Before mankind sinned…
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished."
The heavens - our sky, our atmosphere, our outer space- all created separate from where God and all the hosts of His heaven would reign. A heavenly temple was brought into existence before mankind, before earth and earth's heavens were created. The heaven of God is unlike anything we can imagine fully, only as looking through a dark glass. Our eyes have NOT seen, our ears have NOT heard, we do NOT have in our hearts fully convicted the THINGS GOD has prepared for us who LOVE HIM. God's heaven was created on a plane of existence we cannot comprehend in our temporal condition. God's heaven exists and by faith we believe it exists. God's heaven- our longed for HOME. God's heaven- the gospel of the KINGDOM. God's heaven separate from - the heavens that were finished for us who live upon earth.
God created the heavens and the earth and finished the creative process, all of creation upon earth was in place when God finished. How momentous was this creation of heavens and earth that God culminated it by resting and not only resting but God blessed the day He rested, God made the day He rested Holy. Day one through six were not blessed, were not made holy, and yet they were filled with all of creation. Those days of creation were not the focus. The skies, the sun, the earth, the land and sea, the creatures of earth, sky and sea -none were the focus of what was transpiring- in and of themselves they were NOT the all-important, NOT worthy of any worshiping at all whatsoever! Nothing created was worship worthy, why? Because nothing created - created itself- it had a CREATOR. The CREATOR blessed a DAY, the CREATOR made a DAY HOLY, why? Was it a one-time day blessed and sanctified? If it were, then why isn't it commemorated as such? Like, for instance… "Remember that day God rested- let's make a yearly celebration of that day. We'll call it day one of every year we have. Wait? How do we have years? Why are we using the objects in the created heavens to dictate our years, our months, our days? You know our days- morning and night. You know our months- that moon goes through a cycle fully seen to not seen at all. You know our years, positioning ourselves in the same orbital place using the Sun as a point of reference. And our weeks, you know the seven days… using…uhm… using a… the, you know, that uhhhh… no, no planetary reference, no light and dark set point, no rotation around… yet people will tell you that those created long after the first of creation instituted the week with planets numbered and so on. God however, CREATED ALL who came up with various ideas (and there have been many) of our life cycles. God CREATED and RESTED. GOD created a DAY for REST, a DAY of HOLINESS, and what makes something holy? GOD!
A PERMANENT MEMORIAL OF CREATION, and hence, a PERMANENT MEMORIAL OF OUR CREATOR.
We NEED this memorial and GOD solidified our need in a remarkable way. He rained manna from heaven to feed the Israelites freed from Egypt. He rained it down SIX days only. On the sixth day He rained down double, the extra to be used on the day there was NO manna. God explained to those who had long forgotten His ways (in many ways) that He created a SABBATH back at CREATION on the SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED- and He blessed that day and made it HOLY. Mankind were NOT to forget they had a CREATOR, not ever! A permanent reminder of their creaturehood was given right after they'd been created.
We KNOW which day of the seven was blessed and sanctified because God's chosen people kept track of it throughout time, so we know today which day is that seventh day. We know and yet we make so many excuses for why it was supposedly changed, none of which are found in God's word if studied through very thorough, careful exegesis.
God created and blessed and sanctified this seventh day I'm writing this little study on. My Creator wants me to know Him as my Creator, to know Him as my Redeemer, my GOD, my LORD, my SAVIOR. I serve my CREATOR! I choose to HONOR Him today, on the day HE created for me to remember HIM and how ALL important HE is, the all in all, the everlasting to everlasting!
All praise, honor, and glory to GOD!
Heb 8:5
Psa_11:4
1Co 13:12
1Co_2:9
2Co_4:18
Heb_11:13
Joh 14:2-4
Mat 24:14
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