In the sermon 'Day 7 of Creation Week' by David Green, the focus is on the completion of God's work during the creation week as described in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. Day seven is highlighted as a day of rest, with God having finished His creation in six literal days. The speaker discusses the significance of the Sabbath, emphasizing its importance as a day of rest set by God for human benefit. The term 'hosts' is explored, indicating the entirety of creation, including celestial bodies and possibly angels. The sermon refutes the idea that God is no longer active, asserting that He continues to work in the world and in the lives of His people. Additionally, the sermon touches on the introduction of God's covenant name, Yahweh, in Genesis 2, which will be further explored in subsequent messages.

All right, so that's a little bit of review from the six days of creation. Of course, that's from the video. We got to leave it here actually. Genesis Paradise Lost. We've got the entire video on iTunes.

This is still shrink-wrapped. But That, what we just watched, of course, was adapted from this and is part of the Creation Museum. And I've been looking for that because it's pieced together very nicely and played exactly like at the Creation Museum. And I finally found it at creationtoday.org creationtoday.org so that's where I found that one. And so I was very excited about that one and of course that is the narrator is none other than Vodi Bakum.

I don't think anybody can read Genesis 1 like Vody can so definitely appreciated that. All right so as we get into our lesson for tonight Does anybody have any questions about what we've covered thus far in our studies in Genesis chapter 1 and 6 days of creation? All right All right. So we'll go ahead and take a look at day seven. Day seven is different than the six days.

So if you turn in your Bibles, let's go to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2. Tonight we're just going to cover three verses. Genesis chapter 2 beginning in verse 1, Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. And on the seventh day God completed His work, which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it. Chapter one detailed all of God's work that he did on days one, two, three, four, five, and six. Chapter two continues with that. In fact, some people think that as far as chapter and verse divisions go, that chapter 2 Verse 3 going on down there actually is where chapter 1 should have ended. And maybe that would have made more sense.

In fact, if you're looking at the Legacy Standard Bible, you'll notice that there's not really a break. In between, there's an indicator there that shows chapter 2 has begun, but there's no There's no break as far as showing that a new paragraph has begun, not until chapter 2 and verse 4. Chapter 2, as we get into it, will give us an elaboration on some things that happened on enduring the creation, but we'll get into that next week, Lord willing, and probably the week after that. But today we want to look at day seven. Day seven.

God completed all of his work in six literal days. And so, and so as we as we think about that and we've considered that, we get to chapter 2, and at the end of chapter 1, the beginning of chapter 2, we see God as he surveyed all of what he's done. Remember what he said there at the end of chapter 1? God saw all that he had made and behold it was very good. Everything that God made was very good.

There was no death, disease. There were no problems. There were no thorns. There were no problems. This was a place where man had not fallen in sin, Lucifer had not fallen, there was no Satan in other words.

It was indeed very good. There was no cancer, nothing of that sort. God's creative work was done. And when we read chapter 2 it says, Thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their hosts. So God's creative work was finished.

The way this is worded, the heavens, the earth, and all their hosts. This includes all the works found in heaven, found in earth as well as their hosts. So everything in the air, everything in space, everything on the earth, everything, And that word hosts would include the stars. Notice the way it's used in Deuteronomy chapter four. It's an interesting word, this word hosts, it encompasses a lot of things.

So in Deuteronomy chapter 4, beginning of verse 15, And going down to verse 19, notice the warning that he gives the children of Israel there in Deuteronomy 4, beginning of verse 15. He says, So keep your souls very carefully, since you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire. Lest you act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them those which Yahweh your God has apportioned for all the peoples under the whole heaven." You see, he's telling Israel a warning, a warning that is good for all of us to beware lest you see God's creation including the host of heaven the stars that word that would include The stars and the planets and so on and so forth He's saying don't look up and think to worship those things Nehemiah chapter 9 Nehemiah chapter 9 and verse 6.

I love this. It says, You alone are Yahweh, you have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them, you give life to all of them and the heavenly host bows down to you." And so we see that word host being used here, the heaven of heavens with all their host, meaning primarily the stars, but also that word host can mean angels too. And perhaps this is what he's talking about when he says the heavenly host bows down to you. To indicate and to further show that the host can sometimes mean the angels, let's go to 1 Kings chapter 22. 1 Kings chapter 22 and verse 19 Then Micaiah said, Therefore hear the word of Yahweh.

I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne and all the hosts of heaven standing by him on his right and on his left. Over in Luke, going into the New Testament here, Luke chapter 2, chapter 2 verses 13 and 14. 14. And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased." And so when somebody says, well in Genesis at creation it doesn't mention when the angels were created, you can point out, yes it does, yes it does. And it is, God's Word does indicate that everything was created within the first six days of this world, the six days of creation, that it was somewhere in there that he created the host, the heavenly host, the angels.

On the seventh day, God rested. In verse 2 it says, in Genesis chapter 2, in verse 2, And on the seventh day God completed his work which he had done. He rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done Verse 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it he rested from all his work, which God had created in making it. So on the seventh day, God rested. Now the fact that the seventh day is not summarized like the other six days does not mean in any way shape or form that that God is continuing to rest.

There are some who who believe that God created this world and the universe and that he kind of took a rest and left. He set this world in motion, he set the universe in motion, and he kind of took a hands-off approach. That's not true at all. This seventh day rest is a 24 hour day just like the other six days. It doesn't say that God is resting.

We know that God is not at rest. Now He is continually working. You can see Him at work. Our God Yahweh, He has been at work continually in the lives of His people. He is at work, He was at work in the life of Adam and Eve.

Even after creation, He was at work in the life of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the life of the children of Israel. He led them all the way through and into the promised land. Through the Old Testament you see him at work. In the New Testament we see him at work, the lives of the apostles, the early church. We see him at work in the great events of human history, the flood, we see him at work at the Tower of Babel, we see him at work in Sodom and Gomorrah, We see him at work through the pages of the Bible.

He's at work in the lives and events of the pages of Scripture. He's at work in the lives and events of the people who are here today. He's not resting. He's at work. Our God is sovereign.

He is at work even now. But it is interesting that we find that the Bible tells us that he rested on the seventh day. The book of Isaiah chapter 40, Isaiah chapter 40, verse 28, Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 28. Very important thing is asked. Do you not know?

Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the creator of the ends of the earth, does not become weary or tired. His understanding is unsearchable. If he doesn't get weary or tired, if the everlasting God, Yahweh, the creator of the ends of the earth, if he does not become weary or tired, why? Why did he rest?

Why did he rest? Why did he take a day after six? I believe the answer can be found very early on. For instance, in the book of Exodus chapter 20, Exodus chapter 20. Exodus chapter 20 and beginning of verse 8.

Eight. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days You shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahweh your God. In it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates.

For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and made it Holy. The giving of the Ten Commandments right here in these Ten Commandments, God Yahweh gave or rather reminded them. Remember the Sabbath day of rest was not given on these 10 commandments, but rather they were reminded. Remember, he says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

He wasn't giving them a new commandment, he was reminding them. Remember the Sabbath day. Remember the day of rest. Why? Because going all the way back to creation in six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.

Therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. This passage not only makes it clear that he gave us a day of rest, but it also clearly sets forth that it didn't take God a million years to create the universe. That this world and the universe is not millions and billions of years old, but rather he only took six days. He doesn't, when the children of Israel got these in stone, they didn't think to themselves well if God worked six million years, that means we have to work six million years and then rest a million. No, no, they knew it was a literal day.

And over in the New Testament even, in Mark chapter 2, Mark chapter 2, Verse 27 and 28. Jesus was saying to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Consequently, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath. Here Jesus was saying that the Sabbath was made for man. It was for our good.

The body needs a day of rest. After six days of work, it is good for the body to rest. George Boardman, a Baptist preacher from Pennsylvania during the 1880s, preached a series of sermons at a university in Pennsylvania and in that series he spoke of the French who decided that they didn't need God's design, that they would do a different method. And so they set their society up to work 10 days and rest every 10th day. But that only lasted for a while because productivity went down instead of up.

You see, God's design is best. The Sabbath was made for man just as much, just as much as God gave the food, the air, the light, the sun, the water, all of those things. We ought to thank God Yahweh for His great design, how it works perfectly. Our bodies, the way they are designed, the universe, the way it's designed, this world, everything we need. And so this concludes this portion of our study.

Six days of creation and a day of rest. Now next week, Lord Willin will start chapter 2 and verse 4 where we're introduced to God's covenant name, Yahweh, in the text here in Genesis. It's very obvious here in the LSB for the way that they have rendered it in the English translation. Other English translations have it rendered as Lord, all capital letters. It's all very significant.

And so Lord willing, next week, I'll bring a message from that text on why the name of Yahweh matters based off of this first mention in the inspired Word of God here and why why it is the way it is there and so you will not want to miss on this So we'll go ahead and dismiss in prayer. Before we do, does anybody have any questions? Question? Question? You have a question?

You have a question? Thank you for your attention.