Sabbath in heaven?

[cw_theology]

I've been studying the biblical basis for the Lord's day as a binding "Christian Sabbath" as the 1689 calls it. I have always just taken the framers word for it and never studied into it before. It seems to me that the argument that it was set up as a creation ordinance as well as examples of NT worship occuring on specifically Sunday as well as it being called the Lord's day is sufficient evidence to believe there is indeed a binding Christian Sabbath in the Lord's day. I have one question still, will it be kept in heaven? If it was set up as a creation ordinance it seems that it must then be kept in heaven as it flows directly from God's moral character, however I'm not sure then how to interpret Hebrews 4 in light of this, as Hebrews 4 seems to suggest that in heaven Christ will be our ultimate rest and the Sabbath will be transformed, however if this is so, then I have a hard time understanding how this doesn't defeat the argument that it's a creation ordinance, certainly we won't lie steal murder or commit adultery in heaven, so then why would the Sabbath be transformed? So how should we interpret Hebrews 4? And if it's saying the Sabbath will be transformed in heaven, then why doesn't that defeat the argument for it being a creation ordinance?

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Marriage is a creation ordinance but it does not continue.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Here is something on the Sabbath of eternity by James Bannerman.

There is something mysteriously sublime in that peculiar holiness which distinguishes the Sabbath as the only holy day known under the Gospel dispensation, marked out as it is from all time, since time itself began to be numbered; and connecting, as it seems intended to do, the narrow section of time which belongs to the history of this world with that eternity into which it is about to be merged. For the ordinance of the Lord's Day shall bear witness to His resurrection, as the ordinance of the Lord's Table speaks of His death, "till He come again." It was the Sabbath of God the Father at the creation,-a day of His eternal subsistence let down from heaven, and inserted among the days that then began to be counted on the unfallen earth. It was the Sabbath of God the Son at the redemption, another day of heavenly rest let down from on high, and inserted amid the days of evil and sorrow which this fallen world had so long numbered, a day on which the Redeemer rested and was refreshed, when His work was done. And now the Sabbath day both of creation and redemption awaits the development of the divine dispensations, and points forward to a higher, so surely coming, when the earthly day shall be taken up into the heavenly, and become the Sabbath of God the Holy Ghost, -- when He too shall rest from His special work, as the Father and the Son rested before, and shall repose and be refreshed in the contemplation and enjoyment, throughout eternity, of His finished work of grace and spiritual renovation.

 

[cw_theology]

Here is something on the Sabbath of eternity by James Bannerman.

I don't think this really answers my question

Marriage is a creation ordinance but it does not continue.

Ok true, that helps thanks

 

[MW]

Sabbath doesn't continue in heaven. Heaven itself is a rest from earthly labours. Likewise marriage doesn't continue in heaven. Heaven itself is a marriage between Christ and His church.

Hebrews 4 is interpreted two ways. There is the practical and the typological interpretation. I don't think they are mutually exclusive. The practical looks at the literal wording -- there is a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. This means the Sabbath must still be kept. The typological looks at the nature of "rest" throughout chapter 4 in its various stages and concludes it is referring to final rest in heaven. With the insight of a now/not-yet view of eschatology we can affirm both of these interpretations. The typological is not yet fully consummated so the Sabbath-keeping will continue during our time on earth, and while we keep the Sabbath on earth we have entered into the inaugurated rest in heaven through faith in Jesus.