Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

He needed it (Isa. 40:28). The verb "rested,'
shabath, means literally "to cease" from labor or
activity (cf. Gen. 8:22). "God's rest was the result
of neither exhaustion nor fatigue, but a cessation
from previous occupation."[2]
God rested because He expected humans to
rest; He set an example for human beings to follow
(Ex. 20-11).
If God finished the Creation on the sixth day
(Gen. 2:1), what does Scripture mean when it says
that He "ended His work" on the seventh day (Gen.
2:2)? God had finished the creation of the heavens
and the earth in those six days, but He had yet to
make the Sabbath. It was by resting on the Sabbath
that He made it. The Sabbath was His finishing
touch, ending His work.
2. God blessed the Sabbath
God not only made the Sabbath, He blessed it.
"The blessing on the seventh day implied that it
was thereby declared to be a special object of
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