When God said "REMEMBER".......

When God said "REMEMBER".......
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work....For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. EXODUS 20:8-11

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Reason for 7th day rest of God

 "Now I inquire, 
Q: What was the work to which the seventh-day rest stands related? ---And no question can be more definitely answered by the Scriptures than is this, Gen. ii., 1-2: "And the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them. 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
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Ex. xx.. 10-11: "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God. . . . For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
The same in Ex. xxxi., 17: "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed." And it is repeated in Gen. ii., 3, where 
---the reason is given for its sanctification: "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.
This testimony is too plain to need comment...." 
Joseph Waggoner