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"The Sabbath was made for mankind" Mark 2:27 -- "not mankind made for the Sabbath"
That is what Jesus told the Pharisees, who tried to make mankind for the Sabbath. Jesus told them, that it is the other way around.
Which speaks of the "making of both".
No, Adam rested in God's Sabbath, before the Israelites were given their Sabbath. When God rested, Adam was made on the sixth day, so that he entered God's Sabbath within the first 24 hours of his creation. Adam was therefore made for the Sabbath, in contrast to the Israelites to whom the Sabbath was made for. Two totally different Sabbaths.
We see "the making of both" in Genesis 1-2.
No, God did not make the Sabbath for Adam, because Adam needed NOT to toil for his food, in order for him to have one day a week rest. Adam was made when God rested and so Adam before the fall was in God's Sabbath rest perpetually, because God rested.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made"
Exactly, so too Adam was born into that eternal rest day and needed not, like the Israelites to rest one day a week, because he never laboured for his food.
Sounds like creative writing. Ex 20:11 makes it clear it was one single day --
For the Israelites yes, it was a Sabbath made for them, for them to rest one day a week. However, for Adam there is no one day rest, because he was born in God's Sabbath and needed not to rest one day a week, because he didn't need to work for a living, hence he entered God's rest at birth. Big difference. It sounds like revelation to the 7DAs.
Less creative writing - more Bible please.
Say what!
Another rest day, is one in contrast to the rest day given to the Israelites. The Hebrews author states that the believer enters God's rest, just like Adam entered God's rest day at birth. For a Christian, they enter God's rest day, when they are made a new creation, in the Image of the last Adam Jesus Christ. Israelites on the other hand, never entered God's rest, but merely were given one day a week rest. The Hebrews author clearly makes this distinction, as follows.....
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” On the seventh day God rested from all his works.” And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
6Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, 7God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.”
11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
It is clear that the Israelites were given a Sabbath, but that Sabbath did not mean that they entered God's rest. However Adam and the born again believers in Christ do enter the Sabbath rest and rest from their works of disobedience. This means that we like Adam are made for the Sabbath and every day is the Sabbath rest of God, because as scripture states......
And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
Since the seventh day God had rested from his works and Adam being the first to enter it, was then evicted from God's rest and the Israelites were given a Sabbath that still prevented them from entering God's rest, yet after Jesus, the born again believers have entered God's rest and have rested from their works of disobedience.
If we are in God's rest, why would we think that only one day is his rest, when God has been at rest and we as the new born creation are entered in God's Sabbath perpetually, just like Adam.
Think about it and dispense this revelation to my 7DA brothers and sisters.
Love in Christ Jesus.
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