Genesis 2:1-3 (on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day)

 

(on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day)

『Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 』 (Genesis 2:1-3)

God created heaven and earth in the beginning. He created the material world by blocking the light of God from the kingdom of God. That is why the world was created as a water mass of darkness. Humans cannot know how deep this darkness is. God shows how deep human sin is through the depths of darkness. Then God created the light of matter and separated day and night. However, people misunderstand that God created the first day. The first day began after God separated the light into low and night. Day 0 and day 1 are different. When a child is born, it means that he is 0 years old, not 1 year old.

The first day began after God separated the light into low and night. So on the first day, in the water, a firmament was created and divided into water above the firmament and water below the firmament. On the second day, the soil was filtered from the water under the firmament, called the land, and the water called the sea. On the third day, two great lights and stars were placed in the sky to control day and night, on the fourth day to have birds in the sky, to fish in the sea, and on the fifth day to make humans that resemble the animals of the land and the image of God. On the sixth day, all heaven and earth were made.

In other words, both the spiritual army of heaven and the spiritual army of the earth have been deployed. And on the seventh day, God rested. Humans cannot tell how long there was between God's creation in the beginning and the first day. It only allows God to realize how deep human sin is.

 

"All heaven and earth are all made" means that the army (spirit) of the kingdom of God and the army (criminal spirit) on this earth are all deployed. There is a parable of the prodigal son in the Bible. In the parable of the prodigal son, just as the father was waiting for his son to return, God is waiting for the spirits who have left God. The prodigal son spent all his fortune and remembered his father's house in pain. Likewise, spirits in the darkness who leave God forget God. So, when you realize that you are locked in the dark, you will find God.

"He stopped everything he had done and rested on the seventh day." God expresses that he will give rest to those who have left God and return to the kingdom of God. The sixth day, including the first, is about the world. The sixth day is the day when a person's work ends. On the seventh day, God rests.

In Exodus 20:9 『Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work 』. God gave the law to the exodus of the Israelites. The word "six days" means while a person lives, "I will do all of your hard work." The reason humans came to this world is because God gave permission because the spirits said they would build their kingdom like God without God. Human beings do their best to achieve eternal life by trying for themselves.

In Genesis 1:29, "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 』. To make food, humans must cultivate it. The farmer plows the ground, sows seeds, and harvests the fruit. The seed is a parable of the word of God. In Genesis 2:15, 『And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, and God cast them out, and in Genesis 3:23, 『Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 』

So, it is to realize what the meaning of eternal life is through cultivation. It means to cultivate the ground to obtain and eat fruit, but to realize that it is not eternal, and to seek fruit for eternal life. It is that humans try with all their strength, but eventually realize that they have no choice but to die. It means that the army of the earth will grind the ground of the heart and sow the seeds of heaven to obtain the fruit of eternal life. If you do this, you will get rest on the seventh day. Keeping the Sabbath means remembering this.

Man works to save eternal life, and God works to give eternal life. There is no God in this world. However, in order to give humans eternal life, God must come to this world. It is Jesus Christ who came to this world. He is the seed of promise. From Genesis 1:1, God promised that the true light would come into the world through the light of the world. In John 6:27-29『 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.  Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 』 What God is doing is believing the one whom God has sent. In order to believe in the one whom God sent, God sent the prophet, and finally the Son of God.

People in the world must find the fruit of the kingdom of God by realizing that they are the ones who have left God while living in the world (for six days). God makes humans realize that they are in darkness, leaving God, and send Christ to those who want to have eternal life in the kingdom of God, so that they may have eternal life. This is rest. While life is constantly living in this world, it is necessary to change the field of mind to find the fruit of eternal life. That is why we must enter into Christ (rest).

After working for six days, people have to realize that it is wrong to be like God on their own. This is because the day of God's promise is six days. Of course, an individual's deadline ends with physical death, but in the whole life, it is the end of six days. The Bible expresses the day when the sixth day ends. In Galatians 4:4, 『But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 』. The fact that Jesus Christ came into the world means that God has come to earth because the deadlines that humans can do are over. Likewise, when Jesus died on the cross, he said, "It is finished." In other words, God's work is over. For six days, the work of the people of the world and the work of God ended. Now the rest must come.

Has the rest come? Those who are in Christ have entered rest. For all humans, the opportunity to cultivate and seek the seed of promise has disappeared. For humans, only believing in the Christ of the promise that has already come will yield the fruit of eternal life. Only the choice of whether to believe or not in Christ remains. The word believe in Jesus Christ means believing in union with Christ who died on the cross. In addition to believing that Jesus died on behalf of my sins, it becomes what I believe when accepting that "the dead Jesus is me." So in Romans 6:4『 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』 The dead died by the law.

So Romans 8:3-6 applies to those who are united with Jesus Christ.『 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 』

 

When the people who came to the earth realized that it was wrong because they wanted to be like God themselves, when they cried to God, God came in the form of a body and caused humans to die with Christ according to the law. Those who are in Christ are also dead according to the law. In Romans 6:7『 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 』