A writer in the "Baptist Standard" says that this scripture is proof of the change of the Sabbath. P. H. This scripture teaches no such thing as that. It is not telling us of a change of the Sabbath, nor does it discuss anything akin to it. What the writer is telling us is that God has a "rest" for His children. That "rest" was finished from the foundation of the world,—God's eternal kingdom of rest. For God made the world, and rested on the seventh day from all His works. His works were completed for man. There was made for man all that man could desire, and the appointment of the seventh day was a proof of that fact. But Adam sinned, and he lost the "rest." When God called the children of Israel out of Egypt, there was opportunity for them to have that rest in the land of Canaan; but they went in there with carnal hearts, and consequently did not find the "rest" that God wished to give them. Jesus (see the margin of your Bible—"Joshua") did not give them rest. "Jesus" in the Greek is the same as "Joshua" in the Hebrew. See also the Revised Version, which has "Joshua." Now if Joshua had given them rest, God would have used the Jews, and would have made them indeed priests to the nations of the world, and would have won the world through them; but they went in with a heart of unbelief, and consequently did not find the rest which God wished to give them. Then the Lord puts it as expressed in the Psalms: "To-day"—just to-day—there is rest in the Lord Jesus Christ. It comes right home to the individual heart. God offers a rest to every soul who will leave all his own works, and trust in the work and mercy of God. The only thing that can keep us back from the rest in Christ Jesus is unbelief. The pledge of that rest to us is the Spirit of life and peace. The day of that rest, in its initiation, is when a soul receives the Lord Jesus Christ for his sin, and finds true Sabbath-keeping in Him; and the seventh day is to the saved soul all that God has told us that it would be in His own Word. See Isa. 58:13. The culmination of that rest will be found when God's children enter that glorious holy land that shall never know sin. Of that new earth the Sabbath is still a pledge.