MY PEACE MY PEACE I GIVE YOU JOHN

MY PEACE

“MY PEACE I GIVE YOU” • JOHN 14: 27

GENESIS 2: 2 -3 • RESTED

SABBATH •

SABBATH • COLOSSIANS 2: 16

• ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD RESTED, AND HALLOWED IT G ( EN. 2: 2, 3). • EACH WEEK HAS EVEN DAYS • JACOB’S SEVEN YEARS’ SERVICE TOLABAN; • PHARAOH’S SEVEN FAT OXEN AND SEVEN LEAN ONES; • THE SEVEN BRANCHES OF THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK; • THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND THE SEVEN PRIESTS WHO SOUNDED THEM; • THE SEVEN DAYS’ SIEGE OFJERICHO; • THE SEVEN CHURCHES, SEVEN SPIRITS, SEVEN STARS, SEVEN SEALS, SEVEN VIALS, AND MANY OTHERS, • THE FEAST OF PASSOVER, THE FEAST OF WEEKS, OF TABERNACLES, AND THE JUBILEE WERE ALL ORDERED BY SEVEN. • SEVEN IS THE NUMBER OFSACRIFICE, OF PURIFICATION AND CONSECRATION, OF FORGIVENESS, OF REWARD, AND OF PUNISHMENT • THIS NUMBER HAS BEEN CALLED THE SYMBOL OF PERFECTION, AND ALSO THE SYMBOL OF

1. DEATH - PASSOVER JESUS ENTEREDJERUSALEM ON THE 10 TH DAY OFNISAN AS THE LAMB OF GOD 2. BURIAL - FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD JESUS WAS BURIED AS OUR "SINLESS" (WITHOUT LEAVEN) OFFERING 3. RESURRECTION - FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS JESUS IS THE FIRSTBORN OF GOD AND THE "FIRST FRUITS" FROM AMONG THEDEAD 4. ENDUEMENT – FEAST OF WEEKS JESUS WAS IN JERUSALEM IN THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ENDUE WITH POWER 5. PROCLAMATION - FEAST OF TRUMPETS THE TRUMPET…JESUS SAID HIS COMING WOULD BE ANNOUNCED WITH THE TRUMPET 6. JUDGEMENT - DAY OF ATONEMENT COMING OF THE MESSIAH BRINGS A DAY OFJUDGEMENT 7. INGATHERING – FEAST OF TABERNACLES (BOOTHS), JESUS WILL RETURN TO THE MT. OF OLIVES WITH HIS HOLY ONES AND SHALL LIVE INJERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF REST (SHABBAT)

SINCE ONE DAY IS AS ONE THOUSAND YEARS TO THE LORD, CONSIDER THESE 7 FEASTS AS DAYS. FROM ADAM'S SIN UNTIL THECROSS WAS APPROXIMATELY 4, 000 YEARS (4 DAYS). FROM THE CROSS UNTIL THE RETURN OF MESSIAH HAS BEEN APPROXIMATELY 2, 000 YEARS (2 DAYS). 4 DAYS PLUS 2 DAYS IS 6 DAYS T. HE 7 TH DAY IS COMING AND IT IS A DAY OF RESTC!HRIST WILL BE WITH US FOR 1, 000 YEARS (1 DAY) WHEN HE RETURNS! DR. KARL COKE

THE SEVENTH DAY, שבת V NO NEW CREATIVE ELEMENTS ARE MENTIONED V THE VERB שבת MEANS TO DESIST, TO CEASE FROM DOING V THERE IS NO IMPLICATION OF WEARINESS, ONLY OF JOY V GOD-GIVEN REST HAS REMAINED OPEN TOHIS PEOPLE SINCE THE WORK OF CREATION IS COMPLETED PEACE / SHALOM / ש / BLESSING / BRACHA / ב / PLEASURE / ת / תענוג שלום ברכה

HEBREWS 4: 9 •

RUTH 4: 14 • NOT LEFT YOU ALONE

GLORY TO GLORY • •

GROWING LENGTH OF THE SABBATH • TEXTUAL CLUES FROM THE BIBLE INDICATE THAT THERE IS AN EVER INCREASING LENGTH OF THE SABBATH • SCIENCE STATES THE SAME.

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“IF WE STUDY THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS CAREFULLY, WE SEE THAT JUST AS MOSES LED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO THE PROMISED LAND, SO YESHUA (JESUS) LEADS US TO OUR PROMISED REST, WHICH IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THESABBATH REST. HE LEADS US TO OUR FINAL RESTING PLACE. WE ARE ON A JOURNEY IN WHICH OUR PHYSICAL LIFE HAS TO BE LIVED, BUT IN WHICH WE ARE TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE FINAL OBJECTIVE OF OUR HEAVENLY HOME. JUST AS THROUGH OUR PHYSICAL JOURNEY, LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WE ARE TO APPLYGOD'S TEACHING (HIS TORAH) TO BECOME HOLY PEOPLE–THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO GROW IN FAITH FOR OUR FINAL RESTING PLACE IN OUR HEAVENLY HOME. WE ARE WARNED THAT WE MUST NOT FAIL IN THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE: ”

HEBREWS 3: 18 -4: 11 18 AND TO WHOM DID HE SWEAR THAT THEY WOULD NOT ENTERHIS REST, BUT TO THOSE WHO DID NOT OBEY? 19 SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. 4 THEREFORE, SINCE A PROMISE REMAINS OF ENTERINGHIS REST, LET US FEAR LEST ANY OF YOU SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT OF IT 2. FOR INDEED THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS TO THEM; BUT THE WORD WHICH THEY HEARD DID NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH IN THOSE WHO HEARD IT. 3 FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER THAT REST, ASHE HAS SAID: “SO I SWORE INMY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST, ’ ” ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD 4. FOR HE HAS SPOKEN IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTHDAY IN THIS WAY: “AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALLHIS WORKS”; 5 AND AGAIN IN THIS PLACE: “THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST. ” 6 SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT SOMEMUST ENTER IT, AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED DID NOT ENTER BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE, 7 AGAIN HE DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY, SAYING INDAVID, “TODAY, ” AFTER SUCH A LONG TIME, AS IT HAS BEEN SAID: “TODAY, IF YOU WILL HEARHIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS. ” 8 FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN THEM REST, THENHE WOULD NOT AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY. 9 THERE REMAINS THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 10 FOR HE WHO HAS ENTEREDHIS REST HAS HIMSELF ALSO CEASED FROM HIS WORKS ASGOD DID FROMHIS. 11 LET US THEREFORE BE DILIGENT TO ENTER THAT REST, LEST ANYONE FALL ACCORDING TO THE SAME EXAMPLE OF DISOBEDIENCE.

THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE…