Hebrews 3 tells us the 40 years of wandering in the desert was because God swore in His wrath that they would not enter rest.
The 40 year wandering in the desert is associated with the opposite of entering rest.
I would agree they used the temporal rest in a ceremony as if it was our daily rest spoken of in Hebrew 4 mixing the temporal things seen with the unseen things of God the gospel as a shadow . . .leading towards the eternal promised land the heavenly city prepared for the bride the church
I think you could say teaching them how to walk or understand God not seen They were given a weekend rest (two days) as a fast to represent the gospel a ceremonial sign to all the surrounding faithless pagan nations.
Feeding them that murmured against the will of God "manna" a word that means. What is it? Called hidden manna in Revelation 2;17 the signified language of parables. In that way they decided to go back to Egypt signified as the world and eat real food 7 days along with their work (no rest)
On one occasion a person who did not mix the faith of the eternal gospel understanding with the temporal things seen, seeing no value in the unseen spiritual things of God,
Rather than preparing the manna on the first day of rest he waited till the second the day to gather wood to prepare the manna. It was to be eaten and shared with the less the poor on the second day. He was condemned by the that ceremonial law as a reminder to those who do enter the rest by mixing the two the eternal with temporal " (2 Corinthians 4:18)
Numbers 15: 31-36 Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that
gathered sticks upon the
sabbath day.
And they that found him
gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and
he died; as the
Lord commanded
Moses.
Hebrews 4:1-3King James Version4 Let
us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left
us of entering into
his rest, any of
you should seem to come short of
it.For unto
us was the
gospel preached, as well as unto
them: but the
word preached did not profit
them, not being
mixed with
faith in
them that
heard it.For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world
The 20/20 prescription
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we
look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are
not seen: for
the things which are seen are
temporal; but
the things which are not seen are
eternal.
I would suggest follow the prescription for mixing Yoked with christ our burden can be lighter as we rest with him