Will you explain Heb. 4:3-10, especially verses 7-9. Does it in any way refer to the change of the Sabbath? I. C. No; the passage in no way refers to the Sabbath day; only as the Sabbath is a pledge of God's eternal rest, which begins here with rest in the soul. We enter that rest by faith. The inheritance of God's children was finished from creation, and God's rest upon the seventh day was proof of that; but the race sinned, and did not share its blessings. Again, when He called His people out of Egypt, He did it that He might bring them into the promised inheritance, and give them rest. But unbelief kept them back from the work of God. Joshua could not give them rest. After that, God calls to His children in the ever-present "to-day" to give up their own works of sin, accept the righteousness of God in Christ, and enter into His rest. "Jesus," in verse 8, is the Greek form of Joshua in the Hebrew, and refers to Joshua. The promised, eternal, finished rest of the people of God, of which the Sabbath is a pledge, is still future, and the apostle exhorts us to enter that rest through the rest of faith which He now gives. "There remaineth therefore a keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God," a rest from all sin and its consequences forever.