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Noelle S (Jennifer Incognito)'s avatar

I read Isaiah 30 just this morning, but my attention is always drawn to Isaiah 30:21 - this is the way, walk in it. Thank you for calling out Isaiah 30:15 - "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. What an important reminder.

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Jonathan Zartman's avatar

Excellent article and very valuable. Two points to consider: 1) God could have created the universe and everything in it in less than an instant, but He deliberately stretched it to 6 days with the 7th allocated to rest, not because He needed it but for the sake of humanity. As Jesus said, Man was not created for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man." Mark 2:27. God cares for slaves and animals and decries that they be allowed a day of rest. Also the utility workers keeping water flowing to our taps, and electricity join with the medical personnel in working on Sundays; 2) In Heb. 4:9, commonly translated as "There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God," the term Sabbath-rest is Sabbatism--a form of Sabbath keeping, which reflects the (freedom) and custom of the early church to meet on Sunday rather than the Jewish Sabbath--since the recorded appearances of Jesus to his disciples after his resurrection were on Sundays.

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