As has been said, time is basically God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. This is why Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel beautifully describes Sabbath as “eternity uttering a day.”27 Sabbath is a moment of eternal glory momentarily breaking into our finite, present world. The emphasis in Scripture is not on the time of creation, as some so easily assume, but on the creation of time itself. The seven-day week is God’s brilliant creation, what one poet calls “the most brilliant creation of the Hebrew spirit.”
