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Chapter 9 Conclusion—Fulfillment of Another Time

Sixth Day of Creation—Not Saturday

The sixth day is a time of victory. God rested from the work on the seventh day, following the periods of creating all things and organizing them. According to human traditions man honored the Sabbath as a day of the week. That day fluctuated according to different religious interpretations. Religious traditions wanted to be different to conflict with others. The Sabbath is Friday for Islam, Saturday for the Hebrew or Jew, and Sunday for Christian. However, the Sabbath is much more than a particular day of the week. It is a time that will be kept holy because Satan will no longer roam the earth. The seventh day is a time period—a time of rest, with much more significance than a day of the week. The Sabbath represents a special time period: a time set aside for spiritual reflection where life is lived without evil’s deceptive ways. From a Divine perspective a day [one day] is equivalent to one thousand years or more, but even this does not fully quantify a certain span of time that adequately articulates the precise work of creation. However, for humans time is just a reference to the earth rotating around the sun, but days are a mere spec within empyreal time. What is certain is that particular events occurred at different intervals that are in billions of years, and stated as days to be simply understood. However, at a certain period of time—as if a day—

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