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It therefore follows that whenever we find evidence of God developing his project he would be following his predetermined plan, executing it down to the minutest of details. All calculated and set at the conception of the plan. The more examination we make the more details we can observe intermeshing harmoniously. Should we not expect all calculations to dovetail perfectly together reflecting the designer's signature and hallmark of quality and craftsmanship?
At this advanced time in human history we have the opportunity as never before to study the intricate details of this interlocking plan. When the greatest intelligence in existence initiates an action it is certainly not with the attitude "Well this is as good a time as any, the earthly circumstances appear to require it so I will 'fit' it in there". The originator and constructor of such amazingly organised complexity as found in the human DNA, would not have constructed his plan with any less care for meticulous detail.
As with advancements
in scientific knowledge and the development of sophisticated
scientific instruments, the marvel of the DNA presently
being studied and unravelled. So likewise great advances have
been made in improving Bible study tools for recovering more accurate
information. Using these at the correct time; we can move forward
to further knowledge, and the next phase of the plan.
(See Appendix 2 - 7 the
retrieval and refining of the scriptures and scriptural knowledge).
ALL CALCULATIONS MUST HARMONISE
From the moment creation went off the rails by an
independent rebellion, God's original plans stalled. Immediately
a backup contingency plan for restoration swung into
operation, incorporating a schedule of progressive stages for
its development. The creator of this restoration plan
has thoughtfully provided us with a time table covering
the development phases of His plan as it affected each relevant
generation, an encyclopaedia manual, "the Bible". This manual
provides details and previews on the various stages of its development.
As this plan covers thousands of years over hundreds of
generations, logically the information was revealed progressively,
relevant to each generation as it developed. The recording
of this written information has spanned some 4,000 years requiring
more than thirty writers spaced through out this period to record
it as the Bible.
The more we advance through the time schedule of this plan the more information has been revealed. As we get closer to what is referred to as the "time of the end" the more information will be made available. One of the writers Daniel recorded this prediction writing "Make secret the words and seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rove about and the true knowledge will become abundant" (Daniel 12:4). Provided we can establish we are in the 'time of the end' or close to it, we should be able to examine relevant sections of this Bible manual anticipating the progression to further knowledge on the subject (Cor 2:7,10).
Some six hundred years after the time of Daniel, another
co-writer of his was directed to write in the last book
of the encyclopaedia at Revelation 22:10: "Do not seal
up the words of the prophecy of this book for the time
is near". New evidence confirms that the time has arrived
for further examination of this contingency plan.
THE PLAN IS PROGRESSIVELY BUILT AND REVEALED
To set out the time frame and examine where we stand in it, we require a starting point. This information on the start date is provided in the second verse of the Bible; where the events of the first creative 'day' period are recorded, followed by details on five further 'days' of creative activity. Once these six 'days' had been completed, a seventh day became a 'creative rest day' (Genesis 2:2 And by the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made). No further creative advances can take place until this seventh rest day period has run its course and all assignments planned within this rest period have been completed.
Originally the seventh period was set aside for the inhabitants
of the Earth to complete two assignments, one to
fully populate the Earth and the other to cultivate it. It was
Man's turn to do some work, scheduled for completion within this
seventh period. Our first task is to ascertain how long this seventh
creative rest day is. We know the allocated period of non creating,
is referred to as a 'sabbath' or resting following the
previous six days of creating, making in all a full 'creative
week' of seven creative days. The Hebrew translation of 'day' is
the word 'yohm' and can equally refer to an 'age' or 'period' of time.
To illustrate this, after the six creative days Genesis 2:4 says
"This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their
being created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven" this day referring
collectively to all six days and earlier periods as 'one day',
age or period. So just how long is this seventh creative period?
THE 'REST DAY'
The apostle clearly confirms that in his day (the year
60) the opportunity 'still' remained of 'entering' into
the period of God's Sabbath day of rest. So some 4,000
years later this rest period was still in operation. But
what does it mean, 'entering' into God's day of rest? The apostle
in verse 11 said: "Let us therefore make every effort to enter
that rest period, and not fail through such disbelief as
theirs and not enter into it." Does it mean, that to 'enter' into
this 'rest' they had to die during the period of God's rest? This
cannot be the case, for both the faithful and the unfaithful have
died and verse 5 says the disobedient ones "Shall not enter
into my rest" yet they also died! We are told the obedient
ones needed to make a special effort to enter it, you do not need
to make any special effort to die! So it must mean something more
than just dying.
ENTERING THIS 'REST'?
This earlier resurrection takes place at a later point but still within this on-going rest period. The seventh rest day of God will be continuing when these justified ones are resurrected. It can therefore be rightly said they rest in the sleep of death for a while, and are then resurrected back to active life at a time still within the ongoing Sabbath rest period of God. They are thereby able to 'enter' actively into the events planned during the final part of this rest day period. Persons who were uncooperative, such as that generation of the exodus under Moses, will be denied this opportunity, 'they shall not enter into the rest' by not entering the privilege of an early resurrection during the on going period of this seventh day. After their deaths they remain dead and have to wait until the full period of this rest period has ended and so are excluded from any activities scheduledduring the later part of the seventh day period.
According to the
evidence of other interrelated Bible time prophecies that we shall be
examining the ones the apostle is encouraging in the first century to
die faithful and sleep in death, are programmed for a heavenly resurrection
some 2,000 years later, yet still within this same ongoing seventh
rest day period. These ones will be involved in productive activity,
developing and working on all the scheduled projects allocated for completion
within this seventh rest day period. According to the book of Revelation,
after these justified ones are resurrected the project will take
them a further 1,000 years to complete (Revelation
20:4). They will be assisted by further supporters of theocracy,
individuals throughout human history who have also died loyal
to God. These other theocrats are similarly justified because
of their loyal activities to also receive an early resurrection to
the Earth within this continuing seventh day. The internal scriptural
evidence supports the conclusion that the creation rest day lasts
for a total period of 7,000 years.
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CREATIVE
DAY PERIODS
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EARTHLY RESURRECTIONS?
When any person
dies they undergo the punitive sentence of death, they
no longer have to answer for the sins they committed
or inherited, as their death is the full punishment for these,
they cannot be made to pay for the same sins twice. If it was not for the God designed
resurrection mechanism they would remain permanentlydead.
All those having failed wilfully or
through ignorance to show support for God's plans during their life
time when they are resurrected come back in the later
resurrection to judgement after the 'rest' day has ended. It is referred
to as a resurrection to judgement because they will be judged on what they
do from the time they are resurrected. Their actions following their
resurrection will provide the basis upon which they are judged.
'REST DAY' 7,000 YEARS LONG
Chart 6:2 CREATIVE WEEK INCLUDING THE 7th REST DAY| Creative Day.1 | Creative Day.2 | Creative Day.3 | Creative Day.4 | Creative Day.5 | Creative Day.6 | Creative Day.7 | |
The name 'Jubilee' means sounding the ram's horn. A ram's horn was blown half way through the 50th year to proclaim this liberty redressing process; it was to take place throughout their entire country and affected everybody living in it. Leviticus chapter 25 lays out details of the Jubilee schedule given to the nation through Moses after they had left Egypt.
From verse 2 it says: "The land must observe a Sabbath (year) to God. Six years sow your field six years prune your vineyards..(vs3) in the seventh year there should be a Sabbath (year) of complete rest for the land.. you must not sow your field or prune your vineyard (vs4). You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so the period of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty nine years" (vs8). "You must cause the loud horn to sound, on the 10th day of the 7th month (c28th September), the day of atonement, (vs9) and you must set aside the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, and you must return each one to his possession and you should return each one to his family" (vs10).
"In this Jubilee year all of you will be returned
your own property (vs13). When you buy..from one another (vs14) you
shall pay only for the years until the next Jubilee. The seller shall
charge only for the remaining years (vs15), for it is only this
number of years remaining that can be sold (vs16). If you should ask,
what should we eat if we do not sow? (vs20). In the sixth year (the
48th the in the cycle) I will cause three years of crops in one (vs21)
to carry you over until your ninth year crop" (vs22) (the 51st year of
the cycle). "In case your brother grows poor and has to sell some of his
property, he or his relatives have the right to redeem it whenever possible
(vs25); the redemption price shall be calculated according to the years
remaining until the next Jubilee (vs27); if he cannot afford to recover
it, it shall remain with the purchaser until the Jubilee year when the
property must be released and returned (vs28). In case your brother grows
poor and he has to sell his labour, they should not become slaves (vs39).
He should be treated like a hired labourer. He should serve you till the
next Jubilee year comes round (vs40). Then he must be freed and returned
to his family and to their ancestral property" (vs41).
The basis for calculating to the 50th Jubilee year
was by adding up seven lots of seven year cycles. For
six years the Israelites carried out their normal annual
farming rotation, planting and sowing in spring and gathering
the harvests in the autumn. This continued until the seventh
year, which became a land rest year; there was to be no planting
or sowing in the spring of the seventh year and therefore no
harvesting in that year. The land would enjoy a rest, a Sabbath.
THE JEWISH SEVEN YEAR SABBATH CYCLE|Sabbath | |
50 YEAR JUBILEE CYCLE
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THIS JEWISH JUBILEE WAS A SCALE MODEL
A future time is promised when mankind will be set free
from enslavement to the decaying and ageing process that leads
us all to eventual death. In Isaiah 65:17 this promise is elaborated
upon: "I am creating a new heavens and a new earth (vs22); they
will not build and someone else have occupancy, they will not plant
and someone else do the eating". A promised time would come
when the earth would be renewed, and mankind would regain his lost
inheritance of a God supporting
environment for a home
with a happy and healthy non decaying life. Jesus quoted
from the scroll of Isaiah Chapter 61, referring back to some
of the conditions associated with the Jubilee he said: "Yahweh's
spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news
to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives..to
send the crushed ones away with a release, to preach Jehovah's
acceptable year".
Luke 4:18-19 “Yhwh's
spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the
poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a
recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release,
19 to preach Yhwh’s acceptable year.”
THE GREAT 50,000 YEAR JUBILEE
When is this Greater Jubilee sabbath scheduled? Examining
God's scale version of the Israelite Jubilee cycle as a model outline
of this far greater Jubilee cycle. In Israel, after every 49th Sabbath
year, there followed the 50th Jubilee Sabbath year, completing the 50
year cycle. As each creative day period was 7,000 years long, seven
of these creative days made up of a week of seven 1,000 year days
2 Peter 3:8: However,
let this one fact not be escaping your notice, beloved ones, that one
day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one
day. Numbers 14:34; By
the number of the days that you spied out the land, forty days, a day
for a year, a day for a year, you will answer for your errors forty years,
as you must know what my being estranged means. Ezekiel
4:6 And you must complete
them. “And you must lie upon your right side in the second case, and
you must carry the error of the house of Judah forty days. A day for
a year, a day for a year, is what I have given you.
Therefore seven of these 7,000 year weekly cycles (creative days) would cover 49,000 years (chart 7:2).
Putting it another
way. The Great Jubilee cycle is made up of seven weekly cycles.
Each cycle made up of seven 'days', each 1,000 years long make
up a 7,000 year 'week'. Seven of these 7,000 year 'weeks'
covers a period of 49,000 years. God's Great Jubilee year would
be the 50th, 1,000 year day, from the 49,000th year to 50,000th
year. This 50th, 1,000 year Jubilee would follow a preceding
1,000 year Sabbath. The system of cumulative Israelite sabbath year
cycles directed and dictated by God was merely a scaled model version
of the greater real thing (compare chart 7:2 and chart
7:3).
Chart 7:3 GOD'S GREAT 50,000 YEAR JUBILEE CYCLE *
= 1,000 year period
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THE TWO YEAR SABBATH RESTING OF THE LAND Occurring every 49th & 50th Years |
When this 1,000
year Sabbath reign of this King of kings comes to
its end he will have completed his term of lordship of the
Sabbath 1,000 year day. He will then hand over to God for
the next 1,000 year period, the Great Jubilee. At 1 Corinthians
15:24-28 it says about the Son's hand over: "Next after
its accomplished (end) when he hands over the Kingdom to his
God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and
authority and power. For he must rule as King until God has put
all enemies under his feet. But when all things will have been subject
to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One
who subjected all things to him that God may be all things to everyone".
THE 1,000 YEAR SABBATH & THE 1,000 YEAR JUBILEE.
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With this information,
the starting point of the Great Jubilee cycle can be
set at the beginning of the first day period of creation,
ending some 50,000 years later finishing with the Great 1,000 year
Jubilee. It is now possible to position a couple of other dates
within this time frame; one the important start of the King's 1,000
year reign, commencing 48,000 years into the Jubilee cycle, the
other, the start of God's Great 1,000 year Jubilee, which comes
after 49,000 years into the cycle.
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Chart 7:6
GOD'S
GREAT 50,000 YEAR JUBILEE CYCLE
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The Bible refers
to this plan as the 'sacred secret' or 'mystery'
of God, Ephesians 1:9-11 ..
he made known to us the sacred secret of his will. It is according
to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself 10 for an administration
at the full limit of the appointed times, namely, to gather all
things together again in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the
things on the earth. Yes, in him,. It is referred to as a mystery
because throughout the generations of history God has selectively
revealed it piece by piece as various generations and time stages
of the plan became due on their programed time cues. It was
revealed on a 'need to know' basis. This plan has been unfolding
step by step as time has progressed through the past 6,000 years of
human history and has now arrived at a time when further important
stages in this restoration plan are to be revealed.
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NINE INTERLOCKING TIME PIECES |
9 interlocking pieces of the time puzzle
Pieces 1-6 The six creative day pieces, each 7,000 years long.
Piece 7 - The 7th rest day piece, 7,000 years long, 3968 BC - 3033.
Piece 8 - The 1,000 year Great Jubilee, 3033 to 4033
Piece 9 - The 1,000 year reign of Christ, 2033 to 3033.
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