7th DAY IS THOUSANDS OF YEARS
“YOM” IS THE HEBREW TERM FOR DAY Usually meaning a 24 hour day or the daylight portion. Sometimes, though, YOM is longer, as: In the day you eat from it you will positively die. This is clarified by 2 Peter 3:8: "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." Adam lived 930 years, others longer. but none passed the 1,000 year “day” limit.
This use of YOM is in the immediate context of the creation account.
Jehovah’s rest day began after His creation of Eve, His final work of day 6
A YOM 10 YEARS LONG! At Zephaniah 1:7-8,13 Jerusalem's destruction is foretold
"For the DAY of Jehovah is near ... And it must occur on the DAY of Jehovah’s sacrifice I will give attention to the princes and to the sons of the king their wealth must be for pillage and their houses for a desolate waste
2 Kings 24 tabulates Jerusalem’s destruction Nebuchadnezzar’s 9th to 19th years
Elsewhere YOM applies to periods longer than 24 hours.
GOD’S REST CONTINUED 41 CENTURIES AFTER ADAM: Hebrews 3&4 NEW ENGLISH BIBLE
I was indignant with that generation and said, . they shall never enter MY REST
The promise of entering HIS REST remains open .
We who have become believers, who enter THE REST
Yet God’s work had been finished ever since the world was created;
does not Scripture somewhere speak thus of the 7th day:
”God rested from all his work on the 7th day’? --
again in the passage above we read, ”They shall never enter MY REST.’
The fact remains that someone must enter it
A SABBATH REST STILL AWAITS the people of God;
Anyone who enters GOD'S REST, rests from his own work as God did from his.
LET US MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ENTER INTO THAT REST [Begun in Eden & continuing]
By serving God, imitating Christ, & laying aside personal ambitions, we enter into the rest of God begun in Eden. God’s Sabbath continues, in which we work while He rests from Earthly creative activities.
When Jehovah's Sabbath concludes, it will be as if Adam had never sinned!
Christ’s saving of the world will be complete 1 Cor 15;22-26 explains: "He must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
JEHOVAH’S PURPOSE FOR THE EARTH & MANKIND DECLARED ON DAY 6
"Let us make man in our image and likeness and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth. And God proceeded to create the man in his image . Further God blessed them and God said to them: Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth"
IT WILL BE FULFILLED! Isaiah 45;18 "He formed it to be inhabited"
Isaiah 55:11 "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall accomplish that which I please & shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it"
Christ: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth" Matthew 5:5
"The righteous shall inherit the earth and dwell therein FOREVER"
Psalm 37:9, 11, 22, 29, 34
"The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth hath he given to the children of men" Psalm 115:16
"The righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth" Proverb 10:30
"Earth shall be full of knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea" Habakkuk 2:14
I personally believe the international chaos & consternation we now see is
clear fulfillment of Christ's prophecies at Matthew 24 & Luke 21. We're at the end of this wicked civilization, but not the end of God's planet, our eternal home under the Messiah! THE 7TH DAY CONTINUES, WE’LL HAVE TO WAIT TO LEARN ITS LENGTH
At Genesis 3:16 Jehovah promised a Seed to bruise the serpent's head.
Christ came 4,100 years later plus 2,000 since and Satan is still at large. Jehovah is PATIENT! 2 Peter 3:9
Regards to ALL! CHEMSCIENCE
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