The day in between...

     The day in between Good Friday and Easter or Resurrection Sunday is the what?  Well, it is Saturday and on the Jewish calendar it is the Sabbath, the day of rest.  We go back to creation and for 6 days God (the triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit) worked and then when all was completed they rested on the 7th day, the Sabbath.  Now jump ahead to Jesus in the New Testament.  Jesus has been working at a feverish pace to let His disciples know how to be and what is to come and where love comes from and then He is put to rest (physically) and what day is it on the Jewish calendar, another Sabbath.


     Isaiah 66:22, 23 says written at least 700 years prior,

"For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make

shall remain before Me, says the Lord,

so shall your offspring and your name remain.

From new moon to new moon,

and from Sabbath to Sabbath,

all flesh shall come to worship before Me, declares the Lord."

     E.G. White writes in his book "The Passion Of Love, He Did It For You,"

     "Now Jesus rested from the work of redemption; and though there was grief among those who loved Him on earth, yet there was joy in heaven.  Glorious to the eyes of heavenly beings was the promise of the future.  A restored creation, a redeemed race, that having conquered sin could never fall,--this, the result to flow from Christ's completed work, God and angels saw."

     I will end with Psalm 2, titled in my Bible "The Reign of the Lord's Anointed,"

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,

against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

'Let us burst Their bonds apart and cast away Their cords from us.'

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Then He will speak to them in His wrath, and terrify them in His fury saying,

'As for Me, I have set My King on Zion, My holy hill.'

I will tell of the decree:

The Lord said to me,

'You are My Son; today I have begotten You.

Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your heritage,

and the ends of the earth Your possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron

and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'

Now therefore, O kings be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way,

for His wrath is quickly kindled.

Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

     I pray that this day will be a day to prepare for the release and the resurrection of the Lord in your life.  I plan on being in a house of the Lord on the Lord's Day and I hope you do to.  Surround yourself with other believers so you can make a loud noise together for the rising of the King and calling for His return.  Andrew Peterson is one of my favorite Christian artist and here is a song called "The Silence of God."

Adam