"The Son of Man is Lord Even of the Sabbath Day"(Part 2)

Hebrews 4:9-10 says, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." Rest is the greek word "sabbatismos" which means a cessation from all labour and work. It is a topic that God has given me to elaborate on. In part one we addressed the Sabbath Day and how it relates to the Son of Man, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. In this blog we're going to breakdown God's rest in it's two basic existences in scripture.
There are two basic rests that are identified in scripture:The first is the rest that the children of Israel were to enter into after departing Egypt. This is the rest that God had promised Israel when He made His covenant with Abraham saying, "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee(Gen.12:1)." It was this Land of Canaan that God had called His people to rest but Heb.3:19 says, "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief." They fell dead in the wilderness of Egypt after wandering 40 years("But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?"Heb.3:17 ). This is the first rest in which that generation of Israel died because they did not believe God and did not enter into His rest because of unbelief and the following generation under Joshua's administration were lead over the Jordan river into the land of God's rest, Canaan(Josh.3:1-4:18).
BUT God hinted to us in Joshua 22:4 that there was another day of rest that was not yet revealed. Hebrews 4:6-8 says, "Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. " So the rest of Joshua 22:4 was only to serve as a figure for the rest that God has called every believer to. Now many who think they already know what this rest is will say this rest is the Kingdom of Heaven or this rest is the rest that we find when we are born again but the scripture speaks very clearly about the nature of the kingdom; The Kingdom comes and finds you: (note:And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.Lk.10:9), and if the rest is the new birth then why does Heb.4:11 say, "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief?"The new birth does not involve man's works or his labor. This "rest that remaineth to the people of God" involves labor. So what is this rest? Does it have anything to do with the yoke of Christ? What didn't you read what He said? He said His "yoke was easy and His burden was light." Yokes and burdens?!! What does He mean I thought we were resting????? stay tuned for part 3.