It is the seventh day of creation.
This day, God calls the Sabbath, the Shabbat.
Shabbat (שבת) means rest.
What is the meaning of this day for us today?
Is it a specific day on which you are not allowed to do certain things?
Is the Sabbath meant for all people, or only for Jews?
Or is this day still to come?
This video will answer these questions, challenge some sacred beliefs, and break with traditions.
If this is the first video you are watching from this series about the creation story, I strongly recommend that you start with part one so that you better understand what is being said in this video.
Genesis 2:2-3 - The Seventh Day Explained
The Jewish tradition teaches that a day begins at sunset.
The Western tradition teaches that a day begins at midnight.
However, the Spirit teaches that the day begins with God.
God said, “Let there be light!”
That is the beginning of the first day.
Then there was evening, and then morning breaks.
The first day is over, and the second day has now begun.
Today is the seventh day.
Genesis 1:31 (HST)
It became evening, and it became morning; the sixth day has passed.
A new day has begun.
It is the morning of the seventh day.
This day will never pass away.
The light of this day will never be extinguished.
Isaiah 60:20 (NKJ)
Your sun shall no longer go down,
Nor shall your moon withdraw itself
For the Lord will be your everlasting light.
Everything we can see, touch, and do are things that God uses to teach us something about the spiritual world.
2 Corinthians 4:18 (BSB)
For we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal.
The same applies to the Shabbat, the seventh day.
What is the meaning of this day for us today?
This day has a deep spiritual significance.
Colossians 2:16 (BSB)
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink,
or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
These are a shadow! ➡️ Of what?
Of things to come ➡️ of something that was still to come
but the body is of Christ.
Christ is the body, and one of the shadows cast by the body is the Sabbath .
The Sabbath is a shadow of Christ.
Christ is the spiritual, and the Sabbath is the natural that teaches us something about Christ.
The seventh day, the Sabbath, the day of rest, is all about Christ.
The seventh day is the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Sabbath Rest: its Spiritual Meaning
Exodus 20:11 (NAS)
In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and everything that is in them,
and He rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Because that is the day when the toil is over.
The seventh day is the day when your eyes are open so that you see who you really are.
It is the day of fullness, the day of resurrection to eternal life.
Because…
John 17:3 (NKJ)
This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
When you have come to know the only true God, you know where your origin lies, your roots.
For He is your Father, you have His DNA.
When you have come to know Him, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, you have come to know yourself, for Jesus shows you who you are.
THAT is the meaning of:
Colossians 1:27 (NKJ)
Christ in you, the hope of glory!
It is your identity, and when you fully see it, you have entered the seventh day, the day of rest.
No more toil to achieve something or to try to understand something.
Not just hoping for glory but having full sight of glory.
2 Corinthians 4:6 (HST)
For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness,
which is described in the third verse of Genesis 1,
is also the One who has shone in our hearts
to shine light on the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
To know God and to know Jesus Christ is eternal life, for He gives you insight into the glory of God.
He shows you what the glory of God really is.
Having full insight into the glory of God is therefore eternal life.
This insight allows you to…
Ephesians 4:15 (NKJ)
…grow up in all things into Him who is the Head; Christ.
This insight allows you to…
Ephesians 4:15 (NKJ)
…grow up in all things into Him who is the Head; Christ.
Thus you grow…
Ephesians 4:13 (NKJ)
…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Thus you grow…
Ephesians 4:13 (NKJ)
…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
The fullness of Christ is your true identity.
This is the identity that Jesus shows you.
1 John 4:17 (NKJ)
For as He is, so are we in this world!
And when you have found that identity, you no longer toil but have entered into the rest of God; the seventh day.
the Number of the Beast vs the Fullness of Christ
Most people, however, remain stuck on the sixth day.
Most people do not dare to believe who they really are.
They have created their own image of their identity and trade their true identity.
Revelation 13:18 (NKJ)
Here is wisdom: let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast,
for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
It is the number of a man who remains stuck on the sixth day.
It is the number of a man who never grew into the fullness of Christ and thus never entered the rest of the seventh day.
The beast, Satan, the wisdom of the world, makes this man believe that it is impossible to reach the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
You already see this with Adam.
Adam died on the sixth day and never entered the rest of the seventh day.
Just like many people still do today, he ate from the wisdom of the world—the knowledge of good and evil.
And God had said:
Genesis 2:17 (NAS)
On the day that you eat from it you will certainly die!
And that is exactly what happened.
Adam died on the sixth day.
God had made Adam in His own image and likeness.
And although Adam had not yet grown into the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19), he was already like God.
However, he did not believe what God had said and tried to become like God himself (Genesis 3:5).
God calls this toil.
That is why God says to Adam:
Genesis 3:17 (NKJ)
Because you have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you,
saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it, all the days of your life.
Because of his unbelief, Adam spent his whole life toiling and never entered God’s rest.
And you?
Are you like Adam?
Are you still eating from the knowledge of good and evil that makes you believe a lie?
Or do you eat from Jesus?
He is the bread that gives life.
John 6:51 (NKJ)
If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever!
The Israelites in the desert, during the time of Moses, also did not dare to believe what God said about them.
For God had said:
Exodus 23:23 (NAS)
My Angel will go before you
and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
and I will completely destroy them.
But what do the Israelites say?
Numbers 13:31 (NAS)
We are not able to go up against these people, because they are too strong for us!
But hadn’t God said that He would go before them and that He would completely destroy them?
Many people today still do the same.
Many do not believe that they could ever grow into the fullness of Christ,
because there will always be desires and thoughts of the flesh that seem stronger than they are.
This, however, is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Because this way, you will always try to defeat these enemies yourself.
God calls this toil.
Everything that God said to Adam, to Moses, and to everyone in the Old Testament, He also says to you.
Even what He said to the Israelites in Exodus 23:23.
God says to you:
Exodus 23:23 (HST)
Jesus will go before you and bring you to the lies and worldly desires and thoughts within you,
and I will completely destroy them.
How?
By His Word!
THAT is the bread that gives life.
You eat this bread with your ears.
Whoever has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says!
Overcoming Sin & Unbelief and Entering Rest
The seventh day is the day you stop toiling because you have grown into the fullness of Christ.
The seventh day is the day of rest.
From day one, you have listened to what God says about you.
This is the bread that has caused you to grow into the fullness of who you are.
Remaining stuck on the sixth day—thus not growing into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—is living in sin.
THAT is what sin is.
Sin is not: “doing things you think God does not allow.”
Those things are a consequence of sin.
Sin is: “not believing what God says about you.”
You sin with your heart and your mouth, not with your hands.
Because…
Hebrews 3:17-19 (NAS)
With whom was God angry for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest,
but to those who were disobedient?
So we see that they could not enter because of their unbelief.
The Israelites did not believe what God said.
They sinned against God and were disobedient through their unbelief.
Because of this, they could not grow into the seventh day, and they died on the sixth day.
Just like Adam and just like many people today.
Hebrews 4:4-13 (HST)
For God has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way:
“God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”
Because then the creation was finished.
Since, therefore, the fact remains that some enter that rest,
and those to whom the gospel was first preached
to the Israelites in the desert
did not enter because of their disobedience,
He again designates a certain day: today!
Now, At this very moment!
saying through David, after such a long time:
“Today, when you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God!
for you!
For whoever has entered God’s rest
has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
because then the new creation is finished!
And whoever is in Christ is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Whoever is in Christ has entered God’s rest.
Whoever is in Christ no longer lives on the sixth day but has grown into the seventh day.
Genesis 1:31 (HST)
It became evening, and it became morning; the sixth day has passed.
Let us then be diligent to enter that rest,
Not by trying to defeat Satan yourselve and grow by your own strength, but by listening to what God says.
That is the bread that gives life and makes you grow into the fullness of Christ.
He declares the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10).
He says from the beginning who you really are—namely, the fullness of Christ—so that you may grow up in all things into Him who is the Head: Christ!
Thus you grow to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Not later, in some afterlife, but now, in this life!
So that no one will fall by following this example of disobedience.
For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow,
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Exodus 23:23 (HST)
Jesus will go before you
and bring you to the lies and worldly desires and thoughts within you,
and God will completely destroy them.
