There is a physical kind and there is a spiritual kind.
The first kind of Sabbath rest was periodic, Exodus 34:
21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
Every Sabbath day (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown), the Israelites were commanded to cease physical labor.
There is only one seventh day Sabbath rest, not two. There is Christ rest which is different than the Sabbath rest as we see clearly in Hebrews 4. Jesus is not a commandment or rest, He is the Creator of all things not the creation i,e, rest, law.
We also need to make sure we are not working from a faulty premise. God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger, Deut 4:13 Exodus 31:18 these are His works Exodus 32:16 that cannot be edited in any way and He made that clear. Deut 4:2 The earthy temple was an exact mirror image of God's heavenly Temple Hebrews 8:5 where lies the Ten Commandments Revelation 11:19 under His mercy seat, so no scripture can contradict this and it doesn't just misunderstandings.
The second kind of Sabbath rest is quite different, Hebrew 4:
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
The rest in Hebrews 4:8 is not the Sabbath rest as shown, here is what the rest in this verse translates into…it’s not connected to the Sabbath rest/commandment.
katapauó: to cause to cease, to rest
Original Word: καταπαύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: katapauó
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ap-ow'-o)
Definition: to cause to cease, to rest
Usage: (a) trans: I cause to rest, bring to rest; I cause to refrain, (b) intrans: I rest.
One would need to be familiar with the story of Joshua to understand what this means as it is taking us back to that story as an example. The Israelites rebelled in the wilderness and were not able to enter their rest to the promise land which is why it was delayed and another day was spoken of.
9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
The rest in Hebrews 4:9 NIV is referring to the Sabbath-rest and rest here literally translates into Sabbath-keeping, which remains (not changed) for the people of God which reconciles with God's Word.
Strong's Concordance
4520. sabbatismos
sabbatismos: a sabbath rest
Original Word: σαββατισμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sabbatismos
Phonetic Spelling: (sab-bat-is-mos')
Definition: a sabbath rest
Usage: a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.
GREEK INTERLINEAR
HEBREWS 4:9 άρα (Then) απολείπεται (there is left)
σαββατισμός (a Sabbath keeping) τω (to the) λαώ (people) του θεού (of God)
GREEK LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Abbott-Smith - G4520
*† σαββατισμός, - οῦ, ὁ(< σαββατίζω, to keep the sabbath,
Exod 16:30, al.), a keeping sabbath, a sabbath rest: metaph., as in Mishna (Zorell, s.v.),
Heb 4:9.†
LIDDEL/SCOTT/JONES GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON - G4520
σαββατισμός Σαββᾰτ-ισμός, ὁ, a keeping of days of rest, Ep.
Heb 4:9, cf. Plu. 2.166a (codd., βαπτισμούς Bentley).
STRONGS Greek 4520: A keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest. From a derivative of sabbaton; a 'sabbatism', i.e. the repose of Christianity. for the τῷ (
tō) Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. people λαῷ (
laō) Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2992: Apparently a primary word; a people of God. Θεοῦ (
Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.
STRONGS CONCORDENCE
sabbatismos: a sabbath rest Definition: a sabbath rest Usage (DOING): a keeping of the Sabbath, a Sabbath rest.
GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. THAYER - G4520
G4520 — σαββατισμός σαββατισμου, ὁ (σαββατίζω to keep the sabbath);
It is a permanent spiritual resting state of being, Psalm 95:
10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
They knew the first kind of Sabbath rest. They practiced it every week. Yet,
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest [H4496].”
But they did not attain to the second kind of Sabbath rest.
Strong's Hebrew: 4496. מְנוּחָה (menuchah or menuchah) — 22 Occurrences
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
- resting-place …
- rest (from enemies) = peace 1 Kings 8:56 (compare 1 Kings 5:18), ׳אִישׁ מ 1 Chronicles 22:9 a man of peace (compare הֵנִיחַ vb);
H4496 can mean peace and rest. It is a state of being, Isaiah 28:
12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place,
It was not a resting time.
let the weary rest"; and, “This is the place of repose"— but they would not listen.
Jeremiah 6:
16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
That's different from rest for your physical body.
Jesus spoke in Matthew 11:
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
The physical Sabbath rest is only a type of the spiritual true-type of Sabbath rest. We come to the true Sabbath peace and rest by coming to Jesus.
The whole meaning of Hebrews 4 is to compare the disobedience of the Israelites and bring us back to today to not follow their same path so we can enter into our rest and our Promise Land.
Hebrews 4:6 Since therefore it remains that some
must enter it, a
nd those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, l
est anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
What did the Israelites disobey in the wilderness? Scripture tells us if we allow scripture to interpret scripture
Eze 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which,
if a man does, he shall live by them’
; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Which is why there is a plea TODAY- if we hear His voice do not harden your heart in rebellion
Hebrews 4:7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
Which is a direct quote from David
Psalms 95:7 For He
is our God,
And we
are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice:
8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
We are called not to rebel against God like the Israelites did and they profaned His Sabbath. Eze 20:13, Eze 20:21
Which is why the Sabbath-rest
remains for the people of God
Heb 4:9 NIV which again literally translates into Sabbath-keeping
We are followers of Christ…
Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered His rest has himself
also ceased from his works as God
did from His.
When did God rest from His works? This very passage tells us. The same day God commanded us to as we are made in His image to follow Him, not do our own thing, which is called rebellion.
Hebrews 4: 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of
the seventh day in this way: “And God rested
on the seventh day from all His works
This brings us right back to the Sabbath commandment that cannot be edited Deut 4:2 and remains for God's people Hebrews 4:9 NIV
In Christ rests there is no rebellion which is why He pleas with us Today if you hear His voice do not harden your heart in rebellion so we can enter into our rest and not follow the same path of the Israelites. Hebrews 3:7-8 Hebrew 3:15 Psalms 95:7-8 Eze 20:13, Eze 20:21
