Enter Into His Rest!!!

Hebrews Chapter 4




Today we are walking in: Enter Into His Rest!!!





Today we look to the word REST-- H7673 -- shâbath-- a primitive root; to repose, desist from exertion; cause to, let, make to, cease, celebrate,keep sabbath, leave, put away, make to rest, rid, still, take away.









The Torah testifies...............






Exodus 16:23






And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest H7673 of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

















The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 14:3






And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest H7673 from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,


















The writings bear witness...........................






1 Kings 8:56






Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest H7673 unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.




True Identities Are Being Revealed


Beloved, Yahushua is restoring the Truths that the Body of Messiah was robbed of centuries ago. He is restoring the Truths that for many years the cankerworm has eaten, and the palmerworm, and the locust has devoured. He is revealing the Truths of His Word, as a ‘Great Spoil,’ as treasures recovered in a battle.


The Most High is doing, as it were, a new thing. Yet it is not new, for there is nothing new under the sun. It just seems new to us, but it is simply the restoration of the Tabernacle of David, and the building of the True Temple, and is the ascending of Mount Zion by His children.


We certainly do live our years as a tale that is told; That is, everything that has happened before, and seen in the Bible, is our example of how it is going to happen in this last generation! The Most High is preparing a People, and is purifying a Company of people that will become His Bride. He is preparing them through their learning obedience, the goal of which instruction is to be completed, and made perfect in love for Yahushua, and for the brethren.


The identity of the ‘Saints’ [the set-apart-ones] of The Most High, — the redeemed, the undefiled, — is being made clear. The identity of those that are redeemed, but who continue to be ‘wicked’ in their actions, is also coming into view.


As the fruit [their doings, or works] of the righteous begin to be seen, in the same way the tares are being revealed, all in bundles [bound socially into denominations and congregations], ready to be burned.


Let’s notice the following passages, and note how The Most High identifies the ones that are His people, His saints:


Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)


Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:14)


The above verses describe who the saints really are, and how one gains right to the Tree of Life — Yahushua Himself — and how one gains entry into the City of the King.


Note carefully that in the above verses, there is no believing mentioned, as we have understood the word believe; in these verses there is simply ‘doing’ — that is, allowing Messiah-in-you to bring about the doing of obedience to His Word — which is the Biblical definition of ‘believing.’


Notice that obedience to the commandments of The Most High is really a summary definition of the word believe. The Fiveamprayer is encouraged to do a brief study of Abraham, and what The Most High said about him, and why The Most High credited him with righteousness!


The greatest tragedy of this generation is the teaching of the Traditions, Doctrines, and Commandments of men, in place of the Scriptures. One result of this replacement is that one beautiful truth of The Most High’s word is taken to the exclusion of another, causing many to try to force the pieces of the puzzle together — even when some pieces do not quite fit the way that men’s doctrines say they are supposed to fit!


Hence we have multitudes of splintered beliefs and divisions created among men, divided into congregations that are open only to what lies within the comfort zone of their own understanding, yet closed-minded to any Light from the Spirit of Truth that does not fit what they already understand.


It is in this way, that the Commandments of Men turn men away from being “DO-ers” of the Truth (Titus 1:14). This sounds as if it were a description of the religious leaders of Yahushua’s day, but sadly it portrays our day.
My Commandments


Beloved, when Yahushua said, If ye love me, keep ‘MY’ Commandments (John 14:15), what was He telling us? Today, almost all the Bible schools and Theological Seminaries, and their Pastor-graduates, are teaching that the ‘Commandments of Yahushua’ are found only in the New Testament, from Matthew through Revelation. Those who know who Yahushua truly is, however, understand that ‘MY’ commandments appear from the Beginning — from the Book of Genesis!


Those who say that Yahushua’s commandments are only in the ‘New’ Testament are testifying that they do not know who Yahushua truly is. When Yahushua returns, He will say to many Pastors and Leaders who did not truly know Him, and to their followers, “I never knew you…you that work iniquity.” It is thus to our advantage to test everything against the Scriptures alone!


Beloved, notice the following verse:


In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2 Thessalonians 1:8)


We have long thought that this passage is talking about the heathen, the pagans, the wicked — those that have never come to Yahushua. Unfortunately, there are vast multitudes, great multitudes of New Testament Believers today that are in this category! They have come to Yahushua, have received of His wonderful mercy and Grace of Redemption and forgiveness by His precious Blood, but are still in the Valley of Decision, between two mountains, ‘halt between two opinions.’ As babes however, The Most High offers us great mercy, as He gently leads those who desire to follow Him, and learn from Him.


As more mature Believers, The Most High is urging us to ‘get off the fence.’ As Believers, their Yoke of Bondage has been initially broken. The Spirit of Life has set them free from the Law of Sin and Death, but they have not entered into a new Yoke of Bondage of Love, as a voluntary bond slave to a new Master, in obedience to His Word and His will!


Thus many shall not be brought up into the heights of Zion, the City of the King, and will not be allowed to know Him, unless they show by their obedience they know who Yahushua really is, and they begin to walk in obedience to all His sayings. This process of coming to know Him, by our obedience to His Word, as seen in the above passage in (2Thessalonians 1:8), is what constitutes ‘believing’ in Yahushua.


We have seen that the sayings of Yahushua are made up of both the New Testament sayings of Yahushua, and the Old Testament sayings of The Most High, which are also Yahushua’s sayings. The great significance can now come into view. We recall that The Most High wrote the Ten Commandments with the Finger of The Most High, onto the stone tablets. These are The Most High’s sayings, and His words.


Notice also that Yahushua wielded the Finger of The Most High, when He cast out devils. There is a vast amount of New Testament Scripture that reveals the connection between loving Yahushua and keeping the Commandments of Yahushua, and also remarkably, keeping the Commandments of The Most High. Many today have not made the connection, or have not realized, that keeping the Commandments of The Most High constitutes knowing who Yahushua is, and loving Yahushua, and also defines how we show love for the Brethren (1John 5:2-3).
Stealing Your Inheritance


Some Believers today say they keep the Ten Commandments; others say they are only for the Jews, not Gentiles. Still others say they are not for New Testament Saints, but are legalism and bondage. A few today keep and observe the Feasts of The Most High. Many today would say they love The Most High, and desire to keep His Word. However, they have been taught that the Second and Fourth Commandments are not for us. The meanings of these commandments, as much of Scripture, have been ‘spiritualized’ by well-meaning Pastors and Teachers, to mean ‘something different,’ so as not to apply to New Testament Saints.


Many Pastors and Teachers think that we are not able to search the Scriptures for ourselves, to see what it really says. And the spiritualized version of a Truth, which is a particular ‘spin’ put on the Truth, sounds very close to what Scripture actually says. The result is that some of the Pastors and spiritual Leaders are stealing the inheritance of their many followers! We must read the Scriptures for ourselves, and find the Truth!


How are we to know the Truth? Just what does it mean to spiritualize Scripture?


Let us find out, as we make up an example of what it means to ‘spiritualize’ Scripture.


Let us say that we read the following verse:


Thou shalt not kill. (Exodus 20:13)


We may immediately say, Well, this must be for New Testament Saints, because Yahushua told us that we are not to hate our brother; and murder is the same as hating our brother. That explanation now becomes my definition of what the above passage says.


I could then conclude that under the spiritualized meaning of this verse, it is alright to literally kill someone, but not hate him, which is the spiritualized equivalent. By this example, we can see that in spiritualizing the meaning, the plain, common- sense meaning is discarded, in favor of a spiritualized meaning or explanation.


The next example is a little less of a stretch of truth, and is actually believable to many Believers of this generation:


Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)


Reading this verse one might think, For New Testament Believers, adultery in The Most High’s eyes is the equivalent of worshiping an idol or another god. If one were to spiritualise the above Exodus verse, one may conclude that it must be OK to commit literal adultery, but it is not OK to commit idolatry, which is a spiritualized adultery.


How utterly absurd this would be! Yet the same example of this reasoning occurs as a codified standard in the vast realm of the religious world today. Let us see why.


We will now look at a classic example of spiritualizing Scripture, resulting in a doctrine that most Pastors and spiritual Leaders today have bought into, bringing great loss to the Body of Messiah, as a lack of fullness of the life of Messiah-in-us.


Notice the following passage:


Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy [set-apart as special]. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:8-11)


The precious Believing ones today have been taught by their Leaders a spiritualized understanding of The Most High’s Sabbath days. Believers worldwide have been taught the decrees of Rome regarding this passage, stating that for New Testament Believers, the Sabbaths of The Most High speak only of two spiritualized meanings, and are not to be kept literally.


Two separate, spiritualized explanations of this passage are generally given. First, it is spiritualized by some, who see this as merely a explanation for a ‘future’ event. This man-made explanation describes the future, millennial kingdom, which is actually a true, prophetic picture of what the seventh- day Sabbath Day portrays, but only in a prophetic sense of fulfillment. Along with this explanation, Believers are told they are not to keep this commandment in a literal sense, but to keep instead the ‘New Testament Sabbath’ [which is a man-made Sabbath decreed by Rome].


Second, the teaching of the Sabbath Day is taught by many as a ‘spiritualized’ explanation for the present. Many Believers today have been taught of a ‘spiritualized’ Sabbath rest, but not of the ‘literal’ keeping of the Sabbath Day. One man-made explanation goes on to say that to keep the Sabbath is to “enter a state of rest,” which one supposedly enters into when one “rests, moment by moment, in Father’s Grace, in the finished work of Yahushua.” Along with this explanation, Believers are told they are not to keep Father’s Sabbath Days in a literal sense, but are to keep only the ‘New Testament Sabbath’ [the man-made Sabbath decreed by Rome].


The Pastors and Leaders that say such things are not seeking The Most High, and are not studying the Scriptures. Perhaps they are assuming their followers are not reading their Bibles for themselves!


The result is that the above passage (Exodus 20:8-11) has been spiritualized to a point that its ‘literal’ meaning has been made of no effect in the lives of many precious Believers, ones who truly love The Most High! The Body of Messiah in this generation has been taught that a man-made notion of the ‘Lord’s Day’ has replaced the ‘Sabbath Day’ of the Ten Commandments.


Using the same line of reasoning, the Believers today have been taught also that idolatry is not so important in the lives of Blood-bought and forgiven Believers! See (1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 John 5:21; Rev 2:14, 20). We shall examine these ideas a little later, against the light of Scripture.


Scrambling to plug the holes in their theology, many Theologians have spun further webs of deception, to describe the closely-related teaching of ‘entering into His rest.’ As we saw above, some have taught that the Sabbath Day is only symbolic of the seventh millennium, the true Sabbath of The Most High; and the weekly sabbath was only a shadow of that Sabbath to come [this is half-truth, and half-lie].


Beloved, many Bible teachers today are teaching that the weekly sabbath is only a ‘spiritual’ Sabbath, in that the New Testament Saint rests in the finished work of Yahushua; and that the New Testament Believer no longer has to ‘work’ in ones own effort to be obedient, to be found righteous [another half-truth, half-lie]. Scripture tells us, however, that we must labour [work; expend great effort] to enter into the same rest Father entered (Hebrews 4:10-11). Perhaps the great effort is required, in order to defeat the great many man-made doctrines that would lead us astray!


It is important for the Bride-Company to note that both of these popular teachings are not 100% error, but express a mixture of truth and error. The truth aspect is in regard to both a future, and a present, spiritual aspect of the seventh day Sabbath of The Most High; the error comes by ignoring the literal aspect, just as our above examples of murder and adultery.


Moreover, in expressing the exclusiveness of the spiritual aspect of the seventh day Sabbath of The Most High, the popular teachings ignore the fact that there are seven additional Feasts of The Most High that He calls ‘My Sabbaths,’ for a total of 8 of The Most High’s Sabbaths!


Let us now see why this issue of The Most High’s Sabbaths is an important issue for the Bride.
Labouring to Enter His Rest


We will now note the great importance of the Sabbaths of The Most High, which have been hidden from the Body of Messiah, who have been robbed and stolen from, as spoil from a battle, by an enemy that does not want to see Yahushua’s people ‘enter in’ to their inheritance.


Let’s notice the following passages:


Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err [go astray] in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (Psalms 95:10-11)


Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (Hebrews 4:11)


Scripture tells us that although Israel was redeemed from Egypt by the Blood of the Lamb, the original generation were refused entry into the Promised Land, all except Joshua and Caleb. In the above passage in Psalms 95: 10-11, we see The Most High tells us that they were not allowed to enter His rest, showing us that entering His rest is a picture of ‘entering in’ to the Promised Land.


The next passage above (Hebrews 4:11) warns us that we, too, must labour to enter His rest, lest we too be refused entry into the Promised Land, in the same example as the Israelites, as the context indicates. Since this is such an important example for us, taking up two chapters in the Book of Hebrews, we would do well to find out exactly what it means to enter His rest, and what could prevent us from entering His rest.


For a clue to what this means, let’s look at the above passage again, this time along with its companion, the previous passage:


For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (Hebrews 4:10-11)


In the above passage, Yahushua tells us we must enter into His rest by ceasing from our own works, just as The Most High ceased from His works. What is the simple and plain meaning of this passage? Let’s look at some possibilities of what it might mean.


First, let’s ask, How did The Most High rest from His works? If we can find how The Most High rested from His works, perhaps we too could do the same, as we are told to do! Let’s look into this.


So, how did The Most High rest from His works?


Did The Most High decide to postpone His rest until the future millennial Sabbath, the great Day of Jubilee? NO! But this is one explanation given by the Theologians, of what we are to do!


Did The Most High trust in the precious Blood of Yahushua, [that was shed for remission of Sins,] in order to allow The Most High to ‘rest in Yahushua,’ thus allowing The Most High to ‘rest in the Grace of forgiveness of The Most High’s own sins,’ so that The Most High might be made righteous, so that The Most High would no longer struggle under a consciousness of Sin?


That explanation is one of several given to us by the Theological Seminaries and their blind graduates — most of the Pastors and Leaders of this generation — as an explanation of how they say we are to enter in to His rest!


How utterly absurd can the Doctrines of Men become, when held against the Blinding Light and Strong Meat of The Most High’s precious Word!


Did The Most High rest in either of the two ways given in the above examples? How did The Most High rest from His works?


Let’s see what Scripture tells us:


And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (Genesis 2:2-3)


We see the answer very clearly in the above passage: The Most High simply ceased his work, and rested on the literal seventh day!


We must stop spiritualizing Scripture, and return to the clear and simple meaning of Scripture, and return to the simplicity and rest that is found only in obedience to Messiah Yahushua!


According to the Scriptures, it is plain to see that we enter His rest in our literal obedience to the Fourth commandment — of resting from our literal works on the literal seventh day, just as The Most High rested from His works.


What we do is simply a matter of whether we are yoked to Yahushua, or not. If we are yoked to Him, we work when He works, and we rest when He rests. If Yahushua rests on the seventh day, then we do the same.


The pattern for us is in the Gospels, as well as the epistles, as testimony to what Yahushua [and the Disciples] did on the Sabbath day, as well as on the other Feast Day Sabbaths. If we can say, as the apostle Paul did, “Messiah liveth in me,” then let us ask ourselves these questions:


Questions to Ask Ourselves


Are we allowing Messiah to live in us in all His fullness, as revealed in the pages of the New Testament?


Are we preventing Messiah [who lives within our bodies] from observing the Feasts of His Father, in obedience to Scripture?


Do we say that Messiah lives within us, within our bodies — yet continue to refuse to allow Him-in-us to walk in obedience to the Scriptures, simply because of the teachings we have received?


Beloved, the New Testament is full of warnings, exhortations, and teachings, of simple, literal obedience to The Most High’s Commandments, and to all His judgments, ordinances, and precepts. The Scriptures tell us of the consequences of doing so, and of not doing so — even though under the New Covenant, we are given a choice (Matthew 11:29), and they are voluntary!


There are many, man-made ideas commonly taught today, saying that the ‘Old Testament’ commandments are not for New Covenant Believers. These ideas are not true, they have no foundation in Scripture whatsoever, and they contradict both ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Testament Scriptures!





So, why don’t we hear teaching today about the importance of ‘Labouring’ to enter His rest? It is because there are many weapons the enemy has arrayed against the Believing ones, the main one of which is the ‘Doctrines and Commandments of Men,’ which turn men from the Truth (Titus 1:14).


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