9. Are dedicated, baptized Christians now under a weekly Sabbath arrangement, and what Sabbath period are they rapidly nearing?

⁹ Dedicated, baptized Christians, such as are Jehovah’s Witnesses of today, have no obligation to keep a weekly Sabbath that begins at sundown on Friday and ends with sundown of Saturday, for they are not under the code of laws given by Moses the mediator. (Ex. 20:1-11) Nor did Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant, command his disciples to keep Sunday as a Sabbath day. They know that they are living in the seventh day of the creative week of Jehovah God, during which he has been resting from direct creative works respecting our earth. (Gen. 1:1 through 2:4) World events as well as Bible chronology indicate that we are now rapidly nearing the time for the thousand-year-long reign of Jesus Christ to start. His reign of a thousand years for the blessing of all mankind will occupy the last thousand years of Jehovah’s rest day or Sabbath day of seven thousand years. Christ’s reign will be a Sabbath day of exquisite delight for all mankind.

11. How do the Christian witnesses of Jehovah keep a true “sabbath” and thus conform to his own example?

¹¹ What the Christian witnesses of Jehovah are observing is a continual “sabbath” to Jehovah God. How? By resting or desisting from their own works in an attempt to justify themselves before God and thus earn their own eternal salvation. By faith they rest in the merit or redemptive value of Christ’s ransom sacrifice as the basis for their eternal salvation. In this way they conform themselves to the great seventh “day” of Jehovah’s Creative Week, during which figurative “day” he himself has been resting.

12. What is the present ‘sabbath rest’ that “remains” for God’s people, and so how do Jehovah’s Witnesses use the Jewish sabbath and Christendom’s Sunday?

¹² As to the Christian’s resting by faith in Jehovah’s “sabbath” of seven millenniums, we read: “In one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.’ . . . So there remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. For the man that has entered into God’s rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own.” (Heb. 4:4-10) Jehovah’s Witnesses rest by faith in Christ’s sacrifice as God’s provision for human salvation. So they can conscientiously use the Jewish sabbath day and Christendom’s Sunday to preach the good news of God’s kingdom from house to house.