Where Does Sabbath Lead?
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Sabbath and Heaven are the Same
Sabbath and Heaven are the Same
Everyone who loves God has been looking forward for one thing. The Sabbath. The Sabbath is the final joy of all believers. Because Sabbath is being one with God. Heaven and Eden are the same, in the same way, the Sabbath and heaven are the same.
22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
There is no need for a temple to house God, because God is there. Just like there was no need for a temple in the garden of Eden because God was there.
God’s glory becomes like the sun. It touches everything.
Just like the Sabbath in Eden had no end, the new Jerusalem has no end of day.
Micah 4:3-5
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore;
4 but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
and no one shall make them afraid,
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5 For all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.
The Old Testament vision of the New Jerusalem was a vision of:
No war.
The vine and the fig tree hint at eden.
The residents of the city walk with God and in God.
2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:2-
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.