Sabbath for a G
“Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.” Psalm 8:2
The late Tupac Shakur famously asked, “Is there a heaven for a G? A place where criminals and drugs dealers meet?” Sadly (or, happily) there is not. There is a heaven for criminals and drugs dealers and liars and fornicators and the proud and self-righteous who flee to Jesus Christ for safety! But there’s no heaven for gangsters as gangsters.
There is, however, a Sabbath for a G. David says so in the beloved eighth Psalm. God uses the Infant to still the enemy. What does he mean by still? Well, the Hebrew word that David used is shabbat, Sabbath. God makes his enemies take a Sabbath. When Israel refused to observe the land Sabbaths, God cast them out “until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths” (2 Chronicles 36:21). God will have his Sabbath, his people with have their Sabbath, his creation will have its Sabbath, and those who fight against him will have no choice.
How is Sabbath a punishment? Well, our present Sabbath, the Lord’s Day, is an unthinkable punishment to unbelievers. Having to wake up, get dressed, and sit through a church gathering where God is praised and the word is preached and idols are demolished and Christ is exalted and nice, spiritual people ask them how they’re doing is insufferable to them. If that is the type, hell is the antitype. As I understand it, the damned will be able to see into heaven (Luke 16:23). If so, God will make his rejectors sit through church for eternity, from the hot seats. And that’s the only heaven for a G.