SDA Open Letter - Regarding Adam, Noah, Abraham and other Patriarchs

This is the sixth question that I posed in a letter to SDA leaders in Vanuatu.  To date, there has been no reply


DID ADAM, NOAH, ABRAHAM AND JACOB (AS WELL AS OTHERS) OBSERVE THE SABBATH AS ELLEN G WHITE CLAIMS?

I have read Ellen White’s booklet called “The Great Hope.” On page 51-52 she makes this claim.

Adam kept the Sabbath in his innocence in Eden, he still kept it when, fallen yet repentant, he was driven from the Garden. All the patriarchs from Adam to Noah to Abraham, to Jacob kept the Sabbath.

Abraham

However, what I read in Deuteronomy is rather interesting. You see, most SDAs know that the 10 Commandments are found in Exodus 20, but I am surprised to learn that not many people know that they are repeated in Deuteronomy Chapter 5. Actually it was new to me until a few years back.

There is one part in particular that I would like you to explain – verse 2 and 3.

The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now. (Deut 5:2-3) 

Did you see that? “HE DID NOT MAKE THIS COVENANT WITH OUR ANCESTORS.”

So I want to know this, which is true - Ellen G White claimed that the patriarchs before Moses observed the Sabbath (that is Ten Commandments number 4) yet Moses explained that the covenant (Law) was NOT made with their ancestors. Please explain why Ellen White and SDA doctrine disagrees with scripture here.

Gathering Manna.  The first mention of the Sabbath

So I again researched the bible by studying all occurrences of the Sabbath in the first 5 books of the bible, known forming most of the Book of the Law, and I was surprised to find that the first time the word Sabbath is mentioned it is as late as Exodus 16 – one week before the 10 commandments (in Ex 20) were given. It is nowhere in Genesis. So I extended my search to include Job, who was around at the time of Abraham, or thereabouts. When he was going through his trial, his advisers were trying to explain why he was suffering. They could not understand why he, being a righteous man, was suffering like this. They put it down to that he must have sinned somehow. They covered every possibility but yet neither them or Job made the point that Job observed or did not observe the Sabbath.

SDA preachers always claim that there is not any instruction in the New Testament categorically banning the Sabbath, and as we have read, one preacher recently placed a challenge for anyone to prove Sunday (or first week) services from the New Testament. I have shown where they did (Acts 20:7) and yet by the same token, I therefore have a right on the same grounds to ask you this question Your leaders have asked Sunday keeping pastors to show just one verse in the bible where Christians met as an assembly on the first day, which I did, so now PLEASE SHOW ME ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE THAT PROVES THE CLAIM OR ENDORSES THE SABBATH OBSERVATION BY ANYONE BEFORE MOSES?

You cannot have it both ways. I have asked many SDA members, including elders this very question. I have asked some very learned SDA men, such as lawyers that question, but not one SDA member has been able to give me anything in scripture. In fact, I am not the only one. We have been asking this question as concerned believers for over 100 years and still no SDA expert has offered one verse.