Exodus 20:11 an insurmountable stone wall to Long Age Chronology

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11

"Exodus 20:11 -- this verse is critical to the question of the age of

the creation. 

It stands as an insurmountable stone wall to block every attempt to add millions of years anywhere into the Bible. 

Therefore, to be faithful to Scripture, Christians must reject the “big bang” theory and the billions of years of cosmological and geological history as myths.
Exodus 20:11 is very important because it is God’s Word in a special way: it was not written through Moses but rather directly on tablets of stone by God Himself." 

AIG

Where Doubt Stems From.....

"DOUBT is the difficulty which men find in the attempt to make the

Scriptures harmonize with their ideas and experience. 

For instance, we read that:
Exodus 20:10 The seventh day is the Sabbath.... But he has not been accustomed to observe that day, and he cannot make it harmonize with his plans and convenience, and so he straightway begins to doubt the statement. 

He, too, declares that it does not mean what it says. 

Doubt arises simply from the unwillingness of men to have their lives transformed, and fashioned after the Divine plan." 

E.J. Waggoner

Time & the Sabbath

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. Genesis 2:3

"The Ten Commandments uses the Sabbath to show that Creator and creature, God and mankind, share something. 

They share action in a continuity of time; 

that is, God’s action is linked to our history. 

---It demonstrates the basis for real fellowship.

Also pivotal is that Creator and creation are separate. 

---It is in the creation done within real history that God shows He is distinct from but present and active in the world we live in.

CMI

The "At, For & In" of God's Creation Memorial: The Sabbath

And it shall come to pass,.... from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 

Isaiah 66:23

"We have seen that the Sabbath

was

sanctified at Creation (Genesis 2:3)

made for man (Mark 2:27)

embodied in Jehovah's royal law." (Exodus 20:10)

A fixed day of the week

"And, when the Sabbath was on a fixed seventh day, and on a fixed day of the week, that is plainly to admit nothing else than that the creation Sabbath was on a fixed seventh day of the week."

A.T. Jones

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.
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.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Genesis 2:1-3/Exodus 20:8,11

The 3 Steps of Making the Sabbath

 "He needed no rest;

Q: Why did He at the close of that work employ a day in rest?
A: He was
--laying the foundation of a divine institution,
--the memorial of His own great work.
“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.” 

The fourth commandment states the same fact: He “rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

--The blessing and sanctification of the seventh day was because that God had rested upon it.
--His resting upon it then, was to lay the foundation for blessing and sanctifying the day.
--His being refreshed with this rest implies that He delighted in the act which laid the foundation for the memorial of His great work.

The second act of the Creator in instituting this memorial was to place His blessing upon the day of his rest.

A third act completes the sacred institution. The day already blessed of God, is now, last of all, sanctified or hallowed by Him. To sanctify is “to separate, set apart, or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.” To hallow is “to make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for a holy or religious use.”

*The time when these three acts were performed is worthy of especial notice.
--The first act was that of rest. This took place on the seventh day; for the day was employed in rest.
--The second and third acts took place when the seventh day was past. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it He had rested from all His work.” Hence it was on the first day of the second week of time that God blessed the seventh day and set it apart to a holy use.

The blessing and sanctification of the seventh day, therefore relate not to the first seventh day of time, but to the seventh day of the week for time to come, in memory of God’s rest on that day from the work of creation."

J.N. Andrews

Why?

"Q: Why did the Creator set up this memorial in paradise?

Q: Why did He set apart from the other days of the week that day which He had employed in rest?
"Because that in it," says the record, "He had rested from all His work which God created and made."
--A rest necessarily implies a work performed.
--And hence the Sabbath was ordained of God as a memorial of the work of creation."
J.N. Andrews/Genesis 2:3

Most Remarkable thing about the Sabbath

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:11

"God set apart the seventh day in Paradise.
---This proves that the observance of the Sabbath is not a carnal
ordinance, for it was instituted before sin entered our world.
---But the most remarkable fact that appears in this record is, that this memorial was needed even in the garden of God.
Though man could converse with God face to face, yet every week, by the most impressive act, Adam was called to remember and acknowledge God as his creator.
---The rest-day of God was set apart, not as a mere rest from wearisome toil, 

*for Adam had almost as little occasion for rest from weariness in Paradise, as had the Creator from His work of infinite might, 

*but as a day when man should desist from everything else and think of God." 

J.N. Andrews

The "therefore" of Creation Week

"The universality of the Sabbath commandment is proved by the fact that it is a memorial to the creation in six literal days and God’s resting on the Seventh Day. (Gen. 2:3; Ex. 20:11)
“but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” Ex. 20:10-11.

Q: How, could language make more clear that a particular day is involved in the Sabbath command?
Q: Or how could language make more clear that the sanctifying of this particular day springs from the fact that this specific historical event occurred on that day, the seventh day?
---The “therefore” in the Sabbath command refers back to this incident and to the particular day God blessed.
---Remove the “therefore,” and the reason for the Sabbath command disappears."
F.D. Nichols

Call of the CREATOR

"Jesus, the Creator of the heavens and the earth (John 1:1-4, 14), and the Divine Author of His Ten Commandment Law, which includes the Sabbath commandment, is lovingly appealing to the human family: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters” 

(Revelation 14:7).

This is a solemn reminder

for all to worship Him as Creator.

*It takes us back to where it all began: “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. 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” (Genesis 2:2-3)."

AubreyDuncan/AdventMessenger

Sabbath Memorial as Bulwark

"It is not accidental that just at the time God raised up an end-time movement to proclaim the everlasting gospel in the context of the three angels’ messages to “every nation, tribe, people and language” (Rev. 7:9), Charles Darwin completed his first draft of On the Origin of Species.

In His infinite wisdom, God foresaw that this deceptive theory of earth’s origins would undermine the faith of millions.

He therefore sent an urgent last-day appeal in the light of the judgment hour to call men and women back to “worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water” (Rev. 14:6).
--The Sabbath is not only a Memorial of Creation;
--it is also a bulwark against atheistic evolution.
It is a weekly reminder that we were created by a loving God."
MarkFinley/AR

Chiasm of the 1st Sabbath

A. The Creation
B. 7th Day
C. Rest

GENESIS 2:1-4

A. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 

and all the host of them.

B. And on the seventh day God ended

 His work which He had made;

C. and He rested on the seventh day

 from all His work which He had made.

B. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

C. because that in it He had rested from 

all His work which God created and made.

A. These are the generations of the

heavens and of the earth when they were created....