Bedside Watchman The Rest Which Remains

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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May 31st -- Hebrews 4

The Rest Which Remains

There is a rest of God which His people are invited to share. This is evident from the record that God did "rest" when creation was finished, and also that He said the faithless Israelites should not enter His rest, the offer of so doing having been made to them. And now the question arises: Was the occupancy of the land by those Israelites who went into the land under the leadership of Joshua a participation in the rest of God? That it was called a rest, the Scriptures declare: Joshua said: "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land" (Josh. 1:13). But that was not the rest God had in view. Israel's rest was a development consequent upon the formation of a nation for Himself, to be the custodians of His oracles and to be the preservers of the knowledge of His purpose amidst the nations of the world. It was however typical of The Rest. And the faithlessness that excluded from the typical will also exclude from the true rest.

John Carter, The Letter to the Hebrews, page 59