What Measures Did God Take To Prevent Adam's Sin?

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The Sabbath and the perfectly numbered seven day week were both revealed by special revelation.

Days, months and years were revealed through general revelation.

The seven day week crowned by the Sabbath was a type to Adam of the eschatalogical Rest which his Creator God was already enjoying and which he would enjoy after he had fulfilled his Probation and he and his offspring had fulfilled the Creation Mandate. As well as specially meeting with God on weekday evenings, Adam and Eve specially met with God on the last day of the week.

This typology is taken up by Christ in the New Covenant, so that the Lord's Day/Christian Sabbath and the seven day week are typological to us of entering the eschatalogical Rest that Christ has already entered.

It is erroneous to believe that all the typology of the Sabbath is exhausted in the New Covenant, thus in some sense making the Sabbath redundant in the New Covenant era. Both the Adamic typology and the Mosaic typology are taken up by Christ and transformed.

We have the commemcement of the NewCreation in principle on the first Lord's Day and the commencement of the True Redemption from spiritual Egypt on the first Lord's Day. Christ, the God-Man, entered His Rest from these works on that Day.
 
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