Heb 4:4-11

Excerpt: He also declared that David will bring to the world, the Lord’s Sabbath rest. Thus I quote him. He said, “ 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” —Heb 4: 4-11
Paul not only calls for Christians to labor for a future rest, but he also unveils algebraic theology when he defines the Sabbath as a polynomial equation, a law that has at least two separate answers. He proves that the seventh day in the commandments commemorates the creation week. We well know from Bible history that, to honor that day, the church must put aside all work on the seventh day of each week. However, to us that are the learned and the stable, Paul reveals a second derivative or a second, seventh-day Sabbath Rest, a rest that honors the finishment of David’s work. Thereby does he call it a “rest as it is in David”. And showing that, after all these 2000 years since Calvary, that rest has never been instituted —after all, only today is the ministry of David as the son of man brought to view— then our curiosity is piqued. This especially since, Paul said, Jesus did not give to us that rest…