Why did God Rest on the Seventhday

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Why did God Rest on the Seventh-day?
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Ephesians 51
Deuteronomy 66, 7
Be imitators of God.
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• God is engaged in the act of Creation
• Gen 11 In the beginning God created. . .

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Genesis 21, 2
Deuteronomy 66, 7
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed. .
. By the seventh day God had finished the work he
had been doing. . .
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Genesis 22
Deuteronomy 66, 7
By the seventh day God had finished the work he
had been doing. . .
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According to the Genesis account of Creation

• God is engaged in three activities
• Act of Creation
• Act of Communication

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Lines open to God invariably open to one
another, for a person cannot be genuinely open to
God and closed to his wife. . .God fulfills His
design for Christian marriage when lines of
communication are first opened to Him.
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According to the Genesis account of Creation

• God is engaged in three activities
• Act of Creation
• Act of Communication
• Rest

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Gen 22 By the seventh day God had finished the
work he had been doing so on the seventh day he
rested.
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Isaiah 4028 says Do you not know? Have you
not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the
Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not
grow tired or weary.
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Gen 23 God Blessed the Seventh day and made it
Holy.
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Why did God set aside the Seventh Day as a
special day of Rest?
(A) His work of creation is complete and perfect.
It is a gift of God. And the Seventh-day
Sabbath Rest is a reminder that God is our
Creator.
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the seventh day Sabbath is a sign of Gods
Creation and Christs Redemption.
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The Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath. Mark
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Seventh-day Sabbath is a sign of Gods Creative
and Redeeming power.
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Why did God ask Adam and Eve to rest on the
seventh-day Sabbath before He instructed them to
work for six days?
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God saw that a Sabbath was essential for man,
even in Paradise. Man needed to lay aside his
own interests and pursuits for one day of the
seven, that he might more fully contemplate the
works of God and meditate upon His power and
goodness. Man needed a Sabbath to remind him
more vividly of God and to awaken gratitude
because all that he enjoyed and possessed came
from the beneficent hands of the Creator.
Ellen White, Patriarchs and Prophets, 48.
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The first seventh day Sabbath was Gods acted out
invitation to all mankind to depend on Him for
our survival.