{"id":37880,"date":"2022-09-13T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-give-the-scripture-evidence-for-the-statement-that-the-seventh-creative-day-is-a-period-of-7000-years-questioner-harmonize-with-the-fourth-commandment\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:57:01","slug":"please-give-the-scripture-evidence-for-the-statement-that-the-seventh-creative-day-is-a-period-of-7000-years-questioner-harmonize-with-the-fourth-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-give-the-scripture-evidence-for-the-statement-that-the-seventh-creative-day-is-a-period-of-7000-years-questioner-harmonize-with-the-fourth-commandment\/","title":{"rendered":"Please give the Scripture evidence for the statement that the seventh creative “day” is a period of 7,000 years (Questioner.) Harmonize with the fourth commandment."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Scriptural evidence that this is a period of 7,000 years is clear. "God rested (from His work of creation) on the seventh day." When `Psalm 95` was written God was still resting; nor had any change taken place when the Epistle to the `Hebrews was written, for there (ch. 4`.) is held out to the Church the offer of sharing in God's rest. Even when the Kingdom of Heaven is established God's rest continues, for the work of the Kingdom is committed into the hands of the Son. At the close of that reign of 1,000 years (`Rev. 20`) the Son will deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, "That God may be all in all." Since there are about 6,000 years from the creation to the second coming of Christ, and 1,000 years of Christ's Presence, it follows that God's day of rest is about 7,000 years long. During His long "day" God has not been entirely idle, but has done such Sabbath-day works as have in His wisdom been deemed works of necessity. The work of restoring the human race from its degradation–during the last part of that day will also be Sabbath work. Like the ox or ass, it has fallen into a pit, and God has made provision for its restoration. The fourth commandment does not say that God worked six days of twenty-four hours and then rested the other twenty-four. The Jewish Sabbath and its system of Sabbaths are types of the greater Sabbath–the heavenly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Scriptural evidence that this is a period of 7,000 years is clear. "God rested (from His work of creation) on the seventh day." When `Psalm 95` was written God was still resting; nor had any change taken place when the Epistle to the `Hebrews was written, for there (ch. 4`.) is held out to … Continue reading “Please give the Scripture evidence for the statement that the seventh creative “day” is a period of 7,000 years (Questioner.) Harmonize with the fourth commandment.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}