The Eighth Day
From one Sabbath to another…Isaiah 66:23
One sure hope is our future. We look past all today’s pain and pandemonium to the new heavens and the new earth, Isaiah 66:22. “For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “so shall your descendants and your name remain.” We have God’s word on this.
God continues to establish His promise, verse 23: “And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord. From month to month, from week to week, everyone on earth shall come before God. This God has determined.
A statement of fact God repeats in Zechariah 14: And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Not only every week and every month, at least once per year we shall gather to worship our King.
Verse 21: And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites, says the Lord. This is what God shall do; and is doing. God is preparing a kingdom of priests who will serve Him on that day; and these days, now. “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people—That you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 1 Peter 2:9.
Perhaps this new heaven and new earth is the eighth day? Maybe the six days of creation translate into the life of this heaven and earth. Possibly the seventh day of rest is the millennial reign of Jesus. If so, then perhaps the eight day is our time in New Jerusalem. Is this what John saw, “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, come down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride for her new husband. Revelation 21:1-2.
Our sure hope is that God cannot lie. “This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19-20.
We stand firm in our faith because of who God is and what Jesus has done! Jesus is our sabbath rest.
