THE COMPLETE UNIVERSE: IN SEVEN SPINS OF THE EARTH
“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 20:11
This is the fourth of the Ten Commandments. This is a statement, but even more, this is a commandment. God was there “In the Beginning” (Beresheet), and he knows how it all started.
God created time. God created the Sabbath Day as a time and place to meet with mankind. God would not be late to His very first Sabbath day. He showed up and Adam and Eve showed up. It was their Divine appointment after the Creation. Just like it says, God worked six days to create the Universe, and then met with people, those made in His image. God met with man on the 7th day, the first and most important Moadim, the divine appointment. This was to fulfill the meaning of life and of the Universe: to Love God and to Love each other. Man and God both had to be there to fulfill the ultimate purpose of life.
He is the Lord of Time, and the Lord of the Moadim, the Divine appointments to meet with man. He will also show up at the Sabbath of Sabbaths, the Feast of Tabernacles at the end of this age, the Millennium. There have been almost 6,000 years in History, and God will show up at the beginning of the 7,000th year. Notice that the Sabbath and the 6 days of creation are mentioned first in the list of Moadim in Leviticus 23. We must meet with God as He has planned.
Yeshua, Jesus, said in Mark:
“The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.”
Both the Torah and the Renewed Covenant teach the reality of the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath day was made for man, therefore it is a single 24 hour day that relates to man. Because the Sabbath day is an ordinary day, the other six days of creation must be ordinary, for it must relate to man: the one made in God’s image.
It is six ordinary days because this is exactly what the Bible says.Please read the Fourth Commandment again. In six rotations of the earth, the Universe was complete. God’s desire was to enjoy breakfast in the Garden of Eden with the only ones made in His image.
What are the two most important things in the Universe?Yeshua (Jesus) said in Mark 12:29 -31:
“Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord:And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all they mind and with all thy strength, and Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”
That first Sabbath in the Garden of Eden was the first full day in the Universe where this was possible. Man and woman, Bride and Bridegroom, had to exist for this to happen. God did not wait billions of years of animals dying before man existed. On the contrary, Man was made in the image of God, the ground he was made of was not polluted with dead bones. In no way this would reflect the Image of God, or in His likeness. Genesis 1:26-27;
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
The ground man was made from was untainted by dead bones, this one statement dissolves all arguments about evolutionary myths.
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”Genesis 2:7
This is all about life, breath, and the living God. God is alive, He forms living things.
Man is the crown of creation, and when he sinned, then came death, millions of men and animals dead with their bones. It was not so in the beginning. The Bible has it right, evolution has it all reversed.
Remember, the highest purpose, given by our Maker and Savior Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ), is to love God and love your neighbor. God did not wade through billions of years and millions of dead bodies to achieve the highest goal in the universe. The Living God achieved all this with Seven Spins of the Earth, seven ordinary days, for the Sabbath was made for man, and Yeshua is Lord of the Sabbath, and the entire Universe.
Man was made in the image of God. Think of God holding man in His hands and breathing into him the breath of life. This is up close and personal, Face to Face, breathing in more than ‘air’, but all the qualities that make us in God’s image: intelligence, music, art, creativity, dance, writing and poetry, technology, exploration, science, sports, medicine, and the ability to comfort and understand one another.
No other creature even comes close to all these abilities, we are light years ahead of all other living things. We are made in God’s image, that’s why!
There was a second time that God breathed on man, and that was by the Savior Himself, Yeshua, Jesus,
“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father has sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit.” John 20:21,22
“O Earth, Earth, Earth, Hear the word of the LORD.” Jeremiah 22:29
Oh, yes, the Earth is a small planet in our Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy of 200 billion stars. But there is no place in the Universe that even compares to the abundance and variety of life we have here on our home planet. The complexity of even the simplest organism, the design of DNA molecules, and the raw natural forces of gravity, electro-magnetism, and nuclear forces, forbid any hint of chance creating these things, even in a trillion years.
The key to understanding creation is the Sabbath. The Sabbath points to and is the actual experience of the meaning of the Universe and the end picture of what we call “Salvation”.
It is the Bride and Bridegroom in open fellowship with God, their Maker and Savior, in the light of Paradise. This is what the first Sabbath day was like for Adam and Eve (yes real people) in the Garden of Eden on the seventh day. It is totally New Testament grace, peace, and love. God did the works in six 24 hour days, so mankind could enjoy Paradise with God on the seventh ordinary day. This fulfills the highest purpose of the Universe: loving God and loving your neighbor.
It only took SEVEN SPINS OF THE EARTH to get there.
Now what is going on today, and why is it so wrong? The simple answer is SIN, disobedience to God. God is light, but our fallen human nature seems to love darkness.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 3:16,19
The first access to “salvation in paradise” took only seven days. Since mankind has sinned, blood sacrifice is required to bring man back to paradise. All the blood sacrifices of the Old Testament are symbols of the ultimate sacrifice of God’s only Son, Yeshua, Jesus.
The complete redemption and restoration of mankind and the planet earth now requires 7,000 years instead of only 7 days.
II Peter 3:8,9
“That one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord… is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
This scripture is actually about the salvation of man in Paradise with God. The first Paradise was in Seven Days. The next Paradise takes 7,000 years. We are close to the end of 6,000 years of history since Adam and Eve in the Garden of the first paradise.
The Lord Yeshua is preparing to return to Israel and the capital city of Jerusalem. He has bought mankind, and the planet earth itself, by His blood, and He will return to enjoy His property by restoring it for a thousand year Sabbath. The first Sabbath was only one day in Paradise.The coming Sabbath will last 1,000 years, the Millenium, with Yeshua ruling in person as King of kings. This is what the end of our Faith looks like here on Earth, before the New Heavens and the New Earth.
This is the true Feast of Tabernacles, the double Sabbath, God with us in person, Emmanuel. It is the Second Coming of our beloved Messiah.
As a post-script to this article, let it be remembered that whenever the Bible states: First Day, Second Day, Third Day, etc., it always means a 24 hour ordinary day.
Also, when the Bible says Evening and Morning, it always means a 24 hour day. God made time.
It is His Universe, and He made us to (1) Love Him (2) Love one another. Welcome to the Sabbath day of rest, love, and peace.