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This may be long, but it just cannot be broken down any further without losing its truth.
Isaiah 66:23 should not be taken without verse 22 and 24. They all go together.
[Isa 66:22-24 ESV]
"For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain. From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD. "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."
When you read it all, in its context, you see that this is a description of what we refer to as "eternity".
It is not talking about literal new moon's, literal Sabbath's, or literal dead bodies.
Those are all a reference to time.
There will not be a need for a weekly(or any other) Sabbath.
The Sabbath was given to man because of the pain he would endure living his life.
[Gen 3:17-19 ESV]
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Mankind needed a Sabbath because of this result of sin. However.......
[Rev 21:1-4 ESV]
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
The old pain and agony of 'life' will be no more. There will not be a need for physical rest(Sabbath), we will be in eternal rest......we are in eternal rest.....
Hallelujah!
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