Gods Sabbath

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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

So that Christ can occupy this unique position in the divine order, it is necessary for Him to be both God and Creature simul taneously. Like the ladder Jacob saw in his dream, Christ must reach all the way up to the divine Source to have total access to God’s unlimited resources and, at the same time, all the way down to creation, in order to channel these resources to the re ceivers. If He lacked equality with the Father on one side, or with creation on the other, He could not be an effective Connect or. And should the universe ever be deprived of an effective con nector, its continued existence would be utterly impossible. To extend our illustration, should the power lines between the generating plant and consumer come short of reaching either side, the current could not flow and nothing would operate in the home. An adequate and complete connector is vital to the suc cessful transfer of energy from the source to the receiver. So too, in the spiritual realm, Christ is a Connector of such perfection that He completely spans the full distance between the infinite Source at the upper level, and the receiver on the lower level. None of God’s blessings can reach us unless they come through Jesus Christ, the great and living Connector be tween divinity and humanity. This aspect of Christ’s work was revealed to Jacob when God gave him the dream of the mystic ladder, which reached all the way from heaven to earth. “He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.” Genesis 28:12. Christ applied this picture to Himself when he said to Natha nael: “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:51. “Christ is the ladder that Jacob saw, the base resting on the earth, and the topmost round reaching to the gate of heaven, to the very threshold of glory. If that ladder had failed by a single step of reaching the earth, we should have been lost. But Christ reaches us where we are. He took our nature and overcame, that we through Christ the Ladder