Does the Genesis Creation Week Prophecy have a time gap between the sixth and seventh millenniums in human history? The Genesis creation week prophecy, sometimes called the Millennial Day Theory, teaches that each of the seven creation days recorded in Genesis chapter one represents one thousand years of human prophetic history on planet Earth. After 7000 years of human history, then the final Judgment will come (Revelation 20:11-15). According to some eschatology experts and biblical chronologists, roughly 6,000 years of history occurred between the creation of Adam and Messiah Yeshua’s birth around 1 BC. If their calculations are correct, then the Six Day Millennial Theory should be applied to Messiah Yeshua’s first coming (Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:2, Daniel 9:24-27) and the beginning of the Seventh Millennial Day should be applied to His future second coming in (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, and Revelation 19). It appears that a time gap began when the Jewish religious leaders of the first century in the Christian Era (C.E.) rejected Yeshua as their Messiah. The Church Age appears to have filled this time gap between the Sixth and Seventh prophetic days (1,000 years each) because the seventh millennium of human secular history continued with worldwide wars, global violence, disease, and death. The period we are living in today is the Church Age, which began on the Day of Pentecost in 32 C.E. (Acts 2:36-38). The Church Age comprises both Jewish and gentile believers in Messiah Yeshua. When the Church Age reaches its end at the Rapture (1-Thessalonians 4:16, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:52-55, and Revelation 4:1), then Messiah Yeshua will focus primarily on the Jewish community to bring in the prophetic seventh millennium of human history, which will be an age of peace and tranquility because all warfare will be illegal during this period. The following information offers a prophetic explanation for each day of the Genesis creation week (Genesis 1:1-31).
CREATION DAY ONE
“In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:2-5).
The first creation day represents the first millennium of human history (1-999 Anno Mundi (AM), which began around 6,000 BCE and ended 5,000 BCE. This creation day foretold Adam and Eve’s separation from God who is light (1-John 1:5). When God separated the darkness from the light (Genesis 1:5), His action forecast humanity’s fall and separation from Him (Genesis 3). Adam and Eve were the first humans that God created. They were the original parents of all humanity. Adam’s role in the Bible is helpful in understanding the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures. A study of Adam also helps in understanding the meaning of salvation and the person and work of Messiah Yeshua. Both Adam and Eve died spiritually and later died physically because they had eaten of the Fruit containing the Knowledge of GOOD and EVIL. Adam’s history is not devoid of hope. God was merciful back then. He made Adam and Eve garments of skin to cover their bodies. He promised that someday the serpent Satan would be crushed by the woman’s “seed” (Genesis 3:15; Romans 16:20). Eschatology experts consider that promise to be the first biblical mention of redemption, which Messiah Yeshua fulfilled in His birth, life, death, and resurrection roughly 6,000 years following the creation of Adam and Eve.
In Romans 5:12-21 the apostle Paul made this contrast: death and condemnation came upon humanity by Adam’s disobedience. But life and righteousness was given to humanity through Messiah Yeshua’s obedience. For Paul, humanity was divided into two groups in the persons of Adam and Yeshua. Those who remain a part of Adam are the “old” humanity. They bear the image of the “man of dust” and partake of his sin and alienation from God and creation (Romans 5:12-19; 8:20-22). However, those who are a part of Messiah Yeshua by faith become Messiah’s “body” (Romans 12:4-5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:18). They are re-created in Messiah Yeshua’s image (Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18). They become one “new man” (Ephesians 2:15; 4:24; Colossians 3:9-10, KJV). They also partake of the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15). The old barriers raised by Adam are removed by Yeshua (Romans 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Galatians 3:27-28; Ephesians 2:14-16). For Paul, the similarity of Adam and Yeshua as human representatives meant that Yeshua had restored what Adam had lost.
The first creation day also presage the proliferation of GOOD and EVIL during the first millennium of human history. When God said, “Let there be light,” He divided the light from the darkness. He called the light GOOD, implying that darkness sometimes symbolize EVIL. Light is a natural symbol for what is pleasant, good, or uplifting. Light is closely linked with God; in fact, God is described as light: “No longer will you need the sun or moon to give you light, for the LORD your God will be your everlasting light, and he will be your glory. The sun will never set; the moon will not go down. For the LORD will be your everlasting light” (Isaiah 60:19-20). The psalmist wrote, “The LORD is my light and my salvation” (Psalm 27:1). God is said to be robed with light (Psalm 104:2), and that light dwells with him (Daniel 2:22). Darkness is no problem to God. Darkness and light are alike to him (Psalm 139:12). Micah saw God both as light and as the power that brings people into the light (Micah 7:8-9). Both are ways of affirming that there is blessing and victory with God, so that a servant of God need never be dismayed.
Darkness on other hand sometime represents evil in the Scriptures. Darkness is mentioned in the story of the plagues God inflicted on Egypt; the ninth plague was an intense darkness that could be “felt” (Exodus 10:21-23). That darkness lasted three days; wherever Egyptians were, it was dark, but where the Israelites were, there was light. When the Israelites left Egypt, a cloud followed, separating them from their enemy, giving light to the Israelites but making darkness for the Egyptians (14:20). The Bible also tells us that thieves or adulterers are likely to do their evil deeds in the dark or at night (Job 24:16-17). However, several biblical passages speak of a darkness surrounding God. God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai in a dense, black cloud (Exodus 20:21; Deuteronomy 4:11) or from the darkness (5:23). Darkness is pictured as a shelter or cloak around God (2 Samuel 22:12; Psalms 18:11; 97:2). God sets a boundary for light and darkness (Job 26:10), brings darkness (Psalms 104:20, 105:28), and creates light and darkness (Isaiah 45:7). God dwells in thick darkness (1 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 6:1), and thick darkness is under his feet (2 Samuel 22:10; Psalm 18:9). Therefore, God, who knows the future, could make the first day of Creation to represent the first millennium of human history. “Let there be light and it was good.” Likewise, during the first millennium, God put man in the Garden of Eden, and gave him a choice between the TREE of LIFE and the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL. During the course of the first millennium, mankind grappled with the spread of good and evil. Because the first millennium was established with the creation of Adam and Eve, they and their immediate descendants were the first millennium men and women to choose between forces of GOOD and EVIL.
CREATION DAY TWO
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:6-8).
The second creation day represents the second millennium of human history (1,001-1,999 AM), which began around 5,000 BCE and ended around 4,000 BCE. This day forecast the lives of Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah because their history ends with the global flood. Enoch was the son of Cain and grandson of Adam (Genesis 4:17, Genesis 19). Enoch was also a descendant of Seth (the son Adam and Eve) and a son of Jared. Enoch is the father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:18-24; 1 Chronicles 1:3). He lived in such close relationship to God that he was taken to heaven without having died: “Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took him away” (Genesis 5:24). Enoch’s life represents the pre-tribulation rapture and translation of Church Saints because God raptured Enoch to heaven before the coming of the great flood. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. He was Lamech’s father, and he was the grandfather of Noah through Seth’s line (Genesis 5:21-27 and 1 Chronicles 1:3). Methuselah lived for 969 years, which makes him the oldest person recorded in the Bible. His lineage is included in Luke’s genealogy of Messiah’s Yeshua (Luke 3:37). Methuselah’s life represents the pre-tribulation Church Saints who died naturally from old age because Methuselah died naturally at an advanced age before the coming of the great flood. Noah was a righteous man who all protected his faithful family from God’s judgment. He was the son of Lamech and the grandson of Methuselah, a descendant of Seth, the third son of Adam (Genesis 5:3-20). Lamech named his son Noah, a name that sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean “relief” or “comfort.” When Lamech gave him this name, he said, “He will bring us relief from the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed” (Genesis 5:29). Noah’s life represents the tribulation saints because God preserved Noah and his family in the ark during the global flood.
On the second creation day, when God divide the waters and made the firmament, God did not say that this formation of waters was GOOD in the Hebrew Masoretic Text. However, the Greek Septuagint records that the Second Creation Day was also GOOD. During the second millennium of human history, the Nephilim human hybrids increased on the Earth. The global flood caused worldwide destruction and death of many pre-flood life forms. The global flood waters came as God’s judgment on the Nephilim human hybrid populations (Genesis 6:1-4) and on an unbelieving pre-flood humanity. Noah was roughly 600 years old when the Flood came. Because the great Flood happened roughly 2000 years after Adam, Noah was born many years after Adam’s death. Therefore, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah represent the second millennium of human history.
CREATION DAY THREE
“And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:9-13).
The third creation day represents the third millennium of human history (2,001-2,999 AM), which began around 4,000 BCE and ended around 3,000 BCE. This day forecasts the rebirth of plants, animals, and human civilization. God caused the land to be fruitful and multiply. His actions reflect the third day of Creation when the Earth brought forth vegetation following the creation of dry land. During the third millennium, the Earth again produced vegetation to replace what the great Flood destroyed. Human civilization was reborn after the great flood around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers before populations proliferated deep into Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The third millennium of human history included the era of Nimrod and Peleg. During this period, Nimrod built the Tower of Babel before God confused the languages of post-flood humanity and scattered the populations. Nimrod personifies both rebellion against God and military might in the Earth. The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is “the house of Nimrod” where idolatry was practiced and divine allegiance offered to Nimrod. Peleg was the son of Eber and father of Reu (Genesis 10:25; 11:16-19; 1 Chronicles 1:19, 25; Luke 3:35). During his lifetime, the Earth was divided (Peleg means “division” or “watercourse”). The division refers to the geographical and linguistic dispersion following the Tower of Babel fiasco (Genesis 11:1-9); the dispersion of Noah’s descendants; the separation of the people of Arphaxad from Joktanide Arabs (Genesis 10:24-29); and the division of the super-continent called Pangaea. During Peleg’s day, God divided up the supercontinent called Pangaea into the seven major continents existing today. Therefore, Nimrod and Peleg represent the third millennium of human history.
CREATION DAY FOUR
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:14-19).
The fourth creation day represents the fourth millennium of human history (3,001-3,999 AM), which began around 3,000 BCE and ended around 2,000 BCE. This day foretold the call of Abraham, the birth of Isaac, and the appearance of Melchizedek. In the fourth millennium, God called Abraham, who was born roughly 4,000 years after Adam and 2000 years before Messiah, to produce a chosen people who would love and serve God, and produce the Messiah. Abraham is among history’s most important figures. In the Holy Scriptures, Abraham is referred to as the “friend of God” (2 Chronicles 20:7; James 2:23). Though Abraham was childless, God promised him, “All the families of the earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3). Abraham’s name was originally Abram, meaning “the father is exalted.” His parents were part of a moon cult in the city of Ur, and Abraham’s old name probably referred to the moon god or another pagan god. God changed Abram’s name to Abraham (Genesis 17:5) to indicate a clear-cut separation from Abram’s pagan roots. Abram’s new name meant “father of a multitude” and was a statement of God’s promise to Abraham that he would have many descendants as the STARS of HEAVEN (Genesis 26:4). This name change was also a significant test of his faith in God. Abraham was 99 years old at the time, and his childless wife was 90 years old (Genesis 11:30; Genesis 17:1-4, 17). The birth of Abraham’s son Isaac appears to have been a symbolic representation of Messiah Yeshua’s miraculous birth because both Abraham and Sarah were very old when Isaac was born. When Abraham returned from a victorious battle against four Mesopotamian kings, Melchizedek, who was king of Salem, greeted him. Melchizedek gave Abraham bread and wine along with his blessing as “priest of the most high God” (El Elyon). Melchizedek was a mysterious biblical personality whose name means “KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Genesis 14:18-20 mention the historical record about this priest-king. Psalm 110:4 and Hebrews 5:10; 6:20; 7:1-17 spoke about Melchizedek. A few eschatology experts believe that Melchizedek was a theophany or Christophany of Messiah Yeshua before His incarnation in the womb of Virgin Mary because of the history and duration of His priesthood. However, other scholars argue that Melchizedek was only a man with no recorded history of his birth or death, which makes him only a type of Messiah Yeshua. Melchizedek represents the sunlight, while Abraham represents the moonlight during an age of paganism. Therefore, Abraham, Isaac, and Melchizedek represent the lights in the firmament of human history in the fourth Millennium.
CREATION DAY FIVE
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so. And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good. And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:20-23).
The fifth creation day represents the fifth millennium of human history (4,000 – 4,999 AM), which began around 2,000 BCE and ended around 1,000 BCE. This day forecast the Nephilim populations, and the lives of Goliath, David, and Solomon. When God made the reptiles, birds, and whales, these creatures represented different symbols in the Holy Scriptures. For example, reptiles and dragons are symbols of evil because we read “and the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the Earth, and his angels were thrown down with him” (ESV: Revelation 12:9). Ezekiel said “thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself” (ESV: Ezekiel 29:3). The Holy Scriptures sometime portray Birds as evil demons, but at other times a bird represents God the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. For example, we read “and he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast” (Revelation 18:2). However, Luke wrote “and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22).
Goliath symbolized a great reptile or dragon when the giant fought against David. Goliath was the Philistine warrior who challenged Israel to a battle of champions (1 Samuel 17). The young David, who is a type of Messiah, killed and decapitated Goliath. The Philistine warrior was four cubits and a span tall, which is roughly six feet nine inches (2.07 meters). However, sometimes the ancients referred to a cubit equaling 24 inches and a span equaling 12 inches, which makes Goliath around nine feet tall (2.7 meters) tall. Goliath wore armor weighing about 125 pounds (56.8 kilograms), and carried a spear of 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms). Goliath descended from the Nephilim hybrid human populations living in Gath and elsewhere throughout the Middle East. David and his men fought against the Nephilim human hybrids who symbolize the reptiles, sea monsters, and unclean birds. During the era of David, Israel emerged from the sea of nations when it became a regional power because their Jewish warriors force out the last remaining Nephilim tribes occupying the Middle East.
Solomon was the third king of Israel and the second son of David and Bathsheba, Solomon ruled Israel for forty years (970-930 BC). His other name was Jedidiah, “beloved of the Lord.” Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs and over a thousand songs (1 Kings 4:32). Most of the book of Proverbs is attributed to him (Proverbs 25:1), as well as Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Psalms 72 and 127. The Bible particularly mentions his accomplishments as a writer (1 Kings 11:41). The queen of Sheba came to see and hear if the reports of Solomon’s fame and wisdom were true. After viewing all he had in Jerusalem and hearing his wisdom, she blessed the Lord God of Israel for raising up such a wise person to sit upon such a magnificent throne (1 Kings 10:1).
One of Solomon’s greatest accomplishments was his construction of the first temple, which David had dreamed of building. When the temple was completed, the presence of the Lord filled the temple. Solomon offered a great prayer dedicating the temple (1 Kings 8:23-53). Afterward, he offered up 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep as well as other offerings. The people were full of joy because such a great king had replaced David. Solomon represents the clean birds of heaven and the second coming of Yeshua, particularly in his role as the undisputed king of Israel in an undisturbed period of Israel’s history, indeed its highest point. Son of the great patriarch David, he prefigures the glorious reign of Yeshua to come when he will rule unchallenged over the house of God for ever. Thus, Goliath, David, and Solomon represent the fifth millennium of human history.
CREATION DAY SIX
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth. And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them. And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. And to all the wild beasts of the earth and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 1:24-31).
The sixth creation day represents the sixth millennium of human history (5,001-5,999 AM), which began 1,000 BCE and concluded around 1 BCE. This day predicts Messiah Yeshua’s incarnation into the world as the second Adam following 6,000 years since the creation of the first Adam. Adam was created during the sixth day. Because God created Adam in the Sixth Day, Messiah Yeshua becomes the Second Adam partly because He came into the world in the sixth millennium of human history. The Holy Scriptures call Yeshua both the “last Adam” and the “second Man.” Paul wrote that “the first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly,” according to 1 Corinthians 15:45-48. The Lord Yeshua is the last Adam and the Second Man. He is the last man to be without a sin nature. His nature was both human and divine. He was the second man – the man from heaven. As the God-man He could be the suitable sacrifice for the sins of the world. The Bible says that Yeshua offered Himself as the sacrifice for sin. God created Adam, who was the first human, perfect from the dust of the ground. But Adam disobeyed and brought sin into the world. Yeshua is the “last Adam” in the sense that He was the last man who did not have a sin nature. Although He was like Adam in that He did not have a sin nature He was different from Adam in that Yeshua was from heaven. Consequently Yeshua was able to be the sinless sacrifice for the sins of the world.
God’s prophets often mention six days throughout the Holy Scriptures, and six days appear to represent human history before Messiah Yeshua’s rest during the seventh day. For example, the six days of the Genesis Creation account, representing 6000 years, would correspond with the six days in which the cloud covered the mountain before God called Moses up into the cloud. It is apparent that the six day emphasis in Genesis continues through the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures, revealing a consistent time frame of prophetic events. All of these Scriptures point to the same time line, six days, or 6000 years. The Genesis account states that God labored six days, creating the earth and making man in His own image, then rested the seventh day. The Scriptures appear to indicate that God will allow humanity to rule the Earth for a period of 6000 years before Messiah Yeshua establishes His millennium kingdom of peace and tranquility. However, there appears to have been a gap of time between the sixth millennium and the future seventh millennium of history. The Church appears to fill this time gap. This period will continue until Messiah Yeshua raptures His Church to heaven before the seven year tribulation on planet Earth. When the Church ends and the Seven Years of Jacob’s trouble is fulfilled and Satan is cast into the bottomless pit, then Messiah yeshua’s 1,000 years of peace will begin on planet Earth.
CREATION DAY SEVEN
“And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them. And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.” (LXX Septuagint: Genesis 2:1-3).
The seventh day probably would have begun around 32 CE and ended around 1,032 C.E. However, because the religious leaders did not embrace Yeshua as their Messiah, God delayed the seventh day for an unknown season. When God ended His work and rested, He gave us a prophetic view of the great Sabbath rest — the seventh millennium of human history. Because of God’s own emphasis on the SABBATH, literally, spiritually, and prophetically, and since a thousand years to the Lord is as a day (Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8), ancient and modern scholars see the seventh millennium as the Sabbath Millennium, with many prophetic implications; namely, the return of the Lord and His 1,000-year reign on the Earth. God’s labor of creation took six days, followed by a day of rest. His SABBATH commandment to Israel was “to keep it holy.” His creative work with humanity, and humanity’s labor, likewise probably comprises six (thousand-year) days, with the seventh being one of divinely provided rest and holiness, with God present and exalted on the Earth. From the very dawning of human history, one can follow God’s plan of the ages through the Genesis account of the Creation week. This must be what is meant in Isaiah 46: “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah. 46:9-10). God did not wait until the days of Yeshua, or David, or Moses, or even Noah to present His plan; He laid it out from the very beginning. God declared the end from the beginning.
ANALYSIS OF GENESIS CREATION WEEK PROPHECY
Early Christian commentators, such as Clement of Alexander, Eusebius, Lactantius, Irenaeus, Barnabas, and Theophilus, believe Adam was created during the 6th day and each creation day represented a 1000 years of human prophetic history. Because St. Paul wrote Messiah Yeshua was the last Adam (1-Corinthians 15:45), then Messiah Yeshua probably came into the world during the sixth millennium (6,000 AM). Many Christian historians and theologians, living during the first five centuries CE, believed that the seventh millennium (6,001-6,999 AM) would begin after 32 CE when Messiah Yeshua’s millennium kingdom begins. However, the Church was born after 32 CE because God created it to fill the time gap between the end of the sixth millennium and the beginning of the seventh millennium.
Based on all the above, it can be concluded that sometime soon in the 21st Century, we will see the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Messiah Yeshua following the global worldwide upheavals. He will first come for His Church at the rapture before revealing himself to the world at Armageddon. The brilliant Sir Isaac Newton, believe the Scriptures contain clues related to the season of Messiah Yeshua’s return. There is evidence that the Bible reveals the approximate number for years of “the times of the Gentiles” and the exact span of time for Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967. Therefore, the 21st Century will likely be the Messianic century, which begins the Sabbath Rest for humanity during the millennial era of Messiah Yeshua.
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