(Isa 58:1) Call out with the throat! Do not spare. Lift up your voice like the ram's horn! And declare to My people their rebellion, and their sins to the house of Jacob.
(Isa 58:2) Yet they seek Me day by day, and desire knowledge of My ways. As a nation that has done right, and not forsaking the judgment of their God, they ask Me about judgments of righteousness; they desire to draw near to God.
(Isa 58:3) They say, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? We have afflicted our soul, and You did not acknowledge. Behold, on the day of your fast you find pleasure; and you drive all your laborers hard.
(Isa 58:4) Look! You fast for strife, and for debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. Do not fast as today, to sound your voice in the high place.
(Isa 58:5) Is this like the fast I will choose, a day for a man to afflict his soul? To bow his head down like a bulrush, and he spreads sackcloth and ashes? Will you call to this as a fast and a day of delight to Jehovah?
(Isa 58:6) Is this not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out the oppressed ones free; even that you pull off every yoke?
(Isa 58:7) Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?
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Then your light shall break as the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you.
(Isa 58:9) Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am. If you put the yoke away from among you, the sending out of the finger, and the speaking of iniquity;
(Isa 58:10) and if you let out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your gloom shall be as the noonday.
(Isa 58:11) And Jehovah shall always guide you, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
(Isa 58:12) And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.
(Isa 58:13) If you turn your foot away because of the sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the sabbath a delight, to the holiness of Jehovah, glorified; and shall glorify Him, to the holiness of not doing your own ways, from finding your own pleasure or speaking your word;
(Isa 58:14) then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Jacob. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
His yoke, His sabbath, His rest.
(Heb 4:1) Therefore, let us fear lest perhaps a promise having been left to enter into His rest, that any of you may seem to come short.
(Heb 4:2) For, indeed, we have had the gospel preached to us, even as they also; but the Word did not profit those hearing it, not having been mixed with faith in the ones who heard.
(Heb 4:3) For we, the ones believing, enter into the rest, even as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest," though the works had come into being from the foundation of the world. LXX-Psa. 94:11; MT-Psa. 95:11
(Heb 4:4) For He has spoken somewhere about the seventh day this way, "And God rested from all His works in the seventh day." Gen. 2:2
(Heb 4:5) And in this again, "They shall not enter into My rest." MT-Psalm 95:11
(Heb 4:6) Therefore, since it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the gospel preached did not enter in on account of disobedience,
(Heb 4:7) He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, Today (after so long a time, according as He has said), "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." MT-Psalm 95:7, 8
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For if Joshua gave them rest, then He would not have afterwards spoken about another day.
(Heb 4:9) So, then, there remains a sabbath rest to the people of God.
(Heb 4:10) For he entering into His rest, he himself also rested from his works, as God had rested from His own. LXX-Psa. 95:11; Gen. 2:2
(Heb 4:11) Therefore, let us exert ourselves to enter into that rest, that not anyone fall in the same example of disobedience.
Example of disobedience and workers of lawlessness:
(Mat 7:23) And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" Psa. 6:8
(Mat 23:28) So you also indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
(2Th 2:7) For the mystery of lawlessness already is working, only he is holding back now, until it comes out of the midst.
(1Jo 3:4) Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
Notice in all these verses, its by their own works they practice lawlessness. Entering His rest is being obedient, following Christ, and considered holy by not doing our own ways, our own pleasure or by speaking our own words.
(Joh 5:30) I am able to do nothing from Myself; just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, for I do not seek My will, but the will of the One sending Me, the Father.
The perfect example of entering His rest.
God bless,
Gary