Those who believe are
already in the rest spoken about in Hebrews 4:
"Now we who have believed enter that rest. " Hebrews 4:3
'Enter' in this verse is in the present tense. Everyone who believes is presently in the rest the author is speaking about. The promised rest will find it's complete and final fulfillment at the end of the ages.
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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.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
We enter that rest every week.
Have you stopped working altogether?
Do you not work any more?
We are still working to enter that rest.
One-verse-at-a-time theology is dangerous.