Hebrews 4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
God has a plan that has been all spelled out for us in the Scriptures. We can read the Scriptures and have hope in the promises of God. Joshua, leading God's people into the promise land, is symbolic of the coming millennial kingdom. The millennial kingdom is the other day he was referring to. If Joshua led them into the rest that God was referring to in Hebrews then why speak of another day? Because that other day is the hope of the coming kingdom. This kingdom of God, just like the seventh day of creation, is a finished work from the foundation of the world in the plan of God. In other words, you can rest in the fact that it's going to happen.
Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Resting in the fact that what we see in the world today is not the final work of God. Putting our faith in the promise of God's coming kingdom will act as an anchor of hope to the soul and give us rest in this troubled world.
Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.
All the people of old looked forward to the coming promise but didn't received because it was still yet a future event.
God is not doing away with the seventh day Sabbath, He is using it to help us gain hope and assurance in that, just like the seventh day is a finished work in creation, so is the coming kingdom. You can rest and have assurance that it is going to happen, just like the seventh day happens every week.
God uses the things in His creation (such as the seventh day Sabbath) to help us understand things that are not seen.
Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse.
God has a plan that has been all spelled out for us in the Scriptures. We can read the Scriptures and have hope in the promises of God. Joshua, leading God's people into the promise land, is symbolic of the coming millennial kingdom. The millennial kingdom is the other day he was referring to. If Joshua led them into the rest that God was referring to in Hebrews then why speak of another day? Because that other day is the hope of the coming kingdom. This kingdom of God, just like the seventh day of creation, is a finished work from the foundation of the world in the plan of God. In other words, you can rest in the fact that it's going to happen.
Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Resting in the fact that what we see in the world today is not the final work of God. Putting our faith in the promise of God's coming kingdom will act as an anchor of hope to the soul and give us rest in this troubled world.
Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.
All the people of old looked forward to the coming promise but didn't received because it was still yet a future event.
God is not doing away with the seventh day Sabbath, He is using it to help us gain hope and assurance in that, just like the seventh day is a finished work in creation, so is the coming kingdom. You can rest and have assurance that it is going to happen, just like the seventh day happens every week.
God uses the things in His creation (such as the seventh day Sabbath) to help us understand things that are not seen.
Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse.
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