My brothers and my sisters today I spend meditating with you on this question of the day of God and of men. Why? Because there are theologians emphasizing it as if the Bible really speaking of day was speaking of our day of 24 hours. Especially to defend the day of the Sabbath as a day of talk that God swollen guard instituted the seventh day as a day of rest because He would have created the world in six days and finished the day seventh and rested. For this use the biblical narration interpreting it literally. With a lot of theological and Exegetical security I can say that these days of creation are not ours. Would begin by pointing out including a physical reason. We know that there are differences in light on parts of the Earth and that the timetables are different in function of time zones. In Brazil, for example, we have several different times as a result. When we look at other parts of the world still perceive this more clearly. Depending on the point of the Earth relative to the Sun when the evening begins in a part of the day starts in another. In much of Asia countries are 12 hours in front of the South Africa's 5 hours in front of us and so on. Now, how can we speak of days like all the places they were having days and nights at the same time? But that would be easily suited. OK. But then we went back to the biblical text above. This text cannot be seen to the letter. It was written in part of the world and with a view of the world as if the whole earth was like that and in that part. That would be wrong? Of course not. We must interpret the text from the reality of the universe. But pastor, we're talking about the planet Earth. OK. Stay so here. Even so there wouldn't be room to find that the days of God in the biblical text are ours. Let's see: there was afternoon and the morning of the first day, afternoon and the morning of the second day, afternoon and morning of the third day, only then, on the fourth day was that God created the Sun and the Moon that the text calls him big lights, one to govern the day and the other to rule the night, verses 14-19 there was afternoon and morning of the fourth day. What separates night and day we know are these lights. Or not? There are others on our planet? We know you don't. If those days were the creation of our as before the Sun and moon had already had three afternoons and three mornings? What does this afternoon and this morning only appeared on the fourth day you know? Review the text studying well and calmly, watching the good God at creation time. Frankly I wonder: we can state categorically that these days are the days separated by the Sun and the Moon nights? Obviously not. If not then what are these days? Studying theologically the text we can reach to a theory that I believe to be the most correct. What would they be? The days here are actually geological eras. We don't know their size. But are geological eras. First day, second day, third day another was another era, fourth day, fifth day one other day, sixth and seventh are other geological ages in a time that only God knows. Only he knows where is the principle mentioned in the text. In fact we have are numbers that show the sequential organization God in creation. For those who study theology what the text is talking about is the time of God that has an order and things of God are made within that order.
But what I mean by this in addition to
philosophize over the theme. OK. In practical terms I'm trying to tell them
that a doctrine that is based on the Sabbath day considering our time, our
human days how we see and know about our days, months and years may be
incurring in huge mistake. The Sabbath of God in creation is certainly not
ours. No doubt this Saturday is also a geological era and we're still in that
era to seventh. We are in rest and God, which is not yet the final. The Hebrew
word Sabah means rest. In Hebrew, the 3:11 the word Sabah appears referring to
rest. The Greek word sábbaton, neutral name, which means Saturday. ... that the
correct and faithful translation of the original Greek expression should be:
"the first day of the week." ... Sábbaton-proper termination of work,
rest; the Saturday ... Therefore Hebrews are calling Saturday eternity with
God. Is the eternal rest in glory. Hallelujah! With this we are saying that we
cannot base a doctrine for our Church in the affirmative that the seventh day
of our week is the same Saturday that the Lord God rested of all things that
had created. Because that term in relation to God's figure because He never
tires ever. Simply the Bible uses here an anthropomorphic language.
We Methodists
don't have guard day. We observe Sunday as a day of worship and weekly rest
period and not as a day of guard. In If talking about God working yet let's see
what Jesus says about it: "My father works until now and I work" (John
5:17). Jesus was very clear in saying that the Sabbath was ugly because of the
man and not man for the Sabbath.
My invitation to you is to watch these doctrines
and so we gave greater importance to the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Reverend Jesué Francisco da Silva.
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