Redemptive and Creative weeks

We see in Scripture in a prophetic week of seven 1000-year days such a loving purposeful plan of God’s dealings with mankind in history, to redeem us and then to join himself with us and then to return to be with us for all eternity. The genealogy from Adam to the present day is about 6000 years. Archaeologists agree that the region of Ur was the place of the first civilized city found (circa 4000 BC). The ruins were first excavated (1854-55) by the British consul J. E. Taylor http://history-world.org/ur.htm This means that the first civilization was around 6000 years ago. Genesis 4:17 Cain built a city. 2 Peter 3:8 … one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 1John 5:7 there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. The actual events of each day’s creation serve as a blueprint for the days of redemption after the fall of Adam. It is breath-taking to behold the wonder of God’s majestic design and purpose for his creation and for his determined plan of creating mankind in his own likeness, first as a creation separate from himself because of being of a lower order, and then recreating him as a New Creation in his Son Jesus, lifting us into being partakers of the divine nature as One Spirit with him. The Scriptures show us that nothing can obstruct this sovereign purpose. Ephesians 1:9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. So no one can stop this purpose from being fulfilled, it’s just a matter of who wants to be partners with God in it. Satan works now, as he did with Adam and as he has always worked, to stop mankind from trusting in God’s wonderful plan and purpose for us – has God said? There will always be things going wrong in life, but this one thing, God’s eternal purpose, will always be on course because it happens ‘according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory’. This is an invitation (calling – klero) too worthwhile to reject or resist. There is an amazing parallel in the symbolism of events occurring on each day of God’s creative week, to those events occurring on the one thousand year days of God’s redemptive week.

GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO JACOB * 1 - Adam (generation 1) is created.[1] * 130 - Adam and Eve receive a son, Seth (generation 2) * 235 - Enosh is born (generation 3) * 325 - Kenan is born (generation 4) * 395 - Mahalaleel is born (generation 5) * 460 - Jared is born (generation 6) * 622 - Enoch is born (generation 7) * 687 - Methuselah is born (generation 8) "Methuselah" can be translated "when he dies it comes". * 874 - Lamech is born (generation 9) * 930 - Adam dies, aged 930 * 987 - Enoch taken up by God (did not die [Gen5:24]), aged 365 * 1042 - Seth dies, aged 912 * 1056 - Noah is born (generation 10) * 1140 - Enosh dies, aged 905 * 1235 - Kenan dies, aged 910 * 1290 - Mahalaleel dies, aged 895 * 1422 - Jared dies, aged 962 * 1556 - Noah has three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth (generation 11) * 1651 - Lamech (Noah's father) dies, aged 777 * 1656 - Methuselah dies the same year as the flood comes, aged 969 * 1658 - Arpachshad is born (generation 12) * 1693 - Shelah is born (generation 13) * 1723 - Eber is born (generation 14) * 1757 - Peleg is born (generation 15) * 1787 - Reu is born (generation 16) * 1819 - Serug is born (generation 17) * 1849 - Nahor is born (generation 18) * 1878 - Terah is born (generation 19) * 1948 - Abraham is born (generation 20) * 1958 - Sarah, Abrahams wife, is born * 1996 - Peleg dies, aged 239 - this is the first death mentioned in the Bible after the flood * 1997 - Nahor dies, aged 148 * 2006 - Noah, generation 10 after Adam, dies at the age of 950 * 2026 - Reu dies, aged 239 * 2034 - Ishmael is born (generation 21) * 2048 - Isaac is born (also generation 21) * 2049 - Serug dies, aged 230 * 2083 - Terah dies, aged 205 * 2085 - Sarah dies, aged 127 * 2088 - Isaac is married at the age of 40, to Rebecca * 2096 - Arpachshad dies, aged 438 * 2108 - Jacob is born, with his twin Esau (generation 22) * 2123 - Abraham dies, aged 175 * 2126 - Shelah dies, aged 433 * 2158 - Shem dies, aged 600 * 2187 - Eber dies, aged 464 * 2228 - Isaac dies, aged 180 * 2238 - Jacob moves to Egypt at the age of 130 * 2255 - Jacob dies in Egypt, aged 147