Age-ending Stock-taking (5th Age)

See the introduction and series here

5th Age Genesis 6 Equivalent

The Bible, history, human nature, and current events, together,
give us more than adequate information to guesstimate
the age-ending conditions in the 3rd-through-6th ages.
Come along as I imagine their ‘Genesis 6 equivalents’.

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¹ Now it shall come to pass in the closing years of The Lord’s Millennial Reign, that multitudes will begin to decry and resist His righteous requirements, just as their forefathers had resisted monarchal rule in earlier ages.

² The latter-born sons and daughters of apocalyptic survivors will have no understanding of the intensity of His past judgments upon the sinfulness of mankind, and will only seek to be free from all righteous constraints.

³ And The Lord will say, ‘My presence will not be among this people for much longer. The time of My departure, and of the return of the evil one, is approaching.’

⁴ Giant-like, influencer personalities will arise among the people, to deceive and stirred them to increase acts of rebellion and corruption.

⁵ And, to fulfill His strategic purposes, The Lord will extend Grace during their gradual resistance and rebellions. Like their forefathers, the thoughts of their hearts will increasingly be evil.

⁶ He will Glorify His Father that all things are unfolding according to His plan, purposes and timing.

⁷ So The Lord will instruct His entourage of angels and immortal saints to begin gradually preparing for their planned, phased departure from the Earth.

⁸ His heart will be full of compassion and Grace for people who will be left in Jerusalem to face temptations of the returning evil one, and rebellious peoples across the Earth.  He will encourage them to stay strong in faith and joy, with the assurance of His Spirit’s presence to ‘see them through’ their pending tests and trials. 

⁹ These are they who, throughout this age, will have iteratively affirmed their love and commitment to The Lord, and to His righteous requirements. Yet their faith must be tested, as by fire, before completing His Salvation Internship program. 

¹⁰ He will encourage them to instruct and train their yet-born children about Him, His ways, and His promises to be with them in spirit as they learn of, and decide to obey His righteous requirements.

¹¹ He will assure them that the subsequent, evil age will only endure ‘a little while’, and if they remain steadfast, they will inherit all things, according to The Father’s plan and will. 

¹² He will survey the Earth, and see its increasing corruption, though all devils will have been locked away for many centuries. He well knows the depravity of the human spirit apart from His salvation. 

¹³ As His day of departure will draw closer, The Lord will inform His mortal saints in Jerusalem about the returning evil one, the spirit of disdain for all things righteous. He will encourage them to do well in stewarding the beloved city He will leave behind. This He will do, as He had forewarned Adam and Eve, and later His disciples and followers after His resurrection. *

¹⁴ The Lord shall issue final directions to the ranks and files of His immortal saints about their phased departure, including their selection and appointment of worthy mortal leaders across the world, to take-on the governing roles His saints will soon vacate.

 ¹⁵ He will dispatch a special set of angels to prepare His bride, the New Jerusalem on the eternal Earth (vacant for a thousand Earth-years), for His pending return, along with all His immortal saints from the first 4 ages of human history. 

¹⁶ His instructions will include preparations of His ‘Ezekiel 1 transport’ source, and ‘cloud arrangements’ for His and His saints’ return to His bride.

¹⁷ The Lord will personally assign a strong angel to stand ready to receive instructions about when to release the full kingdom of satan from the bottomless pit into which they were cast at the end of the apocalypse, a thousand years earlier.

¹⁸ Before their departure, The Lord and His immortal saints will host their final Feast of Tabernacles, hosting representatives from every nation, especially the mortal leaders who will have been selected to replace immortal saints in governing roles across the world.

¹⁹ Celebrations during this final Feast of Tabernacles will be muted, unlike all previous such celebrations, as attendees will understand the end of The Lord’s Millennial Reign will be at hand.

²⁰ The Lord will warn attendees to beware of the reversal of their Millennial relationships with the animal kingdom. With the return of the evil one, wolves will no longer ‘lie down with lambs, nor will children play by the holes of serpents’, for the return of the evil one will reinstate enmity across the Earth.

²¹ To the Feast attendees, The Lord will apportion some of the immense wealth that will have accumulated in Jerusalem during His Millennial Reign. He will leave substantial amounts in the City as a magnet to attract rebels from across the Earth, to the City for their predicted destruction at the end of the 6th age.

²² Thus, shall the 5th age close, with the return of The Lord and all His saints to the new, eternal Earth. Thus shall the 6th age begin—the final, predicted, ‘little while’ age on this current Earth, once again under the delusional spell of the kingdom of satan. 

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* I intuit and imagine The Lord likely revealed to Adam and Eve much more information about satan and his kingdom, after their expulsion from the Garden in Eden—insights they likely passed along to their descendants. This might explain the few Old Testament references to satan. The fuller unveiling of this dark kingdom would await the ministry of the Second Adam, Jesus, The Lord God, who came to expose and destroy the works of satan’s kingdom.