be “holy to Jehovah;” and it is often called “the Sabbath of Jehovah,” and He Himself is declared to be the Lord of it. (See Ex. 20: 10, 31: 15. Lev. 23: 3. Is. 58: 13.) And Jesus Christ says, “The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath-day." Matt. 12: 8. Who then can He be who speaks thus, but the very Jehovah, who alone is Lord of the Sabbath?
Jesus says, that, in the consummation of the age, “the Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity.” Matt 13: 41. What finite being would presume thus to speak of the angels as his angels, or of heaven as his kingdom? Who but the infinite Jehovah keeps the angelic host as ministers to do His pleasure? "He," as He saith by the mouth of His servant David, “hath prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom ruleth over all.” Ps. 103: 19. “He maketh His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire.” 104: 4.
When Peter acknowledged Him to be “the Christ,” Jesus saith, “And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock (i.e., upon the acknowledgement of His supreme Divinity which Peter had just made) I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
