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For we, the ones having believed[a], enter into the rest, just as He has said: “As I swore in My wrath, they shall never enter into My rest” [Ps 95:11].

And Yet God’s Rest Began On The Seventh Day, Not In Moses’ Day

And-yet, His works have been done since the foundation of the world. For He has spoken somewhere about the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” [Gen 2:2], and in this [Ps 95:11] again: “They shall never enter into My rest”.

And David Still Calls Us To Enter God’s Rest “Today”

Since then it remains that some may enter into it, and the ones formerly having had-good-news-announced to them did not enter because of disobedience, He again designates a certain day— “Today”— saying by[b] David after so much time just as it has been said-before: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” [Ps 95:7-8]. For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not be speaking after these things about another day[c].

So God’s Spiritual Rest Remains Open For Us To Enter

Therefore a Sabbath-rest remains for the people of God. 10 For the one having entered into His rest also himself rested from his works, just as God did from His own.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:3 Then as now, we enter by faith; we are excluded by unbelief.
  2. Hebrews 4:7 Or, in David; in the Psalms.
  3. Hebrews 4:8 If the rest was merely a physical rest in Moses’ day, David would not be offering it ‘Today’ in the psalm.

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