What is a millennium?
It is a period or cycle of 1000 years. The word millennium itself
is not in the Bible. The 1000 years is mentioned six times in
Revelation 20. Finding your doctrine in one chapter of the most
symbolic book of the Bible certainly is not proof. 1000 represents
completion or fulness, as in: "I've already told you a thousand
times, so it won't do any good to tell you
again."
On the other hand, twenty
Jubilees may represent one millennium, even though it is
technically twenty years short, notwithstanding the forty years in
the wilderness or the seventy make-up years. Twenty jubilee years
were supposedly missed since Moses and that does add up to 1000 years
because the 49th year by grace is called 50 as the initial year is
perpetually recounted. If the stoning of Stephen represents the
last year of the last seven in the second 490 cursed years since
re-entering the promised land, then Jesus began transferring the
image of God to His people just as a failed thousand years of Moses
is coming to a close and a new messiah is rescuing humanity's rule.
The last of the 20 Jubilees would culminate in Christ. In the last
7 years He reined in the thousand cursed years. In 70 years He
reigned for all the missed sabbaths of the second 490. Half of the
70 years were after the stoning of Stephan.
The reason Yeshua sent
the Holy Spirit to the 12 apostles and 12 tribes was so they could
rule with Him. After all, Jesus really started ministering in
Jerusalem after the Holy Spirit remained on Him. His final goal
surprised all the 12 apostles and the 12 tribes. He wanted to rule
in the hearts of all nationalities. He wanted every nation to
stream into the Jewish only church!
Yeshua the Messiah was ruling God's people in a
way never before accomplished. The transition from the old to the
new covenant also marked the fulfillment of the millennium of
curses, in which God finally conquers the fallen covenant and
begins ruling His people through His Son. The twelve apostles (and
others) were ruling God's people before the old covenant completely
ended in AD 70. They reigned for Christ while still partly in the
typical. Maybe we should have started the calendar over around AD
70. Nobody entered the promised land when Jesus was born. The
nation was born again at Pentecost but didn't marry the new land
man until the body of Christ was completely raised up for the
wedding. The body of Christ was 70 years old if counting from His
birth from Mary. The church leaders ruled with Christ to accomplish
the gathering and sanctification of the new body of God's people
while the old still existed, because the new came out of the old.
The new body of Moses was also raised up from the old body during
the typical wilderness years. But in the reversal of the curse
Christ came out of and took upon Himself the thousand cursed years
before taking his people into His promised land. He overruled the
thousand cursed years for the believing Jews only.
After 40 years, everyone in the body of
Christ went into the better promised land.
Romans 7:24-26
ECB 24 Miserable
human - I! Who rescues me from the body of this
death? 25 I
eucharistize Elohim through Yah Shua Messiah our Adonay. So indeed
with the mind I serve the torah of Elohim; and with the flesh, the
torah of sin.
The thousand year reign of
Christ could represent the reversal of the cursed millennium of
Moses. The thousand year rule of Christ represents a fulfilled life
in the human body, so that God's people could enter the better
promised land. He raised His church body to marriage status. Jesus
is not ruling over unregenerate people like Moses had to. He rules
from the heart.
The wilderness
wondering preceded the first ten missed Jubilees. It was attached
to the end the second ten missed Jubilees to reverse the curse in
the typical Hebrew chiastic format. The wilderness wondering was
after the stoning of Stephen. It was then that the church left
Jerusalem and entered their wilderness wondering in reverse
fashion. They went out into the wilderness years due to their faith
in Yeshua the Messiah. Christ was ruling in their hearts. The old
body in the flesh mode (like Egypt) chased and persecuted those in
the new body who received the Spirit. It was 70 years from the
birth of Yeshua before His people could really join Him in the new
land.
Galatians 4:29
ALT 29
But just as at that time, the one having been born according
to the flesh was persecuting the [one] according to the
spirit, so [it is]also now.
The thousand years
Revelation 20:4-6
CLV 4 And I
perceived thrones, and they are seated on them, and judgment was
granted to them. And the souls of those executed because of the
testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who do
not worship the wild beast or its image, and did not get the emblem
on their forehead and on their hand- they also live and reign with
Christ a thousand years." 5 (The rest
of the dead do not live until the thousand years should be
finished.) This is the former resurrection. 6 Happy and
holy is he who is having part in the former resurrection! Over
these the second death has no jurisdiction, but they will be
priests of God and of Christ, and they will be reigning with Him
the thousand years."
Those who were martyred
after Pentecost did not go to the place of the dead to await the
second resurrection. They waited under the alter until the 70 years
was up. Christ left the place of the dead in His first
resurrection. The new betrothal at Pentecost was still in the first
resurrection of Christ. The 12 apostles and 12 tribes were the
first to be sealed by the Spirit He sent, to form the living body
of Christ. The nation was born again in Christ, without the old
threat of covenant death that Adam had. Those in the first covenant
death of Adam who rejected the gospel of Christ did go to their
final second death, rather than to their permanent
marriage.
1 Peter 3:18-19
KJV 18 For
Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which
also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
In the fulfillment of the types we
are no longer required to count the festivals and years under
Moses. They all pointed to marriage to the new covenant man. Christ
antitypically rules in the hearts of His people forever now.
Everything pointed to Him. The destruction of Jerusalem in the old
land was after the completion of the new body of Christ. The cursed
millennium of Moses came to it's end after the first resurrection
was complete. The second resurrection was to the second death. The
new body now includes Moses himself.
The New Covenant is now
complete. We are called to seek the kingdom that spreads like
yeast. Yeshua never said to go out and conquer people for him by
force or to retreat into isolation or to wait idley by until some
future event 'fixes' everything. We are the salt and the light. He
wants us to live out His image in His family and honor His name as
the head of the house, even before we physically die and go to
heaven.
More numbers In
Daniel:
It takes seven times
(maybe mo(o)nths) before Nebechadnezzer, the ruler of the first
kingdom of Daniel, realizes humanity.
Daniel
4:25
YLT
25 and they are
driving thee away from men, and with the beast of the field is thy
dwelling, and the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and by
the dew of the heavens they are wetting thee, and seven times do
pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler
in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth
it.
Daniel 4:25
Thomson 25 Thou
wilt be driven from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the
beasts of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox;
and thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall
revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most High
ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he
will.
The fourth kingdom of Daniel is
Rome. Rome finally joins the unfaithful Jews in the full-scale
persecution of the saints. The messiah-rejecting Jews were
desperate to rule militarily so they made a pact with the military
world power of their day.
A covenant with the fourth beast lasts 3 1/2 years and
backfires
Daniel 7:23-27
YLT 23 `Thus he
said: The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom in the earth, that is
diverse from all kingdoms, and it consumeth all the earth, and
treadeth it down, and breaketh it small. 24 And the ten
horns out of the kingdom are ten kings, they rise, and
another doth rise after them, and it is diverse from the former,
and three kings it humbleth; 25 and words as
an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the
Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and
law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and
times, and a division of a time. 26 `And the
Judge is seated, and its dominion they cause to pass away, to cut
off, and to destroy—unto the end; 27 and the
kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heavens, is given to the people—the saints of the Most
High, His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and all
dominions do serve and obey Him.
Rome
turns and destroys the old land of unbelief for three and a half
years. In the end, what the unbelievers wanted for the believers
was poured back on them. Their military pact backfired on them. The
old covenant was sevened to death after they made a pact with the
kingdom of Satan. The eternal covenant blessings only come from
being in the kingdom of God through His
Son.
Daniel 9:27
LITV 27 And he
shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the
middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to
cease. And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that
desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour
out on the desolator.
Yeshua the Messiah reigned in 1000 years
of sabbath curses within 70 years.
He is our sabbath
rest.
Adam lived to be 930 after the fall.
Jesus completed his 1000 years to bring humanity to it's
consummation.
930 years of Adam + 70 years of Christ =
1000
He also fulfilled the last Jubilee of
Moses
7 x 7 = 49
49 x 10 = 490
Stephen entered that sabbath rest of
Christ.
The land covenant was lifted up and set
free in Christ.
Any
way you look at it Yeshua fulfilled humanity.
Eschaton Adam now rules people from all
nations (A.K.A. all covenant creations); the promised
seed.
He crushed the heads of even the
consummate beast; that was ready to meet the consummate
man.
The seven headed serpent failed to stop the perfect
human from growing up.
Revelation 12:3-5
ALT 3 And
another sign was seen in heaven. And look! A great dragon [the
color of] fire, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his
head seven royal bands. 4 And his
tail drags away the third of the stars of heaven, and he threw them
to the earth; and the dragon had stood before the woman, the one
about to give birth, so that when she gives birth, he shall devour
her child. 5 And she
gave birth to a Son, a male, who is about to be
shepherding [or, ruling] all the nations with an iron
staff. And her Child was caught up to God and to His
throne.
No beast can break a shepherd's
staff of iron.
We are not under
law, so we are not required to stop working at dusk; the night
before sabbath morning; when the new Hebrew sabbath day begins. But
their is still wisdom in resting before we meet for worship. And it
does work out well for the body individual and the body of Christ
if we begin our rest the night before we meet for
church.
The wisdom that is embodied
in the law God gave to Moses to rule the old covenant nation is not
absent in the spirit of Christ.