God is working out the eternal expansion of His Family and it all begins with His 7,000 year plan. Has God allotted 6,000 years for man’s self-rule? Yes! That is a question which has been a mystery to many. The world does not understand what is taking place today because it does not know about the 7,000-year plan of God. Even God’s lukewarm Church is losing sight of this concept due to their Satan-inspired mentality.
God has allotted approximately 6,000 years for humanity to go its own way. These millenniums of human civilization are nearly over. God is about to intervene in world affairs by sending Jesus Christ. Not until He returns will we have 1,000 years of peace. The pattern for this little understood plan was given in the first two chapters of Genesis. It is the week of seven days. As God originally set time in motion, man is given six work days followed by a day of rest. In Hebrews verses 4 and 11, the seventh day is mentioned as a type of the peaceful rest—1,000-year rest—that will follow the present age of human labor and futile struggle to master the Earth. The millennium then, is compared with a “day” of the week.
Observe that after Christ’s intervention, the time of that peaceful rest under His rule is specifically termed “a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4). If the last “day” of God’s 7,000-year plan is 1,000 years, then the preceding six days which He has allotted for mankind to work out his own ideas would amount to 6,000 years. And this is exactly what world events are proving today! Look about you! It is obvious that this world is crashing to its doom!
Now notice in your Bible. Many are complete enough to contain chronological charts showing that human life was created close to 4,000 years before Christ. And almost another 2,000 years have elapsed since—culminating nearly 6,000 years of human civilization to date. In addition, the trend of world events is now proving we are very near the time the Scriptures reveal that Christ will return—when the probability of world destruction becomes a reality (Matthew 24:22). Almost 6,000 years of human history have almost been completed. Here then is proof—double proof—that Christ is coming in our generation!
The common assumption that man has lived on Earth countless tens of thousands of years is an idle dream. Reason disproves it. Each new archaeological discovery aids in disproving it. True science disproves it! Strange as it may seem, the theory of man’s evolution is not only unproven, but irrefutably disproved when we understand the facts. The apostles did not fully understand this plan of God when Christ was yet on Earth. They thought the Kingdom would be established in their day—after only about 4,000 years of God’s plan had been completed. But before they died, the apostles knew God’s plan. Peter said, “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
God is patient. He has refrained from intervening in world affairs for nearly 6,000 years. Why? Because He will not intervene until humanity is forced to cry out to Him for fear of self-extermination. Recall that the day of Christ’s intervention and rule is “a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4). Peter also that a day in God’s plan is as “a thousand years” and “a thousand years” of human civilization as one day in His planned week of seven 1,000-year days (2 Peter 3:8). Peter understood that Christ would intervene shortly before the close of 6,000 years of human struggle and slavery. He knew God would send Jesus Christ to set up His government to rule during the seventh 1,000-year period—a millennium of peace—a sabbatical rest!
We are now living at the very time when the 6,000 years have almost elapsed! The world is threatened with the extinction of all life. Jesus Himself said that when we see this taking place, He would come again!
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