Creation Moment 1/9/2025 - Creator's "Rest"

"The work of the Creator was finished, but the first week of time had not yet expired. 

Each of the six days had been distinguished by the Creator’s work upon it; but the seventh was rendered memorable in a very different manner. 

And on the seventh day God ended His work which he had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. Genesis 2:2,3. 

In yet stronger language it is written: “On the seventh day he rested and was REFRESHED.” 

Thus the seventh day of the week became the rest-day of the Lord.  He needed no rest; yet it is written, “on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” 

Q: Why does not the record simply state the cessation of the Creator’s work? 

Q: Why did He at the close of that work employ a day in rest? 

A: The answer will be learned from the next verse. He was laying the foundation of a divine institution, the memorial of His own great work. “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” The fourth commandment states the same fact: He “rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

The blessing and sanctification of the seventh day was because that God had rested upon it. 

His resting upon it then, was to lay the foundation for blessing and sanctifying the day. 

His being refreshed with this rest implies that He delighted in the act which laid the foundation for the memorial of His great work." 

J.N. Andrews