In Mark 6, Jesus welcomed his disciples back from their mission journey to preach to various settlements in Israel. Many people were on the road looking for Jesus. Jesus had a plan to go to a deserted place by boat to get some rest. The people ran ahead as they could see what direction the boat was going. Jesus went to meet a crowd that was forming. While he desired rest, he had work to do. He taught them and then fed the 5,000 men with five loaves of bread and two fish.
Even before Pentecost, people worked when the were able and rested when they could. If a worker gets no rest, he will become exhausted and worthless.
I understand my friend.
My thread is trying to address the DAILY mentioned in Daniel and how it is directly linked to a continuous rest and the sacrifice to give rest. It follows in three, that is sacrifice, rest and thanksgiving.
Here are the versus....
He magnified
himself even to the prince of the host, and by him
the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. (Daniel 8:11)
From the time that
the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Daniel 12:11)
Catholic Bible: "He shall speak against the Most High and oppress the Holy ones of the Most High
thinking to change the
feast days and the law."
So the DAILY is associated with the feast day to end all feast days, within a Jewish context, it is as
Described in Leviticus 23, The Feast of Week, which is the second of the three “solemn feasts” that all Jewish males were required to travel to Jerusalem to attend (Exodus 23:14–17; 34:22–23; Deuteronomy 16:16).
This important feast gets its name from the fact that it starts seven full weeks, or exactly 50 days, after the Feast of Firstfruits. Since it takes place exactly 50 days after the previous feast, this feast is also known as “Pentecost” (Acts 2:1), which means “fifty.”
Each of three “solemn feasts”—Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles—required that all able-bodied Jewish males travel to Jerusalem to attend the feast and
offer sacrifices. All three of these feasts required that
“firstfruit” offerings be made at the temple as a way of expressing thanksgiving for God’s provision. The Feast of Firstfruits celebrated at the time of the Passover included the first fruits of the barley harvest. The Feast of Weeks was in celebration of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Tabernacles involved offerings of the first fruits of the olive and grape harvests.
So Pentecost comes after the
“firstfruit” offerings be made at the temple as a way of expressing thanksgiving for God’s provision.
The lamb of God became the firstfruits of the harvest and what followed is Pentecost thanksgiving demostrated by the meeting in the upper room, to then wait for the power from on high to receive the former Holy Ghost rain.
The daily is Pentecost and onwards and this is what the author in Hebrew refers to...
But encourage one -
another daily, as long as it is called “
Today,”
Another DAILY is associated with another CONFORTER, on Pentecost and onwards, which is considered TODAY and CONTINUING uninterrupted.
So, when Daniel states,
"Therefore seal up the vision, for it refers to many days in the future" (Dan. 8:26).
Many days in the future, points to a feast day established to end all feast days and this is the today and another daily, which is continuous. This points to Pentecost and onwards. Yet some time in the future, the daily will be removed and replaced with another feast day, which implies, the author is not God and if not God, then the day cannot be God's rest day.
Our Pentecost feast and thanksgiving day, is the Sabbath rest continuous. Yet when the rest day is reverted to another external firstfruits sacrifice and another external temple and another external rest day, then what is being established in place of Christ as our firstfruits, in place of the Temple builder who is the Holy Ghost and in place of our daily continuous rest, is the old testament church, with the ripped vail being sowed up again and the resumption of temple sacrifices and literal days in the plural sense.
Why would resumption of temple sacrifices be an abomination?
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
it isiniquity, even the solemn meeting. (Isaiah 1:13)
God ripped the vail from top down and this signalled the end of further sacrifices and oblations, as Jesus became the firstfruits of the harvest. So the harvest commenced from Jesus the Lamb of God and it was celebrated by thanksgiving on Pentecost, where those who did so, received the former rain.
Peter refers to Joel, where Joel states.....
this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17“ ‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
26Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest in hope,
Again, it is the Pentecost thanksgiving which is associated with the DAILY AND THE FIRSTFRUITS.
47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number -
DAILY those who were being saved.
DAILY is associated with the rest day of God and it is a never ending feast celebrated daily, which points to a spiritual application, associated with the firstfruits of the harvest Jesus Christ.
An abomination would try to replace the firstfruits with another and the spiritual daily with another, by changing the feast day Pentecost and the laws associated with it.
This points at a Judaiser movement and reverting to old covenant practices, which would be considered by God an abomination.
So the rest day of God post Pentecost cannot be a specific literal day.