Your whole analysis was pretty much focused on the meaning: resting. I agree with you, the text is clearly talking about resting, and that Christian should enter into that rest. No problem.
However, what you completely ignored and failed to address (and what was the major point I made about Hebrews 4) is the day when the rest is supposed to happen.
Hebrews 4:4-10
4According to what he said about the Sabbath*: "God rested on the seventh day from all his works." 5And here again he said: "They shall not enter my rest." 6Because, therefore, there has been an opportunity for each person to enter and those who were first evangelized did not enter, in that they were not persuaded, 7Again he appointed another day, after much time, just as it is written above that David said, "Today, if you listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts." 8For if Yeshua, son of Nun*, had given them rest, he would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9So then, it remains for the people of God to keep the Sabbath.* 10For whoever ent
ers his rest has rested from his works as God has from his own.
The text is very clear. The Israelites (
first evangelized) were given the seventh day Sabbath in the old covenant. However, they were disobedient and invalidated the covenant with God, and so they never entered into God's rest. The old covenant is now obsolete and has been replaced with a new covenant. In the new covenant, Christians are commanded to enter into God's rest (we agree on this). However, in the new covenant the day has changed. Read verses 7 and 8. The text clearly says: "another day". Which day? Today.
The Sabbath rest for Christians is today, no every seventh day.
You are forgetting your own words. You yourself admitted that the Holy Spirit can lead someone to break certain OT laws. And God is sovereign to give new meaning or interpretations to His own rules depending on context, season and covenants. If the Sabbath is an inner spiritual rest, there is nothing wrong with Jesus breaking its literal, physical interpretation. He was fulfilling the spirit of the Sabbath, not the letter.
None of those passages says "10 commandments". Again, there are 613 commandments in the OT, not 10. Or do you need me to remind you about
Leviticus 18:23 and the immorality of bestialism once again?
Of course 10, but that's because your question is a tautology. Of course if I ask you "how many dogs are 6 dogs?", the answer obviously is 6 dogs.
But again, those are not the only commandments that God gave in the OT. There are other 603 non-decalogue commandments you are ignoring. The one about inappropriate behavior with animals is one example. The two greatest commandments (love to God and love to neighbors) are other ones.
This is just more repetition of what you have said earlier already addressed through the scriptures in earlier posts shared with you, so do not need to go through this again. If you feel I have left out something please feel free to let me know. So I will just re-post here what was provided earlier to you in relation to Hebrews 4 that proves your claims here in error together with the addition of scripture proof showing it is impossible that God's 4th commandment is a "shadow" of anything to come.
As shown elsewhere through the scriptures, it makes no difference to the context to me if the translation reads in
Hebrews 4:9 Therefore it remains for the people of God to keep the Sabbath" or "There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God" both are biblical and correct in the Greek. I provided the reasoning in the Greek in the next two posts after the one I sent you to show that the Aramaic is most accurate according to the Greek. Go back and read them. Your leaving out the context again which is to God's seventh day Sabbath rest of creation in
Hebrews 4:1-5. Go back and read the context.
WHAT IS HIS REST (God's) IN
HEBREWS 3 and
HEBREWS 4?
HEBREWS 4
[1], Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
[2], For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
[3], For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
[4], For he spoke in a certain place of the SEVENTH DAY on this wise, And God did rest the SEVENTH DAY from all his works.
[5], And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
KEY POINTS OF
HEBREWS 4:1-5
NOTE: CONTEXT is God's REST from the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH REST OF CREATION (v4-5) and those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW GOD's WORD [the GOSPEL] enter into God's SABBATH REST as GOD did on the SEVENTH DAY of the week. CONTEXT is GOD's SEVENTH DAY SABBATH REST and those who believe or do not believe God's WORD do not enter into that rest.
[6], Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
[7], Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
[8], For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
[9] SO THEN, IT REMAINS FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
[10], For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. [11], Let us labor therefore to enter that rest, [God’s REST the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH] lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [rejecting God’s WORD and sin;
Hebrews 3].
KEY POINTS OF
HEBREWS 4:9
Now notice
Hebrews 4, verse 9: “SO THEN, IT REMAINS FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO KEEP THE SABBATH.” In verses 1, 3, 4 and 8, the Greek word for “rest” is katapausin. It means “rest.” But in verse 9, the Greek word for “rest” is sabbatismos, which is a Hebrew word—Sabbat, which means “the Sabbath”—combined with a Greek suffix—ismos, which means “a keeping of” or “a doing of.” Put together, sabbatismo means “a keeping of the Sabbath.” When correctly translated,
Hebrews 4:9 should read, “There remains therefore a keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God.”
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The Aramaic translation says in
HEBREWS 4:9 THEREFORE IT REMAINS FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO KEEP THE SABBATH
Most of the other translations use...
HEBREWS 4:9 THERE REMAINS A SABBATH REST TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD (also good)
Which ever translation you want to use whether Greek of Aramaic it still works out the same. "There still remains a Sabbath rest (Sabbatismos is the verbal noun for keeping the Sabbath). You were provided the Greek earlier
here and
here linked that proves your claims to be false.
Context matters and this is what your ignoring in your interpretation of Hebrews 4. Further evidence was also provided in further posts you have not caught up to yet evaluating the claims that God's 4th commandment is a shadow which is impossible according to the scriptures.
Many get mixed up in the "shadows" because they do not understand the difference between God's eternal law that gives us the knowledge of what sin is in the old and new covenant *
Romans 3:20;
Romans 7:7;
1 John 3:4 and the prophetic shadow laws that point to things to come. It is "impossible" for Gods' 4th commandment Sabbath of the 10 commandments to be a "shadow law" of anything but here is the reasons why....
1. God's
Sabbath was made "before" sin and before the laws and Gods' plan of salvation was given to all mankind *
Genesis 2:1-3.
2.
According to the scriptures the Sabbath was made for mankind when mankind was in perfect harmony with their creator and sinless and walked and talked with God face to face. Adam and Eve were created on the 6th day and the Sabbath was made for mankind on the seventh day *
Genesis 1:26-31;
Genesis 2:1-3 and
Mark 2:27 of creation where God blessed the "seventh day" of creation and made it a holy day of rest for all mankind.
3. God's Sabbath is a part of the "
finished work of creation" it is day seven of a seven day week that God blessed and made a holy day of rest for all man *
Genesis 2:1-3
4. God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments points "
backwards" to the finished work of creation,
not "forwards" to things to come. For example God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments starts off as "
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY" (memorial - remember) -
Exodus 20:8. God's 4th commandment therefore is a "memorial" of the "finished work of creation" this is also shown when it is written " [10], But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God" and also the reason for the memorial commandment that points backward to the "finished work of creation" as further evidence is given in "v11, For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: why the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
5. There was
no JEW, there was
no ISRAEL and there was
no Moses when God made the "seventh" day Sabbath rest for all mankind *
Genesis 2:1-3;
Mark 2:27. Jesus is Lord and creator of the Sabbath and he commands his people to keep it as a
memorial of the finished work of creation and a holy day rest and a celebration of God as the creator of heaven and earth *
Mark 2:28;
Exodus 20:8-11;
James 2:10-11;
Hebrews 4:9
6. Shadow laws point "forward" to things to come
not backwards to things completed which the Sabbath and God's 4th commandments points back to.
7. JESUS is the Lord and creator of the Sabbath and kept it as a holy day of rest and taught us how to correctly keep the Sabbath the way he intended it to be kept.
8. The Sabbath will continue to be kept after the second coming in the new heavens and new earth. *
Isaiah 66:22-23.
The above scriptural evidence is provided to prove that it is impossible and not biblical to claim that the Sabbath is a shadow of anything. God does not change his laws so that we are free to break them.
Sorry dear friend it seems like God's Word disagree with you.
May you receive God's Word and be blessed, ignoring it does not make it disappear it become our judge come judgement day *John 12:47-48.