"We who have exercised faith do enter into the rest."

[Bible Speaks]

"We who have exercised faith do enter into the rest."—Heb. 4:3

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When quoting Genesis 2:2 concerning God’s rest, Paul wrote under inspiration the words. (Heb. 4:4, 6, 9) So the seventh day was ongoing in Paul’s day. 

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How much longer was that day of rest to continue? In order to answer that question, we must remember the purpose of the seventh day. Genesis 2:3 explains what it is: “God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred.” That day was ‘made sacred’—sanctified, or set apart, by Jehovah—in order to bring his purpose to completion. That purpose is for the earth to be inhabited by obedient men and women who will take care of it and all life upon it. (Gen. 1:28) 

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It is toward the realization of that purpose that both Jehovah God and Jesus Christ, the “Lord of the sabbath,” have “kept working until now.” (Matt. 12:8; John 5:17)

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God’s rest day will continue until his purpose in connection with it has been fully realized at the end of Christ’s Thousand Year Reign.