How Did God Rest? And How Did God Rest the Seventh Day specifically?
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed [‘made holy’, or ‘sanctified’] it” (KJV Exodus 20:11).
If you objectively and astutely read this, considering, and pondering what you have read, and what this effectively says about God, in description and depiction of how he “the seventh day” and “sabbath day” supervised, you necessarily and unavoidably this must admit, and objectively accept: He “rested the seventh day” (KJV Exodus 20:11), “was refreshed” (KJV Exodus 31:17) the seventh day, and was idle and inactive throughout that day...with God, the Almighty as this narrative’s subject must surely specify the most unbiblical and utterly strange portrayal and depiction of God, that has ever been conceived, or given utterance of itself.
How did God rest? And how did God rest the seventh day specifically?
A. On What Day?
Because: This suggests, that God, the Almighty could perhaps endure the physical rigours and exertion required by five, consecutive days of creation and construction. He was able to persist, and persevere for five days.
But “six” such laborious and physically strenuous “days” were eventually and ultimately just too much for him, and more than he could manage. So he “rested the seventh day” (RSV Exodus 20:11) [and “was refreshed” “the seventh day” (RSV Exodus 31:17)]…
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it” (RSV Exodus 20:11). Which “resting” he did, WHILE he “hallowed [‘sanctified’ or ‘made holy’]” that day.
Thus these questions must here again resonate: How did God rest? And how did God rest the seventh day specifically?
For if God truly “rested the seventh day” (KJV Exodus 20:11), as our traditions all say he did,...“was refreshed” (KJV Exodus 31:17) that day, as all Bible versions say, that he “was”,...and, therefore, was idle and inactive the seventh day...As our traditions say, that he was...
On what day (pray tell!!) must he have “blessed the sabbath day”, and “hallowed”, “made holy”, or “‘sanctified’ it” (KJV Exodus 20:11)?!! As tradition also validates, that he did??!!
For “the sabbath day” and “seventh day” are THE SAME DAY. They amount to different ways to “label” one single day. And whatever God did throughout one of these days necessarily designs what he did on the other.
If he “rested”, doing nothing, and was idle on either, he “rested”, and was idle necessarily on the other. If he “hallowed”, “made holy”, or “sanctified” either, he absolutely had to do the same on the other.
Therefore, these questions here again resonate: How did God rest? And how did God rest the seventh day specifically?
B. DOING VIRTUALLY NOTHING
For saying God spent the seventh day at “rest” must recall, that he “blessed”; and he “hallowed”, “made holy”, or “sanctified” the sabbath day, WHILE at his “REST”, DOING VIRTUALLY NOTHING. Yes: WHILE at his “REST”, DOING VIRTUALLY NOTHING did God “sanctify”, “hallow”, or “make holy” all, encompassing the macrocosm of “the sabbath day”.
Which cancels, and annuls WHAT HE DID THAT DAY, and reduces it to nothing…or at least in its import reduces it to nothing. For one’s merely “resting” achieves JUST THAT.
And one’s doing THAT WHILE “sanctifying something”, or “making it holy” means: What one does WHILE “sanctifying something” accomplishes, and does virtually NOTHING AT ALL.
For while God sanctified, or made holy, he in effect did nothing at all. For he achieved such, while he was at “rest”.
C. Of the Meaning?
What, then, must become of the meaning of “holy”, and what “holy” means in behavioural practice? And how determines that what “holiness” means?
And what, then, defines what “sanctification” means, and what it communicates about self to others, and its behavioural issue and consequence for others? “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed [‘made holy’, or ‘sanctified’] it” (KJV Exodus 20:11). How interprets this verse such expressions as “holy”, “sanctification” and “holiness”? And how exhibits it, that you achieve such?...
For none can deny this absurd inconsistence, that WHILE God “hallowed”, or “sanctified” “the sabbath day”, HE WAS AT “REST”, and was idle on “the seventh day” (KJV Exodus 20:11). Which in effect says: He nothing did.
How did God rest? And how did God rest the seventh day specifically?
D. THE REASON WHY
Which is specifically THE REASON WHY your own understanding of terms like “holiness”, “holy” and “sanctification” retains now so little practical meaning, and so empty is of behavioural guidance. For God seems to “hallow”, or “sanctify” the sabbath day, while he did nothing, and “rested the seventh day” (KJV Exodus 20:11), which thereby empties what “sanctification” means, and limits it to something, that genuinely done is while doing nothing.
E. So Strangely Represented
The which further empties this, “YOUR ‘sanctification’”, which “is the will of God” (I Thessalonians 4:3) of its meaning and significance and any practical exercise, any sort of personal, behavioural description. "Your sanctification", which "is the will of God" is effectively divested of appreciable intention. Due to how tradition treats Exodus 20:11, and makes of it a study of absurd inconsistence, the meaning of “the will of God”, “your sanctification” (I Thessalonians 4:3) devoid has been rendered of its behavioural consequence.
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed [‘made holy’, or ‘sanctified’] it” (RSV Exodus 20:11). Undeniably plain is contradiction here and inconsistence here, due to how our traditions have so strangely represented Exodus 20:11, and so thoroughly obfuscated its correct meaning. Which, nonetheless, exhibits plainly this focal truth, and essentially is validation of this truth…
F. Unless We Learn…
That the model and original of “your sanctification”, and how one does, and achieves “the will of God” must be God himself and alone God himself, and what he himself did throughout that significant and notable seventh day. He alone exemplification can provide of that, and portray of that: “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed [‘made holy’, or ‘sanctified’] it” (RSV Exodus 20:11)
God is the “example” of “sanctification”. He its “ideal” is, its “model” and “guide”, which explains why we must know how God was employed and at work throughout the seventh day, and correctly know what he accomplished that day.
For unless we learn, and become familiarized with what God accomplished, and did “the seventh day”, we must persist, and continue not to know HOW TO DO “the will of God”, “this, your SANCTIFICATION”, the which one achieves ONLY THROUGH ONE’S INTENT to “...Remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy”, or “SANCTIFY it” (deMSby* Exodus 20:8). This explains how you achieve sanctification, AND follow God's original example of such.
And “this, your SANCTIFICATION is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), which he first achieved throughout earth’s seventh day, when first he “made holy”, or “hallowed” that day. “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed [‘made holy’, or ‘sanctified’] it” (KJV Exodus 20:11).
G. Which Explains...
Thus without an understanding of THAT WORK, which God DID THE SEVENTH DAY, we must continue to be simply ignorant and lacking accurate knowledge of “your sanctification”, which “is the will of God” (I Thessalonians 4:3), which explains why people now are, as they are. And thus all, who visit here encouraged are to read, and to study this book, God Did Not Rest He Did Sanctify, which will the solution to these questions be: How did God rest? And how did God rest the seventh day specifically?
*This representation, “deMSby” is signification of the use of the de MontSabbathby Version, the author’s translation of biblical Scripture. (And incidentally, de MontSabbathby is phonetically pronounced, and accented as if spelled “d’Maunt Sábbathbee”).