Brothers, the Scriptures define their own terms, the following two passages are sufficient to reveal the meaning of the two words: evening and morning.
It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.” (Leviticus 23:32 NIV)
The above passage shows a Sabbath in Israel consists of the two half periods named “night” and “day” below and contained above within the confined period from evening to evening. When chained with the following passage, the meaning of the two words as instance transitions of the periods named by God is clear. The word evening is the instance transition from day to night and the word morning is the instance transition from night to day.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (Genesis 1:3-5 NIV)
The words "day" and "night" name the two half periods of the first day. The words "evening" and "morning" are used to transition between the previous half periods of the first day. Just as evening to evening confine a Sabbath in Israel, from morning to morning confine a Sabbath in Eden. Summary statements follow:
- the half first day God called day: <morning>day<evening>
- the half first day God called night: <evening>night<morning>
- the Sabbath in Israel: <evening>night<morning>day<evening>
- the Sabbath in Eden: <morning>day<evening>night<morning>
Moving from the translated word above to their meaning based on the sun below.
- morning means sunrise
- evening means sunset
- from sunrise to sunset is the period God called "day"
- from sunset to sunrise is the period God called "night"
- from sunset to sunset is the period to remember the Sabbath in Israel
- from sunrise to sunrise is the period of the first Sabbath in Eden
United in our hope of the soon return of Jesus, Jorge