The Garden Of Eden. "God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it." Gen. 2:3.
1. When and by whom was the Sabbath made?
“Thus the heavens and the earth, were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.” Gen. 2:1, 2.
2. After resting on the seventh day, what did God do?
“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Verse 3.
3. By what three distinct acts, then, was the Sabbath made?
God rested on it; He blessed it; He sanctified it.
Sanctify: “To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use.”—Webster.
4. Did Christ have anything to do with creation and the making of the Sabbath?
“All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” John 1:3. See also Eph. 3:9; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2.