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The Sabbath Typifies the Millennium
1God spoke to Moses face to face on Mount Sinai about the Sabbath. The Sabbath law is also written in the Ten Commandments. 2You are to hold sacred the Sabbath with pure hands and a clean heart. 3In one place He says,
“If My sons observe the Sabbath, then I will bestow My mercy upon them.” Based on Leviticus 26:2-5
4The Sabbath is mentioned at the very beginning of Creation,
“In six days God made all the works of His hands and when He had finished, He rested on the seventh day and sanctified it.” Based on Genesis 2:2-3
5What this teaches us is this: God ended all of creation in six days. This is a typological prophecy showing that in six thousand years the Lord will bring all things to an end; for a day is like a thousand years with Him. 6He Himself testified, saying,
“One day with the Lord is as a thousand years.”
Based on 2 Peter 3:8
Six Thousand Years of Human History
7Therefore, children, in six days, or in six thousand years, all the prophecies will be fulfilled[q]. 8Then it says, He rested on the seventh day. This signifies at the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus, He will destroy the Antichrist, judge the ungodly, and change the sun, moon, and stars. 9Then He will truly rest during the Millennial reign, which is the seventh day. 10He further said,
“You shall keep it holy with clean hands and a pure heart.” Based on Psalm 24:4
No One Can Truly Keep the Sabbath
11If anyone thinks he can keep the weekly Sabbath now with a pure heart, he is deceiving himself. 12We will indeed be able to rest and sanctify it when we are justified, receive our glorified bodies which no longer have a sin nature, and all things have been made new by our Lord. 13We will then be able to sanctify it because we ourselves will be completely sanctified. 14Finally, when He said to them,
“I can’t stand your new moons and Sabbaths.”
Based on Isaiah 1:13
15Do you see what He means? He said,
“Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to me; only the one I have ordained, namely, the rest that I will give on the eighth day, which will be the beginning of the eternal kingdom.”
Based on an unknown reference
16This is why we celebrate the eighth day with gladness, in which Jesus rose from the dead, and appeared to many people, then ascended to heaven.
Commentary
Psalm 24 is thought by many of the ancient church fathers and prophecy students alike, to be a riddle referring to the Millennium.
Many ancient church fathers taught the Second Coming would be at the end of 6,000 years of human history, or 2,000 years after Christ’s First Coming. These include: Barnabas, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Theophilus, Aviricius Marcellus, Cyprian, Commodianus, Lactantius, Bardesan, and others.
In the ritual of Yom Kippur, there is a day called “Shimini Azteret” or the eighth conclusion. This is briefly mentioned in Leviticus 23:30-39. This part of the ritual teaches about the beginning of eternity after the Millennial reign. It is referred to as the “Olam HaBah,” or eternal Kingdom.
The Prophet of Old
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