LoveGodForever offered… Lets talk about your Hebrews 4 again shall we?
What day then can we enter it some might ask if Saturday is not the day?
That is a rhetorical question. The scriptures make it clear as to the purpose of the fast and what kind of work we can do seeing that day we do not have any servile work to perform like bringing the gospel into the world as the kind of fast that does each God on high.
It does not read as some would offer like the examples below
HEB 4 KJ
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Those who look at the word rest as if it was a time sensitive word .therfore taking away the meaning of the word
HEB 4 in respect to the tose who change the meaning of the word Sabbath ..
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest on Saturday unless any of you should seem to come short of it.
It’s short of the eternal rest not short of the week or any day of it.
Chapter four would be a great place to start
I believe we are informed in Deuteronomy not to add meanings to a word (single) it can diminish from it (single) by taking away the intended purpose. This is different than the warning at the end of the Bible where we are not to add or subtract from the whole perfect book as if God was still brining new revelations.
We are to divide comparing the spiritual understanding to the spiritual or faith (not seen) to the same unseen faith and not add or subtract when we do seek His approval
Deu 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the
word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from
it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
I would suggest the word Sabbath is not a time sensitive word, it means rest with no other meaning added. It does not mean Saturday or the last day of the week a time sensitive phrase in which it is translated wrongly in many paraphrases. I would think it is one of the main cause of confusion. Using a literal translation that does not try and convert a rest word into a time sensitive words gives us the proper understand for the right flow when dividing the word of God it removes the idea that we cold put the rest we do have into a Saturday box.
Mat 28:1 In the end of the Sabbath (Plural) , as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,( Sabbaths plural) came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
A more adequate translation …In the end of the Sabbaths (plural) , as it began to dawn toward the new eras of Sabbaths (plural ) came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Show how you turn that non time sensitive word (Rest) into Saturday or any day other than "today" if we hear his voice and not harden our hearts knowing we have already entered that rest... again not entered Saturday as if rest meant Saturday.