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The Sixth Prophetic Day
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| You've done some math in this book that is quite fascinating, the timing and why you believe we're living in the last days. | |
| Well, you know, I really didn't do the math. | |
| I got a lot of it from the early church fathers and all. | |
| But, you know, it's clear in some of their writings. | |
| The early church fathers were the direct disciples of the first disciples of Jesus. | |
| And many of them, like, you know, Arrhenius was, I think, John's disciple who talked to him about the revelation. | |
| And he wrote about the revelation. | |
| Polycarp wrote the most, I think, on it, on John's revelation and what all these things mean, when they're coming. | |
| It's amazingly different from what most people preach today. | |
| They were getting it right from John. | |
| But, you know, you can add up the genealogies in scripture and find that from the time of Adam until today, there's been about 6,000 years. | |
| There's one period in the Judges that's a little ambiguous, so you have to give or take 100 years. | |
| But we've been on earth since Adam about 6,000 years. | |
| And, you know, that's six prophetic days. | |
| Peter said, the day with the Lord is a thousand years. | |
| And they really understood this. | |
| And like, you know, some of those writings of the early church fathers, they would be clear about there will be 6,000 years until the end of this age. | |
| Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, which is the seventh prophetic day. | |
| He wasn't talking about being the Lord of one day of the week. | |
| He was talking about the millennial day, the millennial 1,000-year period in which Jesus will come to earth himself to rule. | |
| And but so we are, according to the timelines given in scripture, somewhere near the end of the sixth day. | |
| And if you look at the first seven days of creation prophetically, you see parallels during each thousand year period of man's history that you could see a metaphor for that in the days of creation. | |
| It's an amazing thing. | |
| But what happened at the end of the sixth day? | |
| God created man in his image. | |
| And I believe it's going to be at the end of the sixth day. | |
| By the way, when they in the New Testament said, we're living in the last days, they were talking about the last days of the prophetic week. | |
| They weren't talking about saying we're at the end of the age now. | |
| They were saying, we're in the last days of this prophetic week. | |
| They knew it was about 2,000 years. | |
| Some of them even clearly wrote it of the early church fathers about the timing. | |
| But I believe as man was created at the end of the sixth day, you're going to see the new creation, man, come forth at the end of the sixth prophetic day. | |
| I believe we're going to see the body of Christ become all that it was called to be, to walk in all the authority and power. | |
| It's called to walk in, being the new creation, which greatly transcends the old creation. | |
| We're not just trying to get back to what Adam had. | |
| No, we've been given an opportunity to go for something far beyond that, that Jesus came to show us how to live. | |
| That is so exciting. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So the Sabbath day then is the seventh day. | |
| And it's also, that is the period that Peter called the period of the restoration of all things. | |
| That's when we see Isaiah 11, the wolf and the lamb lying down and children playing with cobras. | |
| He's going to restore the earth to the paradise it was originally created to be. | |
| But this is what a lot of people don't understand. | |
| It's going to take a thousand years to do that. | |
| There's a mentality that as soon as the day of the Lord comes, as soon as the Lord comes, everybody's perfect. | |
| It didn't happen that way to us, did it? | |
| No. | |
| That's not the way it does. | |
| It's going to take 1,000 years to fully restore. | |
| But at the end of that thousand years, and you see all of this in Scripture, in the biblical prophecies, at the end of that, the earth is fully restored. | |
| And that's when I believe God the Father says he's coming to earth to live on earth among men. | |
| Now, many are going to be resurrected as people on the earth. | |
| We're running the race for a better resurrection where we can be resurrected to the divine nature and the realm like Jesus. | |
| And that's what this whole age is about. | |
| The Lord training for reigning those who are going to rule and reign with him in the age to come, but also be members of his own household. | |
| And that's the race that we're running right now to be that. | |
| The first eight verses of Matthew 24, the Bible calls it the birth pains. | |
| So are we there, would you say? | |
| I think we've been there for over 500 years. | |
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Next Great Awakening Contractions
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| That birth pangs come upon a woman. | |
| They may begin suddenly, but they become more intense and more frequent as you get closer to the birth. | |
| I believe the Reformation during the time from John Huss, Luther, Calvin, there was such, this was the beginning of the birth pangs. | |
| Then you have about 250 years from the original Reformationists to the next great spiritual, what I think, contraction, which was the time of the evangelists, Zinzendorf, Wesley, Whitfield, the first great awakening in America. | |
| But then you have about, it's not that long, less than a century, and the next great awakening, worldwide revivals. | |
| Now we're down to decades, maybe even down. | |
| I mean, we're obviously getting closer to the birth, and the contractions are getting more powerful. | |