Brother, happy Sabbath, which starts this Friday December 30, 2022 at 9:44 am EST! Joshua was unable to separate the Sabbath from the week in Jerusalem to give Judaism God's true weekdays in Jerusalem from morning to morning. The rest day occurring both in Eden from morning to morning and in Jerusalem from evening to evening is true only of God's rest on the Sabbath and not true of any day of the week: days of the week all fall in Jerusalem from morning to morning. The Sabbath is what God named His rest on the seventh day of creation in Eden and not what He named the seventh day of the week. The Sabbath in Jerusalem falls half a day before the seventh day of the week in Jerusalem because the Sabbath is separate from the week. A day of rest fixed in the time zone of creation that does not circle the earth with the week. For both the week and the Sabbath there is only one dateline found at the origin of creation in Eden. There is no dateline in Jerusalem.
So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. (Hebrews 4:6-11 NLT)
Others besides me have noticed that the days with Manna were from morning to morning in the following video.
The video highlights that quail in the evening for a whole month was not mentioned that morning when Moses informed them to get a double portion of Manna to save for tomorrow and then on the next day's morning to eat what they had saved, because there would not be any Manna that morning.
That evening vast numbers of quail flew in and covered the camp. And the next morning the area around the camp was wet with dew. When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground... On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much as usual—four quarts for each person instead of two. Then all the leaders of the community came and asked Moses for an explanation. He told them, “This is what the LORD commanded: Tomorrow will be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath day set apart for the LORD. So bake or boil as much as you want today, and set aside what is left for tomorrow.” So they put some aside until morning, just as Moses had commanded. And in the morning the leftover food was wholesome and good, without maggots or odor. Moses said, “Eat this food today, for today is a Sabbath day dedicated to the LORD. There will be no food on the ground today. (Exodus 16:13-14, 22-25 NLT)
No mention was made of the quail that they later ate that evening because the first thing that would not be found the next day would be the Manna, because the next day began in the morning. The video highlights that the quail in the evening was not used to mark the next day, but Manna in the morning was used to mark the next day, which therefore obviously started in the morning and not in the evening.
“And say to the people, ‘Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you will have meat to eat. You were whining, and the LORD heard you when you cried, “Oh, for some meat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will have to eat it. And it won’t be for just a day or two, or for five or ten or even twenty. You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the LORD, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’” (Numbers 11:18-20 NLT)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge