GENESIS 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. [Genesis 2:2 NKJV]
And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. [Genesis 2:2 AMP]
Bible Teacher:
The first Person to ever be set free in the Beginning was God Himself setting Himself free from all His Works. This Freedom from His Works is called "Rest." Behold the burden was not just lifted off Him for the burden ended, and He ceased from being provoked into further activities.
Rest was the first freedom to He who was bound to work immediately by His Word. At that stage, there was no Word of God that God had not worked hard to fulfill. Everything God had said that provoked or bound God to work what He said, was fully completed and fulfilled.
Therefore God ended His Works on the Seventh Day by not making or leaving any further statement (Word or Promise) that would mean "Carryover" or "Leftover" of Work yet undone. For every Word of God to the creation was fully worked and fulfilled by the Seventh Day (Saturday). And God would not begin the Seventh Day by speaking what to do as in other days before; rather God was silently resting in quietude on the Seventh Day.
Commentaries:
In the Seventh Day — "And It was so" fully balanced "And God said." There was nothing that God said that was not made "It was so." Remember, without the Word, nothing made was made. As it is written,
[John 1:3] — All things were made and came into existence through Him (the Word); and without the Word not even one thing was made that has come into being.
There was only one thing that God did from creation works without the Word or God saying it first — That was "God Resting on the Seventh Day." God did not speak it before God did rest, but nevertheless God blessed the Seventh Day and mandated Rest by His Word when He rested.
Bible Teacher:
It was His Work that God ended on the Seventh Day, not His Word. The burden of God having to work or to do instantly as soon as God spoke or gave His Word was relaxed and rested. Then God could now work from rest, and there could be days, years or decades, of intervals between when God first said it and when it was so as in when God did the Works He said.
Commentaries:
The Rest in which God could go on Speaking His Word without being bound to instantly do as He said immediately, is the Reign of "Faith." Faith stood in for Work to instantly follow the Word of God as God rested. God said it, and "It was not yet so by Work" but "It was so by Faith."
[Hebrews 4:1-11 BSB] — Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it. Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.” Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.