Jim Bakker Show - The Last Days - Rick Joyner Aired: 2017-01-16 Duration: 06:17 === The Sixth Prophetic Day (05:35) === [00:00:00] 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. [00:00:11] Well, you know, I really didn't do the math. [00:00:15] I got a lot of it from the early church fathers and all. [00:00:21] But, you know, it's clear in some of their writings. [00:00:25] The early church fathers were the direct disciples of the first disciples of Jesus. [00:00:31] And many of them, like, you know, Arrhenius was, I think, John's disciple who talked to him about the revelation. [00:00:40] And he wrote about the revelation. [00:00:42] Polycarp wrote the most, I think, on it, on John's revelation and what all these things mean, when they're coming. [00:00:50] It's amazingly different from what most people preach today. [00:00:54] They were getting it right from John. [00:00:59] 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. [00:01:11] There's one period in the Judges that's a little ambiguous, so you have to give or take 100 years. [00:01:17] But we've been on earth since Adam about 6,000 years. [00:01:22] And, you know, that's six prophetic days. [00:01:28] Peter said, the day with the Lord is a thousand years. [00:01:32] And they really understood this. [00:01:34] 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. [00:01:43] Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, which is the seventh prophetic day. [00:01:48] He wasn't talking about being the Lord of one day of the week. [00:01:51] He was talking about the millennial day, the millennial 1,000-year period in which Jesus will come to earth himself to rule. [00:01:59] And but so we are, according to the timelines given in scripture, somewhere near the end of the sixth day. [00:02:09] 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. [00:02:23] It's an amazing thing. [00:02:25] But what happened at the end of the sixth day? [00:02:28] God created man in his image. [00:02:30] And I believe it's going to be at the end of the sixth day. [00:02:33] 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. [00:02:41] They weren't talking about saying we're at the end of the age now. [00:02:44] They were saying, we're in the last days of this prophetic week. [00:02:49] They knew it was about 2,000 years. [00:02:51] Some of them even clearly wrote it of the early church fathers about the timing. [00:02:56] 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. [00:03:08] 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. [00:03:15] It's called to walk in, being the new creation, which greatly transcends the old creation. [00:03:21] We're not just trying to get back to what Adam had. [00:03:24] No, we've been given an opportunity to go for something far beyond that, that Jesus came to show us how to live. [00:03:33] That is so exciting. [00:03:36] Yeah. [00:03:37] So the Sabbath day then is the seventh day. [00:03:41] And it's also, that is the period that Peter called the period of the restoration of all things. [00:03:48] That's when we see Isaiah 11, the wolf and the lamb lying down and children playing with cobras. [00:03:53] He's going to restore the earth to the paradise it was originally created to be. [00:03:57] But this is what a lot of people don't understand. [00:03:59] It's going to take a thousand years to do that. [00:04:03] There's a mentality that as soon as the day of the Lord comes, as soon as the Lord comes, everybody's perfect. [00:04:09] It didn't happen that way to us, did it? [00:04:11] No. [00:04:12] That's not the way it does. [00:04:13] It's going to take 1,000 years to fully restore. [00:04:17] 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. [00:04:27] And that's when I believe God the Father says he's coming to earth to live on earth among men. [00:04:33] Now, many are going to be resurrected as people on the earth. [00:04:38] We're running the race for a better resurrection where we can be resurrected to the divine nature and the realm like Jesus. [00:04:48] And that's what this whole age is about. [00:04:51] 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. [00:05:00] And that's the race that we're running right now to be that. [00:05:08] The first eight verses of Matthew 24, the Bible calls it the birth pains. [00:05:16] So are we there, would you say? [00:05:20] I think we've been there for over 500 years. === Next Great Awakening Contractions (00:56) === [00:05:26] That birth pangs come upon a woman. [00:05:28] They may begin suddenly, but they become more intense and more frequent as you get closer to the birth. [00:05:36] I believe the Reformation during the time from John Huss, Luther, Calvin, there was such, this was the beginning of the birth pangs. [00:05:45] 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. [00:06:02] But then you have about, it's not that long, less than a century, and the next great awakening, worldwide revivals. [00:06:09] Now we're down to decades, maybe even down. [00:06:12] I mean, we're obviously getting closer to the birth, and the contractions are getting more powerful.