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Rest is trust in God. The seventh year sabbath was rest for the land.
Esaias, do you keep the seventh year sabbath as well? Just wondering.
Those who panted crops would let the and rest the seventh year, and God would supernaturally bless the land to bring forth more food than if man did work it! This was a hint of the garden of Eden existence. God planted the trees and God caused a river to water the Garden. This River foreshadowed the Holy Ghost that is the rest Paul spoke about in
1 Cor 15.
So, sabbath year was a like a temporary Garden of Eden where God blessed the land without man working as He did in
Genesis 2. But it was only for one year.
It reminds me of the atonement day when once a year the high priest went into the holiest that was barricaded by cherubims on the veil just as the Garden was barricaded by cherubims.
Sabbath day was man resting, a taste of Eden where man did not plant the garden nor water it, and sabbath year was God blessing the land to bring forth for Adam.
Canaan was called a rest as well in
Hebrews 3, where Israel did not build houses nor plant vineyards, but they were already there!
Jesus spoke of the harvest of souls in a similar sense, where they did not have to say yet four months and there is harvest, for the fields were white already to harvest! In that same chapter
John 4, we read Jesus' meat was to do the will of God and His drink was the living water of the Spirit.
Fast forward to
Revelation 22 and see the river of life waters the trees of life, which is the Spirit of God giving life to us. God waters us with HIs SPirit! We are the planting of the Lord, and are trees of righteousness.
All of these pictures are missed by sabbath keepers, and these things show a return to the Garden existence of man before the fall, which is exactly what Jesus did for us at new creation of salvation.
That trust in God to supply is what
Hebrews 4 talks about instead of working our way to please God. We trust in Christ's work to make us pleasing to Him and rest in that work.
Done are the days of temples made with hands, sabbath rests on a specific day to memorialize old creation, and animal sacrifices, feast days and years on the material world's calendar.
Gal 4 is about calendars for sure, but not heathens'. It's Israel's old covenant calendar that dictated when they would ritualistically act in a shadow of what is the everyday lives of those saved and in the NEW creation.
Sabbath days are for those who have to work before they can rest, which tells a message about sin and death.
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Adam would have rested forever with God, and not for a mere day, had he not sinned and was left to eat by the sweat of his brow til he returned to the earth.
Jesus made us from the earth again, but this time from His Tomb from which He resurrected to unite us with Himself to walk in newness of life. And He transported us from the 6th day to the 1st of the next week to rest BEFORE we work!
Man was made on the last day before the rest. He did not exist the first day of the old creation. His first full day of existence was the day God rested on the seventh. And he entered into God's rest when created.
After sin entered, man then came under law and had to work before he could rest, rather than be created by God to rest before anything else was done. He had to earn rest. Beyond created on the first day of the week in new creation shows we rest BEFORE we begin our activity. Jesus was in the tomb resting, so to speak, in death, and we were baptized into that death to rise with Him in NEWNESS of life. A new week!. He [passed from the old week in his death to the new week in his resurrection. This shows a message. It shows no work to earn a rest but God's work provided that rest. It's back again to God creating us, but in a new creation. We are active after we go through the work of God in the cross through Christ. We do not live to rest.
Every week the manna fell for six days and not the seventh. Man had to gather two omers of manna on the sixth day - a double portion. This spiritually shows us that the death of the cross is a double portion. His death counts as mine.
When we really grasp that we died with Jesus and the work was done to create s in a way to rest with Him, then we will not work to be the way we think we should be. We will rest our way through challenges and enemies We REST in CHRIST to conquer battles. STAND STILL and see the salvation of the Lord as we WAIT on Him rather than scurrying to struggle our own abilities and fight in flesh. It's not by might or power but HIS SPIRIT.
BEGIN with rest and then proceed from there, rather than the old covenant system of resting AFTER we work, which is salvation by works.
We BELIEVE to enter the rest, not work to enter. That is what
Hebrews 4 is about.
So, new creation occurred and Jesus raised us with HImself on the first day of the week.
The sabbath day rest stood between the old creation on the sixth day and the new creation on the first. We are affected spiritually by the way we consider the sabbath day. I propose legalism is the underlying issue behind literal sabbath keeping, and the spiritual message of what day man was created in the Old Covenant opposed to what day we were new creature sin the new covenant shows the truth behind it all.