Génesis 2:2

"And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."

It is not stated here that God rested from all activity, but that He rested from creation, "the work which he had made," an expression twice repeated. This has no reference whatever to the Jewish sabbath. This does not refer to the days of the week, but to the days of the creation. This day of God's rest is still going on (Hebrews 4:4-6,11), and will obviously continue until the Final Judgment. There was no command here for man to rest, no revelation whatever to Adam or his posterity suggesting or commanding the observance of any such thing as the Jewish sabbath. "The thing under consideration here is not the Jewish sabbath, but the creation sabbath."[1] "On the seventh day God finished ..." As for the problem which is alleged from any implication here that part of God's work was performed on the seventh day, it is easily resolved by understanding the thought to be that "God declared to be finished" His work on the seventh day. The verb here may also be translated, "had finished,"[2] according to John Calvin and many other distinguished scholars. We do not see any problem at all with this. As a matter of fact, God is still working, as indicated by John 5:17; and, therefore, what is undoubtedly meant is that God rested from the particular work of creation already mentioned in Genesis 1. As Jamieson noted:

"No permanent change has ever since been made in the course of the world; no new species of animals have been formed; no law of nature repealed or added to. They could have been finished in a moment as well as six days; but the work of creation was gradual for the instruction of man."[3]