Psalms 95:11

"Wherefore I sware in my wrath,

That they should not enter into my rest."

THE REST OF GOD

This is no mere reference to the land of Canaan; It refers to the Great Salvation which God has provided for all mankind. Hebrews 4 exhorts all of us to take care that we should enter into that glorious rest. The author of Hebrews' tying this rest in with the "God's resting on the seventh day of creation" is one of the most instructive revelations in Holy Writ. The rest of God on the seventh day of creation is a reference to the entire dispensation of God's dealings with the Adamic race; it also reveals that God's "principal business" of that whole era is the salvation of people. The implication is that all of the wonderful works of God's creation (from which he is now resting) are, in some sense, held in abeyance until the sum total of the redeemed from Adam's race has been achieved.

There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God ... Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of (Israel's) disobedience (Hebrews 4:9,11).