Sabbath Reflections: Embracing the Sacred Gift of Sabbath: Weekly Devotions Through Year

Before there was a nation, a priest, or a single commandment written down, God made a day.He finished His work, He blessed the seventh day, and He made it holy. Then He sat down in the world He had made and spent the first full day of the first man's life with him.Everything the Bible says about the Sabbath grows from that root. When Leviticus sets out the calendar of the Lord's appointed times, the weekly Sabbath is written first, ahead of Passover and Pentecost and Tabernacles. When the Voice speaks from the mountain, the Fourth Word says Remember, and gives Genesis as its reason. When Jesus stands in a grainfield and says the Sabbath was made for man, He is not making a concession. He was there when it was made.Sabbath Reflections walks through the whole subject one Sabbath at a time: fifty-two weekly reflections gathered into seventeen thematic chapters. The seventh day at creation. The first of the feasts. The manna in the wilderness. The Fourth Word in both its tellings. The land that kept its Sabbaths. The prophets who called the day a delight and the governor who shut the gates to keep it. The Lord of the Sabbath among the sick and the hungry. The Sabbath He rested in after the cross, and rose on. The apostles in the synagogues. And the rest that still remains.Each week sets out a passage of Scripture, works it through in plain language, and closes with a prayer for the day. An appendix follows the historical record, with sources named, from the apostolic keeping of the seventh day and the Passover on the fourteenth of Aviv, through the second-century drift at Rome and Alexandria, Constantine, Nicaea, and Laodicea, to the Roman Catholic Church's own account of how the day was changed.Fully illustrated with fifty-one engraved plates, charts, and cutaways, this second edition has been rewritten from the first page for readers who have never given the seventh day a second thought and for those who have kept it all their lives.A sanctuary in time, arriving every seventh day, to every house on earth. It was made for you.