Revelation 21:17--6a
Significant Words and Comments:
Commentary on Revelation 21:17 expansion (4 August 2008):
Commandment or Structure #6: “Six days shalt thou labor, . . . rest the seventh.”
Detail #6:1: “Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work.” “The gate of the inner court that
looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days.” “Six days thou shalt work, but on
the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.” Following the
structure (commandment) to rest on, reverence, and thoroughly enjoy Yehuveh’s Sabbaths
is the directive to work the six days of each seven-day-cycle. Make no mistake: it is as much
Yehuveh’s command that we work these preceding six days as it is a command to rest the
seventh! Our well-being, our social balance, and our prosperity depend on heeding this
commandment. It has been as destructive to us to have a five-day work-week and two-day
week-end as it has been destructive to disregard Sabbath. The underlying problem with the
standardized five-day work-week is our enslavement to employers who are taking away our
lives. Were we working for ourselves under balanced conditions and without taxation we could
enjoy six days of useful labor, but working for others who gain the benefit of our time and energy,
we need the sixth of these working days just to sustain our own lives apart from the work-place.
It ought not to be thus. Taxation and oppression of every form must be removed before we
can be fully restored to life as Yehuveh purposed we live it. Nonetheless, until we are thus
restored to His purposes, the closer we conform to His stated order for our lives, the nearer we
will come to true happiness and prosperity. Deuteronomy 5:13; Ezekiel 46:1; Exodus 34:21.
Also: Genesis 1:31-2:3; Exodus 16:26; 23:12; 31:15-17; 34:21; 35:2; Leviticus 23:3.
Detail #6:2: The “six working days” are scheduled between Sabbaths. Therefore it is essential to
understand the full significance of Yehuveh’s statements: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of
Yehuveh thy Elohim.” “Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.”
“Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation;
ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Yehuveh in all your dwellings.” Because men
have been deceived regarding time-keeping, almost everyone now alive assumes the seventh-day
to be Saturday. This is part of the grand confusion brought about because a diverse [perverse]
human domination arose “speak[ing] great words against the most High, . . . and think[ing]
to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and
the dividing of time.” Deuteronomy 5:14; Exodus 23:12; Leviticus 23:3; Daniel 7:24-25. Also:
Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 16:25-30; 20:10; 23:12; 31:15-17; 34:21; 35:2; Leviticus 23:2-3;
Ezekiel 20:12, 20.
Two points must be very clear: (1) “The seventh day IS the Sabbath of Yehuveh thy Elohim,”
and (2) Saturday is not the seventh day Yehuveh thus designates! The Gregorian time-keeping
system assumes a continuous seven-day-cycle, which is not supported by any Scripture and which
Daniel 11:31 calls the “continual” [errantly translated “daily sacrifice”] which must be taken
away. Daniel further designates this “continual” weekly-cycle the “the abomination that maketh
desolate,” which, literally translated, means, “the idolatry that paralyzes and stupefies.” No
aspect of this confusing grand deception has done more to destroy our lives and separate us from
Yehuveh than this assumed “continual” weekly cycle. And, innocently believing this lie taught us
by our parents, schools, and society, we have made an all-controlling idol of it [placing our
opinions above Yehuveh’s word]. No wonder Yehuveh must take it away! Daniel 11:31.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 4 August 2008
Latest Update: 4 August 2008
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