Hey, this is John at the Bible Project and today Tim and I are going to finish up a series

that we've been calling seventh day rest.

This has been a really long series and if you're just jumping in, I recommend you start from

the beginning, but if you're not gonna, here's a quick recap.

On page one of the Bible, God brings order to the universe in a series of six days and

on the seventh day he stops and he enters his creation like a king entering a temple

to rest and rule.

And God creates humans, calls the humans his image and tells them to rest and rule with

him in his creation.

And this vision of rest on the seventh day is a hope that ancient Israel took seriously.

In fact, one of the ten commandments is to stop working on the seventh day or in Hebrew

Shabbat and practice rest.

And it wasn't just this one day, there's actually seven sacred festivals that all help

ancient Israel remember who they are and where this story is heading.

Each festival, a way to practice now, what we hope for in the future, a time of unending

restful reign with God in his good creation.

And there's more, every seventh year, there's a whole year devoted to rest.

And every seventh, seven years, there's a culminating event called the Year of Jubilee where

all debts are forgiven, slaves are freed, it's the ultimate rest.

In the last two episodes, we looked at how Jesus saw himself as the one bringing this

ultimate rest.

He claimed that the real year of Jubilee, the one that all of these festivals and practices

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