God's 7,000-Year Plan


​​God is creating a new heaven and earth 
over the course of six millennial days of human history.​
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"There's a master plan of human history of seven thousand years
The first six thousand are almost over while the last one thousand nears
Six great days for working, then a day of rest appears
In the master plan of human history of seven thousand years" 
​-- song, Good News
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DAYS OF CREATION
"For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth. . . ."  (Exodus 20:11)
First Day
Light divided from darkness
Second Day
Waters
Third Day
Land
Fourth Day
Two Great Lights to rule day and night
Fifth Day
Life
Sixth Day
Husband and Wife given dominion over earth
Seventh Day
Rest
"Thus the heavens and the earth . . . were finished"(Gen. 2:1)
​MILLENNIAL DAYS OF HISTORY
"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. . . ."  (Isaiah 65:17)
" . . . with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. . . .  we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells."  (II Peter 3:8, 13) 
First Day
Two Trees in the Garden: God teaches man must choose between God's way and Satan's
Second Day
The Great Flood
Third Day
God promises Land forever to Abraham; brings Israel to the Promised Land
Fourth Day
God promises Eternal Rulership to David: Israel's Kings Period; Babylon rules the night
Fifth Day
God offers man Eternal Life; sends Holy Spirit; Church Age begins
Sixth Day
Christ marries the Church; They are given dominion over the earth
Seventh Day
The world to come -- a new heaven and earth (Heb. 2:5; 4:4-11; Rev. 14:13; Isa. 65:17-25; 66:22-23; II Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21-22)
Seven Millennial Day Songs:

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From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon, chapter 15:

"The ancient and popular doctrine of the Millennium was intimately connected with the second coming of Christ.  As the works of the creation had been finished in six days, their duration in their present state, according to a tradition which was attributed to the prophet Elijah, was fixed to six thousand years.  By the same analogy it was inferred that this long period of labour . . . would be succeeded by a joyful Sabbath of a thousand years; and that Christ, with the triumphant band of the saints and the elect who had escaped death, or who had been miraculously revived, would reign upon earth till the time appointed for the last and general resurrection."


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From The Encyclopediacaps Americana, article "Millennium":

"It is admitted on all sides that these views were . . . very common in the ancient church.  The belief was generally founded on Psalms xc, 4, according to which 1,000 years are before the Lord as one day, compared with the account of the creation as given to Moses.  The six days of creation are taken as designating 6,000 years of toil, and the subsequent sabbath as designating 1,000 years of rest and happiness.  The millennium was to be the sabbath rest of the new creation of mankind in Christ."  

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From "Why Were You Born?" (1957) By Herbert W. Armstrong:
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"Creation was not completed, as described in Genesis 1.  Rather, what God is creating is a SPIRITUAL CREATION, and God has mapped out a DEFINITE PLAN, allowing SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS for the process!  In His great purpose, the physical and material comes first, and always is the type of the spiritual.  A day is as a thousand years to God, and a thousand years as a day.  And, as God's revealed Plan is allotted seven thousand-year 'DAYS' for its completion, so God used just seven 24-hour days for the present creation -- the MATERIAL creation described in Genesis 1!  So the seven literal 24-hour days are a TYPE of the seven thousand-year 'days.'  And in this seven-thousand year period, . . . the SEVENTH millennial day shall be the SABBATH of the ETERNAL our God. . . !"


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From "Mystery of the Ages" by Herbert W. Armstrong: 
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"With God's great master plan of 7,000 years finally completed -- the mystery of the ages finally revealed, and with the re-creating of the vast universe and eternity lying ahead, we come finally to THE BEGINNING."
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"The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. . . ." 
(Isaiah 29:11)
" . . . seal the book until the time of the end . . . 
for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end . . . 
none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand."
(Daniel 12:4, 9-10)
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