Understanding the Sabbath
Today’s Focus: Sabbath Day Part 2: The Day of Rest and the Two Time Zones
Scripture: Luke 12:56; Hebrews 3:13; 4:7,8
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Now I know we are wondering what are the two time zones and we will explain but we concluded in the previous message that the Day of the Lord is the Sabbath Day. It is not a particular such as Saturday or Sunday because that type or day is in our realm and let me show you.
Hebrews 3:13: But exhort one ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TO DAY; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Now the Hebrews are being admonished to exhort one another daily. So they are being to exhort one another Sunday through Saturday. But then the writer goes on to make a unique distinction saying to exhort one another daily , while it is called To day. Now in the scripture the word To day is capitalized telling us the importance of this day. The word Today of course means now but in this scripture and you will also see it in Hebrews 4 it is referring to a different type of To day than as we know it in our chronological time. This To day is referring to the Day of the Lord. So the Hebrews are admonished to exhort one another daily while it is the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is also called an I AM Moment and we will explain later. So in this scripture we see two types of days being explained we see days in the sense of chronological and also a day in the sense of the eternal. These are the two times zones, temporal and eternal.
Now to explain this I am going to take a scripture from Hebrews 4:7 and then we will go back and look at Hebrews 4 later in this series to wrap this up.
Hebrews 4:7,8: Again, He limiteth a certain day, saying, in David, TO DAY, after so long a time; as it is said, TO DAY if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus (Joshua) had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day.
The word limiteth in the Greek is “horizo” which means to mark out or bound. Of course we know we get the word horizon from this Greek word. Now in our chronological time the horizon is simply the boundary that you can see, your vantage point, where the sky meets the land, that is your horizon. Now that is in the temporal or the realm of time. But in the eternal realm your horizo or horizon is determined by your discernment of the kairos (moments) of God. So in the Day of the Lord (Sabbath Day), your discerning of the signs of the Lord and decoding what the Lord is saying in the I AM Moment, and understanding the shifts and moves of God determine your perception and ability to rest in this Day of Rest. Understanding the kairos of God is to mature in the Lord. As you mature you rest from your labours and find rest for your soul.
Is this no wonder why the people of God are still under strife, confusion and stress? Absolutely because the people and the leaders who are supposed to lead them have not discern the times and are living under the law of Moses, which cannot save them, and hold to the mindset of the Sabbath day being a day in our realm of time instead of the eternal day of the Lord, which is now. Jesus said this:
Luke 12:56: Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky (stars, moon and sun) and of the earth: but how is it that YE DO NOT DISCERN THIS TIME?
The word time is karios meaning occasion, set time or season. So what is that Jesus said they could not discern, the New Season and the Day of the Lord. You can discern everything within the realm of time but you are blind to the seasons and moments of God who created the realm of time. When you cannot discern the karios of God then your horizon is very limited and you are almost in darkness to the moves of God. This is why people who do not like change are spiritually immature because as God matures us our horizon expands and continuously moves us closer to perfection in preparing the Body of Christ for the return of the Lord.
Finally at the end of Hebrew 4:7 it says To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. So in order to expand our horizon in God we must be able to hear His voice and how do we hear his voice, through his preachers. In the next message we will look at the true role of preachers from God’s perspective
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
