Lesson 6 Flashcards
How is sabbath seen throughout redemptive history?
Creation Sabbath
1. Structure
a. Six days of work
b. One day of rest
c. God blesses Sabbath and makes it holy
2. Foundational Role
a. Established early one
b. Vos: Eschatology precedes soteriology
c. Work and rest: path to eschatological blessing
d. Destroyed by sin
3. Soteriology is the means to get to eschatology
B. Mosaic Sabbath
1. Takes a specific form
a. Key symbol for relationship with God
b. Means of fasting
c. Life filled with Sabbath patterns
i. Feasts
ii. Jubilee
2. Sabbath in the Promised Land
a. Accomplished: Josh 11:23; 21:44; 23:1
b. Still to come: Josh 13:1; 15:63; 16:10; 23:4
3. Exile and restoration described in Sabbath terms
C. New Covenant Sabbath
1. Second Adam, the New Israel has come
a. New and better Moses
b. Day of the Lord’s favor
2. Christ established but has not fully inaugurated his kingdom
3. Already-Not Yet Sabbath
a. Already: Rest is won and finished in Christ
b. Not Yet: We are still a people on the way
c. Semi-realized Sabbath
D. Eschatological Sabbath
1. Eternal Sabbath
a. God’s day of rest is eternal
b. This is the Sabbath we have
2. Character
a. Eschatological N….?
b. Eternal rest and the beatific vision
1) Creation Sabbath
2) Mosaic Sabbath:
life filled with Sabbath patterns (feast, Jubilee)
Sabbath in the Promised Land
3) New Covenant Sabbath
New and better Moses
Christ already yet not yet (rest is won but not consummated)
Underrealize or overrealize
4) Eschatological Sabbath
Eternal Sabbath
What is the foundational role of the sabbath? Explain
Established early one
b. Vos: Eschatology precedes soteriology
c. Work and rest: path to eschatological blessing
d. Destroyed by sin
What is plausibility structure? How does the sabbath fall into that category?
Def: institution that is important for religious minorities to maintain their orthodox worldviews under conditions of intense pluralism
Plausibility Structures
a. Practices maintaining religious identity
b. Ex. Judaism, Catholicism
c. Sabbath for Reformed Christians
