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4th Law and Prophecy

The Fourth Commandment

We continue our examination of The Ten Commandments, pausing to inspect the Fourth, which reads as follows:

Exodus 20:8-11

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work; you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

Rest On the Sabbath

Rest is what the Lord commands. I am old enough to remember when businesses shut down on the Sabbath (Sunday); there were even ‘Blue Laws’ prohibiting the normal activity of buying and selling; there were of, course, exceptions, such as police, fire fighters, hospitals, gas station and some restaurants. This was to encourage church attendance and give people a chance to rest, as the Lord commanded. As all of you can attest, those days are long-gone. Remaining, however, is the Lord’s Commandment! All of us need rest!

Love the Lord Your God

These first four commandments tell us how to behave towards God, our Creator; the next six describe how we are to treat one another. As you have read in previous posts, it all boils down to love; if we truly love God with all our heart, these four Commandments will be automatic. If we love our fellow man with the same intensity, we will treat everyone as we ourselves want to be treated. No love in our hearts will make for a tougher journey through life and hereafter!

Messianic Prophecies Number 456

Prophecy is spread through-out the Bible and make up more than one-fourth of Scripture. Mr. Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889)  identified 456 Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 proved that these were written hundreds of years before Jesus was born and Jesus fulfilled them all. Following is an example:

Messiah a Descendant of King David

Isaiah 11:1-2 – The Messiah would be a descendant of Jesse via David.

“There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”

Matthew 1:1, 16 – “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.” (Approximate date of Prophecy: “750-722 years B. C.”)

Prophecy Speaks to Scripture’s Accuracy

For us, the value of prophecy is its fulfillment hundreds of years after the prophecy was first given. As in this case, the prophecy is fulfilled over 700 years after Isaiah said this. You will see this pattern repeated again and again. This leads to acknowledging the accuracy of the Bible. If predictions are made and hundreds of years later, they become true, it is going to be very difficult to argue that a book written over 1,500 years by over 40 different authors covering a period of time of thousands of years is not true.

Verify These Scripture Verses

Please take some time to research these Scripture verses and verify for yourself their truthfulness.

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Thanks for reading.

T. C. Maloney

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