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Wednesday, June 9 2010
Eternal life will not involve endless idleness, which is nothing more than idol-ness of self, but an eternity of continuing creation by God's children:
"8:21 Because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning in Travail together until now" (Romans 8:21-22 RSV)
The "rest" from then on forever will be the freedom from the heavy burden of living in a sinful world, after the days of "labour" toward that birth are completed (see Spiritual Conception).
"11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden [see Christianos] is light" (Matthew 11:28-30 KJV)
"Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief"
Salvation is about the Deliverance of God's people to a place of righteous rest. But salvation requires effort to live according to the teachings of Christ. "4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it" (Hebrews 4:1 KJV; see When Will You Be Judged?).
"4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it [see also Could Christ Return Tonight?]. 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached [see The Gospel of The Kingdom of God], as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works [see Christ The Creator]. 4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works [see Works Means Obedience], as God did from his. 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart [see Glass Houses]. 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens [see The Ancient of Days], Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin [see Could Jesus Have Sinned?]. 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy [see Christ's Mercy Seat], and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:1-16 KJV)
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This Day In History, June 9
68: Emperor Nero committed suicide.
1534: Jacques Cartier and his crew became the first to sail into the St. Lawrence River.
1549: The Church of England adopted The Book of Common Prayer, compiled by Thomas Cranmer.
1732: Englishman James Oglethorpe received a royal charter to form the American colony of Georgia. It was to be a place of refuge for sectarian Protestant believers.
1800: During Napoleon's Italian campaign, the first Battle of Montebello was fought.
1815: The Congress of Vienna closed with the signing of the Final Act. Among its provisions, Belgium and Luxembourg united with Holland to form the Netherlands, Switzerland was neutral, East Poland ceded to Russia and its western provinces to Prussia.
1898: An agreement was signed under which Hong Kong was leased to Britain from China for a period of 99 years.
1908: King Edward VII of Britain met Czar Nicholas II of Russia on board the royal yacht anchored in the Baltic. It was the first meeting between a czar and a British monarch.
1931: Robert Goddard patented the rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1940: That day was appointed by the British as a national day of Thanksgiving to God for "the miracle of Dunkirk" a week before. Overcast had kept the Luftwaffe grounded, while the normally rough and treacherous English Channel was unusually calm. People who had lived all their lives on its shore said that they had never seen the Channel so tranquil, which enabled all sorts of small civilian craft to take part in the successful evacuation of 338,000 British and allied troops - many of whom survived to return a few years later on the D Day landings at Normandy.
1959: The first submarine to carry nuclear "weapons of mass destruction," the USS George Washington, was launched.
1964: William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, died at age 85. The Canadian financial baron and statesman was one of only two people (the other was Winston Churchill) to sit in the British cabinet during both world wars. He was Prime Minister Churchill's minister of aircraft production during the Second World War (Fighters: 14,200 Hurricane, 20,300 Spitfire; Bombers: 11,400 Wellington, 7,300 Lancaster, 6,100 Halifax and 7,700 Mosquito).
1978: An original Gutenberg Bible, one of only 21 known to exist, sold for $2.4 million in London.
1982: Israel destroyed Syrian SAM missiles in the Bekaa Valley.
1991: Mount Pinatubo, a Philippine volcano that had been dormant for 600 years, erupted, causing the evacuation of U.S. troops from their air base.
