Sabbath Continent

God did the work of creation in six days.  It was the seventh day that He rested, making it a Holy Sabbath.  And that's how we got our week - that it is seven days and not ten, thirteen or twenty.  God taught the Israelites to honor the Sabbath.  They did work for six days and on the seventh they rested.  God also taught the Israelites to work the land for six years and let it rest on the seventh.  This was the Sabbath Year.  He blessed their crops to such an extent in the sixth year, they had all they needed through the seventh, the first and into the second year.  This is the pattern that God used.  Seven represents a complete set.  The seventh day, or the seventh year, is set apart as a Sabbath.

All of that comes from the Bible.  But is it limited to the Bible?  Its no shock to you when I say that there are seven continents on the earth.  Everyone is taught that in elementary school and doesn't give it a second thought.  Is it just a coincidence that the Bible teaches seven as a complete set, and the complete set of continents is seven?  If I went on to tell you that Antarctica is an unworked, uninhabited, inhospitable place, it would come as no surprise.  We are all aware of that from the days of elementary school and hardly give it a second thought.  And so we have found our Sabbath Continent.  On six of the continents of the earth man works the land, but not on the seventh, just like the Israelites worked the land for six years but not on the seventh.  Is it a coincidence that the pattern found in Scripture is found in nature too?

Its as if the words of Scripture flow right off the paper and into our world.  Its as if the earth knew that seven is the complete number and limited itself to seven continents.  Its as if the earth knew that the seventh is a Sabbath, and it formed a Sabbath Continent.  Its as if the earth has named the God of Israel her King, even before the nation of Israel existed.