Instructively, this day is represented — surely intentionally— as having no evening/ night. God’s rest is conceptualized as having no darkness, a negative theological symbol for oppression and death. On that day the horrific primordial chaos is banished forever. In other words, by resting on the Sabbath, Israel experiences the world to come, a world of untarnished blessing that they are destined to inherit in the eschaton. Moreover, as human beings exert sovereignty over space and matter, which they build with and possess, the sanctification of time reminds them that there is something transcendent beyond matter and space. The critical moments are not the ones spent building, possessing, and controlling, but the times set apart for quiet, reflection, meditation, and worship.

Waltke, Bruce K.; Charles Yu (2011-04-19). An Old Testament Theology (p. 187). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.