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In The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day, Sigve K. Tonstad recovers the profound and foundational understanding of God that can be experienced in the seventh day. He shows that Scripture has consistently asserted that the Sabbath of Creation is the Sabbath of the whole story of how God makes right what has gone wrong in the world. Tonstad argues that the seventh day is the symbol of God’s...

First, the prophet anchors his message in God’s long-anticipated intervention. “Thus says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed” (Isa. 56:1). This verse alone confirms that the message cannot be limited to a narrow point in time. To the extent that we are to see a point in time, the point must be the end-time, the moment of God’s final vindication. The end-orientation loosens the tie to a specific situation in Old Testament
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