The Third Day: A Nation for God's Plan

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The third "thousand year" day gives rise to a developement in God's progressing plan that demonstrates the power that will drive His design forward through human history. As the second millennial transends into the third three men will be the conduit through which the change is made. These are: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Abraham, a decendant of Shem (son of Noah) was a dweller in the land of present day Iraq when God called him to separate himself for the LORD's purpose. The requirement of God toward Abram (later Abraham) was to go to a land that would be shown to him. That land is the land on the eastern side of the Mediteranian Sea; the land of Israel.

God promised Abraham that he would make him a father of "many nations" , even his name meant "exalted father". Yet, Abraham had no children that would enable this promise to be fulfilled. Abraham and his wife became too old to bear children and found themselves with a promise that could not be kept without a miracle. The miracle was Isaac. A son born to parents who could not have children.

The scripture declares that there was a deadness to the bodies of Abraham and Sarah in that they could not reproduce children. Isaac, then, represents the resurrection of God's promise to Abraham in that now it is possible for him to become the father of many nations.

In returning to the millennial theme of these posts, Abraham was the last of the lineage given in the scripture to be born in the second "day". This makes Isaac the first to be born in the third millennial from Adam, making it the millennial started with a resurrected seed (Isaac). For indeed God told Abraham that "in thy seed shall all the earth be blessed", yet his seed had died within his body. God, however, moved with resurrection power and fulfilled a promise, started a nation and initiated the third millennial day with resurrection power.

The next post will deal more with this facinating time in God's plan and human history.

An Overview Of Kingdom Days

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Viewing each millennium from Adam's creation to the present with the progression of God's Kingdom in mind is vital for a biblical world view to be in place. It is with that thought in mind that this post will be dedicated to an overview of the Kingdom's progression as we leave, for this writing, the examination of specific thousand year periods. Next writing will be on the third millennial day as the examination of these periods continue.

The four millennium that the Old Testament fills pre-figure the entire installation of the kingdom on earth. This kingdom will become a reality near the beginning of the seventh thousand year day. This seventh millennium has, indeed, already begun!

Briefly, and as stated in earlier writings, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is illustrated by the first three "days". Day one is "death", day two is "burial", day three is "resurrection" (see I Corinthians 15: 1-4). It is interesting to note that the process of this gospel being carried out was also a three day period (i.e from the crucifixion to the resurrection). The fourth day, as will be shown in later posts, is the "kingdom day". The kings of Israel show up as the transition from millennium day three to millennium day four takes place. This fourth millennial day is representing the establishment of the final kingdom, the Kingdom of Christ. This is especially true as we see the reign of Solomon and the greatest glory of the the Old Testament which took place near the beginning of the last of the four old testament "days".

After the pre-figuring of the plan of God during the first four "days" is accomplished the second phase of the "kingdom operation" begins as Jesus Christ steps onto the scene of world history at the transition between day four and day five. Here it is seen that Christ fulfills what the Old Testament has been alluding to by dying, by being buried, and rising the third day. (It is important to add here that the pattern shown in the thousand year days as they relate to the death, burial and resurrection of Christ are only one of many such Old Testament fore-shadowings. Others include: 1)the crossing of the Red Sea 2) the flood of Noah's day 3) Jonah's whale experience 4) Elijah's victory at Mount Carmel 5)others.) The fulfilling of the gospel plan brought a reality to that which was only fore-shadowed by the previous four thousand years. The book of Galatians alludes to this in chapter 3 verse 24 as it tells us that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.

With the gospel plan now implemented the purpose of the next two millennial days is to give opportunity for all who will to enter into the Kingdom of God by water and spirit (see John 3:5). This is the church age; a two day (thousand year) period given by God for the purpose of reaching a world with the power of the gospel that is now in full force. How important it is, even as the remaining days of this age quickly slip by, to understand the gospel and obey it through repentance (death), baptism (burial), and the infilling of the Holy Ghost (resurrection). The two thousand years of the church age is quickly coming to a close and with the close of the age will come a tremendous upheaval on the earth. It is the time for making the transition into the last of the seven thousand year days; it is the day of the LORD and the transition into it is the great tribulation. We must ready ourselves.

The most important preparation outside of obeying the gospel itself is to have the understanding of the coming "completed" Kingdom. The plan of God for us is all but finished...are you ready? Remember the prayer of the Lord, "...thy kingdom come..." Shouldn't we have an understanding of what that means?

I hope these posts will help you to comprehend the great day and opportunity in which we find ourselves living and not squander what has presented to us by God himself as a most glorious day to live. Remember the greatest people in the bible lived during the transition periods between millennium...we are part of that fortunate few!!