Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. There will always be those who test the boundaries. On the Sabbath that has just been explained, demonstrated by the preserved manna, and commanded by Moses, some go out to gather. They find nothing. The absence of manna on the Sabbath is the silence of God refusing to provide for those who refuse to rest. The Sabbath is not optional in the manna economy; it is structurally enforced. Hebrews 4:11 says let us make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following the example of disobedience — the disobedience in view is precisely the wilderness disobedience of those who would not rest. The Sabbath that Israel failed to keep in the wilderness becomes the Hebrews' warning for the church.

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