WHY DID GOD REST ON THE SEVENTH DAY? IS IT TIREDNESS?

I recently had a chat with a friend on a topic, "why did God rest on the seventh day? He said, "people say God created the world and rested on the 7th day, does it mean that God gets tired? Does He need a rest? Are there days He does not work? What if you are in a dire situation and prayed to Him on a day He is resting, will He answer?"

My response to my friend was that God's rest as stated in the Bible does not have anything to do with being tired. God does not get tired or weary.

(Isaiah 40:28 KJV) Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

(John 5:17 NLT) But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I."

The Hebrew word translated as "rested" in many Versions of the Bible in Genesis 2:2 is "Shâbath (Shavat)". However, a more accurate translation of "Shavat" is "abstained" or "ceased" or "stopped". 

(Genesis 2:2 KJV) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

(Genesis 2:2 ISV) By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

(Genesis 2:2 AMP) And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

God rested in the sense that He stopped creating after a continuous six days of creating. He ceased to perform all His creative work.

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