Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

There is nothing in all of scriptures to support this assertion. Neither is there anything in scripture to controvert this assertion. So how is it that the writer of Hebrews can say with any confidence that this is the truth?

Moses wrote the first five books of the bible, the Pentateuch. He penned these words during the forty year march from Egypt to the Promised Land. He never got to enter in but he did get to see it from afar.

I can see a historical significance in Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. People who lived those experiences with them had every right to contradict those written words, but there is no record that anyone denied there authenticity. No hint in the next books of the bible, penned by different authors that those first five book held any error.

That leaves us with the issue of Genesis which was penned purely by divine inspiration because no one living during those times was still alive to bear witness. The people saw with their own eyes this mystical and majestic relationship that Moses had with God. There was no reason to doubt that the words penned by Moses were anything but what God told him directly to write.

Here in Genesis we find the first traces of this King of Salem, this Melchizedek. Nothing prior to this contact with Abraham as related to Moses by God was ever noted. Nothing after Moses was ever written by any author which exposed the life and death of Melchizedek. Not until the writer of Hebrews.

How did the writer of Hebrews know? For that matter, what do you know of any certainty about anything written so long ago?

Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Yesterday we connected the Sabbath with an expected end. God sat down on the 7^th day and rested from all His labors. We connected the Sabbath to the Manna, the Bread of Life and the word never. We will never hunger and never thirst. For what?

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Here at the core of putting our labors to an end is the end result. Righteousness, a right standing before God, the restoration of relationship which God set in motion from the very moment sin entered into the world.

One side note definition of Sabbath which I did not reference would be obscure if this understanding was not put first. The Sabbath is also call the Day of Atonement. The atoning work on the Cross by Jesus Christ put an end, a Sabbath end, to the law as the only way to a right standing before God.

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

So, if this be a sign unto God that we honor, hold sacred, and sanctify the Sabbath, how can we do so if our labors have been put to an end? Might I suggest the gathering of a double portion of the Manna from Heaven as instructed in Exodus 16, but not because of any law.

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Fill up on the Bread of Life to begin your day, Sabbath or not.