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Have you discovered this in your own life? The lives of these last-day Christians show that, in Christ, it’s possible to love God with all our hearts and our fellow human beings as ourselves. These qualities, love for God and love for people, sum up God’s Ten Commandments (Matthew 22:35-40). The fourth of those commandments asks us to observe Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the Sabbath. Since a love for Jesus has imbedded all ten of the commandments in their hearts, these last-day Christians are Sabbath-keepers. The devil has tried in various ways to chip the fourth of the Ten Commandments out of the tables of stone on which God wrote them, but he hasn’t been able to remove them from the hearts of faithful believers.
All the resources of heaven are arrayed behind the last-day Christians described in these chapters. They may seem to be rather isolated in the world, but their prayers call an army of heavenly angels to their side, a living Saviour is their constant companion, and the Holy Spirit works to “strengthen them with power in the inner man.” The promise is sure. They will overcome Satan “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11). Do you wish to be one of these last-day Christians who “obey God’s commandments” and “hold to the testimony of Jesus”? Why not make that decision just now.
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God
does have a last-day movement that leads men and women back to obedience
to His commandments—one that calls His people back to allegiance
to Him. The Sabbath is the symbol that God is both Creator and Lord of
this world and of each of our lives. And the Sabbath is at the heart of
God’s final appeal to His people in Revelation, chapters 12 to 14.
