The Everlasting Covenant... The Sabbath
by Paul Sides
Now let's consider God's everlasting covenant... the Sabbath. The 7 day week... 6 days and a 7th day... the Sabbath. It is a portrait of God's Plan for Man. 6 days/6 thousand years and a Sabbath Day/Millennium.... the 6/7 plan for man. 6,000 years of sin and a 7th millennium of Divine Government.
What am I getting at you ask? I'm getting at yet another sign from God concerning the timing of the second coming. More proof of the September 13, 2007 date. I will break God's plan down from a Millennial View all the way down to Monthly View:
Hmmmmmmm. Maybe God had something in mind when He established the 6 day week and the Sabbath and called it His EVERLASTING COVENANT... If we kept it we may know when He was returning.
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Psalms 90:1-4
1
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in
all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world (creation), even from everlasting (past) to everlasting (future), thou art God. (Referring to the Everlasting Covenant of the Sabbath in Genesis established at creation. The boundaries of this Covenant are “everlasting past to everlasting future” )
3 Thou turnest man to destruction;(a reference to the Great Tribulation) and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. (‘6,000 years’ is the sign “a watch in the night” as Yahshua promised the Saints would NOT be taken like a thief in the night).
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Hosea was also given a vision of God’s Plan. Hosea saw a period of time Israel would cease to be a nation and remain a footnote in history until the End Times (latter days):
Hosea 3:4-5
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king (referring to the destruction of Israel after the Messiah King is cutoff), and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
5 Afterward (after the Messiah is cutoff) shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
We see from Hosea 3:4-5 that after the Messiah is cutoff, Israel will abide “many days” or more than 1,000 years then afterward “in the latter days” the children of Israel returns (1948). Then Hosea clarifies that the time when Israel will once again be a nation is “after 2 days/2,000 years” keeping in mind that God declared a day = 1,000 years. This is the Church Age or Messianic Age.
Then Hosea prophesies the first resurrection will occur at the beginning of the 3rd day/3,000th year since the destruction of Israel… “in the third day he will raise us up”. This is the Kingdom Age or Millennial Reign or Sabbath Millennium. Then Hosea confirms that He, the Messiah, shall come twice according the Feast Cycle (former rain is the Spring Feasts, the latter rain is the Fall Feasts):
Hosea 6:1-3
1 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.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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