Some claim that the Sabbath of Hebrews 4 is about resting symbolically in His grace, and that His 7th day Sabbath is no longer in effect. Sabbatarians claim it is about the 7th day Sabbath.
I believe that Paul, being a very deep thinker, means both.
In Exodus 20, the Sabbath is about commenmorating Him as Creator.
In Deuteronomy 5, Moses explains it as honoring Him as your deliverer from "Egypt". He does so with a stretched out arm we are told. (The cross?).
In other words, before the cross the 7th day commemorated Him as Creator and after the cross it also commemorates Him as Redeemer.
But one does not take away from the other nor does one negate the other. For He is both--Creator & Redeemer. And in both, the 7th day Sabbath is still in effect-for would He not havre spoken of another day?
So yes, Hebrews 4 is about the 7th day Sabbath-literal & spiritual. Remember, God gave us a warning to be very careful with Paul - ...even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:15,16
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said,
As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
To day, after so long a time; as it is said,
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
For if Jesus had given them rest,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
I believe that Paul, being a very deep thinker, means both.
In Exodus 20, the Sabbath is about commenmorating Him as Creator.
In Deuteronomy 5, Moses explains it as honoring Him as your deliverer from "Egypt". He does so with a stretched out arm we are told. (The cross?).
In other words, before the cross the 7th day commemorated Him as Creator and after the cross it also commemorates Him as Redeemer.
But one does not take away from the other nor does one negate the other. For He is both--Creator & Redeemer. And in both, the 7th day Sabbath is still in effect-for would He not havre spoken of another day?
So yes, Hebrews 4 is about the 7th day Sabbath-literal & spiritual. Remember, God gave us a warning to be very careful with Paul - ...even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:15,16
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| Creator & Redeemer culminating in our High Priest |
Hebrews 4:3-11
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said,
As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,
And God did
rest the seventh day from all his works.
(the Sabbath in Exodus?-CREATOR)
And in this place again,
If they shall enter into my rest.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
(the Sabbath as explained in Deuteronomy?-REDEEMER)
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said,
To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
For if Jesus had given them rest,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
(only ONE REDEEMER)
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
For he that is entered into his rest,
he also hath ceased from his own works,
as
God did from his.
(Grace? Justification? -in other words, Sacrificial system ended at the cross)
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,
(Sanctification? By keeping His Law willingly, which includes the 7th Day Sabbath)
lest any man fall after the
same example of unbelief.
(Sabbath, the 7th Day, stands as a dual reminder)
So some of you who are unlearned and unstable out there, stop twisting Paul to preach "cheap grace" and stop undermining the Sabbath.....Thanx....
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before
me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain....and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD.
Isaiah 66:22,23