Read Hebrews 4 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
Heb 4:1-12 Chiastic Structure (and Expanded Chiasm pdf):
The writer of Hebrews is making the point that the rest established on the seventh day from the foundation of the world, is History that Prophesies of a future rest, which Joshua did not fulfill by bringing Israel into the Promised Land. There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God to enter.
The physical rest prophesies of the spiritual rest we have in Christ (Mat 11:28-30). Now that we have spiritual rest, do we abolish physical rest? No, and there is no passage which tells us they are mutually exclusive. For as long as we have physical bodies living in this physical, natural universe, we continue to need physical rest.
If there are questions, these are good resources:
Sabbath Index of Studies – Christine Miller
The Gospel preached to Israel – Christine Miller
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