Book of Genesis

GENESIS 2:3

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. [Genesis 2:3 NKJV]

God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it holy because on that day he rested. He rested from all the work he had done in creating the world. [Genesis 2:3 ICB]

Bible Teacher:

God blessed the Seventh Day with "Sanctification" and not just with the usual "Fruitfulness" or "Multiplication." Living Creatures He made were used to being blessed with Fruitfulness, Multiplication or Increase. But behold a new "Substance of Blessing" that is neither "Quantity-Based" nor "Number-Based;" But "Sanctification or Holiness Based."

If you have sanctification, holiness, virginity or purity, you are already blessed even if you are not fruitful. As it is written,

[Matthew 5:8 NKJV] — Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

Commentaries:

If the blessing of God you have is like "Be fruitful, multiply, replenish, increase, prosper, etc," that is "Quantity-Based" — You are only blessed with a "Pre-Death Blessing" that shall end in your death.

But if the blessing of God you have is like "Holy, Sanctified, Hallowed, Pure, Undefiled, Clear as Crystal, Blameless etc," that is "Purification-Based" — You are blessed with a "Post-Death Blessing" that shall endure after your death and resurrection.

To be blessed beyond death is to be Holy. All those who are holy are blessed, and they are those having part in the first Resurrection that's far greater than the Second Death. As it is written,

[Revelation 20:6] — "Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."

Bible Teacher:

God blessed the Seventh Day and sanctified that Day, which meant God made that Day, "Holy." By making that Day Holy, other days were automatically below the Holiness and Level of that Seventh Day.

This includes that even the Working of God that's glorious and awesome in other days become unholy or transgression in the Holy Day. Creating, making or working, any thing in any other day would be gloriously celebrated, but doing so in the Hallowed Sabbath Day would be unholy, defiling or evil works. For the sanctification holiness on that Day became the first forbidding anything. Aside God forbidding the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, the Blessing and Sanctification of God on the Seventh Day were forbidding Working or labor for the sake of Resting on that Day.

[Exodus 20:8‭-‬11] — “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Commentaries:

Those who understand and hold the mechanism of Holiness would have extra things they see as sin or unclean, which does not make sense to those who only hold righteousness. The Holy ones that uphold their holiness and purity would know the difference between "Holiness" and "Righteousness" — They will understand that not everything that is righteous is holy.

There are things that are done in Righteousness, but they are not done in Holiness. For example, "Doing Good-Works every day is doing Righteousness, but Doing Good-Works in the Holy or Seventh Day sanctified for Rest is against Holiness." It's not whether what's is being done is right or wrong, but whether it's holy (pure) or unholy (defiling).

Follow your consecration or Holiness Code if God has sanctified you; and do not live like other righteous Christians or people of God. Remember the mistake the Young Man of God from Judah made in relating with the older prophet or men of God in Samaria.

Bible Teacher:

God blessed the Seventh Day with Sanctification as Reward to that Day, for the rest that Day gave to God. Other Days had God Working and Laboring in them, but the Seventh Day had God Resting and Refreshing in It.

Blessed are those who give God Rest, Refreshments, and Pleasures, from all His Works — Sanctification and Holiness shall be added to them in God's Reward to them.

Nevertheless, not everything God sanctified became Holy; some became good or pure after God sanctified them, but few obtained Holiness by sanctification of God. Everything made by the Word of God was sanctified by the same Word of God that created or made it.

[1 Timothy 4:4-5] — "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."

Commentaries:

Being made "Holy (Sacred)" is greater than being made "Good:" God saw everything He made was very good, but God made the Seventh Day Holy because God rested in that Day. This is a gospel for us, the Seventh Day therefore earned for all creation a "A Thousand Years of Rest for those who are blessed and holy as that Seventh Day."