World-age and universal Sabbath

Meaning

The main treatise gives a world-age scheme of six thousand years of tribulation followed by the great universal Sabbath of the seven-thousandth year. During the afflicted age the Spirit continually comforts and strengthens people; in the promised rest, temporary refreshment reaches its end and everlasting joy takes its place because God will be all in all. Sabbath therefore names a final condition beyond repeated relief within suffering.

The numerical scheme is the author's attributed temporal theology, not an endorsed prediction or a basis for calculating a modern date. The passage supplies no calendar anchor from which this lexicon could responsibly derive one. English “day of rest” preserves the source's explanatory pairing with Sabbath without reducing the image to an ordinary weekly observance.