SHABBAT FEB 2009.pdf - Kanaan Ministries

We see here that God declares that He rests from that which He made………… and yet goes on to say “to accomplish to do”.God rests, yet at the same time He accomplishes.God rests from the physical work because He has now also completed theentrance to the Spiritual world – the Shabbat.Everything that God made – every plant, fish, animal; every seed of life hadbut one purpose – that was to point to the Shabbat.The Shabbat points, not to a day of doing nothing, of avoiding “work” but aday to push through into God’s realm of the spiritual.ShabbatMESSIAHSunday, Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, FridayPhysical domainSpiritual domainThis “dress rehearsal” of making the choice to keep the Commandment ofShabbat in a manner that reflects God’s attributes and Character is thephysical mechanism that teaches us now to meet with God.Romans 10:4 is often wrongly interpreted as “for Christ is the end of thelaw” but which should read “for Christ the goal of the Torah for righteousnessto all who believe”.In the process of the creation of the material world, God places the celestialbodies of the sun and moon to mark physical time. We will later find that eachmonth will begin on a New Moon. We will always have physical evidence ofthe start of the New Month. “No such thing” is available to start the week.God takes the Seventh Day and declares it Holy. He places His unique controlover this time declaring it Holy and separated unto Him.When we rest on Shabbat we join God in His time i.e. taking time-out of theworld and the rat race of time.16