God's 7000 Year Plan for Mankind - And a Timeline!

First of all, as a disclaimer, the purpose of this thread is NOT date setting, but to prove God's 7000 Year Plan for Mankind in this link below, also known as the Millennial-Day Theory, by presenting a potential timeline of 6000 years from Creation to Second Coming based on biblical chronology. Date setting is almost impossible because there are different definitions of years and calendars, which I’ll explain at the end.

https://www.christianevidence.net/2019/01/gods-7000-year-plan.html

So far this is the most convincing theory about the time of the second coming, it's solidly based on the Scripture and perfectly consistent with God's six-one operation pattern. This is an ancient belief among Jews and early Christians even before the canonical Bible was compiled. In summary, 7 days in the creation week foreshadow 7000 years of human history, 4000 years from Adam to Christ, 2000 years from Christ's ministry to the second coming, and 1000 years of millennial kingdom. In the Garden of Eden God warned Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit, "for the DAY you eat of it, you shall SURELY die." So why didn't Adam - or Eve -die on that day? Not because they were "spiritually dead", for God's spirit shall strive with man for 120 years, but it was a day for 1000 years. Later Adam passed at the ripe age of 930, just 70 years short of a millennium.

In the bible many genealogies and chronologies were given, i.e. A begot B at age x, C reigned y years and died. Based on these information a timeline can be drawn to date all the major events, you've probably seen such a timeline before. However, in order to draw an accurate one, it has to be done according to God's calendar, not our Gregorian calendar. Therefore, this timeline uses the Jubilee System in Leviticus 25. In this system, every 7 years is a sabbatical year, and every 49 years is a jubilee cycle. The 50th year, starting from the Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, is a jubilee year, which is also the first year of the next jubilee cycle. The theme of this year is celebration, liberty and HOMECOMING, this is where we got the words "jubilation" and "jubilant" in English. This is written in Lev. 25:13 and 25:40-41:

"In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession."

"As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers"

Keep this in mind, it will help to identify the beginning of certain periods. This timeline starts from Adam. Add up all the numbers in the genealogy from Adam to Noah (Gen. 5), you get 1056 years; Noah was 600 years old when the flood came (Gen, 7:6), so 1656 years from Adam to the Flood. Year count: 1656

Add up all the numbers from Flood to birth of Abraham (Gen. 11), you get 292 years; Year count: 1948

From this point discrepancies begin to appear. In Gen. 12:1-2 it says Abraham received God's calling at age 75, then there's 430 years of sojourning (Ex. 12:40-41, Gal 3:16-16), you get 505, including about 200-220 years in Egypt; but by another count, Abraham begot Isaac at 100 (Gen. 15:13), then his descents were to be afflicted for 400 years (Gen. 15:13, Acts 7:6), also including the couple of centuries in Egypt, you get 500. To solve this conundrum, I take 502 in between. Why 502? Because adding 502 onto 1948 you get a year count of 2450, which is exactly 50 jubilee cycles, this is very important, because the first year of Exodus must be a year of Jubilee - remember the theme of celebration and LIBERTY?

After Exodus was 10 cycles of the wilderness (40 years) and judges (450 years), according to Paul in Acts 13:18-20, Joshua counted as judge; Year count: 2940

Then 10 cycles of kings, possibly started when the Ark of Covenant was returned (1 Chron. 13:3) from the Philistines, which matches the "homecoming" theme. However, 70 sabbatical years are neglected in at least 490 following years (2 Chron. 36:20-21); Year count: 3430

For these neglected 70 sabbatical years, Jews were led into captivity and exile in Babylon for 70 years (Jer. 25:11-12). Year count: 3500. This judgement was foretold in Lev. 26:33-35:

“I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.”

Right after 70 years, Jews were set free and allowed to go home (Jer. 29:10). There it is the liberty and homecoming theme again. Jer. 29:10 was exactly what Daniel was reading in Dan. 9:2. Daniel prayed for deliverance and mercy for his people, and Gabriel appeared and answered him with the puzzling and controversial 70 weeks prophecy, which are also 10 cycles of 490 years. Year count: 3990.

By this count, Jesus was born on year 3953, baptized on year 3983 and crucified on year 3987, pretty close to 4000. If you count the year from Abraham to Jesus, it's very close to 41 jubilee cycles, which are symbolized by the 41 previous generations before Jesus in Matthew 1.

After that is the church age. Based on Isaiah 61:1-3, which Jesus quoted in Luke 4:18-19, the “acceptable year of the Lord” is very likely to be a jubilee in which he will “proclaim liberty to the captives”, so the length of the church age must be an integral number of jubilee cycles. But how many? One clue is the birth pang comparison. Since the church is the Body of Christ, the birth of Christ mirrors the completion of the full Body of Christ, from Christ - the head to the final ten toes, like the prophecy of the Babylonian statue.

As I explored in my 70 weeks thread, Jesus's ministry lasted exactly 3.5 years; since He was crucified on Passover, dial back 33.5 years was the Feast of Tabernacle (Tishri 15), that's when He was really born; Then go to Luke 1-2. John the Baptist was conceived when Zechariah finished his duty at the temple and went home. Since he was of the 8th division of Abijah, that's in late Sivan, about a week after Pentecost. 6 months after that Jesus was conceived in Mary. Do the math, and you get Hanukkah (Kislev 25). The three trimesters between Kislev 25 and Tishri 15 is about 41 weeks. Now if - and this is a BIG IF - these 41 weeks symbolize 41 jubilees, which also match the 41 jubilees from Abraham to Jesus. Add 41 cycles of 2009 years to the previous year count, guess what, you get a final Year Count: 5999! If you consider the first year of creation a sabbath year since God rested on the 7th day, and Adam and Eve were cast out on the second year, then that's exactly 6000.

So, since the year of crucifixion is commonly believed to be springtime in AD30, add 3.5 plus 2009 years , yo land in fall season of 2042. Does this mean Jesus will return on 2042? Not really, because the definition of year varies. In the Bible there’re a lunar year of 354.36 days, a prophetic year of 360 days, and according to Dead Sea scrolls there’s Qumranic year of 364 days, all shorter than a solar year of 365.25 days, therefore the second coming could be much earlier than 2042. It’s unclear which definition of year was actually used to count the years in a jubilee cycle, there’s just no way to pin a jubilee year on the calendar and set a date.

The 7th day is the Sabbath day, the day of Gods' rest. You see the problem?

This idea is held by many people, and it is based on the Bible verse which says that God regards a thousand years as one day, and vice versa. If we accept the fact that the age of the earth is slightly over 6,000 years, then we should have already been within the final Millennium. Which would mean perfect peace and righteousness on earth right now. Since we see the exact opposite all around us, we cannot really apply this theory to God's time frame.

Your timeline is slightly off. These may help you:

https://archive.org/details/age-of-the-earth

https://archive.org/details/7000-year-plan-of-the-everlasting-gospel-bible-historical-quotations

https://archive.org/details/the-redemption-of-the-creation-7000-years-and-the-everlasting-gospel

https://archive.org/download/awhn-bible-7000-years/AWHN - Bible - 7000 Years.jpg



https://archive.org/details/the-feasts-of-the-lord

https://archive.org/download/awhn-bible-7-feasts-of-the-lord/AWHN - Bible - 7 Feasts Of The LORD.jpg

No, because the timing is not counted from creation without sin, but the clock counts from sins' entrance.

Also the 7th mill. begins on earth, as the days begin with darkness or evening. In heaven there's no night there, so the beginning and ending of the 7th mill take place on earth (Rev 20; Isa 24, etc). Jesus said that the "hour" is coming when no man can Gospel work. Just as days of Noah, probation closed for the world just before it was destroyed and daily activity continued but no more message of salvation was heard from Noah, until the flood came and took all the rejectors away and only Noah remained safely.

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You have no Scriptural basis for this idea. The genealogy of Adam begins with the date Adam was created, and all genealogies follow along.

GENESIS 5: FROM THE DATE ADAM WAS CREATED
1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Taking that date as the Year of Man (Anno Hominis) we are just over 6,000 years from that time.

I actually do, but I am simply going to allow you to go and look.

And so, once again, people debate over inconsequential speculations that are rooted in misinterpretations of Scripture.

Once again the interruption to bible study. You should really think about leaving the forums and doing something else with your time instead of wasting the time of those who are interested in bible study. Satan hates it when people pray and study their bibles and does everything he can to hinder it, bad mouth it, try to distract from it by interjecting personal attacks, pointless anecdotal subjective commentary, off topic remarks that lead astray from thoughtful consideration of a topic.

Dino, no major offense, but your pattern of engagement is simply one of dislike if you do not believe it, nor are able to control it. Please think about your actions.

God has certainly revealed that He is a God of order and divine timing . Everything is appointed. Some of this is kind of interesting, but where is the line between Biblical truth and numerology start?

Well, the best dividing line is the word of God itself. If it is not found clearly in the word by at least two or three witnesses, then better to shelve it.

We don't know if it's already been over 6000 years or not, because as I pointed out, the calendar system is different, besides the final 2000 years start to count from the resurrection, not the nativity, so the final millennium starts from at least 2030. This timeline is just a rough estimate, the Day of the Lord could be anywhere between 2028-2042.

Look, I said "if you consider". That's just a guess. 121 cycles plus 70 years exile equals 5999, that's as close to 6000 as possible. The final one year could be fit in anywhere.

I've been here far longer than you, you know nothing about me, and you have the gall to accuse me of having a satanic spirit instead of simply answer my request for scriptural evidence, and you think I should leave this site? Give your head a shake. Until you apologize for your completely unwarranted insults, I am not going to waste my time further with you, except, where necessary, to refute your unbiblical ideas.

As long as you track the events on God's calendar instead of man's Gregorian calendar, and you have a footing on certain verses to verify. That's why it has to be God's jubilee system which God instituted. None of these major biblical event happened randomly, they all fall into God's order with divine timing.

I wasn't referring to your time frame.

I wasn't referring to your time calculations. God created man on the 6th day. The 7th day is exclusively for those created in Christ. No unbelievers allowed, (See Heb.4)

Which is another reason why the saints reign with Christ Jesus in Heaven in the 7th mill.

Yeah, the 7th day is the millennial sabbath. And that one missing year doesn't matter. You see, by the definition of Jubilee cycle in Lev. 25, one cycle is always counted from Tishri to Tishri on civil calendar, which is in fall season. It's also a common belief that Jesus will return in a Tishri to fulfill the three fall feasts. But if the first Year of Man is counted from Nissan, the first month, than there's half a year between Nissan and Tishri, and that's the one "missing" year.

Your timeline is good up to Abraham being born in year 1948. Now Abraham died 175 years old making the year 2123 from creation.

The promise to Abraham:
Galations 3:15 To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man’s will, ( covenant ) or adds to it, once it has been ratified. 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many; but, referring to one, “And to your offspring,” which is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

The 430 years started at Abraham's death. Now the Masorectic texts has 430 years in Egypt, but the Septuagint text has 430 years in Cannan and Egypt which is correct.

Abraham's death in year 2123 plus 430 years equals year 2553 for the Exodus.

You've got it wrong. The covenant was made when Abraham was 75 years old, and 430 is the time period between that covenant and the law which Moses received on Mount Sinai. Nowhere does it say that it starts to count from Abraham's death. Besides, how could it be more than 100 years apart from the other count, that he begot Isaac at 100 and his descendants in foreign land - Egypt and Canaan - for 400 years?