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The Sabbath was made for people (not people for the Sabbath) Greg Beale's conclusions 1. First, the seventh-day commemoration is Gen 2:3 and Israel's Sabbath ordinance is transferred to the first day of the week because of Christ's resurrection. 2. Israel's way of observing the Sabbath, with all its detailed requirements, falls away, and there is a return to the creational mandate. The observance of this mandate is a day of commemoration of God's creative rest, a celebration that Christ has entered that rest, that believers have begun to enter such rest, and a pointing forward to believers completely entering that rest. God gives Sabbath as a gift; it's an island or get-to in a sea of have-to.   THE DIVINE RHYTHM 1. One day per week (Sabbath) "...and [God] rested on the seventh day from all his work that He had done." Genesis 2:2   2. Around 8 hours per day (Sleep) "He gives to his beloved sleep" (Ps 127:2) God made us to need sleep&#