Summary of Genesis 2:1-3:
The heavens and the earth were completed. On the 7th day of Creation, God rested. He blessed the 7th day and made it holy because of this.
BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 2, Day 3: Genesis 2:1-3
7) God rested, and it was blessed.
8 ) God rested has also been translated at God ceased. It means that God took a respite, a reprieve, a vacation if you will, from His work. God was still on duty, but not active duty. A good lesson for us to follow.
9) Personal Question. My answer: I’m not going to give the stock answer here of “We should rest because God rested.” Other versions say “cease” and not rest. God ceased his work, not rested from it. I like ceased here. God’s work is never done as is your work. You have a God-given purpose here on earth, and if you don’t know it yet, you need to keep working until you discover it. If you know your purpose here on earth, you don’t quit until God calls you home. You keep working, long day after long day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade. You will have time to “rest” in heaven.
Does that mean that you shouldn’t take a break and recharge? Absolutely not. But the idea of doing work and quitting is not in this passage. You do work, you rest, you go again. That is life on this side of heaven.
End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 2, Day 3: Genesis 2:1-3
Just an example of everything we used to have to look up from BSF Genesis 2012 Lesson 2 Day 2 HERE
End Notes BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 2, Day 3: Genesis 2:1-3
Obviously, God did not need rest. He doesn’t get tired. He rested to give us an example of rest, work, and living. It also gives us the 7-day work week. France attempted a 10-day work week during the French Revolution, which failed. We have a 7-day cycle because God told us to.
Many people fail to notice that you work 6 days (not 5) and rest 1.
The 7th day and the Sabbath is a foreshadow of Jesus’s work on the cross.
Colossians 2:16-17 and Galatians 4:9-11 make it clear that Christians are not under obligation to observe the Sabbath today because Jesus fulfilled the purpose and plan of the Sabbath for us and in us (Hebrews 4:9-11). This does not mean that the Sabbath as a day of rest is lost. It just means that every day is a day of rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
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At the end of each other day of creation, the phrase, so the evening and the morning were the… day concludes the passage and the day, giving us a passage of time. However, this seventh day of creation does not have that phrase. This is because God’s rest for us isn’t confined to one literal day. In Jesus, God has an eternal Sabbath rest for His people (Hebrews 4:9-11).
REST IN HIM!!!
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