True Rest
The Psalms describe our resting in Christ as being united by experience with His unhindered power in ruling the earth by word and Spirit. I do not believe it is a physical place on the earth. Although I believe in the creation ordinance the culture determines the kind of opposition to this rest both religious and political. Because I do not see Gods rest as an authoritative structure but only evidence in the unifying of all things.

This rest is compared to the pre fall government of God in the garden. This rest was unhindered fellowship with God. This means there was no opposition to mans relationship to God, other men or His creation. But after the fall man fell from this rest by becoming his own god. Each mans view of creation and his fellow man is tainted. In this sense every man in his natural state wants to dethrone God though seeing everything through his taunted view.

This is why I do not believe that unity can be achieved in the philosophy that the parts make a whole. I believe the christian unity is that Christ who is a whole body are parts of His body in the elect. The greatest are the least, the least are the greatest..Gods government of serving in the correct fashion. I do not believe that we have a certain amount of gifts and the ones we do not have are made up by others. I believe that a person can increase in gifts throughout his life.  You see the comparison in a man who meditates knows more than his teachers. So in this sense the man who knows more is able to apply the supreme government of God by experience through the laws, decrees, promises, curses, and statutes ..which gives the man the most free exercise of his gifts that is represented as the example of rest. This is exactly the kind of unity that was experienced in the pre fall garden . But I also believe there is a God- Human relationship that is beyond that pre fall experience. The rest day is our opportunity in a special way to obtain dominion on the earth by worship and prayer.