In the beginning God created the heavens and earth to be inhabited and governed by man. Man’s inheritance was the earth.

And because God made His creation in 6 days, then Rested from His works on the 7th day, He showed that to us as a pattern for us to associate with the creation on earth for our own creating for 6 days, then to meet with God in His rest on the seventh day, which is traditionally called “The Sabbath Day Rest of God”. He invited us to join Him there. Where? Away from His creating and His creation of earth, to a place called The New Creation. The place where He newly creates in us. He recreates. We participate in His recreation.

In common terms Sunday is for recreation. This is misunderstood to mean sports and outdoor activities, however even a simple break down of the word “recreation” itself has no connotations related to sports and outdoor activities but creation.

The word “recreation” was meant to “make anew” in a mental and spiritual way.

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Recreation simply put is “re-creating”. Pertaining to an act of creating.  And because God rested from His works after He was pleased with His creation by saying “it is good, very good”. With the creation of earth He is done. However He is active recreating in those who seek Him. How? In a mental, spiritual way.

Meaning nothing needs to be added to this creation and nothing needs to be taken away. Having looked at all the variables of all time and everything mankind could do to it, God knew that He had it covered. God had man encapsulated from Himself and His purposes protected from any one of man’s dubious attempts to change this.

This is why God rested eternally from any future alterations. “All things are held together by the power of His Word”, irrefutably. He need not say another word about His 6 days of creation from which He ceased and went back to where he came. As He said “it is good, very good”.

This is why scripture says God created every tree leaf and blade of grass but had not caused them to grow for there was no man yet, showing that He prescribed all of them as necessary for humanity according to their need, as the object and the primary recipient of the things God has said. God has it covered.

He now abides in Heaven still and awaits our arrival to be with Him where He is. He is seated waiting for His enemies to become His footstool. His enemies are not Satan sin and death. Those were defeated at the Cross. His enemies now are your doubts and fears. These keep you from entering your rest with Him.

Maybe you think He still needs to do another work, that He has to come back and fix something. That would mean He overlooked something. Then He really wouldn’t be God. He would’ve been caught off guard and have to fix something. That He rests in intervals. But He finished His work. God ceased from creating. He retired.

The only work left to do is salvation. To help people learn to believe. Man fell only in his understanding and needs to be stood back up there. There were no broken bones or wounds to be stitched. There were no sirens, ambulances or rescue crews. The damage was an inverted, flipped upside down and turned inside out thinking from faith to fear. This is why Adam said “I heard your voice and was afraid”. His faith and trust was gone and he felt alone and full of fear. When ever anyone rejects God they do not get the next best thing but the opposite. That is why the first call of the Gospel is to repent. Repent means “turn”. To turn at the place of your fall. Your thinking. To be renewed in the spirit of your mind. That’s it. That is where the damage took place.

For this purpose we have the Gospel once and for all given to the saints. The working of God’s eternal Word and Holy Spirit. “The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes. For in it the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith”. Like a prossesion of dominoes clicking one after another throughout history. With these things all meticulously thought out and planned for, God rested from His works. Those who learn to understand this, rest as well. Their struggle with doubts are over. God can handle this, that and anything. He already made the provisions and the things that He said during the first six days are being played out even now. If you can learn to understand this, and rest in this, you can consider yourself to have accepted His invitation to sit with Him in and Rest with Him. The wrangling of the mind and wringing your hands are over and your doubts are dead. God has it covered. Period.

As scripture says “there remains a Sabbath Rest for the people of God. Those who have entered this rest have ceased from their works like God did from His. Therefore let us be diligent to enter God’s rest.

The Sabbath days rest called the 7th day of the week that was eternally ordained for mankind was an invitation for us to join God where He is even now, not so much being a location, but a disposition and association. His disposition is spirit and Truth. The association is Him, the gift of reconciliation of being joined to God. Even as Paul said. “I plead with you. By the mercies of God be reconciled to the Father.

And where is that? At a place where feet can’t take you, not even a space ship can, but faith. Where? In His rest outside of His creating, being the preponderance of who he is. We learn to rest in God from this creation with Him by exploring His new realities of the things that never get old called “the New Creation” that God has given us in His Son. As scripture says “¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. ¹⁸ And all things are of God.”

They are of an unearthly glory.

And because all things are new, and all things are of God, we have to go where He is to get them. Which is where? Just beyond the Vail of human perceptions. So you don’t have to go very far.

Hebrews says the Israelites could not enter God’s realm because they could not receive it by faith. They wanted only the facts. So a judgment was placed against them saying “seeing with their eyes they see not. And hearing with their ears they hear not. Because it is with the heart that one must see and hear to understand and receive the things of God. Why? Because God’s things cannot be carnally assimulated. You have to use faith. The Israelites would not enter God’s rest by faith so they couldn’t have it. They could not believe.

The words “faith” and “believe” come from the same Greek word in scripture.

The writer of Hebrews extends this warning from God saying: ¹⁰ Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. ¹¹ So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

The ways of God they did not know was faith in the invisible. Faith is the substance of things hoped the evidence of the unseen. And because they could not see it, they could not believe it. And because they could not believe they were rejected. They rejected the invisible God and exchanged the truth of God for a lie and changed the invisible God into the image a man. Today they call him the 2nd coming Jesus because they cannot accept that “the kingdom of God is at hand”. Meaning, it is at your fingertips. These want God to appear like them do they can go up and shake his hand,  but God wants them to appear like Him which is why we are “the called” back to Him.

Many reject their own transfiguration and settle for flesh. But flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom. However the rescripted, recreated mind of faith does. They are called godly meaning godlike for this reason. They are called saints as well for they have something holy. That is the word saint comes from.  It refers to something invisible.

These accept God as He is and God gives them His garments and brings them to the Bridle Chamber. They participate in the Wedding Feasts not as spectators but being participants. Why? Because these are their Parents. How can one be born again without a mother and a father?

This then is the purpose for us on earth. For us to interact with the Living God in spirit and truth for the acrument of the things He has said, to solidify our understanding of who God is, for the acquisition of the full gift of godliness. To stand in God’s presence in the here and now while we have time. For the day is coming when the invitation to Heavenly Jerusalem will be withdrawn and the Bridle Chamber will be closed and the words will expire that say:

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.               ( Meaning you can impliment it today) ¹¹ He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.¹² And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me”. And it is Me

Here is what the Lord said to Isaiah about the Sabbath:

If thou turn away thy foot from (defiling) the sabbath,
from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight,
the holy of the Lord, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speakingthine own words:
¹⁴ then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:
for the mouth of the Lordhath spoken it.

The Kingdom of God is at hand.