"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. And in this place again, If they shall enter into My rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:"
As is understood by the Scripture above, there is a rest of Seventh Day (Genesis 2:3), and there is a rest of the Final Day, understood by: they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Did "they to whom it was first preached" not keep the Sabbath? Even adding unto the Ten and Mosaic with their own laws?
"They": The people of Israel, whom, alone, Christ Jesus came to save.
"To whom it was first preached": The Son of God, Immanuel, the Christ, Messiah, the Lord God Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Since Moses, He, That Messiah, has been preached - the veil of the knowledge thereof which obscured the Old Covenant, rent upon the foundation of the New.
"Entered not in": The people of Israel whom entered not into God's rest, despite alway keeping His day of rest, will not enter into heaven on the Last Day, the Final Rest.
"Because of unbelief": The people of Israel whom denied their Lord God Savior - Jesus Christ the carpenter, son of Joseph and Mary, borne of the Holy Ghost.
"For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day."
We bear witness to the Truth that God's True Rest is not His Sabbath alone (being the ceremonial, the present form), yet while this old earth and old heaven still exist that Seventh Rest is a statute to this day.
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His."
For in the Last Day, all in Christ Jesus will cease from their works. The Seventh rest then becomes the hope for that Day. Therefore it is a work, good in the sight of God and expressly commanded, to keep His Seventh Day rest. Not only for the hope, rejuvenation, and relationship it grants us as a blessed promise of God but also for the doing and keeping of that which God commands.
Revelation 14:12
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
As understood by the above verse: There is a differentiation between that which is commanded to do as a work, and that which is the salvation by faith in Christ Jesus alone.
Strive to be counted among Christ's saints,
Logos Prevailing.
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