We come now to the seventh day. We note it is not said to have an evening and a morning. God rested from all His work which He had made, sanctifying the seventh day, and setting it apart as a day of rest. Of what is this typical? It is surely typical of the new creation scene we all look forward to, when He, who sits on the throne, will make all things new. We have no positive description of that eternal day, that will never know an evening or a morning, but which will be one glorious eternal DAY. Scripture gives us some idea of why this must be so.
We read how the Apostle Paul had the marvelous experience of being caught up to the third Heaven, the dwelling place of God. There he heard things unspeakable, and unlawful for a man to utter. He was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him, so that the flesh in him might not be exalted above measure.
If that were so, we may not expect any positive description of the surpassing wonder of the new Heaven and new Earth, the New Creation scene, wherein righteousness shall dwell.
Suffice it to say that the only description of this wondrous scene is confined to telling us what is NOT there-no tears because there will be no sorrows; no pain because there will be no disease; no crying (crying meaning a cry of anguish, forced by mental grief) because there will be no such thing as mental distress; last of all, no death, " The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death " (1 Cor. 15:2626The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:26)). All that makes this life sad and sorrowful, all the manifold effects of sin in this world, will have no counterpart in that glorious scene,
"Oh! to praise Thee there, Lord Jesus,
Evermore!
Oh! to grieve and wander from Thee
Nevermore!
Earth's sad story
Closed in glory
On you shore."
Heb. 4 takes up the point of view of the rest of God. The sanctifying of the seventh day is mentioned as typical of this very distinctly. "For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh clay from all His works" (Heb. 4:44For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. (Hebrews 4:4)). Believers are exhorted to labor to enter into that rest, and, when they do so, they will rest from their labors as God did from His.
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