The seventh-day (Sabbath) of Elohim
“Thirty-five reasons Why I keep the Sabbath”
8. Because the Sabbath is God’s flag.
God has a Flag: I (God) will set up My ensign, Isa. 49:22 R.V.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.”
Isaiah 49:22 KJV
A Flag is a sign:
“They set up their ensigns for signs” Ps. 74:4
God’s sign is His Sabbath:
“I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a SIGN.” Exe. 20:12, 20
“It [my Sabbath] is a SIGN.” Ex. 31:13
“It [my Sabbath] is a SIGN….forever.” Ex. 31:17
Since God has a flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isa. 49:22 R.V.
And a flag is a sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ps. 74:4
And God’s sign is His Sabbath . . . . . Eze. 20:12, 20
Therefore God’s FLAG IS HIS SABBATH….Things equal to the same things are equal to each other.
God took of the fabric of time and made Himself an ensign for eternity. He made a unit of time by the rolling of a globe, and He called that unit day. He took a handful of days, seven, and made them a week. And of that week He took the last day, the seventh, and made it the Sabbath. That Sabbath is His sign, His emblem, His FLAG.
A flag is more than a mere piece of cloth. It is a special piece of cloth consecrated to the definite purpose of signifying all that a government is and has. So is the Sabbath. It is more than merely a day. It is a special day. Like the cloth in a flag it is a piece of time that has a special significance, being consecrated by God Himself to represent the government of God with all its power, purpose, and privilege. The Sabbath, therefore, is as different from any other day as the flag is different from any piece of cloth.
Since the Sabbath is the flag of God’s Kingdom and I am a subject of God’s Kingdom, I want to see the HOME FLAG flutter because it speaks of the homeland. Just as Old Glory has gathered people out of all nations to America and it is a sign of America, so God’s flag reminds us that we are strangers and pilgrims in a foreign land (Heb. 11:13), that our home is far away upon a golden strand.
The Sabbath is God’s flag all the way from Paradise Lost toParadise Regained and under it will finally rally the faithful who will be gathered from earth’s remotest bounds. Isa. 11:12
Since no flag could take the place of Old Glory to the true American; so no other day could take the place of God’s seventh-day Sabbath to the true Christian. Any flag won’t do; neither will any day do. It is nothing short of high treason to disrespect God’s flag. Men have too long scuffed God’s Old Glory under their feet. It is high time to rally round the flag of God and let it wave as our standard forever. At any cost, we must be as loyal to and true to God’s flag as Barbara Frietchie was to the Stars and Stripes when she stated; “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head But spare your country’s flag, she said.”