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The Biblical Sabbath, Pt 4 An Invitation to Enter His Rest

Hebrew Word Review Miqra = Gathering, Assembly (on holy days) Yahuwah, Yah = the LORD, our Father in heaven Elohim, El = God, literally, Mighty One Yahusha = Jesus, the Hebrew name of Messiah Kadash, Kodesh, Kadosh = holy, set apart

Review Seventh day blessed and set apart at creation Remember and guard the Sabbath The Sabbath was (is) a test commandment The Sabbath is a sign Dire warnings against working on the Sabbath Sabbath a day of ceasing, assembly, worship Sabbath is Yah’s day, not our own (Isaiah 58)

Test Commandment Then Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. Ex 16:4

Sign Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ex 31:13

Dire Warnings "‘Guard the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to Yahuwah. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death. Ex 31:14-15

An Invitation to Enter His Rest Hebrews 3:7-4:11

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, How do we know what the Spirit says? What the Holy Spirit says is written in the Scriptures! The Holy Spirit does NOT contradict the Scriptures

Hebrews quotes Psalm 95 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. (KJV)

Hebrews quotes Psalm 95 To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (KJV)

Back to Hebrews… 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion (Meribah, provocation), during the time of testing (Massah, testing, despair) in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"

The Time of Testing – Exodus 17 (NAS) Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?" 3 But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, "Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?" 4 So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me."

The Time of Testing (Exodus NAS) 5 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

The Time of Testing (Numbers 20 NAS) Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there. 2 There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron. 3 The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!

The Time of Testing (Numbers 20 NAS) 4 "Why then have you brought the LORD'S assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here? 5 "Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink." 6 Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to them;

The Time of Testing (Numbers 20 NAS) 7 and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 8 "Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink." 9 So Moses took the rod from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him;

The Time of Testing (Numbers 20 NAS) 10 and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, "Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?" 11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. 12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." 13 Those were the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the LORD, and He proved Himself holy among them.

Back to Hebrews… 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion (Meribah, provocation), during the time of testing (Massah, testing, despair) in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"

My Rest Hebrew yti(x'Wnm My Rest Hebrew yti(x'Wnm. (menuchati) This phrase, “my rest”, occurs 3 times Psalm 95 Psalm 132:14 This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it Isaiah 66:1 This is what Yahuwah says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?

The Oath of Hebrews 3:11 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (KJV) 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never 11 "Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest."(NIV) 11 "Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest.“ (NAS) 11 As I swore in my wrath, “If they shall enter into My rest.“ (The Scriptures)

The Oath yti(x'Wnm.-la, !Waªboy>÷-~ai Literally, “If they will enter my rest” LXX: eiv eivseleu,sontai eivj th.n kata,pausi,n mou Is this Hebrew metaphor for “they shall never”? Or is this an oath literally stating the condition by which one may enter?

12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living Elohim. (see Ps 78:17ff) 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Messiah if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. 15 As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Mosheh led out of Mitzrayim? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? 18 And to whom did Elohim swear that they would not enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

Hebrews 4 *See also 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faithfulness. *See also 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as Elohim has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, If they shall enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day Elohim rested from all his work." 5 And again in the passage above he says, “If they shall enter my rest."

6 It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. 7 Therefore Elohim again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.“ 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, Elohim would not have spoken later about another day.

9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of Elohim; 10 for anyone who enters Elohim's rest also rests from his own work, just as Elohim did from his. 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

12 For the word of Elohim is living and active 12 For the word of Elohim is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from Elohim's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

The Bible never promises that entering into Elohim’s Promised Rest is easy Yeshua: 13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7)

So, is keeping Sabbath a “Salvation Issue” So, is keeping Sabbath a “Salvation Issue”? Our ancestors were saved and baptized but in their rebellion forfeited entering in. Many are called but few are chosen. Do you love him with all your heart, soul and strength? (the supreme commandment) Those who want to enter the kingdom rest are called to enter his seventh day Sabbath rest.

Sabbath in Revelation 13 6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.