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In April 1847, Ellen G. White received a significant vision in Topsham, Maine, which confirmed the importance of the seventh-day Sabbath. She was shown the heavenly sanctuary and the ark of the covenant, where Jesus opened the tables of stone containing the Ten Commandments.
Specifically, she observed that while all ten precepts shone with glory, the fourth commandment was surrounded by a distinct halo of light. This vision established that the Sabbath remained unchanged by God, despite the historical attempts by the Papacy to alter it to the first day of the week.
The Halo of Glory around the Fourth Commandment
»In the Holiest I saw an ark; on the top and sides of it was purest gold. ... Jesus opened them [the tables of stone], and I saw the ten commandments written on them with the finger of God. On one table was four, and on the other six. The four on the first table shone brighter than the other six. But the fourth (the Sabbath commandment,) shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God's holy name. The Holy Sabbath looked glorious—a halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath was not nailed to the cross.«
»The Spirit of God rested upon us ... and I was wrapt in a vision of God's glory ... I was conducted to the second vail. It was lifted, and I beheld the ark, and on it the mercy-seat. Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and I beheld the tables of stone on which the ten commandments were written. I was amazed as I saw the fourth commandment. A halo of glory was all around it; for it was the only one of the ten which points out to man who the living God is, the maker of heaven and earth.«
»Then on the first Sabbath in April, 1847 ... the Lord gave a vision to Mrs. White at Topsham, Maine, in which the importance of the Sabbath was stressed. She saw the tables of the law in the ark in the heavenly sanctuary, and a halo of light about the fourth commandment. ... The vision also helped to broaden the believer's concept of Sabbath observance. In this revelation, Mrs. White was carried down to the close of time and saw the Sabbath as the great testing truth.«
»I saw that if God had changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day, He would have changed the writing of the Sabbath commandment, written on the tables of stone, which are now in the ark in the most holy place of the temple in heaven; and it would read thus: The first day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. But I saw that it read the same as when written on the tables of stone by the finger of God, and delivered to Moses on Sinai, “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy«
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