The Creation order and the cosmic Sabbath

Herman Bavinck provides a short explanation linking God's creation week of six working days followed by a seventh day of rest to man's weekly labor-rest cycle, Israel's liturgical calendar (sabbatical years and the year of Jubilee), and the cosmic Sabbath of eternal rest.

The creation days are the workdays of God. By a labor, resumed and renewed six times, he prepared the whole earth and transformed the chaos into a cosmos. In the Sabbath command this pattern is prescribed to us as well. As they did for God, so for man too six days of labor are followed by a day of rest. In Israel the divisions of the liturgical calendar were all based on that time of creation. And for the whole world it remains a symbol of the eons of this dispensation that will some day culminate in eternal rest, the cosmic Sabbath (Hebrews 4).(1)

(1) Bavinck, In the Beginning: Foundations of Creation Theology. Baker Book House, 1999, pg. 126.