(1:) "There remaineth therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God" (Heb. 4:9).

" We are entering into rest, we who have believed; but we have not entered. From the nature of it, as described presently, no one could enter into it in this life. We are going on to it, and God has been always speaking of it, as in the Sabbath type, keeping it before men from the beginning. God rested on the seventh day from all His works. That was at the beginning; but man violated that rest, and it remains for us only a shadow of what is yet to come. The apostle quotes also David's words, long after Joshua's day, as showing that Israel's coming into the land was still not rest. After they had come in, it was still said, ' To-day, if ye will hear His voice.'The rest remains, then, a true 'keeping of Sabbath' for the people of God-a rest which will be God's rest also-or what good could be in it? A rest, too, in which he who rests ceases from all the labor which sin has imposed, Such a rest has not come for us. This carries us, in fact, on to eternity, the eternal rest, of which we have seen long since that the Sabbath is the type, and not of any Millennial anticipation of it. The thousand years are a time in which the earth has indeed come to its regeneration. Sin does not reign any more. Righteousness reigns, but still sin exists; and it is after the thousand years that death, 'the last enemy,' is put under Christ's feet, and the judgment of the dead comes with that. As a consequence, what we speak of sometimes as Millennial rest, is not strictly correct. God cannot rest except with the perfect accomplishment of perfect blessing. He cannot rest while there are enemies yet to be put under the feet before sin and death are cast alike into the lake of fire."F. W. G., Numerical Bible, " Notes on Heb. 4:9."