Psalm 95 is a song of the Sabbath day, though the word Sabbath never appears in it. Its allusions to creation, that God made the sea and the dry land, point back to the seventh day when God rested, and the Sabbath is a type of God's rest. The psalm combines three settings. First, it looks back to creation and forward to the weekly Sabbath rest. Second, it speaks to each person's own day of salvation. The word "Today" in verse 7 leads into the wilderness wanderings, Israel's period of judgment, of which the believer's period is the anti-type. The closing verses warn against hardening the heart in rebellion as Israel did, since the same fate awaits anyone who follows their example. God always said Israel had a heart of stone, a stiff neck, and an iron forehead, and the heart must instead be soft. Third, the psalm looks prophetically to Christ's thousand-year reign. Verse 11, "They shall not enter My rest," is the first place in Scripture where a future period called God's rest is contemplated. Many would read it as the Promised Land, which is indeed a type of that rest. Hebrews 3 and 4 quote the psalm and apply it to the church today, showing that the Sabbath, creation, Israel's wanderings, and the coming Millennium are all linked.