Bible Discussion Thread

@Reggie,
May I suggest, letting the Bible explain Hebrews 4: 9, 10.
�9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God�. The word �rest� in original Greek is �Sabbatismo� from which we get the word �Sabbath� or the seventh day. This matches perfectly with what verse 10 says: �For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.� Here is that account: Genesis 2 �1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. 2 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.3 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.� Though the Jews kept the seventh day Sabbath, it is not a Jewish sacred day only; it belongs to all of us. It is not a punishment but a privilege. And keeping the Sabbath Day holy is not an option either: It is the fourth of the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20). Jesus, our Creator gave us the Sabbath at the end of the Creation Week. He kept it holy while on earth, and he bids us to teach all nations �whatsoever I have commanded you� Matthew 28:19, 20. Here is a promise to those who keep it: �If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD� for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it�. Isaiah 58: 13, 14. This Sabbath Day will also be celebrated in God�s New Kingdom: �And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.� Isaiah 66:23. Now, how we celebrate the Sabbath is another issue.