THE 6000 YEARS

How much longer till the coming of the true Messiah?  What lies ahead for this tottering old world in the next few years Does this tie in with Biblical prophecy for the “time of the end”? 

         When the Messiah returns, He will inaugurate a millennial kingdom lasting one thousand years.  As John wrote, when the Anointed One, the Christ, comes, the Adversary – Satan the devil – will be bound for one thousand years (Rev.20:1-3).  John relates, “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished”(Rev.20:4-5).

The pattern of the seven day week, concluded by a Sabbath day of rest from work, labor, and toil, is a picture of the Plan of God.  If the Sabbath of rest from “man’s works,” lasts 1000 years (Rev.20:4), then the previous six “days” would equal SIX THOUSAND years in fulfillment!  Literally a “day” in God’s plan is a thousand years, and therefore a “week” in God's plan is seven thousand years!

Abraham was born 1948 years after Adam and began aged 52 convincing people (Jewish tradition)  to worship God ,exactly 2000 years after Adam

When did God make a covenant with Abraham ?

The Apostle Paul writes in Galations 3:17:

"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."

We can see from this passage that Yahweh made an everlasting covenant with Abraham and his seed when the patriarch was ninety nine (99) years old: which was in year 1948 + 99 = 2047.

Our amended chronological chart would then read as follows:

How can we prove that from the law to the temple was 480 years?

It plainly states in 1 Kings 6:1 that building operations of the Temple began 480 years after the children of Israel came out of Egypt; which was a just a few weeks before the law was given at Sinai.

Total years until   Solomon began building the temple:

                                                                        2477 +480  =   2957 years

4. How long was it between the starting date of Solomon's temple and the captivity of Judah?

Solomon began building the Temple in Jerusalem in the 4th of his 40 year reign. To answer this question, therefore, we will need to take a close look at the reigns (not the life-spans) of all the Kings of Judah. The following details are obtained from the Bible alone.

Total years from Adam 2957 + 430 =  3387 years

What year was Zedekiah taken captive and led to Babylon?

This event is there the scholars agree on.It happened the year 586  BC.

Total years from Creation to  BC ends :  3387 + 586 = 3973 years

According to Luke 3:1-21 Jesus was baptised by John in the 15th year of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea. Depending on which historian you believe, that was between the years AD 26 and AD 30. I believe  that the 15th year of the Emperor Tiberius was AD 28.

If you study Luke chapters 3 and 4 you will see that immediately after his baptism Jesus went into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil (Luke 4:1-13). Then after 40 days he returned to Nazareth and entered the synagogue (verses 14-19). In the synagogue he was given the Scriptures to read and after finding the place he read from Isaiah chapter 61. That chapter tells of the spiritual realities to which a Jubilee points. It tells of how the Messiah would:

• Preach the Gospel to the poor
• Heal the broken hearted
• Set free the spiritual captives of Satan
• Recover the sight of the spiritually blind
• Set at liberty those who are bruised
• And proclaim the Acceptable Year of the LORD.

That sermon was preached in the 15^th year of the Emperor Tiberius; when the Saviour began his earthly ministry in fulfilment of the prophecy.

THE AGES OF THE 7,000-YEAR
PLAN OF G-D

When the G-d of Israel created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , He ordained that from the creation of Adam and Eve to the end of the Messianic Age  would be 7,000 years of time. Before the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden  was eternity past. After the Messianic Age  is eternity future. Future eternity  will be a return to the paradise of eternity past by the Garden of Eden  before the sin of Adam. Time is going forward to the past. That which was Garden of Eden before the sin of Adam is that which shall be eternity future Heaven.."

Traditional Judaism  understands that the first 6,000 years is known as the present age/world . These first 6,000 years are divided into three 2,000-year periods of time or ages. The first 2,000 years from the creation of Adam to the time of Abraham  is known as the period/age of desolation (Tohu). The next two thousand years from the time of Abraham to the expected arrival of the Jewish Messiah  is known as the period/age of Torah. The final 2,000 years of time within the 6,000 years of the present/age world  is known as the days of the Messiah. The last 1,000 years is known as the Messianic era or the future age/coming  The 7,000-year redemptive plan of the G-d of Israel can be seen in the following chart.

            Irenaeus, who lived from A.D. 120 to 202, was a disciple of Polycarp, one of God’s true servants in Asia Minor, who himself was a disciple of the apostle John.  Polycarp sent Pothus into Celtic Gaul at an early date to establish the region, and he settled in Lyons, when Irenaeus joined him, having been his fellow-pupil under Polycarp.  In his battle against raging heresies which were inundating the church at that time, Irenaeus wrote his Against Heresies.  In book 1, chapter xxviii, 3, we read:

“For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand

years shall it be concluded.  And for this reason the Scripture says:

“Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment.

And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that

He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works.’

This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy

of what is to come.  For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and

in six days created things were completed:  it is evident, therefore, that

they will come to and END at the sixth thousand year”.. 

The Encyclopedia Britannica, eleventh edition, concerning the    Talmud, states:

“The view most frequently expressed there . . . is that the Messianic

kingdom will last for one thousand (some said two thousand) years.

‘In six days God created the world, on the seventh He rested.  But a

day of God is equal to a thousand years (Ps.90:4).  Hence the WORLD

WILL LAST FOR SIX THOUSAND YEARS of toil and labor; then

will come one thousand years of Sabbath rest for the people of God in

the kingdom of the Messiah.’  This idea must have already been very

common in the first century before Christ” (“Millennium,” p.459).

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  The school of Eliyahu [Elijah] teaches:  “The world exists for six thousand

  years – two thousand of them tohu [“void”]; two thousand, Torah; and two

  thousand, the era of the Messiah.  But because of our numerous iniquities

  many of these years have been lost”’ (Sanhedrin 97a-97b).

God established a covenant with man from the beginning of this “age” that is called the “Everlasting Covenant”.  This covenant is the Sabbath.  The Sabbath Covenant was given to man in the form of 6 days of work and a 7^th day of rest.  The Sabbath covenant is truly EVERLASTING.  It was never nullified or made void by any of the following covenants God made with man.  The Sabbath was in effect through the Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Davidic covenants and holds true even now in the New Covenant of Yahshua the Messiah.

The reason this covenant is special and was never made void is because it represents God’s timeline during which He will execute His Plan for man.  It represents 6,000 years or 120 Jubilees of “labor” whereby man would be under the curse of Sin and self-government; then 1,000 years of “rest” whereby man would be released from the curse of Sin and be under the divine government of the King Yahshua the Messiah.

God’s people are commanded to keep the Sabbath Covenant because by doing so, we keep the knowledge of God’s timing alive, we continually celebrate the Second Coming, and we honor the blessings of God to enter into the rest of the 7^th Millennium.

The question is, where in scripture are we told specifically that the covenant of the Sabbath represents 7,000 years and points to the second coming?  We find the explanation in 2 Peter 3.  Below is my commentary on this most important scripture that defines God’s plan as 7,000 years and that Yahshua returns in the 7^th Millennium.

The Millennial Scale of the Everlasting Covenant

Interestingly enough, even the numbering scheme of 2 Peter 3 even points to the timing of the Second Coming.  Yahshua returns again after 2 millenniums in the 3^rd  millennium after His first coming!

2 Peter 3:2-18 (NKJV)

“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

NOTE:  We’ve all heard this quote.  Many times this is MIS-quoted to mean the 7 days of creation are not literal “days” but rather “unknown periods of time”.  NOT TRUE.  That is not at all what 2 Peter 3 is about and another example of worthless shepherds taking the Word of God out of context to explain away things they do not understand.  The truth of creation being “literal days” in Genesis is another story all together.  2 Peter 3 has nothing to do with the duration of creation days.  That is clearly established in Genesis.  I have never heard 2 Peter 3 accurately taught.

2 Peter3 is not referring to the length of days in creation, but rather confirming that the Everlasting Covenant represents 7,000 years and that the Second Coming occurs after the 6,000^th year.  In context, 2 Peter 3 is discussing the TIMING OF THE SECOND COMING… not creation.

The first step in understanding the timing of the Second Coming and the beginning of the Millennial Reign is to establish through scripture that the Everlasting Covenant is in fact a portrait of God’s plan and that it represents 7,000 years.

We will discover that Peter is telling his audience that:

1.        God’s plan and timeline can be known by studying prophecy.

2.        The context of discussion is the timing of the Second Coming.

3.        This “age” began with Adam and ends 7,000 years later after the Millennial Reign.

4.        The Everlasting Covenant of 6 days and a 7^th day is a millennial portrait.

5.        The Second Coming is PREDESTINED to occur after 6,000 years.

Below, I provide a commentary on 2 Peter 3; establishing the context is the Second Coming and the timeframe of this “age” represented by the Everlasting Covenant is 7,000 years. 

God’s Plan is Laid Out in Prophecy and the Words of the Apostles

1“Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,

Commentary: Here in verse 1, Peter is again reminding us to study prophecy and the words of the apostles to avoid being mislead concerning the second coming.  God’s plan for man is laid out through prophecy.

The Context of This Chapter is the Second Coming in the Last Days

3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

Commentary: Verse 3 establishes the context of this scripture is LAST DAYS.  Verse 4 establishes that in CONTEXT of the LAST DAYS the subject is the timing of the SECOND COMING.  Saying that over the years between the first and second coming, false prophets will predict an immanent return (rapture) causing End Time people to mock the entire concept of a Second Coming because predictions over the ages have all been untrue.  These false prophets and “mockers” should never have expected the Second Coming prior to the end of 6,000 years, as we will see.

Peters Refers to the Everlasting Covenant and Establishes the Boundaries of this “Age”

5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,

6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.

7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Commentary: Verse 5 indicates that the End Time people will “willfully forget” the portrait of the Sabbath Everlasting Covenant.  Peter directs our attention to the story of Creation, in which God gave us the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath.

In Verses 6-7, Peter establishes the boundaries of this “age” represented by the Everlasting Sabbath Covenant.  The boundaries are the creation of Adam (when the Earth was destroyed due to the rebellion of Lucifer) through the end of the Millennial Reign when the Earth will be destroyed by fire.

Now, having redirected our attention to the 6 days of creation and 7^th day of rest (the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath) and establishing the boundaries that this covenant covers as being from the creation of Adam through the end of the Millennial Reign… Peter then defines the duration.

Peter Defines the Duration of this “Age” to be 7,000 Years

8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Commentary: In verse 8, having just redirected our attention to the 6 days of creation and 7^th day of rest (Sabbath Covenant), Peters clearly defines the duration of God’s Plan for man from Adam until the end of the Millennial Reign to be 7,000 years.  That in regards to the Lord’s return a day is a thousand years.  A Millennium for each of the days in the portrait of the Everlasting Covenant.  With the 7^th day, the Sabbath, representing the 7^th Millennium or the Millennial Reign of Yahshua the Messiah.

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When Is the Jubilee Year?

According to William Whiston's footnotes to Josephus, 24 B.C. was a Sabbatical year, and 23 B.C. was a Jubilee year. This would mean that A.D. 27 was a Sabbatical year, and A.D. 28 was a Jubilee year. If this is true, then 1977 was a Sabbatical year and 1978 a Jubilee year. Sabbatical years would occur in 1985, 1992, 1999, 2006, 2013, 2020 and 2027, with the next Jubilee in 2028.

The. Seven Feasts of Israel are key waypoints on a roadmap into holy history. Four of them have been fulfilled already. They were fulfilled in epic fashion right on those auspicious Hebrew calendar dates to which they belong. This was true for each of the three spring feasts and the summer feast of Pentecost as well. Here is the situation so far.

1. Passover             Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua at His crucifixion
in the spring of 31 A.D.)

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread   Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua at His burial in the tomb
in the spring of 31 A.D.)

3. Feast of Firstfruits       Fulfilled! (By Jesus/Yeshua at His Resurrection
in the spring of 31 A.D.)

4. Feast of Pentecost       Fulfilled! (By the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost
in the summer of 31 A.D.)

  - - - - - - - - - - - -     WE ARE HERE     - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Now here come the Fall Feasts.
They are probably just up ahead.
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5. The Feast of Trumpets      Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).

6. The Day of Atonement      Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).
(The Jewish nation and "all Israel" will be saved! - Zech.12:8-13:1, Rom. 11)

7. The Feast of Tabernacles   Unfulfilled ....(as of yet).
The coming 1000 year Millennium of Messiah.

HOW MIGHT JESUS FULFILL THE FALL FEASTS?

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The accuracy in which Jesus fulfilled the spring feasts at His first 

appearance is inescapable! By examining the three fall feasts more 

closely, we can understand how Jesus may complete God's plan for man 

through their fulfillment. The Hebrew and English names for the three 

fall feasts are:

HEBREW        ENGLISH

Yom T'ruah    Trumpets 

              (also called Rosh HaShanah)

Yom Kippur    Day of Atonement 

              (also called Yom haDin)

Sukkot        Tabernacles

              (also called Booths)

In Jewish 

eschatology, the Feast of Trumpets is a solemn time of self evaluation. 

On this day, it is said that God writes the names of those found 

completely righteous into the Book of Life, those found completely.

wicked are written into the Book of Death and those found neither 

completely righteous or completely wicked await the Day of Atonement for their judgment. 

Jewish eschatology is consistent with this view. The Rabbis taught 

that when 6000 years (or six "days") of human history are completed, the 

seventh day, the Day of the Lord will come. On the Feast of Trumpets, 

Tishri 1, the shofar will sound and all the righteous, both dead and 

alive will be resurrected. The righteous will go to the "gates" for the 

coronation of the King, the Messiah and then be united with the Messiah 

as His bride.

http://www.cynet.com/jesus/Prophecy/7000.HTM

http://www.hebroots.org/2housesch5.html#CHAP5

God's Time Map
The History and Future of All the Universe
God is bigger than all of it, He's in control of every sub-atomic particle and yet, all of heaven watches and waits...for YOU! 
(See Romans 8:18 to 39) That's the great news!

The Passover Lamb was to be chosen on the 10th day of Nisan, and slain on the 14th, a gap of 4 days. This was a veiled reference to the 4,000 years between the fall and the crucifixion. Jesus was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev.13:8) in the purposes of God, but fulfilled literally 4,000 years later.  (Incidentally, this chronology only works by accepting the normal [Massoretic] Hebrew text of Genesis, NOT the spurious Septuagint version.)

http://www.hebroots.org/2housesch5.html#CHAP5

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http://www.biblestudy.org/gands/hdaybook/jubilee.html

http://www.annomundi.com/history/travels_of_noah.htm

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Chayei-Olam/chayei-olam.html

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http://www.israelsmessiah.com

http://endtimepilgrim.org/fallfeasts.htm