ICONO'CLAST
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I agree with you that as NT.believers we have entered into that eternal rest in Christ.Man was made for the Sabbath. The rest referred to in Hebrews is rest to the soul, a ceasing from dead works engineered by self. Now if Christians got into that rest, the church would be transformed and for much the better. The body needs physical rest. The soul needs rest from worrying and fretting, planning, striving and trying to do God's job for Him. Lord Jesus said from the cross, "It is finished!" That is the rest we need to enter into. As God rested from the work of he natural creation, so we need to enter into the the rest of the new creation, the spiritual new birth, that we are in Christ Jesus.
That is going to be perfected when we are glorified.
We are not yet glorified, so that is why Heb4:9 uses a special word...sabatimos...they remains the keeping of a sabbath rest for the people of God.
Is it the creation sabbath? No
Is it the Mosaic sabbath? No
It is the Nt. Lords day? Yes
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