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." 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