See the series here
I rested, respected and
carefully reviewed the unfolding of My delegated authority to mankind
for a millennium – The Day of My Rest. Immediately following this first
millennium, I dispatched a savior with My message for mankind. This is Noah,
who is a ‘Christ-type’.
Guess what! I
wonder whether this reply may offer some insights on a pattern, which
He may similarly apply during His next/pending ‘rest’. How? Consider what I
perceive as a few, pivotal ‘millennial parallelisms’. Herein I discuss #1.
(See other posts in this series.)
During the initial
6 days of creation (or possibly 6,000 years if Psalm 90:4 is both literal and figurative), God, in the visible person of Jesus Christ (per Hebrews 1, Colossians 1, John 8:58),
(re)established Light (which I believe is God’s ‘I AM’ presence) and order
across His physical universe. This seems to have occurred following the
downfall and excommunication from Heaven of satan and his crew. (Luke 10:18,
Isaiah 14:12-15) There, Lucifer had been appointed to an exulted position,
possibly in charge of Heaven’s musical worship team. (Ezekiel 28:13-15) His
downfall stained Heaven’s utensils of worship (Hebrews 9:23), and apparently
darkened all of creation. This crew landed on Earth well before Adam was
created (Revelation 12:9, Ecclesiastes 28:13), and succeeded in corrupting
mankind through Adam’s sin. Jesus had created Adam in His own personal image
(unlike with angels), and had delegated to him and his kind, authority and power
to serve as lords over the (refreshed) earth. Then He rested on the 7th
Day, which I believe was mankind’s first millennium, the pre-flood age.
Note, Jesus had strategically told Adam he would die ‘in
the Day’ in which he disobeyed (sinned) by eating of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. (Pay attention to the unique wording of Genesis 2:17) Well,
immediately after Adam sinned, the ‘dying/death’ process kicked in –- spiritually via separation from God/Jesus, soul-wise via soul wrenching mental distress, anguish, fear,
doubts, etc., and eventually physically via physical death. Consider this:
When did Adam die?
While he physically
lived for 930 years (Genesis 5:5), in the light of Psalm 90:4, Adam physically
died within (inside of) mankind’s first ‘Day’ on earth, having physically lived
93% of the first millennium! Ever thought
of that?
Here’s a
revelation: With Adam’s
physical presence on Earth for 930 years, no doubt directly sharing his and
Eve’s very real Garden of Eve experiences with a small, but growing human
population, it is no stretch to perceive the Earth was indeed ‘filled with the
knowledge of The Lord’ for at least a thousand years, though mankind's sinfulness steadily increased, especially towards the end of our first 'Day'. Genesis 6:1-3 explains a key reason why.
This I see as the first
parallelism between the 7th Day of creation (our first
millennium) and the promised/pending Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ, during which
knowledge of God will literally fill the Earth for 1,000 years because all the world will know Jesus as God on Earth, not as a Christ-type, as Adam also was. (See: wOw! Earth Filled... (Series and also Human History Ages (Series))
Millennial Parallelism #1:
Earth, Filled with Knowledge
of The Lord
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NB: Whether The Millennial Reign age will be our final millennium
on this current Earthdepends upon the length of the 'little while' duration
of the post-Millennial Reign age, noted in Revelation 20:3
