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Sabbath Finished, In Process, or Yet to Come?

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The Sabbath may very well be the most important doctrine in the Bible since the creation of the world, and certainly after God separated the Hebrew people to himself.

Friends, the REST which the Sabbath represents is the PROMISE of the gospel. In fact, the “gospel is the power God that gets us (through faith) into that place of peace and rest with God.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.–Romans 5:1‭-‬2 KJV


This is why Hebrews 4 can say “we who believe HAVE entered God”s rest” 4:3.

At the temptation in the garden of Eden our first parents traded the good/perfect work, (that God allowed them to rest in,) for their own work. The Serpent criticized God’s magnificent creation and paradise, and tricked Eve and her husband into their own plan of creation: “you can be like [better than] God…”

At the Appointed time…:

ALL THINGS are delivered unto me of my Father… Come unto me, all ye that LABOUR and are heavy laden, and I WILL GIVE YOU REST. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and YE SHALL FIND REST unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.–Matthew 11:27‭-‬30 KJV

For we which HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they [the unbelievers] shall [not] enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [The Serpent lied, we can’t outdo our Creator. After the 6th day God’s glorious work was finished]– Hebrews 4:3 KJV

FINALLY AFTER MANKIND’S FAILURE

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.– Revelation 11:15 KJV

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you…–John 14:27 KJV

SHALOM!

There Remains a Rest for The People of God?

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FREQUENTLY MIS-TRANSLATED and MIS-INTERPRETED PASSAGE

For if Jesus [JOSHUA] had given them rest, then would he [God] not afterward have spoken of another day.  There remaineth [is left behind] therefore a rest to the people of God. Hebrews 4:8‭-‬9 KJV

Nearly all false teaching comes from poor translation, failure to check the translation from the original language, and FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT IN THE CONTEXT.
You can see what I believe is a corrected translation above.

How shall we escape [similar judgment], if we neglect [fail to care for] so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; –Hebrews 2:3 KJV

The Hebrews to whom he was writing were “leaving behind/neglecting” [4:9] the gospel and its REST from works, to return to the Old Covenant–this letter is A WARNING and admonition to them.

THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL HAVE ENTERED GOD’S PROMISED REST WITH JESUS

“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; –Hebrews 3:6‭, ‬14 KJV


(For we which HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST,] …Hebrews 4:3 KJV

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: –Hebrews 12:18‭-‬19‭, ‬22‭-‬24‭, ‬28 KJV


“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.   Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.   Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.   For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. –Matthew 11:27‭-‬30 KJV