Why The Seventh Day For Rest?

[WalterandDebbie]

Friday 1-26-24 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Shevat 14 5784, 37th. Winter Day

There are many reasons, personally after six days and on the seventh day cycle of His labor He rested. here are a few views and yours is welcome.

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Love, Walter And Debbie

 

[Gary K]

Friday 1-26-24 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Shevat 14 5784, 37th. Winter Day

There are many reasons, personally after six days and on the seventh day cycle of His labor He rested. here are a few views and yours is welcome.

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Love, Walter And Debbie

God didn't need the rest. He rested because He created us with a seven day biological cycles in us. It's an undeniable evidence of creation and our need for the Sabbath.

Seven-day human biological rhythms: An expedition in search of their origin, synchronization, functional advantage, adaptive value and clinical relevance - PubMed

This fact-finding expedition explores the perspectives and knowledge of the origin and functional relevance of the 7 d domain of the biological time structure, with special reference to human beings. These biological rhythms are displayed at various levels of organization in diverse species -...

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[Whatever]

I agree with Gary K. God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th to set a pattern for us.

I believe one of the things they did in the French Revolution was to make a 10 day week to get away from anything that would remind them of God.

 

[WalterandDebbie]

I agree with Gary K. God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th to set a pattern for us.

I believe one of the things they did in the French Revolution was to make a 10 day week to get away from anything that would remind them of God.

Hello Whatever, Thank you.

 

[Gary K]

I agree with Gary K. God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th to set a pattern for us.

I believe one of the things they did in the French Revolution was to make a 10 day week to get away from anything that would remind them of God.

Yeah, the French Revolution was pure evil. They deified the Goddess of Reason. It's where rationalist beliefs came from such not accepting miracles, rejecting the deity of Jesus, and throwing out the inspiration of scripture.

 

[Gary K]

I have some more on this. The following quote comes from a scientific article.

Mammalian pineal gland: 7-Day Rhythmic Activity In their
researchon rats at London University in 1975, Vollrath, et al. [1]
confirmed the fact that the mammalian Pineal Gland undergoes
prominent circadian changes in function, which are quite dependent
on environmental lighting conditions. They reported that there are
indications which suggest that the Pineal Gland of rats kept in their
laboratories exhibited in addition to 24 hour cycles, characteristic
7-day cycles. It was unclear to them whether the rhythms were
caused by internal or external factors and whether the rhythm was
just a peculiarity of rats kept under environmental conditions of
their laboratory. The finding that concerns us for the purposes of this
discussion however, is that HIOMT enzyme activity under natural
lighting conditions was HIGHEST on Saturdays and lowest on
Thursdays; the Thursday values being six times lower than those on
Saturdays. A gradual decrease in enzyme activity was noted between
Saturdays and Thursdays. A striking increase occurred between
Fridays and Saturdays.

https://www.sciresliterature.org/Biology/SJB-ID28.pdf

 

[JLB]

I agree with Gary K. God created in 6 days and rested on the 7th to set a pattern for us.

I believe one of the things they did in the French Revolution was to make a 10 day week to get away from anything that would remind them of God.

God has not rested yet, and therefore the seventh day has not yet arrived.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:1-3

• My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. John 5:16-18


But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8






JLB

 

[Gary K]

God has not rested yet, and therefore the seventh day has not yet arrived.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:1-3

• My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. John 5:16-18


But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8






JLB

So you're going to quote scripture that says exactly what you claim it doesn't say. Then you go on to misuse scripture that is prophetic in nature and apply it to the past.

 

[Whatever]

God has not rested yet, and therefore the seventh day has not yet arrived.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Genesis 2:1-3

• My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. John 5:16-18


But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8






JLB

It says God rested on the 7th day. It doesn't say He continued to rest from then after.

 

[JLB]

So you're going to quote scripture that says exactly what you claim it doesn't say. Then you go on to misuse scripture that is prophetic in nature and apply it to the past.

I quoted scripture that says God has been working to this day.

Here it is again —

But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” John 5:17

If the Father has been working to this day, then He has not yet ceased from His work and rested yet.


Obviously the seventh day as God intended hasn’t arrived, since a day to Him is a thousand years.






JLB

 

[WalterandDebbie]

I quoted scripture that says God has been working to this day.

Here it is again —

But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” John 5:17

If the Father has been working to this day, then He has not yet ceased from His work and rested yet.


Obviously the seventh day as God intended hasn’t arrived, since a day to Him is a thousand years.






JLB

In that sense, you are correct, for the Millennial Reign Of Christ

 

[JLB]

It says God rested on the 7th day. It doesn't say He continued to rest from then after.

It says on the seventh day He rested.

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

If a day is a thousand years then the seventh day on which He rested is yet to come. However, since God is not constrained by time, He is already there.

So we see from a perspective of eternity He is at rest.

From a perspective of earth and time, He is still working in our lives so that we may enter His rest.

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” John 5:16-17



As it is written —

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. Hebrews 4:9




JLB

 

[JLB]

In that sense, you are correct, for the Millennial Reign Of Christ

I enjoy the Sabbath day to spend with the LORD in fellowship with Him, and to be at peace.

He is my peace and rest.

 

[WalterandDebbie]

I enjoy the Sabbath day to spend with the LORD in fellowship with Him, and to be at peace.

He is my peace and rest.

Yes, I was looking over some notes on the Sabbath finding it necessary for obedience from the beginning.