Biblical Reason No 3
7,000 year Redemptive
Plan
God established a
7,000-year redemptive plan of
salvation that was pattered after the
week of creation. (God created the
Earth in six days and rested on the
seventh.) It is important to God that
we understand this plan because the
Bible consistently reveals stories
that parallel this 7,000-year plan.
This plan bean before
sin came into the world. When the
Lamb was set aside. (Genesis 3:15) It
was the time when the current cycle
of civilization was beginning. Jesus,
(the Lamb of God) stepped between Eve
and the executing angel who was sent
to kill them on the very day they
sinned, and agreed to die in their
place for their sin.
After 4,000 years, the
Lamb (Jesus) lived among us and then
was killed. After 2,000 more years
the Lamb will return to begin the day
of the Lord, followed by 1,000 years
rest. At the end there will be a new
heaven and earth, a place where death
and time no longer are no longer part
of our existence.
This pattern was also
established with the 70 years of
Babylonian captivity. Babylonian
captivity was exactly 70 years in
length because Israel and Judah
violated 70 Sabbath years. The
end-time parallel reveals that
because the Earth has sinned and
defiled God’s land for 6,000
years, the Earth will get a rest it
deserves for 1,000 years of rest.
This pattern shows the limit of 7,000
years (70 centuries) in God’s
plan.
More details can be
provided, but I mention just a few
parallels and patterns of this plan
from God’s Word. Lazarus was
sick 2 days, dead for 4 days and
resurrected on the seventh day. (John
11) Slaves worked 6 years and were
set free in the seventh year. (Exodus
21:2) King Solomon built six steps to
his throne and the 7th was
his throne. (2 Chronicles). King
Josiah was hidden in the temple of
God for six years, and crowned King
of Israel in the seventh year. (II
Kings 11: 1-4, 17-21)
John 1 & 2
outlines a wedding banquet on the
seventh day. John goes forth on the
forth day as Jesus went forth from
Galilee on the fourth millennium.
After three more days, on the seventh
say was a wedding banquet in Heaven
at the conclusion of the 7,000 years.
Joshua marched around
Jericho for 6 days and on the sixth,
the walls fell down. The victory was
delivered to Israel on the seventh
day. (Joshua 6:3-6)
After God brought down
fire on Mt. Carmel and consumed
Elijah’s’ sacrifice and the
priest of Baal were destroyed, Elijah
prayed for rain six times and nothing
happened. When he prayed the seventh
time, there appeared a cloud “as
small as a man’s hand,” and
rain poured out of heaven. (1 Kings
18:38-46)
Crops were to be
planted for six years and in the
seventh, the land was to rest.
(Exodus 23:11, Leviticus 25:4)
Jesus predicted to His
disciples that some of them would not
see death until they saw Him coming
in His kingdom. (Matthew 16:27,28).
Six days after that statement, on the
seventh day, Peter, James and John
witnessed Jesus’ transfiguration
into divine glory.
(Matthew 17:1-9)
The other examples,
parallels and patterns appear in the
stories of, Jacob, John the Baptist,
Ezekiel and the Feasts.
Israel’s first
full year in the Promised Land was
the seventh year (Joshua 5:11) Adam
and Eve’s first full day in Eden
was the seventh day. The saints will
enter the new heaven and new earth in
the seventh millennium.
Reason number 3
leaves us with Conclusion
number 3:
That after 6,000 years
of Earth’s history, the 1,000
years spoken of in the book of
Revelation will immediately follow.
It also concludes that after 7,000
years, we will be in the New Heaven
and New Earth.
