INTRODUCTION

I

THE EVERLASTING COVENANTAL SABBATH

A.

DERIVATION AND MEANING OF THE WORD "SABBATH"

B.

THE SABBATH AND THE TRIUNE GOD

C.

THE SABBATH AND THE RHYTHMIC CYCLE

(a)

God’s general revelation concerning creation

(b)

God’s special revelation concerning creation

(c)

God’s special revelation concerning re-creation

(d)

Evaluation of the rhythmic analysis

D.

THE SABBATH AND THE COVENANTAL REALIZATION

(a)

The sabbath and the covenant with Adam

(b)

The sabbath and the covenant with the Second Adam

(c)

The sabbath and God’s moral law

(d)

The sabbath as such and the Mosaic sabbaths

(e)

The sabbath as the sign of the covenant

 Notes to Chapter I

II

THE ADAMIC COVENANTAL SABBATH

A.

CREATION WEEK AND ITS SABBATH

B.

THE ANTIQUITY OF THE SABBATH

(a)

The origin of the week

(b)

The origin of the sabbath 

(c)

The institution of the sabbath 

(d)

The subjects of the sabbath 

 C.

ADAM AND THE SABBATH

 (a)

The sabbath’s significance to Adam 

 (b)

The sabbath’s commemoration by Adam 

 i.

its day of commemoration

 ii.

its hours of commemoration

 iii.

its mode of commemoration

 (c)

The sabbath’s transgression by Adam

 i.

the sabbath and the time of the fall

 ii.

the sabbath and the results of the fall

 iii.

the sabbath and the first gospel promise

 D.

THE SABBATH FROM ABEL TO NOAH

 (a)

The sabbath from Abel to Lamech

 i.

Cain’s and Abel’s offerings

 ii.

Cain and his curse

 iii.

Cainites and Sethites

 iv.

Lamech the Cainite’s unholy oath

 (b)

The sabbath from Enoch to Noah

 i.

Enoch the Sethite’s walk with God

 ii.

Lamech the Sethite’s longed-for rest

 iii.

the days of Noah

 Notes to Chapter II

 III

THE NOACHIC COVENANTAL SABBATH

 A.

THE SABBATH AND THE FLOOD

 (a)

The calendar and the flood

 (b)

The sabbath during the flood

 (c)

The sabbath from the flood to the tower of Babel

 B.

THE SABBATH OUTSIDE THE COVENANT

 (a)

The great dispersion and the sabbath

 (b)

Heathen Hamitic and Japhethitic "sabbaths"

 (c)

Post-dispersional Semitic sabbaths

 (d)

The sabbath in the life of Job

 Notes to Chapter III

 IV

THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANTAL SABBATH

 A.

THE SABBATH FROM ABRAHAM TO JOSEPH

 (a)

Abraham and the sabbath

 (b)

Isaac and the sabbath

 (c)

Jacob and the sabbath

 (d)

Joseph and the sabbath

 (e)

The probable mode of observance of the patriarchal sabbath

 B.

THE SABBATH FROM JOSEPH TO SINAI

 (a)

The sabbath and the burdens of the Israelites

 (b)

The sabbath and the Exodus from Egypt

 (c)

The sabbath from the Red Sea to Sinai

 (d)

The sabbath and the Fourth Commandment

 Notes to Chapter IV

 V

THE MOSAIC COVENANTAL SABBATH

 A.

THE SABBATH AND THE MOSAIC LAWS

 (a)

The sabbath and the Mosaic law in general

 (b)

The sabbath and the non-weekly sabbaths

 (c)

The sabbath and the weekly Mosaic sabbath

 (d)

The sabbath in the later life of Moses

 B.

THE SABBATH FROM JOSHUA TO MALACHI

 (a)

The sabbath from Joshua to David

 (b)

The sabbath from Solomon to Hosea

 (c)

The sabbath in the days of Isaiah

 (d)

The sabbath from Jeremiah to Daniel

 (e)

The sabbath from Zerubbabel to Malachi

 C.

THE SABBATH DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS

 Notes to Chapter V

 VI

THE NEW COVENANTAL SABBATH

 A.

THE SABBATH AND JESUS CHRIST

(a)

The sabbath during Christ’s earthly life

 (b)

The sabbath and the death of Christ

 (c)

The sabbath and the resurrection of Christ

 Notes for Chapter VI A

 B.

THE SABBATH IN THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH

 (a)

The sabbath from Pentecost Sunday to Paul’s first journey

 (b)

The sabbath from Paul’s first Roman imprisonment to the death of John

 Notes for Chapter VI B

 C.

THE SABBATH IN CHURCH HISTORY

 (a)

The sabbath in the Patristic Church

 (b)

The sabbath in the Mediaeval Church

 (c)

The sabbath in the Reformed Church

 Notes to Chapter VI C

 VII

CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE COVENANTAL SABBATH

Notes to Chapter VII

 APPENDICES:—

 I

A Short Bibliography

 II

Other "Creation" Numbers

 III

Other "Re-creation" Numbers

 IV

Seventh-day Adventists Acknowledge Sinaitic Decalogue and Moral Law Not Identical

 V

Seventh-day Adventist Distinction Between Moral Ceremonial Laws

 VI

Length Of Creation Days

 VII

Various Translations of Genesis 1:5

 VIII

Calendar Reform

 IX

Use Of The Expression "Miqqets Yamim" in Scripture

 X

Refutation Of The Argument That Saturday-keeping Is Of Perpetual Obligation And That Sunday-keeping Is Only Post-Apostolic And Heathen Origin