The Rest of God

By Larry Wilson

The Rest of God is an in depth look into the Word of God as to what the Rest is, as the Bible puts it the Sabbath. We will look at the many aspects of the Sabbath. What day is the Rest, who should keep the Rest, What are the conditions to be His people, and the conditions of the Sabbath? Ask the question, is there a sign to distinguish God’s people from the others? What about Jesus and the Sabbath, what about Acts, does the Sabbath stop and something new happens or does it continue on after the death and resurrection of Jesus and if it does then who changed the day, do we have the right to change what God has said? Do languages give us a clue as to when the day of Rest is. What do the church leaders from the past have to say about the fourth commandment. what does the church at Rome have to say about God’s Rest. There are many questions to answer as we are look into on the Rest of God. This book will help our growth in the Lord on this subject, and makes a excellent tool for Bible study groups.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Larry Wilson
• Release date: Sep 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781945975424

Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson grew up attending the church of Christ with his parents. He attended Williamstown Bible Collage from 1975 through 1977. A Bible prophecy seminar in 2000 challenged some of Larry’s core beliefs, thus causing him to search the scriptures on these matters. In 2001, when he married Leslie, they witnessed the Lord change pink flowers to blood red on the wedding cake. This event led to their expanded studies of scriptures from the Hebrew perspective and other theological viewpoints, comparing them to the scriptures. The Rest of Cod is the culmination of his work on this subject.

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To my parents for bringing me up in a Christian environment, to seek the Lord.

To the Lord Jesus and how He has led us to seek out the Truth, even when there is sometimes pain in learning and relearning, being clay in the potters hands.

To all the people that the Lord has lead in my path to challenge or to enrich my faith.

To The Holy Spirit That the Lord sent to us, for without Him we cannot even begin to understand the Word.

To all the saints that have gone on before understanding what God has said, on how to live, thus laying the foundations for us to follow today.

To all those that seek truth and will allow God to strip away the preconceived ideas, it is like striping corn the husk is the preconceived ideas which we have to get rid of to get to the kernels of truth.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Rest of God

His Chosen People

The Conditions to be His Chosen People

The Stranger

The Holy or the Profane

The Works

No Commercial Work

The Complaint

Work of the Sabbath

Battle on the Sabbath

Jesus and the Sabbath

The Dominion

The Oxen Factor

The Church and the Sabbath

The New Heaven and Earth

The Sign

The Test

The Promise

The Rest of Hebrews Examined

The Reason for the Rest

The Holidays

The Maccabees

The Changes

Who Changed What

Church Leaders Speak Out

The Languages

But, But, What About

Conclusion

Review Questions

References

End Notes

Chart of the Week

News Articles

About the Author

Foreword

From the time God looked down and saw a man named Abraham. He then began to show Abraham the things to come. How God would choose a people for Himself and would give them the Rest in God they would desire. This would only take place when the children of Israel would harken to the Lord’s commands. God set forth the instructions for His people to follow. This is the Sabbath in which you are to Rest. And here is the land that I am giving you to rest in.

For thousands of years people have been looking for the Rest of God. Some have entered into His Rest, while the rest of us have fallen short. The Rest of God comes about when we begin to believe what God has spoken and begin to follow His commands.

For the last 2000 years there have been changes taking place, to change the Word of God. The Christians will say that Sunday is the day of the Lord. Stating that (Jesus) rose from the grave and making this the Lord’s Day. While the Jews and the God fearing Gentiles (Christians) worship the Lord on the Sabbath.

Reminding you of the fourth commandment, to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.

Who is it that will enter into the Rest of God? And how will we go about to enter into His Rest. As we learn about God’s Rest we will learn how to enter into God’s Rest.

To help us learn about God’s Rest, when we answer the questions in the back of this book. It will help us better understand what God is saying about His Rest.

The questions follow the book from the beginning to the end.

Introduction

The Rest of God, When is the Rest of God ? Who will participate in the Rest of God? Is there a certain day and time for His Rest? What is the rest?

As we go through this study on the Rest of God the answers will become clear.

What does the Bible say about God’s Rest in the beginning?

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended His work, which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all the work, which He had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that He had rested from all his work which God created and made. (Genesis 2:1-3)

Here we see that God Rested on the seventh day and He sanctified that day, or to say that He set it apart for a certain purpose, which is for His purpose.

Now, we come to Mount Sinai where God gives forth the everlasting covenant, which we call the Ten Commandments, besides these, God gives many other instructions and statutes and judgments. But let us look at the everlasting covenant to see what God says about His Rest. Let us look at the fourth commandment and see what God tells the whole house of Israel to do along with the other people who had come out of Egypt with them.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:

But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

For in six days the Lord made heavens and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it (Exodus 20:8-11).

Here we see that God tells Israel what to do and when to Rest and who should join into His rest. Israel, their servants, their cattle, and the strangers who were in their gates. God tells them why they were to Rest on His day.

Who is to enter into the Rest of God? Is it Israel the nation only or is it also the strangers, who join themselves to Israel? Who are we? Are we one of the descendants of the nation of Israel or are we descendants of one of the nations of the earth, called Gentiles.

Let’s look at what Isaiah says:

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors (Isaiah 14:1-2).

Here we find that it is Israel and the strangers that join themselves to Israel.

These are the ones that will enter God’s Rest. It is Israel, it is the strangers, and it is those of us that believe, with a faith that is a working faith. James says in 2:14-26 how works and faith go hand in hand. True faith has the works that back up the belief. Other- wise we fall into the same area as the devils, which believe. They believe but have not works that please God.

But wilt thou know, O VAIN MAN, that faith without works is dead (James 2:20)?

Who shall enter into His Rest, those of us who have the faith and believe what God has said? And put into practice the commandments of God into our lives.

The Rest of God

What does the book of Hebrews say about God’s Rest?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His (God’s) Rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For we who have believed do enter into Rest,

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did Rest the seventh day from all his works.

If they shall enter into My Rest.

There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God (Hebrews 4:1,2,4,9).

In this study of the REST OF GOD, we shall look at as much of the Bible to see just what God is telling His people. First off, who are God's people? In the beginning and also now. Are you one of God's people?

There are ways of telling which god we serve. Is it God or Satan who is the deceiver?

In the beginning, God looks down and saw the man Abram, tells him to get out of his country, unto a land that He would show him. God took this man and changed his name to Abraham saying, he would become a great nation. This account we can read in the book of Genesis.

From Abraham came Isaac and then Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.

As we read the books of Genesis through Deuteronomy, we find that God took a people from among the nations to