See the Mid-ages Musings Series here
See the Human History Ages Series here
In prayers and meditations, I asked Jesus, The Lord God: How is human history organized from Your perspective?
He answered: In 7 ages: 6 on this current Earth, and the 7th on the new, eternal Earth I promised Isaiah I was then creating, per Isaiah 65:17 and 66:24. That’s the one I showed to Apostle John in Revelation, and where all 1st and 2nd ages saints were resurrected and physically raptured, when I was resurrected after My crucifixion, per Matthew 27:51-53. It’s also where the (twins) eternal spirits/souls of every deceased saint from the 3rd age, rests with Me, awaiting their reunion with their physical bodies, made immortal and glorified (GLOWING). 1
Then I asked: How should I refer to these ages??
His Word, The Bible, inspired these names:
1. Pre-flood age
2. Post-flood age
3. Post-cross (post-Pentecost current age)
4. Tribulation age
5. Millennial Reign age
6. Post-Millennial Reign age
7. Eternal age
Curious, I asked, What 6 things trigger transitions from age-to-age, recognizing the global flood clearly triggered the transition from the 1st-to the-2nd age??
He answered: Various other global judgments.
Deeply curious, I asked: From Your perspective, what are these global judgment transitions triggers?
His Word, revealed the following events as being GLOBAL, from Heaven’s perspective:
1. The flood, an oft denied GLOBAL event!
2. Christ’s crucifixion, God’s GLOBAL forgiveness of every sinful act, ever!
3. Revealing of the anti-Christ, the ‘son of satan’, who, in a short age, will unleash the deepest wickedness ever, GLOBALLY, attracting Heaven’s worst, GLOBAL judgments since the flood! 2
4. The apocalypse, described as 14 GLOBAL judgments in Revelation! 3
5. Releasing of satan’s kingdom, GLOBALLY, after a thousand years of confinement in a bottomless pit! (Revelation 20)
6. The Great White Throne Judgment, the GLOBAL resurrection, rapture of every un-repentant sinner who will have ever lived and died without demonstrated faith in The Unseen God; plus all 6th age saints, whom The Lord will sift out of this massive crowd by consulting His Book of [Eternal] Life. 4
Readers, I regard the above insights as encapsulating the over-arching strategic points in The Bible, The Lord's multi-millennial strategic plan for humanity. If you agree, for certain, understanding these insights should have deep and abiding impacts on your lifestyle, as it has on mine, especially during this time of long-ago-predicted, and now increasing Christian lukewarmness, backsliding, and out right apostasy.
So what’s next?? My deeply curious and strategic mind isn’t yet satisfied! Is yours?
Ponder this: According to The Lord’s strategic plan:
Humanity has 3 more, relatively short ages, the 4th, 5th, and 6th,
of history on this declared, temporary version of Earth.
Moreover, the longest pending age
might very likely be The Millennial Reign age.
Here's why:
1. The 1st (pre-flood) age lasted 1,656 years, according to The Book of Genesis.
2. There are various guesstimates of the duration of the 2nd (post-flood, BC) age, upwards of +-2,344 years. (See: Answers in Genesis)
3. The current, 3rd age, which is fast approaching its end, has thus far lasted the first 2,300 years of the AD era. (We’re in the first age of the AD era, which will eventually comprise 4 ages.)
4. The Bible indicates the 4th ages will be very short – the tribulation age lasting ~7 years. 5
5. The 5th age, The Lord's promised Millennial Reign, with all His saints and angels here, will last a millennium --1,000 years, definitionally.
6. The Bible (Revelation 20) declares the 6th, post-Millennial Reign age, will only last ‘a little while’. (Relative to what, I wondered? I intuit, either relative to the previous age, or to all prior, much longer ages.)
7. ‘Ages-wise’, now close to the end of the 3rd age, humans are on the verge of our historical mid-point on this current version of Earth!
8. Years-wise, we are very likely well pass the mid-point of our history on this current version of Earth!
In summary:
According to The Bible’s indicated timelines,
humanity likely has FAR LESS TIME remaining
on this planet, than we have had, thus far!
Imagine that…
In light of this, I asked The Lord, what will trigger the remaining 4, promised, transition judgments, so attentive, spiritually-minded folks, both today and in the ages to come, can better perceive the signs of their pending occurrence? As noted above, the remaining global judgments are:
#3 Revealing of the anti-Christ (after the next ‘first’ resurrection/rapture of 3rd age saints),
#4 The apocalypse (during the last half of the 7-year tribulation age),
#5 Releasing of satan’s kingdom (at the end of The Millennial Reign age), and
#6 The Great White Throne Judgment (at the end of the post-Millennial Reign age, per Revelation 20).
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1 See: Human History Ages (Series), and also Earth’s Final Versions (Series). 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 is a familiar passage to most Christians, as is 1 Corinthians 15. An angel confirmed to the prophet, Daniel, what we resurrected saints will look like in our GLORIFIED immortal bodies. As if to demonstrate this very point, Jesus gave Peter, James and John a preview. According to my broad, contextual understanding of Isaiah 24:23, the collective (alien-like?) GLOW of Jesus and His saints on Earth in The Millennial Reign age, will dim and outshine the light of the sun and moon. See: Imminent Eminence (Poem).
2 For a deep dive into this topic, see anti-Christ (Series).
3 See: Revelation (Series of Series). Ezekiel 38 seems to hint that Israel might be protected to some degree, perhaps similar to the Goshen Effect ancient Hebrews experienced during the last 7 of the 10 pre-exodus plagues on Egypt. For more, see: Booty, Pre/Post Millennial Reign (Part 2).
4 Apparently, the ‘first resurrection’ concept is not as a single, numerical event. Rather, it represents several resurrections of deceased saints, to eternal life, of which one event has already occurred globally, not just in and around Jerusalem. In His resurrection, Jesus apparently EMPTIED the upper region of hades, sometimes called the bosom of Abraham, based on Luke 16. (Matthew 27:51-53). The Bible affirms two more ‘first resurrections’ will occur prior to the start of The Millennial Reign, namely at the end of the 3rd and 4th ages. For more, see: Ponder This... (First Resurrection, Second Death, Hell).
5 Bible scholars understand the tribulation age is represented as the final, ‘70th week’ in Prophecy of Seventy Weeks, in Daniel 9.
