Many people confuse the Sabbath rest with Christ rest, but they are not the same.Hi Gods sabbath rest is a future event I believe is Christs millennial reign Christ said
John 5:17 ESV
[17] But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” | English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) | Download The Bible App Now
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”bible.com
So if the Father and Son are still working it means Gods sabbath rest is a future event which we can enter into
Hebrews 4:1 ESV
[1] Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. | English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) | Download The Bible App Now
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.bible.com
It also means creation is ongoing God rested after he finished his creation man in his image which is Jesus Christ when he stands before the throne of God with the multitude of believers.
Love and Peace
Dave
The Sabbath rest is always connected to the seventh day.
This is God personally writing and speaking here as there is no Greater Authority than He
Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God
Even in the NT. 56 Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
The Sabbath commandment is part of God's eternal law that He both personally wrote and personally spoke. The Sabbath commandment is the only commandment that reveals God as the Creator of Heaven and Earth and contains His seal. God said He would not alter His Words Psa 89:34 and Jesus said the same thing Mat 5:18
God cares about our needs and knows we need both physical rest from work and spiritual rest in Him which is what the Sabbath does.
Christ offers His rest which is free from sin and unrighteousness. In Christ rest there is no rebellion to Him or His commandments including the 4th commandment.
Isa 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
There is a deceptive doctrine going around that Jesus is the Sabbath, but Jesus in His own Words said He is Lord of the Sabbath i.e. the Creator, not the creation. The Sabbath is made for mankind and for everyone who wants to join themselves with Christ, to serve Him and love His name. It's something man does- Jesus did not give Himself a commandment. The devil flipped this as it is something Jesus does and we can profane His holy Sabbath day but its not what the scriptures teach. Jesus relates keeping His Sabbath as doing righteousness and His righteousness is everlasting Psa 119:142
Isa 56:1 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant
Psa 89:34 My covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
Isa 58:13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
The Sabbath is always connected to the seventh day. These are God's personally written and spoken Words that no one is above to alter and God said He would not alter. The Sabbath even in the NT is still according to the commandments Luke23:56.
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God
So no Jesus didn't become the Sabbath and we can now profane it as so many confused people teach. Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath Mark 2:28, Jesus never turned into a commandments or a day i.e. the creation. It is something man does according to Christ- we are to keep God's Sabbath day holy Exo 20:8-11 and in return He blesses and we join ourselves with Him and He sanctifies us Eze 20:12 because man can' sanctify themselves, we need God.
No wonder the devil has attacked God's Sabbath so much because this is what happens when we don't follow God's Word.
Eze 22:26 Her priests have [a]violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
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