The First Day: Adam's Day

To make the concept of the thousand year day clearer the next few blogs will concentrate on the happenings of each millennial day's transition. The first "thousand year" day is called Adam's day because the life of Adam fills all but the last seventy years of that millennium. Adam was created at the beginning of the "day" and lived 930 years until his death seventy years prior to the millennial change.
Millennial transitions begin to show development at upwards to one hundred years prior to the actual point of change from one thousand year period to the next and as the change of age draws closer the intensity of corresponding events becomes greater (Like labor in a pregnant woman). In as much as each millennial serves a particular purpose and is, toward its waning years, impregnated with the purpose of the next "day" signs of the coming millennium can be seen several decades before the millennial actually arrives. The purpose of the second millennium began to come into prominence at the death of Adam.
The Lord had told Adam that in the "day" that he ate of the forbidden fruit he would die. Nine hundred thirty years is considerably more than a day as we think of days but it does fall comfortably within the Lord's thousand year day. (It is interesting to note that in the listed generations from Adam in chapter five of Genesis the only man to die in the first millennial day was Adam himself. There is a very interesting reason for this that has to do with the very Gospel of Jesus Christ, for this first day is a day (thousand year) of death and indeed the beginning of the gospel is death-the death of the second Adam, i.e. Jesus.)
As Adam's "day" comes to a close at his passing we see an increase in spiritual activity. Not a lot of detail is given to us from the bible concerning this time period except in the way of the genealogies from Adam. However, looking at the lineage from Adam through the first one thousand years we find that as the age closes the most notable personalities since the beginning of the millennial show up. Of course, the death of Adam was a major event taking place as the end of this first "day" approaches but other events will also make this a very important few years as the first millennium becomes the second.
The last three persons born in this particular lineage before the millennial transition are: Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech. These three will have prominent roles in the generations from Adam. Enoch would live 365 years and then be taken by God into heaven; the scripture says "and Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him". This happened just 13 years prior to the change of the millennial. This typifies the choices we are given: We are all born into a "day of death" because of sin and we will either die like Adam or be taken like Enoch who "walked with God". Methuselah would live longer than any other human and indeed lived until the year of a terrible flood. Lamech would father a child; he would call his son Noah and with these happenings the stage is set for the second "day" of the Lord. It will be called "Noah's Day".

Millennial Transitions: Notible points in time

The discovery of the North American continent, the creation of Adam, the Birth of Christ, the call of Abraham, the death of Adam, the death of Noah, the birth of Noah, the birth of Peter, Paul, James and John, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, the birth of the Church, the death of David, the reign of Solomon, the implementation of the modern scientific method, the beginning of modern optometry, and modern surgery, the first novel wrote, the first camera used, gunpowder invented, the translation of Enoch into heaven, the ascension of Jesus into heaven, the resurrection of Lazarus, the birth of Isaac all have one thing in common. They are events that take place at thousand year increments beginning with the creation of Adam.



Obviously, a list of events can be compiled for any period or periods of time, however, it is doubtful that the list would be as significant as the one just noted. This is especially true in regard to the spiritual events listed.



If one were to compile a list of "who's who" in the bible the above mentioned names would stand in prominence over other notables. An interesting scripture from the book of Galatians states, "but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son..." This seems to be strongly indicating that the time of Jesus Christ's coming two thousand years ago was a fore-ordained point on God's time table of events. If the most prominent of biblical characters enters the world at a planned point in time then it would appear that at other specific points along the time line of God other notable persons would appear. The relatively brief periods of time marking the beginning and ending of thousand year periods seem to be the ordained time segments for exceptional personalities to arise and with them tremendous world changes. We are now in one of those world changing segments! The seventh millennial day from Adam has just begun and the purpose of this "day" has not yet been established but, it will be shortly.



This is the premise of the exploration of the "thousand year day" principle that will be explored in further blogs. Please, become a follower as this fascinating journey is continued.