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Day in Genesis 1 would not necessarily be a 24-hour day, but he could easily relate that
Day to his own 24-hour day upon hearing the Sabbath command by means of analogy. In
fact, a detailed look at the text demands they be much longer than 24 hours. Some of the
best evidence for this is found on Day 7.
Day 7 takes up just these three verses in the account, but one striking feature is the lack
of the refrain. If this were truly a literal 168-hour week would we not expect the refrain
And there was evening, and there was morning, day seven? The reader would expect this
ending and would have expected that day 8 would follow, then day 9, on up until the day
he is living. The text does not say or even infer that.
The text does say that God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God
rested from all his work that He had done in creation. Creation was complete on Day 6,
and Day 6 clearly ended in 1:31. Then God rested on Day 7. No ending to Day 7 is given
in the text. It turns out there is further biblical and scientific evidence that this Day did
not end and is in fact still continuing today. We will examine the biblical evidence first.
This passage is directly referenced in the Book of Hebrews. The following text is Heb.
4:1-11 (ESV).
1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you
should seem to have failed to reach it.
2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit
them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They
shall not enter my rest, although his works were finished from the foundation of the
world.
4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the
seventh day from all his works.
5 And again in this passage he said, They shall not enter my rest.
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the
good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
7 again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying through David so long afterward, in the
words already quoted, Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of
disobedience.
The first thing to note is that the author refers directly to Genesis 2:1-3 in verses 4 and
10. The word both times is katapausis, the same word in noun form that is used in
Genesis (verse 4 is actually an exact quote so there is no doubting the reference.) Also,
verse 3 says that those who believe (in Jesus Christ as their savior) enter this rest. This
seems to suggest it is ongoing at present. If this isnt enough, the author beats home this
very point giving specific references to time. Verse 3 contains a quote from Psalm 95:11
in which David writes about the hardness of the hearts of the Hebrews as they wandered
in the wilderness for 40 years. As God puts it, they will not enter my rest
(LXX-katapausis). The Israelites wandered in the desert from 1446-1406 BC. Joshua led
the Israelites into the Promised Land, but this is not the rest that God was referring to
(verse 8). In verse 7, the author again quotes David in Psalm 95:7 as significantly using