teaching · Old Testament

Sabbath rest

Genesis 2:2

God rests on the seventh day and makes it holy.

CreationCovenant

2 connections

Creation

Direct

points forward to · the seventh day

The command to rest is grounded in the shape of the first week rather than in economics.

Echo

points forward to · the first day

The old week ended in rest; the new one begins on the day after the Sabbath with an empty tomb, and the church's gathering shifts with it.