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Genesis 8:6-12 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made (7) and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. (8) Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. (9) But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. (10) He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove (a second time) out of the ark. (11) And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. (12) Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove (a third time), and she did not return to him anymore.
Noah's dove that was sent out for a third time after the flood and did not return, revealed the time was near when Noah's family could leave the ark since the waters had dried up. However the scriptures are silent about where the dove found a place of rest, except for the one clue of the olive leaf, that's symbolic for the nation of Israel, Gen 8:11, Jer 11:16-17, Rom 11:24.
Genesis 8:13-16 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. (14) In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. (15) Then God said to Noah, (16) "Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
- Noah who was a faithful preacher of righteousness in a wicked generation, that was told by God to enter the ark in the 600th year of his life, 7 days before the flood of God's judgment destroyed unrighteous mankind (Gen 7:1-7, 10),
- represents 6,000 years from Adam when the faithful saints will be raptured to the wedding banquet, 7 years before God's final judgment of unbelieving mankind takes place at the end of tribulation, Rev 3:10.
- Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
- Isaiah 26:20-21 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. (21) See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The flood of God's wrath in the tribulation
I believe the thousand years as a day in Psalms 90 that's mentioned again in 2 Peter 3:8, are two prophetically related scriptures that are revealing the last year of the tribulation will take place at 90 years from 1948 in 2038, when unbelieving mankind will be swept away as with a flood of God's wrath, which is foreshadowed by the flood that destroyed rebellious mankind in the days of Noah, that's revealed in 2 Peter 3:3-8.- Psalms 90:4-9 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night (in tribulation's darkness). (5) You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: (6) in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. (7) For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. (8) You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. (9) For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
- 2 Peter 3:3-8 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. (4) They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation." (5) For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, (6) and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. (7) But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of (tribulation) judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (8) But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Psalms 88:16-17 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. (17) They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.
- Psalms 88:3-9 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (on the cross). (4) I am counted among those who (are unrighteous that) go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, (5) like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. (6) You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. (7) Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves (of judgment for sin). Selah. (8) You have caused my companions (the disciples) to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; (9) my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I have stretched out my hands to you (on the cross).
- Psalms 88:10-11 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah. (11) Is your steadfast love declared in the grave (through Jesus resurrection), or your faithfulness (to the saints who are asleep) in Abaddon? (Mat 27:50-53)
Your wrath has swept over me; your assaults destroy me, they surround me like a flood,
I have stretched out my hands to you, will the departed rise up to praise you?
I have stretched out my hands to you, will the departed rise up to praise you?
- God's flood of judgment that destroyed sinful mankind in the days of Noah,
- that was experienced by Jesus when he received God's flood of wrath for our sins on the cross,
- will be poured out on those who refuse to accept Christ's forgiveness for their sins by faith, when the wicked will be swept away as with a flood of God's wrath at the end of the tribulation, in the third millennium from the cross, Psa 90:4-8.
As I previously said, Noah who entered the ark 7 days before the flood destroyed mankind, is an example for the faithful saints who will be raptured 7 years before God's flood of wrath for unbelieving mankind is completed at the end of the tribulation, Rev 3:10.
But what about Noah's dove that was sent out 3 different times to see if the waters of the flood had receded from the earth? Is this just a meaningless detail, or is there something hidden within this story that we are not seeing?
- I believe there are two possible prophetic pictures that are being revealed in the story of Noah's dove.
- The first spiritual aspect that needs to be understood is the dove in several scriptures is symbolic for the Holy Spirit, while the olive tree represents Israel.
- And the dove who returned to the ark a second time with an olive leaf in its mouth when the the waters of the flood were receding from earth, could be prophetic for the survival of a believing remnant of Israel through God's flood of wrath for unrighteous mankind in the tribulation.
It's also possible that Noah's dove who was sent out 3 different times after the flood destroyed all mankind, is a long-term prophecy for 3 millennial days that began after God's wrath for all mankind was poured out on Jesus, when he stretched out his hands and died on the cross for us, Psa 88:3-9, 16-17.
Therefore, Noah's dove that was sent out the first time and returned to the ark since the flood waters had not receded, could be symbolic for the first millennial day that began after Jesus endured the flood of God's wrath for our sins on the cross, when unbelieving Israel was cast into the roaring waves of the nations who serve false gods made of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:27-28 And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. (28) And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Isaiah 17:12 Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! Psa 65:7
- Habakkuk 1:14 You make (unrighteous) mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
- Deuteronomy 30:1-3 "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, (2) and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, (3) then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.
- Ezekiel 36:23-24 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. (24) I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
| The third time Noah's dove was sent out but did not return since it found a place of rest in the olive tree when the waters of the flood had dried up, | represents the third millennium from the cross when Jesus pours out a spirit of grace on a remnant of Israel at the end of the tribulation, Zec 12:9-10 | when the Holy Spirit like a dove will rest on Christ and redeemed olive tree Israel as he reigns as King of kings in Jerusalem under the authority of his Father in heaven |
The Spirit is poured out on Israel in the tribulation
Zechariah 12:9-10 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. (10) "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Romans 11:24 For if you (Gentiles) were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree (by faith in Jesus), how much more will these, the natural branches (of Israel), be grafted back into their own olive tree (by faith in their Messiah whom they pierced).
Ezekiel 11:17-20 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.' (18) And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. (19) And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, (20) that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
The Spirit rests on Jesus when he rules in Jerusalem during the third millennium
Isaiah 11:1-10 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. (2) And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. (3) And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, (4) but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. (5) Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. (6) The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. (7) The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. (8) The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. (9) They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. (10) In that (third millennial) day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples--of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious (in righteous born-again olive tree Israel).
The Spirit descends like a dove and rests on Jesus after his baptism
Matthew 3:16-17 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; (17) and behold, a voice from (the Father in) heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
The Spirit that descended like a dove and rested on Jesus after his baptism, | will rest on Christ and Israel in the third millennium, when he will rule as Lord and King in Jerusalem |
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