The Eternal Covenant of Rest

And He [Jesus} said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Mark 2:27 (NKJV)

Growing up as a Creation Sabbath keeper, I can't tell you how many times preachers and believers from other denominations would say, "The Sabbath is under the Old Covenant.  We are now under the New Covenant."  I believe this is true for the whole Sanctuary System of animal sacrifices etc.  However, my ongoing and growing experience as a Creation Sabbath keeper is that the Sabbath of Genesis 2:1-3 is The Eternal Covenant of Rest.  The Creation Sabbath never stopped at the cross.  It was part of the fulfillment of the New Covenant and beyond.

But what exactly is a covenant?  According to Bible Study Tools website (here), "The term "covenant" is of Latin origin (con venire), meaning a coming together."  It's like a marriage.  God is the groom, the church is the bride, and Sabbath is the weekly wedding anniversary.  I like to call it, "God's date day."  Even though a couple is married 24/7, there is only one wedding anniversary day.  God set the date for every seventh-day Sabbath!  (See my 20 reasons for why I love and keep the Creation Sabbath here).  

Furthermore, the author of Hebrews 4:6-11  writing to the Creation Sabbath keepers of that time said,

 "6 So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. 7 So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted:

“Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

8 Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. 9 So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. 10 For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. 11 So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall."  (NLT)

Today I hope you hear God's voice to enter His eternal rest.  Not only did He establish this oasis in time before sin (Gen 2), He invites us to rest in Him today (Heb 4), and throughout eternity as Isaiah said, 

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“so your descendants and your name will endure.” 23 “And it will come to pass, that from one New Moon to another, and from one Shabbat to another, all flesh will come to bow down before Me,” says Adonai."  Isaiah 66:22-23 (TLV)

So this Creation Sabbath, I hope you will go to the throne of God and bask in the glow of the emerald rainbow (Rev 4:3 - the promise of eternal peace and rest).  May you experience God's rest in your body, in your thoughts, and in your spirit.  May that rest fill you with a peace that passes understanding that blesses you so much that others will be blessed too In Jesus Name!