"Christ, as we well know, is the great Creator. He is the wisdom of God, and the power of God.
Colossians 1 [RV]
16 For in Him were all things created, in the heavens and
upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether
thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers; all things
have been created through Him, and unto Him;
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
John 1
3 Without Him was not anything made that was made.
Colossians 1 [RV]
16 For in Him were all things created, in the heavens and
upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether
thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers; all things
have been created through Him, and unto Him;
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
John 1
3 Without Him was not anything made that was made.
When the record says that in six days God made the heavens and the earth, it means God in Christ, for Christ is the only manifestation
Therefore, also, we know that it must have been Christ who rested upon the seventh day, after completing the work of creation, and that is was Christ who blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
Thus the Sabbath day is in an emphatic sense the “Lord’s Day."
Mark, it is a sign by which the people are to know God. Therefore there is no room for the supposition that the Sabbath was simply for the purpose of distinguishing the Jews from other people. It was made before the Jews had any existence.
It was that they might know God; and that which would serve to make them know God, would serve the same purpose for all other people.
*It was given to Adam in the beginning for the same purpose,—that He might know and remember God."
E.J. Waggoner
