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WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT KEEPING GOD'S 7th day SABBATH holy and not treating it as day of the week for us to do as to with it?

Exodus 20:10, 11. Concerning the Sabbath, the Lord says, further, that it is “a sign, ... that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.” Ezekiel 20:20. And the reason given is: “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:17. { GC 437.1}
“The importance of the Sabbath as the of creation is that it keeps ever present the why is due to God”—because He is the , and we are His creatures. “The Sabbath therefore lies at the very foundation of divine worship, for it teaches this great truth in the most impressive manner, and no other institution does this. The true ground of divine worship, not of that on the seventh day
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merely, but of all worship, is found in the distinction between the and His . This great fact can never become obsolete, and must be forgotten.”—J. N. Andrews, History of the Sabbath, chapter 27. It was to keep this truth ever the minds of men, that God the in ; and so long as the fact that He is our Creator continues to be a reason why we should worship Him, so long the Sabbath will continue as its sign and memorial. Had the Sabbath been universally kept, man’s thoughts and affections would have been led to the as the object of and , and there would never have been an idolater, an atheist, or an infidel. The keeping of the Sabbath is a sign of loyalty to the true God, “Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” It follows that the message which men to God and His commandments will especially call upon them to keep the commandment. { GC 437.2} {Exodus 20:8-11}