Message to the Messianic Hebrews 4:9-10 says “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.” (NKJV) This is a reminder for us that the main and global principle of Saturday (Shabbat) is connected with its ordinance on the seventh day of creation.

At that time the Lord had finished everything and enjoyed the rest, beholding His creation. Since then God didn’t come out from Shabbat into the next day but stayed in it. Ever since God stays in Shabbat and He leads all of creation.

This is not just material things but all visible and invisible worlds. This is everything! God is acting from within Shabbat and He is pre-creating everything! What does it mean? If we enter Shabbat for real than, by God’s example, we never come out of it.

(c) Boris Grisenko, senior rabbi of KJMC