Page 10 - In the Spirit and Power of Elias

God,” He said; “walk in My statutes, and keep

My judgments, and do them; and hallow My

Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me

and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord

your God.” Ezekiel 20:12, 16, 19, 20.

In calling the attention of Judah to the sins that

finally brought upon them the Babylonian

Captivity, the Lord declared: “Thou hast ...

profaned My Sabbaths.” “Therefore have I

poured out Mine indignation upon them; I

have consumed them with the fire of My

wrath: their own way have I recompensed

upon their heads.” Ezekiel 22:8, 31.

At the restoration of Jerusalem, in the days of

Nehemiah, Sabbathbreaking was met with the

stern inquiry, “Did not your fathers thus, and

did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and

upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon