Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
And I will give you rest; spiritual rest here, peace of conscience, ease of mind, tranquillity of soul, through an application of pardoning grace, a view of free justification by the righteousness of Christ, and full atonement of sin by his sacrifice; and eternal rest hereafter, in Abraham's bosom, in the arms of Jesus, in perfect and uninterrupted communion with Father, Son, and Spirit.
The Jews say (y), that מנוחת תורה, "the law is rest"; and so explain Gen_49:15 of it: but a truly sensible sinner enjoys no rest, but in Christ; it is like Noah's dove, which could find no rest for the soles of its feet, until it returned to the ark; and they themselves expect perfect rest in the days of the Messiah, and call his world מנוחה, rest (z).
(y) Tzeror Hammor, fol. 39. 3. (z) Tzeror Hammor, fol. 150. 2.
I would say Yeshua is our rest, and IN Him we rest, the Strong Ox and us in the yoke, yet Christ bearing our load, yet we are to yield obedience to the Imperatives of Messiah, the nomos/entole of the Ruach and Yeshua.
Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
they shall not enter into my rest; into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he promised it, and gave it to the Israelites as their rest; and where he himself had a place of rest; and where he gave the Messiah, the author of peace and rest; and which was a type of heaven, that rest from toil and labour, which remains for the people of God; and into which it is said this generation did not enter;
for the Jews say (f),
"the generation of the wilderness have no part in the world to come:''
but this seems too harsh, for doubtless there were many who died in the wilderness, that went safe to heaven, notwithstanding all their sins and provocations.
(f) Tzeror Hammor, fol. 118. 1.
Gill
Heb_4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Do enter (eiserchometha). Emphatic futuristic present middle indicative of eiserchomai. We are sure to enter in, we who believe.
Robertson
For we which have believed do enter into rest (εἰσερχόμεθα γὰρ εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν οἱ πιστεύσαντες)
I say by faith, for, we believers, who embraced the Christian faith when it was offered to us (note the aorist participle), do enter into the rest. Ἐισερχόμεθα categorical; not are entering or are on the way to, but entering into the rest is a fact which characterizes us as believers.
Vincent.
Heb_4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
For if Jesus had given them rest,.... That is, Joshua; for Hosheah, Joshua, and Jesus, are one and the same name; or Jesus himself, as two of Stephens's copies read; and so Joshua is called Jesus by the Septuagint interpreters on Exo_17:10 and other places where he is mentioned; and also, by Josephus (h), and Philo (i) the Jew.
The Syriac version, lest any should mistake this for Jesus Christ, adds, "the son of Nun": who is certainly the person designed, as the apostle's reasoning shows; who was an eminent type of Jesus Christ: there is an agreement in their names, both signify a saviour, Joshua was a temporal saviour, Christ a spiritual one; and in their office they were both servants; and in their qualifications for their office, such as wisdom, courage, faithfulness, and integrity.
Joshua was a type of Christ in many actions of his life; in the miracles he wrought, or were wrought for him; in the battles he fought, and the victories he obtained; in saving Rahab and her family; in receiving the Gibeonites, who came submissively to him; and in leading the children of Israel into Canaan's land, which he divided to them by lot: but though he brought them into a land of rest, into the typical rest, where they had rest for a while from their temporal enemies, yet he did not give them the true spiritual rest: had he,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day; that is, God, in David's time, and by him, would not have so long after appointed another day of rest; meaning, not any particular day of the week, but the whole Gospel dispensation, in the times of the Messiah; wherefore the apostle concludes as follows.
(h) Antiqu. Jud. l. 4. c. 7. sect. 2. c. 8. sect. 46, 47, 48. & l. 5. c. 1. sect. 1. & passim. (i) De Charitate, p. 698, 699, 700.
Gill
But I concur how our sister @Ziggy explained it, simple, and I am way too technical and can go deeper.
Suffice to say, yes, Yeshua HaMashiach is our rest
J.
They couldn't enter in because of their unbelief.
Here's this tent in the middle of the wilderness and God himself is living among you.
So now he's going to try them. To see if they would keep His word. He hadn't given them the stone tablets yet.
They had to rely on his words coming from his mouth.
Pick twice as much on the sixth day but none on the seventh day.
Problem was they didn't trust that the provisions God supplied on the 6th day would be enough. So many went out on the 7th looking for more.
This was the sin. Not believing in God and His word.
That's why they couldn't enter in.
They questioned Him all the time. Can God provide water or a banquet table or meat in the desert?
And God did. But their lack of faith was astounding.
God got mad at them because they wouldn't trust him. So he sent serpents among them to bite them.
And the people repented and asked Moses to pray to God to take away the serpents, and Moses made the pole with the brazen snake on it.
All they had to do was look at it and believe that God said if you look at it, snake bites won't kill you.
But many died because they had no faith.
Then they started to bow down and worship the thing for like 700 years until one of the kings had to destroy it. It had become an idol that they worshipped instead of God himself.
They couldn't find rest because they were too busy worrying about everything and not trusting God.
So now breaking the sabbath became a curse. Because it was a sign of rebellion and their lack of faith in God.
And if you were caught working on the Sabbath they got killed.
This is the condemnation of the law. This is it's judgement for sin.
When Jesus came God wiped the slate clean. All sins forgiven. It is finished.
Now, we can do what Israel did and provoke the Lord by not trusting in His rest. And miss out on this eternal promise we have been given.
Or we can keep God's sabbath holy, which is IN Jesus Christ his son, by trusting that He will provide for us for he knows what we have need of daily.
Give us this day our daily bread. Don't say nothing about only six days, it says daily.
We need to trust that God will provide for all our needs without griping or unbelief.
If anyone chooses to set aside one particular day to give God the glory and thanks, that's fine.
But I believe in order to be "obedient" to the spirit of the law, this should be everyday we have breath in us.
The sermon on the mount works good here.
I posted it in the Barista a couple days ago.
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