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1 | Seven Church "ages"? Is it scriptural? | Revelation | jclove | 95831 | ||
Dear John, first we must note that God's time is vastly different from ours. In Genesis when it gives account of the six days God created all things and rested on the seventh - what it doesn't make clear is that a day to God is different than our current calendar. According to God's clock a day is a much longer period of time. Note: 2 Peter 3:8 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. In eschatology we learn that there are seven periods of time which have been and are to be. The list is as follows: 1. Innocence - Adam to the fall. 2. Conscience - Leaving Eden to Noah's Ark. 3. Human Goverment - Noah to Tower of Babel 4. Promise - Abraham to Mt. Sinai 5. Law - Mt. Sinai to Ressurection of Christ 6. Grace - Day of Pentecost to Rapture of Church 7. Christ - Thousand year reign of Christ on Earth. I'm not sure if there's a correlation to the Churches mentioned in Revelation though. If I find out more info I'll let you know. God Bless! |
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2 | Seven Church "ages"? Is it scriptural? | Revelation | New Creature | 95855 | ||
jclove you stated "God's time is vastly different from ours" and "a day to God is different than our current calendar. According to God's clock a day is a much longer period of time." If what you say is so then consider the following from Genesis read that on the 3rd day Gen. 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so then on the 4th day Gen. 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: Gen. 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. Gen. 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Gen. 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, Gen. 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good So from these verses, if I must believe that these days were a thousand years rather than a literal day, would that mean that the plants had to wait for a thousand years before they received any sunshine which helps them grow? That is just one of the numerous problems I believe you face with the theory that each day of Creation is a thousand years rather than just believing that it was a literal 24 hour day. Grace to you New Creature |
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