God's Holy Days besides having a significance that is applicable to the here and now, also point to a future event which is part of God's plan of salvation for man. If you question someone about God's Sabbath and as to why, he or she attends church you are subject to get a variety of responses. Some of which would coincide with the following. Most attend church because they have been taught, that this is a requirement in serving the Lord. Some come for the spiritual uplifting, they may receive from the hearing of the word. Others come for the social attraction. And many simply go because they were raised to attend church services and they have just continued in that tradition. The majority of people acknowledge the fact that God instructed man to hold a holy convocation at least one day a week. The question seems to be, is as to what day of the week this day of worship is to occur. The majority of society recognizes Sunday the 1^st day of the week, as the day of worship. People participate in this practice despite being instructed by the scriptures, that God selected and named the 7^th day of the week as His Sabbath.

(Leviticus 23:3) Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwelling.

Whether its due to lack of knowledge or understanding the majority of people worship on the day opposite the one, which God commanded them to. God's Sabbath is the 7^th day of the week the day we refer to as Saturday. Yet the majority of people observe Sunday as God's Sabbath. And by adopting this practice the Christian Community demonstrates that it lacks understanding when it comes to God's Sabbath and what it signifies. Moses tells you that the Sabbath shall be a sign.

(Exodus 31:16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

(Exodus 31:17) It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Now sign in the Hebrew means signal or evidence and the question one should have is what does the Lord's 7^th Day Sabbath signify? The answer is that by obeying God's commandment and attending a holy convocation or gathering on the 7^th day, one signifies that they believe in the Lord's Sabbath, or his day of rest. God created the Sabbath to benefit man now as well as in the time to come. Sabbath means rest and it points to a time when Jesus will give the whole world rest. Observing the Sabbath shows that you are a believer, desiring to enter into God's day of rest. And while it is good, to be able to get refreshed, just from the toil and grid, of everyday life, by participating in God's weekly Sabbath, one's efforts should be about entering into God's day of rest. God's day of rest will be a thousand years for as Peter tells you in (II Peter 3:8) But, beloved be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Take note of the fact that Jesus spoke of providing rest, but we will see that this rest is still yet to come.

(Matthew 11:28) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

We find that this rest has not yet come when we look at the scriptures in (Hebrews 4:8-11). First we are being told that Jesus had not given them rest for if he had he would not have spoke of another day.

(Hebrews 4:8) For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

The next verse tells you that there remains a day of rest for the people.

(Hebrews 4:9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

One cannot enter into this day of rest until they have ceased from their our works. And what does ones works consist of, obeying the commandments of God.

(Hebrews 4:10) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Remember Jesus told all who labor and are heavy laden to come to him, in order to receive this day of rest. What constitutes you laboring? Because of your belief you strive to keep God's commandments. That is your labor. The next verse tells you to labor to enter into the day of rest lest you fall due to unbelief.

(Hebrews 4:11) Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

This day of rest will occur at the first resurrection, remember the day of rest will be a thousand years. When one dies that does not mean they are entering into the day of rest at that time. One will enter into the day of rest if they are elected, to be participates in the first resurrection.

(Revelation 20:4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, an which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

This is the first resurrection. This is what you want to strive to be a part of. Because if you are called up in the first resurrection, you then enter into God's day of rest, and you don=t have to worry about the 2^nd resurrection or the White Throne Judgment.

(Revelation 20:5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

(Revelation 20:6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and reign with him a thousand years.

You read where you will be priests of God if you enter into his day of rest. The prophet Isaiah tells more of what will be happening during this thousand years. He starts off by telling that Jesus the root of Jesse shall stand as a sign for the people.

(Isaiah 11:10) And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

(8) And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice= den.

Truly this will be a time of peace and as Isaiah said his day of rest will be glorious.

Peace to all who seek truth and understanding in the name of Jesus.

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