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A Dying Queen’s
Last Prayer
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I
“All my
possessions for a
moment of time.”
Jeremy Rifkin
“It is ironic that in a culture so
committed to saving time we feel
increasingly deprived of the very
thing we value.”
(Time Wars)
Robert Schrank
“There is now a supercomputer that
operates at a trillionth of a second.
What’s a trillionth of a second?
Time is being eaten up by all these
new inventions. Even leisure is
done on schedule.
Robert Schrank
Golfing is done on schedule. My
son is on the run all the time. I ask
him, ‘Are you having fun?’ He says,
‘...I don’t know.’”
God’s 2nd Greatest Gift
The gift of Himself in time
Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning
God created the
heavens and the
earth.”
Day One—v 3, 5
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’;
and there was light. . . . God called
the light Day, and the darkness He
called Night. So the evening and the
morning were the first day.”
Day Two—v. 6, 8
“Then God said, ‘Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the
waters.’. . . And God called the
firmament Heaven. So the evening
and the morning were the second
day.”
Day Three—v. 9, 13
“Then God said, ‘Let the waters
under the heavens be gathered
together into one place, and let the
dry land appear’; and it was so. . . .
So the evening and the morning
were the third day.”
Day Four—v 14, 19
“Then God said, ‘Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heavens to
divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs and seasons,
and for days and years.’ . . . So the
evening and the morning were the
fourth day.”
Day Five—v 20, 23
“Then God said, ‘Let the waters
abound with an abundance of living
creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth across the face of the
firmament of the heavens.’ . . . So
the evening and the morning were
the fifth day.”
Day Six—v 24, 26
“Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring
forth the living creature according to
its kind: cattle and creeping thing
and beast of the earth, each
according to its kind’; and it was
so. . . . Then God said, ‘Let Us
make man in Our image,
Day Six—v 24, 26
according to Our likeness; let them
have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air, and
over the cattle, over all the earth
and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.’”
Genesis 1:31
“Then God saw everything that He
had made, and indeed it was very
good. So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.”
God is a Being questing
for friends.
Genesis 2:1-3
“Thus the heavens and the earth,
and all the host of them, were
finished. And on the seventh day
God ended His work which He had
done, and He rested on the seventh
day from all His work which He had
done.
Genesis 2:1-3
Then God blessed the seventh day
and sanctified it, because in it He
rested from all His work which God
had created and made.”
Three Divine Acts
1. God “blessed” the Sabbath.
Three Divine Acts
1. God “blessed” the Sabbath.
2. God “sanctified” the Sabbath.
Three Divine Acts
1. God “blessed” the Sabbath.
2. God “sanctified” the Sabbath.
3. God “rested” on the Sabbath.
John Kellman
“Every time the Sabbath came
round, while it would of necessity
bring before the minds of [humanity]
the glory of God’s wisdom, power,
and goodness, as manifested in His
works of creation,
John Kellman
it would bring still more prominently
before [our] minds, and present in
special splendour and attractiveness,
the crowning glory of His love,
manifested in His coming so very
near to [us] in friendship . . . as man’s
glorious Friend.”
(in God Meets Man 16, 17)
Exodus 31:18
“And when He had made an end of
speaking with him on Mount Sinai,
He gave Moses two tablets of the
Testimony, tablets of stone, written
with the finger of God.”
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.
Exodus 20:8-11
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.
Exodus 20:8-11
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.”
Exodus 20:8-11—
“Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it
holy.”
Sigve Tonstad
“The call to remember the day goes
beyond concern for the day as such; it
cannot be severed from the memory
that is intrinsic to the day. At the
deepest level the entire commandment
has a narratival character: the Sabbath
(The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day 102)
tells a story.”
Benno Jacob
“Neither Sabbath rest nor the
working week could have been
accorded any higher honor than for
God to serve as the example of
both.”
(in Tonstad 102)
50,000,000 Americans
Journal of Adolescent Health
“One quarter of the participants
reported having one or more
symptoms of insomnia, such as
trouble falling asleep or staying
asleep, every night.”
(Newsweek 4-7-08 p 10)
“Those with chronic insomnia were
five times more likely to think their
mental health was poor, three times
as likely to have health problems and
trouble at school, and twice as likely
to use alcohol and drugs like
marijuana and cocaine.”
(Ibid)
“Remember
My Sabbath day to
keep it holy.”
Sigve Tonstad
“The Sabbath has the power to
overturn distorted priorities. In the
biblical perspective the Sabbath
interrupts the routine of clock time
and the obligation of work by calling
all creation to a day of rest
Sigve Tonstad
according to the great clock of
nature. As daylight fades every
Friday evening . . . the Sabbath
breaks the cycle of business and
the struggle for subsistence.
Sigve Tonstad
At the setting of the sun, clock time
yields to Creation time in order to
respond to a higher summons,
mediated by the clock of Creation.
Sigve Tonstad
Human priorities, set by the clock
and the necessity of working, come
face to face with God’s generous
provision.”
(The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day 382)
“Remember
My Sabbath day to
keep it holy.”
Luke 4:16
“So He came to Nazareth, where
He had been brought up. And as
His custom was, He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, and
stood up to read.”
Colossians 1:16, 17
“For by Him all things were created
that are in heaven and that are on
earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers.
Colossians 1:16, 17
All things were created through Him
and for Him. And He is before all
things, and in Him all things
consist.”
Luke 23:52-56 and 24:1
“This man went to Pilate and asked
for the body of Jesus. Then he took
it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid
it in a tomb that was hewn out of the
rock, where no one had ever lain
before.
Luke 23:52-56 and 24:1
That day was the Preparation, and
the Sabbath drew near. And the
women who had come with Him
from Galilee followed after, and they
observed the tomb and how His
body was laid.
Luke 23:52-56 and 24:1
Then they returned and prepared
spices and fragrant oils. And they
rested on the Sabbath according to
the commandment.
Luke 23:52-56 and 24:1
Now on the first day of the week,
very early in the morning, they, and
certain other women with them,
came to the tomb bringing the
spices which they had prepared.”
Acts 20:7
“Now on the first day of the week,
when the disciples came together to
break bread, Paul, ready to depart
the next day, spoke to them and
continued his message until
midnight.”
“First day” Acts 20:7
“Saturday night” (New English Bible)
“Saturday evening” (Jerusalem Bible,
footnote, Catholic, and Today’s
English Version)
I Corinthians 16:2
“On the first day of the week let
each one of you lay something
aside, storing up as he may prosper,
that there be no collections when I
come.”
Acts 17:2
“Then Paul, as his custom was,
went in to them, and for three
Sabbaths reasoned with them from
the Scriptures.”
The seventh-day Sabbath
is the Lord’s Day.
Isaiah 58:13
“. . . turn away your foot from
the Sabbath, from doing your
pleasure on My holy day, and
call the Sabbath a delight, the
holy day of the Lord
honorable . . .”
Isaiah 66:22-23
“‘For as the new heavens and the
new earth which I will make shall
remain before Me,’ says the LORD,
‘So shall your descendants and
your name remain.
Isaiah 66:22-23
And it shall come to pass that from
one New Moon to another, and from
one Sabbath to another, all flesh
shall come to worship before Me,’
says the LORD.”
The seventh-day
Sabbath will remain the
Creator’s gift to the
human race forever.
Matthew 11:28
“Come to Me, all you who labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take My yoke upon you and
learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls. For My yoke is easy
and My burden is light.”
“Come to Me,
and I will give you rest.”
“You have given me life
twice, and I thank You!”
Don’t miss tomorrow
evening’s lecture
“When History Played
a Trick on Us”