KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Days
IN EXODUS 20:8-11 the instruction concerning the Sabbath was given to the Israelites...
They were told to work six days and rest on the seventh. The Sabbath day (rest day) was based on the rationale that God used six days to create all things and rested on the seventh. A push has come along in recent years to argue for extra time in creation to account for evolution. But in light of the instruction given for the Sabbath this would create an illogical parallel.
Man was to work six days and rest on the seventh ( Exodus 20:9-10). This was based on the concept that God used His creative powers for six days and rested on the seventh. If God had taken 1,000,000 years in between these days then there would be a contradiction between what God required of the Israelites and himself. In order for the parallel to be drawn man would need to work 6,000,000 years before he was allowed to enjoy the Sabbath. Yet the Israelites, as well as we, understood that the Sabbath came on the seventh day of every week. The comparison God makes of his work and the establishment of the Sabbath based on that work makes it clear that God worked six consecutive 24 hour days and took a break on the seventh (Steven Haguewood).
KneEmail: "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done" (Gen. 2:1-2).