4:7-10 What is the writer referring to here?
4:7-10 What is the writer referring to here?
Jesus in V8 (KJV), should have been translated Joshua, for he is the one referred to here. What the writer is saying is that Canaan, the promised land into which Joshua led the Israelites, was not the final rest which God has prepared for those who love Him.
Otherwise God would not have needed to offer another opportunity to enter into His rest at the time of King David (CP Psa 95:7-11).
This rest is the spiritual rest available to all who trust in Christ, and those who do enter in have ceased from their labours, just as God ceased from His on the seventh day. He 4:3 teaches that the rest is based upon a finished work which God purposed before the foundation of the world (CP He 4:3-4).