Home
End Times
Rapture

God’s 7,000 Year Plan

Why did God take 6 days to create the world when He could have just snapped His fingers and poof, there it was? Why did God not create in 1 day, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 days, yet He could but He created for 6 days and rested the 7th day? 

"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done." (Isaiah 46:10)

Many believe that since God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day (Genesis 2:1-3), that God has a 6,000-year plan for man followed by a 1,000-year reign by Jesus Christ (Revelation 20:4). In Biblical times, it was commonly believed among the Jews, and early Christians, that at the end of 6,000 years of history, Christ would return and reign for 1,000 years. Early Christian writers, such as Barnabas, who was with Paul the Apostle in Lycaonia, wrote:
“Therefore, children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end.” 
Another Christian author, Lactantius, wrote: 
'As there had been 2,000 years from Adam to Abraham, and 2,000 from Abraham to Christ; so there will be 2,000 years for the Christian era and then would come the Millennium.'" 

There is even an old tradition that the prophet Elijah taught there would be six thousand years for humans to rule under Satan's kingdom, followed by one thousand years of abundance in the kingdom of God.

Biblical "Hints" of a 7,000 Year Plan

Let’s look at some interesting things in Scripture that support this belief...

1. There are two places in Scripture that say a day with the Lord is as a thousand years:
"For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past." (Psalm 90:4)
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”  (2 Peter 3:8)
Curiously, these verses do NOT say that a day is with the Lord as thousands of years (plural), ten thousands of years, or millions of years. It specifically states that “one day” is with the Lord as “a thousand years.” So, when the apostle Peter tells us that a "day" is with God as a thousand years, we should sit up and take notice!

2. Scripture also says that there still remains a day of rest for God's people. Paul tells us that “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Rom. 8:22), which means that the creation has not yet entered into the rest that the Scriptures mandate (Isa. 11:10; 14:7; 44:21-23; 49:13; 55:12). This rest will occur under the rule of Jesus when He returns and sets up the promised kingdom on earth for one thousand years (Rev. 20:1-7)!

Interestingly, in Hebrews 4:4, 11, the seventh day of the week is pictured as a type of the peaceful "rest" on earth which will follow Christ's return! Being a time of “rest” (Heb. 4:4-11), and lasting a thousand years (Rev. 20:1-7), it makes perfect sense that God would correspond it to the seventh day rest of Genesis 2:2. Since the last "day" of God's plan for mankind is 1,000 years, it is logical to conclude that the other six days of creation typify 6,000 years of man's government on earth.

Furthermore, the number 6 represents mankind and rebellion (6,000 years of man's self rule?). The number 7 represents perfection (The Millennium?). The number 8 represents new beginnings (New Heavens and New Earth?). Could it be that God is trying to show us something here?

 3. There are many "pictures", "shadows", and "types" in the Bible that would seem to confirm the 7,000-year theory:

  • King Solomon (a type of Jesus) had 6 steps to this throne and the 7th step was his throne (2 Chronicles 9:18).
  • Lazarus (a type of Israel) was sick and dead for a total of 6 days (John 11:1; 5-6; 14; 39). Jesus resurrected him on the 7th day (John 11:40-44). 
  • After 6 days, Jesus took his closest disciples up into a high mountain and was transfigured (a picture of the Second Advent) before them (Matt. 17:1; Mark 9:2).
  • After 6 days, Moses was called up to mount Sinai to be in the presence of God in the midst of the cloud (Exodus 24:16).
  • After 6 days, Jesus went to the wedding feast in Cana (John 1:51; 2:1).
  • Noah was 600 years of age when God destroyed the world with the flood (Genesis 7:6). And the ark rested in the 7th month (Genesis 8:4).
  • King Joash was the rightful king of Israel but who was hidden in the temple of God for 6 years while an impostor reigned (Queen Athaliah - a picture of Satan the devil, the great usurper). At the beginning of the 7th year, the king was brought forth to sit on his rightful throne, and the usurper was put to death (2 Kings 11:16).
  • Slaves worked for 6 years and the 7th year was freedom (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:1).

 The list goes on. There are many other instances in the Bible that reflect a similar kind of timeline, and there is no need for such specific information (the six and a distinct seventh pattern) unless it hints at a larger truth!

 4. Bible chronology shows there were approximately 2,000 years from Adam's creation until Abraham (Genesis 5; 11) and 2,000 years from Abraham until Jesus Christ. Is this merely coincidence? Given that the Millennium, the final "day" in God's plan for human history, will be 1,000 years, it requires no great leap of exegetical skill to posit a comparable 2,000 years from Jesus' First Coming to His Second Coming.


The notion that there will be 2 days, or 2,000 years, from Christ’s death till the Second Coming, or 4,000 years from Adam to Christ’s death, also seems to be confirmed by Bible analogies:

  • Jesus stayed with the Samaritan woman (a type of the Church) for 2 days (John 4:40).
  • The Good Samaritan (a type of Jesus) gave the innkeeper 2 pence (equal to 2 day's wages) to care for the wounded man, promising to return and settle the account (Luke 10:35).
  • During the 6 days before going to the wedding feast in Cana, Jesus took a trip on the 4th day and was not seen again until the 7th day (John 1:19; 29; 35; 43; 2:1).
  • The Passover lamb was set aside 4 days before it was sacrificed (Exodus 12:3; 6). This of course is a type and shadow that pointed to Jesus, the Lamb of God, who was to come and die for the salvation of mankind. The Lamb of God was sacrificed from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8) and was killed at Passover 4,000 years later.
  • “Life” shows up after the 4th day in the creation narrative. Likewise, Christ shows up after 4,000 years and brings “life” (John 1:1-5; 10:10; 3:16; 1 John 1:1-2; 5:12-13).

 Lastly, Hosea pictures Christ's Second Coming 2,000 years after his ascension, in one of the most remarkable passages that supports the theory of God having a 7,000-year plan:
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” (Hosea 5:15-6:2)
No one seems to be able to explain this verse. But if you apply this verse inside the 7,000-year template: “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence . . .”  refers to Jesus returning to heaven after being rejected and crucified by the Jews. He will remain there until they “acknowledge their offense” and “seek” him in the Great Tribulation, which the passage calls “their affliction.” They will then “return unto the LORD” and be revived “after two days,” which equals the third 2,000-year time slot in God’s Plan, toward the end of which Israel becomes a nation (1948) in preparation for a spiritual revival later. Finally, “in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” refers to the nation being totally revived and regenerated at the Second Coming of Christ and living in His sight in the millennial kingdom, which is the “third day” after Calvary, the “third day” after their offense of rejecting Christ.

Keep in mind that not all uses of the word "day" in Scripture mean a 24-hour solar day (Gen. 1:5). Take, for example, what God told Adam in Genesis 2:17:
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 2:17). 
Adam died at the ripe old age of 930 years (Gen. 5:5). The "day" in which he died was certainly not the "24 hour" day. But the Word of God also speaks of the "millennial" day, or the "thousand year day."

 5. Scripture statements seem to support that we have been in the LAST DAYS ever since Jesus died:
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." (Acts 2:17)
"In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe." (Hebrews 1:1-2)
These verses are likely referring to the latter days of the 7,000 year week. If there is no 7,000-year plan, then the New Testament statements above about then being in the last days make little sense.

6. Everyone is aware of the weekly Sabbath, the seventh day of the week under the law of Moses, but most do not realize that God has more than one Sabbath. In the Bible, there is a "Week of Days", "Week of Weeks", "Week of Months" and a "Week of Years" (see a more in-depth discussion here)! If there are "weeks" (groups of seven) of days, weeks, months, and years, what about millennia? 


There are many other Scriptures showing support for a 7,000-year plan, and the lateness of the hour makes this truth more relevant today than at any time in human history.

When Does the 6,000-Year Rule End?

Have you ever wondered why the Bible records the ages of people all the way back to Adam? Or why it records the number of years the Kings of Israel ruled? It seems God wanted us to be able to count the years from creation. Interestingly, after stating a thousand years is as a day in Psalm 90:4, the Psalmist writes that our own days are limited and we should number our days that we may have the heart of wisdom (Psalms 90:4-12)! Could understanding approximately where we are in the 6,000 years be a wise thing to do?

Historical records indicate that almost 6,000 years have elapsed since the re-creation of the earth and almost 2,000 years since the death of Jesus Christ. Based upon certain calculations that I am currently aware of, it seems that Adam and Eve were created and/or apparently left the garden of Eden between roughly 3959-3975 B.C. (it is most likely that the 6,000 years began once Adam sinned as Adam had not rebelled before then). This would suggest that the 6,000 years should be up sometime between 2026 A.D. - 2042 A.D.

However, a more accurate way to calculate when the 6,000-year period ends would be to add 2,000 years from the year Jesus Christ was crucified - and the Church Age began - which likely marks the beginning of the third 2,000-year time slot in God’s Plan. Although we cannot state with absolute certainty the amount of time that passed since Adam, we can establish the date of the crucifixion with fair certainty: Virtually all scholars believe, for various reasons, that Jesus was crucified in the spring of either 30 A.D. or 33 A.D.

Based upon this calculation, we COULD expect the 6,000 years to end, and Jesus Christ to return, in 2030 A.D. or 2033 A.D. (Please note: I am NOT setting a specific date for Jesus to return, but only suggesting a "possibility" based on whether the 7,000 year plan is correct.)

Conclusion

Considering almost 2,000 years have passed since Christ's crucifixion (making a total of nearly 6,000 years—or six millennial days—from Adam), and at this precise juncture in human history mankind stands poised with the ability to blow up and blast out of existence all life on planet Earth, the 7,000-year plan is more believable than ever!

In any case, with Israel being a nation in the land again, and many other prophetic implications ramping up as of late, we know that Jesus will return very soon. The time is short.

27 comments

  1. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
  2. So from all the info you have shared it looks like the Rapture could occur anytime between, right now and 2026. I was born April 1 or 2 1948, Israel was born May 15 1948. Jesus said the generation that see's this shall surly not pass away. Near as I can tell a generation is 70 to 80 yrs. Somewhere it says a generation is 70 yrs or 80 if your strong. I would turn 80 in 2028. I don't really think I could make 2028, 2026 is a maybe. I think I could make 2024 so I'm rooting for right now to 2024. The really good news is all my Children will be Raptured.
    Anyway your research lines up to what I have understood the Bible was telling me.
  3. Our time is short. Great insight and ties in with everything God has been revealing in my personal studies! Always be ready for the coming of our Lord. #spreadthegoodnews
    • An excellent study for those of us searching. Technology has helped us come very close to the 6001 year. According to the torahcalendar.com it's weeks away at this writing. I also believe the book of truth (mostly daniel 11) is showing us verses coming true. Thanks for the blog, comments and allowing my post.
  4. Good stuff Joel! I always enjoy when you add new stuff, God Bless Brother!
    • Thank you so much, David!
  5. I have an exact timeline in a bible study proving the year 6000 will be in 2026 AD http://www.wisdomofgod.us/2018/11/06/when-the-year-of-the-second-coming-will-be-the-millennial-shabbat-of-the-year-6000-yb-jubilees-and-the-12901335-days-of-daniel/ .
    • Really. The Bible states that no one knoweth the hour.
    • Yes, nobody knows the exact hour. But we do know the seasons.
  6. What does it matters when he comes be watchful be ready and wake up children and go into his vineyard and work share his gospel for his harvest is ready but his laborers are few and if you need oil get it now he who testifies says he comes quickly we need reach the masses now we are losing many to sheol and they are perishing without christ please pray fast and go to the streets and proclaim his gospel time is short it won't be long now don't get caught sleep or you will be left to and do matthew 28:19-20
  7. PreTrib is a deception & is not found anywhere in Scripture, nor is any semblance of imminent return... Christians will endure the wrath of Antichrist, mark of the beast during Great Trib -3.5yr not 7-
    Be ready...American 'Christians' are weak & unprepared
    • I agree! I have no idea where people get the pre trib stuff. I used to believe it till I studied it. Jesus says it plainly in Matthew 24:29 " Immediaty AFTER the tribulation of those days" Then it describes him gathering his people. Much more simple than many make it out to be. Also we see Paul say " none of this will happen until the man or lawlessness is revealed AND the abomination of desolation is in the temple. Very straight forward, very simple. I think many modern western Christians will fall away.
  8. We are the generation who will greet the Lord Christ back on His second return!!
    We will not get old, our young will not get to see their pensions, we will not live here for much longer!

    Christ, according to the gregorian calendar, was born 4 bc
    He lived 30 years, which then is the year 27 since there is no year zero
    He was crucified and ascended 3 years later
    Add 2 days or 2000 years = 2030

    Antichrists Agenda 2030 in EU and UN will be enforced by the States, the second beast
    The trade system of 666 through the Pope will be revealed, the mark shown,
    which is a stolen symbol of the Tefillin, the Law Jews puts on their hand of forehead (satan copied it, google Tefillin and be wiser)
    No jew will accept to trade the Law of God, no christian should trade God's Law for the 666, the Pope and Agenda 2030

    We are going home! Christ is returning! Heaven is coming!
  9. I also believe we are now in the 3rd millennium; the 3rd day He rose from the dead, and Jesus can return at any time; but the 3rd millennium ends in just under 979 years right? So we need to continue to 1) advocate for all people in the world suffering and 2) never fear death. I just read this and I couldn't put it better myself: "Romans 8:36-39 reveals Paul’s resolve to not be moved, “As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Paul was utterly convinced that not even death could separate him from God. He could sleep peacefully with the thought that he might lose his…
  10. This is exciting!!! Remember Enoch "walked with God" for he was nought, for God took Him!! if we "walk with God" have a relationship with him, we will go to the wedding!! I believe the "snatching away" will happen on Feast of trumpets (september) around 2026. Wormwood will hit the earth in 2029!! It all make sense! Praise YHWY.
  11. Very good. I believe Enoch was a foreshadow of us being taken up in the blink of an eye. So, we will be taken before Antichrist is revealed. You know, these globalists, know these years, this decade, and 2030, are very historic. We will all be together soon. Much blessings for you and your loved ones. May those left behind find this information. God bless.
  12. Do you think that the example of the Israelites in the desert for 40 years while the Lord provided their needs exemplifies the Christians who will be protected during the tribulation? I’m thinking about how any Christians will survive during the tribulation. I understand the Christians who are ready will be raptured before the start of tribulation. Thank you for your work. God bless all those who love our Lord.
  13. Couple things.
    1. I completely disagree with the rapture teaching. It's not hebraic, it's not torah based and it's a relatively new subject. 100% disagree.

    2. I disagree completely with the zionist idea of 1948 Israel. The bible discusses a counterfeit Israel as well that most people either don't know or avoid discussing. Nothing of the Rothschild zionist freemason current state of Israel mimics anything Yah discusses in the torah and the prophets about Israel.

    3. I completely AGREE with the 6000 year assessment. Actually, when you state you are here to preach the gospel I don't think you understand that this is the gospel. This is the only gospel. There aren't two, three or four gospels. Only 1 and it's the kingdom of god coming to earth physically in the 7th day. I really don't think you realize just how important your compilation of examples of 6s and 7s are. It's a fantastic job. Excellent work. Do you think you could compile more examples of the…
  14. There's alot of hours in a year
  15. I am of the view that Y'SHUA will make the rebound sooner than you would think although I'm not sure of the day and the hour yet I understand that any year divisible by 9 (denoting 'finality' or 'judgment') and turns out to be a whole number answer is the anticipated year so its going to be either 2025 or 2034. I am also mindful of Daniels' 70 weeks of years prophecy
  16. I have thought of this theory in my mind and you have just provided so much evidence. Sends chills down my spine. The world has lost the plot and makes no sense. Also so weird that the rainbow flag is being waved everywhere now as is it is signally the time of Noah (I know that is not a huge argument but just a strange observation). I agree with no pretribe rapture. A teaching that can be implied but if you had not heard of it and read your bible you would never see it. Also I think it is interesting that Jesus says to forgive 7 x 70 (seventy weeks of Daniel) and after that it looks like no more chances of forgiveness. Another area that fits in to this whole 7 plan.
  17. I derived an equation that identifies the day the 6,000th-year rule of mankind ends. The odds of it being chance are 1,000,000 billion to 1. Here's the equation:
    =((1732849)-(4000*365.2423))+((6000*365.2423));
    I used Excel software and Julian calendar dates, beginning with the Crucifixion, Passover, Nisan 14, which is 13 April 32 A.D, and on the Julian calendar, it was day 1732849. Then 4000 years earlier lands on Nisan 14 again, year 3969 B.C, which I believe was the day Adam began ruling. From that day forward to the final day of the 6,000th year was Nisan 1, Julian day 2463334, and 11 April 2032. The year 32 A.D. was the only year that the Crucifixion fits with Jesus riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, 4 days before he was "cut off." The reason 32 A.D. fits and 30, 31, or 33 do not, is because it was the only day 483 prophetic-years earlier (1732846-173880=1558966) that Artax…
  18. You will stay confused until you realize nothing Jesus spoke during his earthly ministry was to the Church the Body of Christ—-a church and all its doctrines first revealed by the risen Lord to Paul. Even Acts 2 is totally Jewish. I challenge you to find anywhere in Acts 2-3 where Peter explained to his Jewish audience the meaning/purpose of the cross as the power by which we are saved. That understanding is completely necessary for us to accept the Good News of the Grace of God. The Jewish Good News on the Day of Pentecost was The Gospel of the Kingdom—-IF they as a nation repented and accepted Jesus, He would return with the Kingdom (see the Parable of the ten pounds Lk 19:11-13) shortly, after those things spoken by the prophet Joel were completed—- Tribulation. Until the Rapture we remain in an almost 2000 year secret age (Ephesians 3). 1 and 2 Thess and 1 Cor 15 clearly teach a gathering in the clouds very different from Jesus coming in wrath and splitting the Mount of Olives wit…
  19. I look at the fig tree prophecy a little differently. I believe it applied to Jerusalem and was fulfilled when Jerusalem was retaken in 1967. I also believe that the generation to witness this even must have been old enough to understand and remember the significance of the even, so at least the age of accountability as set forth in Exodus - 20 years old. However, we arrive at roughly the same dates using this method of calculating the age of accountability. If we use 13, the traditional Jewish age of accountability, but not found in the Bible, then perhaps we get to 2023-2033. If the age for a witness is 20 then we get 2017-2027.
    • When is your starting year for calculations? Also, have you looked into the essene calendar? It really bummed me out b/c it looks like 2068 is the beginning of the 7 year trib according to the Essenes. I've been calculating for the past 40 years, I'm so sick of this present evil world....
  20. Thanks Joel, I've read 2 studies so far and am greatly pleased by your works. And will be back for more.
  21. It says no one knows the day or the hour. I don't see anything that says we can't know the year. Regardless, I think we can know it's really close.