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.