers to "obedience to God's word." Through the Bible, God makes us fully realize the fact that those who do not obey God's word cannot enter eternal rest God has prepared-the kingdom of heaven-in the end.

Ps. 3:7~8 Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked. From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people. Selah

Salvation only comes from God. So if we do not obey the word of God who is the source of salvation and has control over our salvation, it is no different than giving up our salvation. God has already made known to us His purpose and plan for our salvation through the Bible.

If we truly look for salvation and hope for heaven, we must follow God's word. That's why the Bible tells us not to add to or subtract from the words of the Bible which is able to make us wise for salvation (2Ti. 3:15; Rev. 22:18~19).


The "Sabbath," a command of God

First, let's consider how God relates the Sabbath, one of His commands, to our salvation. At the time of Moses, 3,500 years ago, God declared the Sabbath as the fourth commandment of the Ten Commandments.

Ex. 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy."

God personally wrote these words on the tablets of stone. Those who do not obey these words cannot enter God's rest, the eternal kingdom of heaven.

We can confirm this fact through Hebrews 3. Every word of God is for our salvation. So we must not forget that God's teaching about the Sabbath is also absolutely related to our salvation.

This Sabbath becomes a sign of the "rest of the woman's offspring" when God finds them (Rev. 12:17; 14:12; Eze. 20:12). When God confirms whether someone is His real child or not, He will separate him from His children if he does not have the spiritual DNA called the"Sabbath," even though he apparently looks like a Christian.

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy." This is not merely a law, but it is the command of God our Father and the request of God our Mother, our Elohim who want everything to go well for us, Their heavenly children. We must obey the words of our Heavenly Parents, as Their children. Another thing we have to consider carefully is that the Sabbath was already established even before the Age of the Law-from the beginning of the world.

Ge. 2:1~3 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

The Biblical Sabbath is the seventh day, which corresponds to Saturday. To those who commemorate the power of the Creator and believe in Elohim the Creators, the Sabbath established by God is a very important and meaningful day. As a country's national holiday is important to its people but it is just an ordinary day to people in other countries, so the Sabbath is a truly precious day to God's children but it is meaningless to people who are not God's children.

Thus, the Sabbath serves as a sign to clearly distinguish between the people of God and those who are not.

Dt. 5:9~15 "... Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day."

The Sabbath is a command of God. To lead human beings to the way of salvation, God has given them the Sabbath, a blessed day. So Jesus kept the Sabbath as a holy law, and Jesus' disciples and their disciples also kept the Sabbath, considering it as an important part of their life of faith. We can see this history of the early Church in the Bible (Lk. 4:16; Ac. 16:13; 17:2; 18:4).

About the Sabbath, I recommend this video. "What Day of the Week Is the Sabbath in the Bible?"
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