Time to Begin the Sabbath

1T.116.001

I saw that it is even so: «From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.» Said the angel: «Take the word of God, read it, understand, and ye cannot err. Read carefully, and ye shall there find what even is, and when it I asked the angel if the frown of God had been upon His people for commencing the Sabbath as they had. I was directed back to the first rise of the Sabbath, and followed the people of God up to this time, but did not see that the Lord was displeased, or frowned upon them. I inquired why it had been thus, that at this late day we must change the time of commencing the Sabbath. Said the angel: «Ye shall understand, but not yet, not yet.» Said the angel: «If light come, and that light is set aside or rejected, then comes condemnation and the frown of God; but before the light comes, there is no sin, for there is no light for them to reject.» I saw that it was in the minds of some that the Lord had shown that the Sabbath commenced at six o’clock, when I had only seen that it commenced at «even,» and it was inferred that even was at six. I saw that the servants of God must draw together, press together. —