Six Days Shall Ye Labor – The Wise Use of Time (Part 5)
I lived my teenage years in a tourist town with a nearby theme park. Based on Al Capp’s classic comic …
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The Need to Prioritize – The Wise Use of Time (Part 4)
Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses.[1] We have no resource scarcer than …
The Creator’s Clock – Numbering Our Days (Part 2)
Our modern timepieces are the culminating result of mankind’s desire to understand and predict the movement of the creation. The …
Time, a Spiritual Entity in a Material World – In the Beginning (Part 5)
Time is the first thing that God explicitly sanctified.[1] God’s primary sanctuary wasn’t matter (an idol), space (a temple), but time. Matter, space, and time conceptually correspond with body, soul, and spirit.[2] Scripture attests to the difficulty of differentiating between soul and spirit.[3] Time and space are equally intertwined, which is why physicists often refer to them as the space-time continuum.[4] The introduction of time into our universe and spirit into Adam follow a similar pattern.
Resting in Him – Entrance by the Blood (Part 8)
The Day of Atonement was a Sabbath of Sabbaths. As our Jubilee trumpeter, the Lord bids us to rest in Him. When God’s work was done at the close of the sixth day, He rested from all His work. When Christ’s work of redemption was done, He sat at the right hand of God. He rested in His accomplished work.
A Sabbath of Sabbaths – Entrance by the Blood (Part 6)
Another important facet of the Day of Atonement was that it was called a Sabbath of Sabbaths.
Leviticus 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest [Hebrew—a Sabbath of sabbatism, a rest of rests] unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
This emphatic description for a day of rest is only used of the weekly Sabbath, the Sabbath year, and the Day of Atonement. Other holy days were Sabbaths, days of rest; but these were special. They were the Sabbath of Sabbaths.
