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119 Ministries presents a study in the prophetic significance of the seven days of creation.
Isaiah tells us that the end was declared in the beginning.
(CLV) Isa 46:10
Telling from the beginning, the hereafter, And from aforetime what has not yet been done, Saying, All My counsel, it shall be confirmed, And all My desire shall I do;
Day 1:
Light and darkness are separated.
Day 2:
Sea and earth are divided.
Day 3:
The establishment of the seed that bears fruit
Day 4:
The bringing forth the sun, moon, and stars. The sun rules over the day.
Day 5:
Birds and fish come into the picture
Day 6:
Man is created to rule over creation, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Day 7:
The Sabbath rest is established and set apart for man.
119, purports that we have just read the complete prophetic plan for YHWH's purpose for man. Each day represents a 1000 year increment.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:8
Now of this one thing you are not to be oblivious, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:9
The Lord is not tardy as to the promise, as some are deeming tardiness, but is patient because of you, not intending any to perish, but all to make room for repentance.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:10
Now the day of the Lord will be arriving as a thief, in which the heavens shall be passing by with a booming noise, yet the elements shall be dissolved by combustion, and the earth and the works in it shall be found.
Here is a second witness:
(CLV) Ps 90:4
For a thousand years are in Your eyes Like yesterday's day when it has passed, Or like a vigil in the night.
Peter makes that statement in this context:
(CLV) 2Pt 3:1
This is already, beloved, the second epistle I am writing to you in which I am rousing your sincere comprehension by a reminder
(CLV) 2Pt 3:2
to remind you of the declarations which |have been declared before by the holy prophets, and of the precept of your apostles of the Lord and Saviour,
(CLV) 2Pt 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will be coming with scoffing, going according to their own desires
(CLV) 2Pt 3:4
and saying, "Where is the promise of His presence? For since the fathers were put to repose, all is continuing thus from the beginning of creation."
(CLV) 2Pt 3:5
For they want to be oblivious of this, that there were heavens of old, and an earth cohering out of water and through water, by the word of God;
(CLV) 2Pt 3:6
through which the then world, being deluged by water, perished.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:7
Yet the heavens now, and the earth, by the same word, are stored with fire, being kept for the day of the judging and destruction of irreverent men.
In that 1000 year context Peter also notes that water and land were created on a certain day; and that the world was also destroyed by water. Peter is making a connection between what happened in the beginning, and what is to happen.
Would this suggest that each day of creation points to a prophetic event in YHWH's purpose for man?
While mostly forgotten today, the 1000 year principle was better understood a couple thousand years ago.
From the Epistle of Barnabus:
Barnabas 15:3
Of the Sabbath He speaketh in the beginning of the creation; And
God made the works of His hands in six days, and He ended on the
seventh day, and rested on it, and He hallowed it.
Barnabas 15:4
Give heed, children, what this meaneth; He ended in six days. He
meaneth this, that in six thousand years the Lord shall bring all
things to an end; for the day with Him signifyeth a thousand years;
and this He himself beareth me witness, saying; Behold, the day of
the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, children, in six
days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end.
Barnabas 15:5
And He rested on the seventh day. this He meaneth; when His Son
shall come, and shall abolish the time of the Lawless One, and shall
judge the ungodly, and shall change the sun and the moon and the
stars, then shall he truly rest on the seventh day.
Irenaeus who was trained by Polycarp who was trained by John, who wrote the Book of Revelation, wrote this:
3. For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. And for this reason the Scripture says: "Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works."(6) This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years;(7) and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year.
Irenaeus: Against Heresies - Book 5
Methodius 300 A.D.
Banquet of the Ten Virgins Discourse 9:
For since in six days God made the heaven and the earth, and finished the whole world, and rested on the seventh day from all His works which He had made, and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, Genesis 2:1 so by a figure in the seventh month, when the fruits of the earth have been gathered in, we are commanded to keep the feast to the Lord, which signifies that, when this world shall be terminated at the seventh thousand years, when God shall have completed the world, He shall rejoice in us. For now to this time all things are created by His all-sufficient will and inconceivable power; the earth still yielding its fruits, and the waters being gathered together in their receptacles; and the light still severed from darkness, and the allotted number of men not yet being complete; and the sun arising to rule the day, and the moon the night; and four-footed creatures, and beasts, and creeping things arising from the earth, and winged creatures, and creatures that swim, from the water. Then, when the appointed times shall have been accomplished, and God shall have ceased to form this creation, in the seventh month, the great resurrection-day, it is commanded that the Feast of our Tabernacles shall be celebrated to the Lord, of which the things said in Leviticus are symbols and figures, which things, carefully investigating, we should consider the naked truth itself, for He says, A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words Of the wise, and their dark sayings. Proverbs 1:5-6
Peter seems to draw a relationship between the water and earth being separated, and Noah and the flood, in 2 Peter 3: 1-7.
Using this example by Peter, we should be able to find a significant event tied to each day of creation.
Day 1:
(CLV) Gn 1:1
In a beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
(CLV) Gn 1:2
As for the earth, it came to be a chaos and vacant, and darkness was over the surface of the abyss. And the spirit of Elohim was vibrating over the surface of the waters.
(CLV) Gn 1:3
And Elohim said: Let light come to be! And light came to be.
(CLV) Gn 1:4
Elohim saw the light that it was good. Then Elohim separated the light from the darkness.
(CLV) Gn 1:5
And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: day one.
On day one, light and darkness were separated. What does light and darkness metaphorically represent in scripture?
Good and evil? Righteousness and lawlessness?
What happened during the first 1000 years of man? Adam and Eve ate for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The separation of good and evil in man, was the fulfillment of day 1 of creation.
Day 2:
(CLV) Gn 1:6
And Elohim |said: Let an atmosphere come to be in the midst of the waters, that it may be separating waters from waters. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:7
Elohim made the atmosphere and separated the waters under the atmosphere from the waters above the atmosphere.
(CLV) Gn 1:8
And Elohim called the atmosphere Heavens. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: the second day.
(CLV) Gn 1:9
And Elohim said: Let the waters under the heavens flow together into one confluence, that the dry ground may appear. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:10
And Elohim called the dry ground Land, and the confluence of the waters He called Seas. And Elohim saw that it was good.
In the flood event of Noah the earth was completely covered with water; but then dry land eventually appeared.
Noah and the flood was the fulfillment of day 2 of creation.
Day 3:
(CLV) Gn 1:11
And Elohim said: Let the land come verdant with vegetation: with herbage yielding seed on the land and the fruit tree bearing fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in it. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:12
The land brought forth vegetation: herbage yielding seed according to its kind, and the fruit0 tree bearing fruit, whose seed is in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
(CLV) Gn 1:13
And evening came to be, and morning came to be: the third day.
What parallel can we draw between land and seed?
(CLV) Gn 22:18
and all the nations of the earth will bless themselves in your seed, inasmuch as you have hearkened to My voice.
(CLV) Gn 26:4
I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. All nations of the earth will bless themselves in your seed,
(CLV) Gn 35:12
And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I shall give it to you, and to your seed after you I shall give the land.
Abraham's seed, and the promised land, was the fulfillment of day 3 of creation.
(continued)
Isaiah tells us that the end was declared in the beginning.
(CLV) Isa 46:10
Telling from the beginning, the hereafter, And from aforetime what has not yet been done, Saying, All My counsel, it shall be confirmed, And all My desire shall I do;
Day 1:
Light and darkness are separated.
Day 2:
Sea and earth are divided.
Day 3:
The establishment of the seed that bears fruit
Day 4:
The bringing forth the sun, moon, and stars. The sun rules over the day.
Day 5:
Birds and fish come into the picture
Day 6:
Man is created to rule over creation, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Day 7:
The Sabbath rest is established and set apart for man.
119, purports that we have just read the complete prophetic plan for YHWH's purpose for man. Each day represents a 1000 year increment.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:8
Now of this one thing you are not to be oblivious, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:9
The Lord is not tardy as to the promise, as some are deeming tardiness, but is patient because of you, not intending any to perish, but all to make room for repentance.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:10
Now the day of the Lord will be arriving as a thief, in which the heavens shall be passing by with a booming noise, yet the elements shall be dissolved by combustion, and the earth and the works in it shall be found.
Here is a second witness:
(CLV) Ps 90:4
For a thousand years are in Your eyes Like yesterday's day when it has passed, Or like a vigil in the night.
Peter makes that statement in this context:
(CLV) 2Pt 3:1
This is already, beloved, the second epistle I am writing to you in which I am rousing your sincere comprehension by a reminder
(CLV) 2Pt 3:2
to remind you of the declarations which |have been declared before by the holy prophets, and of the precept of your apostles of the Lord and Saviour,
(CLV) 2Pt 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will be coming with scoffing, going according to their own desires
(CLV) 2Pt 3:4
and saying, "Where is the promise of His presence? For since the fathers were put to repose, all is continuing thus from the beginning of creation."
(CLV) 2Pt 3:5
For they want to be oblivious of this, that there were heavens of old, and an earth cohering out of water and through water, by the word of God;
(CLV) 2Pt 3:6
through which the then world, being deluged by water, perished.
(CLV) 2Pt 3:7
Yet the heavens now, and the earth, by the same word, are stored with fire, being kept for the day of the judging and destruction of irreverent men.
In that 1000 year context Peter also notes that water and land were created on a certain day; and that the world was also destroyed by water. Peter is making a connection between what happened in the beginning, and what is to happen.
Would this suggest that each day of creation points to a prophetic event in YHWH's purpose for man?
While mostly forgotten today, the 1000 year principle was better understood a couple thousand years ago.
From the Epistle of Barnabus:
Barnabas 15:3
Of the Sabbath He speaketh in the beginning of the creation; And
God made the works of His hands in six days, and He ended on the
seventh day, and rested on it, and He hallowed it.
Barnabas 15:4
Give heed, children, what this meaneth; He ended in six days. He
meaneth this, that in six thousand years the Lord shall bring all
things to an end; for the day with Him signifyeth a thousand years;
and this He himself beareth me witness, saying; Behold, the day of
the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, children, in six
days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end.
Barnabas 15:5
And He rested on the seventh day. this He meaneth; when His Son
shall come, and shall abolish the time of the Lawless One, and shall
judge the ungodly, and shall change the sun and the moon and the
stars, then shall he truly rest on the seventh day.
Irenaeus who was trained by Polycarp who was trained by John, who wrote the Book of Revelation, wrote this:
3. For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. And for this reason the Scripture says: "Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works."(6) This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years;(7) and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year.
Irenaeus: Against Heresies - Book 5
Methodius 300 A.D.
Banquet of the Ten Virgins Discourse 9:
For since in six days God made the heaven and the earth, and finished the whole world, and rested on the seventh day from all His works which He had made, and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, Genesis 2:1 so by a figure in the seventh month, when the fruits of the earth have been gathered in, we are commanded to keep the feast to the Lord, which signifies that, when this world shall be terminated at the seventh thousand years, when God shall have completed the world, He shall rejoice in us. For now to this time all things are created by His all-sufficient will and inconceivable power; the earth still yielding its fruits, and the waters being gathered together in their receptacles; and the light still severed from darkness, and the allotted number of men not yet being complete; and the sun arising to rule the day, and the moon the night; and four-footed creatures, and beasts, and creeping things arising from the earth, and winged creatures, and creatures that swim, from the water. Then, when the appointed times shall have been accomplished, and God shall have ceased to form this creation, in the seventh month, the great resurrection-day, it is commanded that the Feast of our Tabernacles shall be celebrated to the Lord, of which the things said in Leviticus are symbols and figures, which things, carefully investigating, we should consider the naked truth itself, for He says, A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words Of the wise, and their dark sayings. Proverbs 1:5-6
Peter seems to draw a relationship between the water and earth being separated, and Noah and the flood, in 2 Peter 3: 1-7.
Using this example by Peter, we should be able to find a significant event tied to each day of creation.
Day 1:
(CLV) Gn 1:1
In a beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
(CLV) Gn 1:2
As for the earth, it came to be a chaos and vacant, and darkness was over the surface of the abyss. And the spirit of Elohim was vibrating over the surface of the waters.
(CLV) Gn 1:3
And Elohim said: Let light come to be! And light came to be.
(CLV) Gn 1:4
Elohim saw the light that it was good. Then Elohim separated the light from the darkness.
(CLV) Gn 1:5
And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: day one.
On day one, light and darkness were separated. What does light and darkness metaphorically represent in scripture?
Good and evil? Righteousness and lawlessness?
What happened during the first 1000 years of man? Adam and Eve ate for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The separation of good and evil in man, was the fulfillment of day 1 of creation.
Day 2:
(CLV) Gn 1:6
And Elohim |said: Let an atmosphere come to be in the midst of the waters, that it may be separating waters from waters. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:7
Elohim made the atmosphere and separated the waters under the atmosphere from the waters above the atmosphere.
(CLV) Gn 1:8
And Elohim called the atmosphere Heavens. And evening came to be, and morning came to be: the second day.
(CLV) Gn 1:9
And Elohim said: Let the waters under the heavens flow together into one confluence, that the dry ground may appear. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:10
And Elohim called the dry ground Land, and the confluence of the waters He called Seas. And Elohim saw that it was good.
In the flood event of Noah the earth was completely covered with water; but then dry land eventually appeared.
Noah and the flood was the fulfillment of day 2 of creation.
Day 3:
(CLV) Gn 1:11
And Elohim said: Let the land come verdant with vegetation: with herbage yielding seed on the land and the fruit tree bearing fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in it. And it came to be so.
(CLV) Gn 1:12
The land brought forth vegetation: herbage yielding seed according to its kind, and the fruit0 tree bearing fruit, whose seed is in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
(CLV) Gn 1:13
And evening came to be, and morning came to be: the third day.
What parallel can we draw between land and seed?
(CLV) Gn 22:18
and all the nations of the earth will bless themselves in your seed, inasmuch as you have hearkened to My voice.
(CLV) Gn 26:4
I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. All nations of the earth will bless themselves in your seed,
(CLV) Gn 35:12
And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I shall give it to you, and to your seed after you I shall give the land.
Abraham's seed, and the promised land, was the fulfillment of day 3 of creation.
(continued)
