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 Times change! History tells us that Jesus went to the cross over 2,000 years ago, and when a thousand years are as one day,
it means we're now in the Lord's 3rd Day! Get ready for the Apocalypse, and for that great occasion when the church (the body of Christ) will be raised to meet Him in the air. 1Thes4:17.
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"And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Hab2:2.
The Apostle Peter wrote: "..be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 2Pet3:8. And not just Peter only, but Moses himself, in his only psalm, said "a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday.." Ps90:4. When you take them seriously, certain passages of scripture fall out in curious ways.
Here we see three(3) 2,000 year dispensations, which is to be followed by the millennium known especially
by those who read the Bible, but NOT known or credited by the general public. It has the same pattern as "three-score and ten", as
well as "time, times, and a half".
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We thought Adam was supposed to have died when he ate of the forbidden fruit, but he lived to the incredible age of 930 years -- seventy (70) years short of making it to the second millennium. Hindsight and the Lord's time-analogy says he really did die on "Day One"! |
| Remembering in Genesis where the sun and moon weren't created until the 4th Day -- so what kind of Light was it that God spoke on Day One? The Gospel of John tells us that Jesus is the Light of the World and that He and His Father are One! Two (2) great lights! Two that are One! |
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Jesus was referring to his own body when he said "Destroy this 'temple' and in 3 days I will raise it up. So he really did RISE on the
3rd day, but now the church is 'his body', and since it has been more than 2,000 years since he said it, we're now in the 3rd Day! Are you ready to RISE?
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| NO matter their age, the "Children" of Israel occupy day's 3 & 4 on the timeline above. Figuratively the Genesis period was the "Infancy" of mankind (preceded by the Garden of Eden "womb" event), and now we're supposed to grow up and be reasoning adults! Our SIX DAYS of making a name for ourself is nearly completed! Gen 11:4 |
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This page is NOT about how long were the days of Creation: 24 hours. or 1,000 or 10,000 years -- rather, the subject is comparing those initial six days to the six days for mankind. |
"Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God. Exodus 20:10. Without a doubt this law applied to the fifty two weeks of the year, and isn't it wonderful to have a day off every week? It's our Judeo-Christian heritage! But once Peter spoke of how a thousand years are as one day, a different connotation is seen.
Double bread on the 6th Day. "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." Ex16:4. The sixth day bread didn't stink and grow worms, as did the bread of the first five days. Paper and the printing press weren't invented until the "6th Day", so now we can PREPARE the bread (scripture) using concordances, lexicons, and other Bible Study Aids.
Bear in mind that Jesus is the Living Bread, the Word of God
to be eaten!
Slavery! "If thou buy an Hebrew
servant, six years he shall
serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."
Ex21:2. Also Deut15:12. Believers are spoken of as
pilgrims, sojourners, servants, sons, and Christians; as well as
kings and priests. As Simeon was held hostage in Egypt
waiting for the brothers to return with Benjamin (means "son
of the right hand"), so are we. Paul wrote in Eph3:1 that he
was the prisoner of Jesus Christ.
In the Clouds! In the time of Moses a cloud
covered the mountain for six days, Ex24:16, "and the
seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the
clouds." Amazing, because into the clouds was where the
Lord went when he left his disciples! He's the Word and the
Fountain of Living Water, Jer2:13, and water vapor is what the
clouds consist of.
On the farm. "And six
years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather
in the fruits thereof; but the seventh year thou shalt let it
rest and lie still..." Ex23:11. Also Lev25:3.
The Analogy. "Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest. Ex31:15,17. "...for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." When we see a "for" or a "therefore", we consider the passage and what it's there for. In this case the Author is comparing the six days of God's creation, with the six days given to mankind.
Sabbaths. There's a pattern here which goes
beyond the fifty two weeks of each year, and extends to the
entire age of mankind as we know it. Not only was there a weekly
sabbath, but also a yearly, plus special or "high
sabbaths" (Jn19:31), and the Jubilee was every fifty years.
Forty Jubilees adds up to 2,000 yrs., or two "days" as
the Lord sees it. 40 x 50 = 2000
"There remaineth a REST", Heb4:9. The 7th Day is just ahead for the people of God. It will also be the 3rd Day (since Jesus said it), and may be thought of as the "R" Day (Day of Rest) and the "M" Day (millennium). The word "millennium" isn't found in scripture, though most understand it speaks of the thousand years of Revelation 20. Living and reigning with Christ for a thousand years is what we're looking for, and then beginning the second "week" of eternity.
Not just reigning for only a thousand years with Him, because eternity is longer than a thousand, or even ten thousand years. I recently heard Dr. J.Vernon McGee speaking of this thousand years when Satan would be bound -- Why, he wondered, would God want to loose him after all that time? The answer he liked best came from someone who said "If you'll tell me why God let him loose in the first place, I'll be glad to tell you why he let him loose in the second place". Remember the Bible says it both ways: Not only is a day like a thousand years, but we're also told that a thousand years are as one day.
The
sun and moon weren't created until Day Four, and makes us wonder
what kind of light it was that God spoke into existence on Day
One. Intriguing! When Jesus said that he was the
Light of the World, and that he and his father were
"one", it was finally possible to compare them
metaphorically to that sun and moon. Two (2) Great Lights! The
Biblical chronology places the time he said it at 4,000 years
A.A. (After Adam). Perhaps it wasn't known in those B.C. times,
but today it's no secret that the light from the sun is the same
light reflected from the moon.
The Jewish Feast of Passover called for them to select their
lamb on the 10th of the month, and to kill it four
days later. The Lamb of God also died at the end of the
"4th Day". See the pattern?
What we're seeing here doesn't change the gospel that Paul preached (Gal 1:8), but rather adds a new dimension to the scripture that gives us more to think about and meditate on. Marks Gospel, 9:2, says: " And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, James, and John, and leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them." The account goes on to say that Moses and Elijah then appeared. The new testament saints met the old testament saints after the sixth day! Will they really have a roll call, do you think?
How Two Days says Two Thousand Years. The woman at Jacob's Well wanted Living Water, and brought the townspeople to hear Jesus. He taught them for 2 days-- Jn4:40-43. Now in these end times, we're aware that the Bible is the spiritual bread and water, etc. for believers. The Scripture is symbolic and poetical truth as well as literal truth, so the newborn gets the "milk" and hopefully progresses to the "meat". Mankind has been examining and wrestling the Scriptures (spying for "Corn", Ps78:24/Gen42:9) for nearly 2,000 years and the Holy Spirit, 3rd party of the Godhead, is our teacher.
The Book of
Job, 29:6, tells of "when I washed my steps with butter, and
the rock poured me out rivers of oil". Maybe you were
thinking the steps of the front porch and how butter would make
them smelly and slippery, but poetically it speaks of taking the
milk of the Word and churning it by meditation to improve your
spiritual walk with the Lord. Also, the oil for pouring on the
troubled waters of life. Lubricating oil reduces the friction so
you can keep your cool, and it is Christ who is the Rock,
1Cor10:4, and the bread, Jn6:35, and the Word, Jn1:14.
Eat ALL the Lamb, Ex12:10, and drink
ALL the cup, Mt26:27, tells the New Covenant reader to read ALL
the Book, the entire Bible, all sixty six books. The Genesis era
and the Old Covenant era have "passed away", but the
New Covenant era is still in effect--the church age hasn't yet
been concluded. This is what I mean when I say to "read
between the lines" of Scripture--recognizing how the Great
Author intended we recognize the precept of Eating-the-Lamb and
Drinking-the-Cup is for those who hunger and thirst
for God's wisdom. Rev7:16.
Paradox of Moonlight. Why does the evening precede the morning, when it seems more natural to think of the day beginning with break-fast following a good night's rest? "And the evening and the morning were the first day", the scripture says. Nobody argues with a 24 hr. day, but Jesus modified our understanding by asking "Are there not twelve hours in the day?". Since he's the "Sonlight" of the world, we've only been walking in the light of day since He was born, and before then the Hebrews were in the moonlight and shadows era. Figuratively, the two thousand years of the Old Covenant was the evening, and the two thousand years of the New Covenant are the day. Four thousand years are as One Day! (The "two that are one" precept goes back to Genesis 41:32).
The principle of how years may be put for days, is first seen in scripture when the 40 days of searching out the promised land are followed by 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.
"After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise". Num14:34 "Lazarus, Come forth!"
John 11:43. It's the numbers which make this account one of the
most profound in scripture. Lazarus had been sick for "two
days" yet curiously, Jesus remained where he was. When he
finally did arrive at the gravesite, Lazarus had been dead for
four days. The "two days" of the Old Covenant, plus the
"two days" of the New Covenant add up to the entire stinketh
time. Remember, it's on this one specific occasion that Jesus
said "I am the
resurrection and the life". Jn11:25.
Because there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile, Rom10:12, we can see that the two covenants are really one. They were the Children, but we're [supposed to be] the reasoning Adults. They were a school teacher to bring us to Christ, who has redeemed us from the curse of the Law. Gal 3:13.
On that great day when the trumpet sounds, 1Thes4:16, we'll
also hear "Lazarus, Come forth".
At least figuratively. No, I'm not saying the world is just six thousand
years old. Although, since the Biblical history
chronicles about two thousand years for the Genesis pre-Law
period, and another two thousand years for the time between Moses
and Jesus, and another two thousand years since Calvary, it seems
that ancestor Adam existed six thousand years ago. He told Adam to replenish the earth. If I
understand that word correctly, and if the translators didn't
err, then maybe it had been "plenished" before--perhaps
with neanderthals and dinosaurs. Apparently we don't have the
need-to-know, or it would have been written. It's certainly a
well chewed bone. R is for Rhyme The "Six Days for Mankind"
allegory relies on more than just how a thousand years are as
one day, or of the curious way the sixth day is treated in
scripture. We'll have to look at the lifetime and the Psalm
of Moses, and the "Seventies",
as well as the subject of the "Third Day",
to see how the Great Ghostwriter has hidden away the mystery
of the gospel (Eph 6:19). It's a banquet in the midst of the
enemies of the gospel. The "Two's" of the Bible
(see Logos & Rhema) and the Three's (click on "Bread
for the Head") are no less important. The Four Day Covenant. Abraham was promised
an "Everlasting Covenant", Gen17:7, but Each of these three dispensations lasted for 2,000 yrs. or two
millenniums, so the total history from the present time back to
Adam is six thousand years. Two "days" for Genesis, two
"days" of the Old Covenant, and two "days"
since Calvary. We're at the end of Day Six or the beginning of
Day Seven, depending on the reliability of our calendar. Not much
doubt that twenty centuries of our time has gone by, so the
church age must be coming to a close.. Scripture never mentions such a thing as a four day covenant,
but when a thousand years are as a day, then the Old Covenant was
for two days, and likewise the New Covenant. The "Times of
the Jews" and the "Times of the Gentiles" are
chronologically equal, just like the seven years of Rachel and/or
Leah, and the seven year dreams of the Pharaoh. PSALM OF MOSES. He also says in verse 10 that "the days of our years
are threescore years and ten",
but then in verse 12 he writes "teach us to number our
days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." I'm
thinking, if he already told us (seventy), then why do we need to
be taught? Moses himself lived to be 120 (Deut34:7), so where does he get
off giving us a fifty year cut? I'm not denying the twenty year
"score"; just comparing the twoscore periods of his
life with the two millennium periods of Biblical history. We're
at the end of our "threescore" (three periods of twenty
centuries), and maybe nobody else recognizes it, but those who
know their scripture are aware of the thousand years ahead. It's
usually referred to as the "Millennium" reign
(Rev20:3-5) although that word isn't actually found in the KJV.
Two-Score: Forty (40). We
don't find "two-score" in scripture; it's always
"forty". The 40 days and nights of rain, the 40 days
fast, the 40 years in the wilderness and 40 days on the mountain
top, all serve to boggle the mind, yet impress upon us how the
Author uses this number to express various durations of time.
Most evident of all are the three periods of the life of Moses:
40 years growing up in Egypt, 40 years in the Midian desert, and
40 years leading Israel. The closing verses of Deuteronomy reveal
how he was 120 yrs. of age when he died with his eyes undimmed
and strength unabated. Some believers see his age as a kind of
challenge or goal to strive for, if they can just get close
enough to God. I see it as another clue in the "mystery of
the gospel", Eph6:19. In Genesis 6:3 the LORD said "My spirit shall not
always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days
shall be a hundred and twenty years." Many think this
applied to Noah in some way, but for sure it pertained to Moses,
and perhaps to the figurative age of all mankind. Three 20's, and then a 10, speaks of the time line of history:
the 20 centuries for each of the three administrations, and the
10 centuries of the coming millennium. Just now we're near the
conclusion of the 3rd twenty -- give or take, depending on how
good our calendar is. SEVENTY years was spoken of by Jeremiah as
the time the kingdom of Judah would be carried away captive to
Babylon. He didn't use "threescore & ten" -- it's
spelled out instead: s e v e n t y. "For thus saith the
LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will
visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to
return to this place." Jer29:10. Those who heard these words
would likely have said: But that's a lifetime! Because those Hebrews returned (miraculously?) after 70 yrs.,
we can have confidence that the Lord will be returning for us at
the time appointed. It's a parallel to the time when the Children
of Israel waited impatiently at the foot of Mt. Sinai for the
return of Moses after 40 days. In the meantime we're supposed to
settle in and occupy the land, and concentrate on eating the True
Bread of Jesus, instead of the unholy junk from the worldly table
rated "R". The seventy years in Jeremiah is spelled out--it's different
from the three-score and ten of Psalm 90, meaning we have two
different ways of understanding this time span. Granted,
the years of the seventy are different from the centuries
of the threescore and ten, yet they fit a common pattern. The
rituals and fixtures of the Old Testament conformed to "the
patterns of things in the heavens", Heb9:23. Like shadow
pictures on the wall and seeing through a veil (or vail) dimly, they didn't
see the hands and face plainly, because God intended for his Word
to include these mysteries and secrets. The Lord's House built by
Solomon, 1K6:2, was sixty cubits long by twenty cubits wide, and
a ten cubit porch. Just another variation of threescore and ten. TWO TEMPLES. Sure enough, when the 70 years
in Babylon were ended, the people returned to Jerusalem; to the
replacement Temple which God had directed Cyrus to build. Ezra
1:2. This would be the temple Jesus would later be circumcized
in, and which he would cleanse by throwing out the moneychangers.
It wasn't the magnificent physical structure built by Solomon,
because it represented the repentent Temple of the Holy Spirit
which resides within committed Christians. "The glory of
this latter House shall be greater than of the former, saith the
LORD, and in this place will I give peace." Haggai 2:3,9.
Outwardly the Temple of Cyrus didn't compare, but Jesus explains
how it's the inner man, the hidden man of the heart, which is
really important. Two temples: the physical of Solomon, and then
the one cleansed by Jesus. Tradition speaks of the Temple of
Herod, and perhaps he really did refurbish it, but no such temple
is found in scripture. The count was to begin with the order to rebuild Jerusalem,
given to Cyrus in 2Chr36:23 and Ezra1:2. Then there would be 7
"weeks" of years--meaning 7 x 7 (usually rounded off to
50), followed by 62 "weeks", or seven's. The entire
time from Cyrus to the crucifixion would be (69 x 7) 483 years,
but because of the switch in the calendar from B.C. to A.D. and
because Jesus was 33 at the time, it appears Cyrus was given the
order about 450 B.C. The New Scofield Reference Bible, pg. 532,
places the date at 538 B.C., and the Companion Bible, pg 614,
dates it 426 B.C. Dakes Annotated Reference Bible indicates 461
B.C. Those Hebrews who were in Babylon at the time must surely
have wondered why the Messiah would be cut off, yet encouraged at
hearing Daniel support Jeremiah regarding the return after
seventy years. A significant date? The future
destruction of the Cyrus Temple was foretold by Jesus,
Mt24:2, and if it really happened in A.D. 70
as most historians acknowledge, then our present calendar may
be more on the mark than is generally supposed. Scripture's
emphasis on the seventy, and the two
different ways of reckoning it, and the prophetic period of
the carrying away to Babylon, is something that the Author
Himself inserted or included, and it seems to me for good
reason. Daniel learns from Jeremiah.
So shouldn't we? "I Daniel understood by books the
number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy
(70) years in the desolations of Jerusalem".
Dan9:2. He learned about the seventy years, but then in 9:25 he
writes about the seventy weeks. In Moses time they had put
days for years, and now Daniel in a figure puts weeks for years,
and it's the mysterious missing week (or "seven") which
scholars and Bible students have been wrestling for ages. None
considering how it might apply to the "Leah 7" of the
New Covenant.
Bible Covenants - Including a Blood-Covenant..
God said "In the Beginning", but He didn't say when
that was -- maybe jillions of years ago.
Psalm90
that covenant wasn't dedicated until the time of
Moses, Heb9:18, and they had no way of understanding how it would
include both the 1st and 2nd Covenants. The
Old and the New; the two that are one. One body. The Old Covenant
for the Jew, under the Law, was restricted to that circumcision,
but the New Covenant for the Gentile, by faith, is to
"whomever" will believe -- Jew, Gentile, Moslem, Hindu,
whatever -- it's unrestricted.
Has anyone written about or
pointed out how Psalm 90 is the only psalm he wrote? Most of the
psalms are by David, and a few by others, but Moses lived many
centuries before David's time. I especially like the line in
verse 10 where it says "we fly away".
Because we're all interested in the chain of events which begin with the 2nd coming of Jesus, we ought to consider this pattern which parallels the threescore and ten of the Number of our Days from Ps90:10.
"And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem". 1Kings2:11 - Also 1Chron29:27 - "David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years" 2Sam5:4 - In other words, he was seventy (threescore and ten) when his reign ended.
And David ruled over ALL ISRAEL, and executed judgment and justice unto all his people.2Sam8:15The forty (40) years for Solomon is found in 1Kings11:42. 2Chron9:30 also tells us "And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over ALL ISRAEL forty years".
Being fully persuaded that the New Testament text is the same TRUTH as the Old Testament, I regard Acts 13:21 as amplifying evidence of the reign of King Saul -- "..God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years". An over-lapping reign in which both of them co-existed until the death of Saul.
Are we ready now for the sheep to be divided from the goats? For the tares to be uprooted and cast into the fire? The Old Testament division led to the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and it became necessary to pay attention and observe which of the two was the account concerning. The split back then saw the larger Northern kingdom of Israel (also known as "Ephraim") conquered and broken up first; followed by the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the "carrying away to Babylon" of the Southern kingdom of Judah. It was this Southern kingdom which returned from Babylon after seventy years to Jerusalem and the replacement Temple of Cyrus.
TIME, TIMES, AND A HALF. That's how long it would be, said the man clothed in linen, to the end of these wonders; when people would run to and fro, and knowledge would be greatly increased. Dan9:7. Time singular, plus time plural, and then half a time. Like threescore and ten, only said differently. Also, like 3½. Other ways of expressing 3½ yrs. are 42 mos., or 1260 days if the year is rounded off to 360 days. Rev11:2, 12:6, and 12:14 refer. I believe it's scripture's way of teaching us that time can be measured spiritually and figuratively as well as literally. "Teach us to number our days", Ps90:12.
Daniel left us the mystery of the missing seven, Dan9:25, when his arithmetic came up one short of the seventy weeks. The popular teaching equates this missing seven with tribulation, but it may equally apply to the 20 centuries of the Leah 7. Daniel spoke of the seals, as had Isaiah, and of the times of the end, and of the time, times, and a half, but the New Covenant hadn't yet been dedicated in the blood of Jesus, so the "Leah 7" was a secret. (and still is).
"The Wonderful Numberer" We find this expression in the margin at Daniel 8:13, with an alternate rendering of "the numberer of secrets". The context of the passage deals with the time required for the cleansing of the sanctuary. Daniel had been carried off to Babylon and Solomon's Temple had been destroyed: the daily sacrifices were interrupted, and where would the people go to find the Lord?
Can "three" be the same as "seven"? Yes, in the sense that when Jesus said: "Destroy this temple (his body) and in three days I will raise it up." Jn2:19.Now the church is his body, and temple, and if we can believe our calendars, we're now in the 3rd Day since He said it! Seven Days from Adam, but only three days from the 2nd Adam. Bible critics have a field day with this one, seeing only the literal impasse, and failing to acknowledge that "whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning". Rom15:4. Not just our reading pleasure or light entertainment, but for our learning and our meditation.
In figurative terms a Jubilee (every 50 years) meant a New Beginning -- although there is no scriptural evidence they ever actually celebrated one. Still, the "concept" or "precept" is from Lev25:10.
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THE
THIRD DAY. Yes, he did rise on the 3rd Day; on
Resurrection Sunday, but now we know that the church is his body,
1Cor12:27, Eph1:23. He spoke those words over 2,000 years ago,
and now we're in the "3rd Day". Time for
the church to rise!
This is real "goosebump" territory. The "3rd Day" Life & Death prophecies which Joseph revealed to the Butler and the Baker in Egypt take on monumental significance. By rights it should raise the hair on the back of the neck of anyone contemplating dastardly pursuits.
The Butler's dream was of a vine with 3 branches (Jesus is the Vine, we're the branches) and squeezing the juice into the Pharaoh's cup. Like Communion, his dream meant life.
The Baker dreamed of 3 white baskets with the birds eating the bread from the top basket. The 3 baskets, like the 3 branches, meant 3 days. The Baker's dream meant death. When the Bread comes from your own head, you're dead! The Word of God, Jesus, is the true bread. Jn6:35,48. Your own personal opinions, and that of others, belong in the lower baskets.
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"When money failed in the land of Egypt", Gen47:15. We find this phrase applying to the time just prior to the great Exodus
of the people under the leadership of Moses. Today, as Christians await the return of their Lord and Saviour Jesus, they're anticipating
another Exodus. The Old Testament Jews returned to Jerusalem from their 70 year exile to Babylon, and after Israel became a nation again in 1948, Jews from all countries of the world have been returning there (called the "Zionist Movement"), even from wealthy countries like the U.S.A. "Not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts". Zech4:6. |
The Gibeonite's were a group who came
deceitfully with "old bread and old wine" to enter
covenant with Joshua. When they were found after three days
to be liars, Josh9:16, they were allowed to live, but only as
menial servants. Like Ananias & Sapphira who promised all,
but held back some, the Gibeonites reaped what they sowed with
their lips.
Other examples of "3rd Day" significance include:
a. "The 3rd day the Lord will come down"... Ex19:11.
b. Hezekiah goes up to the House of the Lord on the 3rd Day - 2K20:5.
c. "..In the 3rd Day he will raise us up..", Hos6:2.
d. Samson gave a 3-day notice to solve his riddle, Judg14:14, and paid off with garments when they solved it by "plowing with his heifer" (fig. of speech).
Revelation 9:15 tells us about an event which had been prepared "for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year". God's timetable! Both Moses and Peter spoke about how a thousand years are as one day, and if they weren't just using grandiose rhetoric then we're already in the Lord's 3rd Day.
Just prior to destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, God said "Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do?", Gen 18:17, and now we are the seed of Abraham just as surely as Jesus was a son of David. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is telling us of the time when "many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt". Dan 12:2.
Down through the ages Christians have eagerly awaited the return of the Lord, and especially at significant times like the turn of a century, or Y2K, or "88 reasons". Other Christians keep saying "No man knows the day or hour" (Mt24:36). But what about the year and month? Should the bride be looking anxiously for a June Wedding in the 6th year and 6th month, or for a Lamech "getaway" in July 2007?
In the turning of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, Gen19:26, there's a hint that the church will be 'rescued' just barely ahead of a catastrophe (fire & brimstone) coming on the earth. Perhaps a nuclear conflagration that may possibly ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere?"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come" 2Tim3:1
Earthquakes, tsunami's, AIDS, floods, volcano's, wars, tornado's, genocide, homicide, fanatical terrorism, filthy language, pornography, abortion, cowardly snipers, road-rage and more. Feast of Trumpets? Sept 22, 2007 = 5768 Jewish New Year"...when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him". Josh6:5. 1Thes4:16 - "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord". |
Unto them that look for Him shall he appear the second time...", Heb9:28. Anna and Simeon were looking, Lk2:25,36, so shouldn't we?
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan12:4."Then shall they see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory, and when these things begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh". Lk21:27. It was the Star of Bethlehem which heralded the first arrival of Jesus, and stars are for signs and seasons and days and years, Gen 1:14, so maybe the astronomers will be among the first to glimpse his second arrival.
2007 for us, and 5768 by the Jewish Calendar, and something else by Ramadan, but for sure we see by the "signs" that His coming is near!Mizpah and Amen
What more need be said? It's very clear what we've read
was a secret down through the ages.
The prophecy is come true, there was many a clue,
and it was there all the time in the pages!
This page based on the book "Six Days for Mankind"
(Brentwood Christian Press, '98) by author Bob Smith of Foreman, Arkansas.
