He raised up a New Creation at the resurrection of Christ. The first day of the week is also the eighth day. And all Christians were raised up together with Christ to walk in newness of life: Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Rom 6:4)
It is significant in this context that the circumcision of Hebrew children was to be on the eighth day. There are also physiological reasons why the eighth day was selected by God, but the meaning is a new heart and a new spirit. Thus Paul says: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom 2:28,29)
It is significant in this context that the circumcision of Hebrew children was to be on the eighth day. There are also physiological reasons why the eighth day was selected by God, but the meaning is a new heart and a new spirit. Thus Paul says: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom 2:28,29)
Hebrews 4:3
"Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world."
How can one enter God's rest if it happened for just one day a long, long time ago? The answer is that God's day of rest is ongoing.
This would then mean that the eighth day has not yet come.
The eighth day is the resurrection, the judgment and the destruction of death. The eighth day is the fuller restoration to God. As you have indicated it was on that eighth day that males were circumcised, symbolizing their restoration to God. But circumcision is just a symbol pointing to the eighth day. Circumcision did not bring forth the eighth day. Likewise, our baptism points to our full restoration to God (the eighth day), but it does not bring about our full restoration to God. We are not fully restored until that day.
Our full restoration to God does not occur until the eighth day when God 's kingdom will come on earth as it is in heaven.
My point is that if the seventh and eighth days are not 24 h days, then perhaps the first six days may not have been 24h days either.
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