a time of rest on Earth! In other words, people were beginning to understand the seemingly odd addition of a “day of rest” to God’s Creation story - known about since the beginning of time (See links below) - actually had TREMENDOUS significance! It prophesied of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ on Earth, or what had always been known to mankind as THE LORD’S DAY!!! “And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years … that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled … And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them … and they (the resurrected righteous) lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years” (The Revelation 20:2-4).Īfter this new revelation, it seems it did not take long for some early 2nd Century Christians to make the connection that John’s description of this “1,000 year period” sounded alot like the famed weekly SABBATH DAY - i.e. This whole event is collectively known as Jesus Christ’s 2nd Coming! And the 1,000 year period will commence with a bodily resurrection of every righteous soul who ever lived (the 1st resurrection) - while Earth’s surface and all godless inhabitants are simultaneously being destroyed by fire! - followed by the descending of Jesus Christ and his family of resurrected souls back down to live on a beautiful, newly-regenerated, planet Earth. In it, God revealed (for the first time ever) that there is a coming 1,000 year period on Earth during which Jesus Christ will reign as King of Kings from Jerusalem, Satan will be locked up, and peace will cover the Earth. Near the close of the 1st Century AD, God disclosed more secrets concerning His master time plan to an aged Apostle John on the isle of Patmos, which John then wrote down in a long letter called “The Revelation”. “Where is the promise of his (2nd) Coming? … But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that ONE DAY is with the Lord as a THOUSAND YEARS, and a THOUSAND YEARS as ONE DAY … the ‘day of the Lord’ will come as a thief in the night … the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (II Peter 3:4-10). It appears God first let His secret out of the bag to Moses in the 14th Century BC (recorded in Psalms 90:4) with respect to the actual “length of time” of a “day” in His master time plan, and then conspicuously confirmed it through a letter of Peter’s in the 1st Century AD, concerning the timing of Jesus’ 2nd Advent: Through use of this specific numeration, God was clandestinely proclaiming, “My complete, finished, master time plan for mankind on Earth is a factor of 7.” This could only mean God TOLD mankind WHEN the END would occur from the very BEGINNING!!! But how did He do that when the beginning was the Creation? Friend, He secretly concealed it in the fact that He purposely chose to conclude the Creation event in 6 days, followed by a day of rest (7th day Sabbath). “For I am God, and there is none else I am God, and there is none like me, DECLARING the END from the BEGINNING, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isaiah 46:9-10). God told the 8th Century BC prophet Isaiah:
There is written evidence this knowledge has been known since the 2nd century AD and possibly before (See links below).
The Biblical prophetic understanding that God has established a 7 day (7,000 solar year) master time plan for His creation of mankind on planet Earth is not a recent revelation.