God’s Timetable
Part # 1
H – Psalms 90B -
M - I Pet. 1:13 – 2:10
6009 Sivan, 23rd
Key Verse Gen. 1: 1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. …
Intro: What year is this? 2008, 60th year of
Would like to start this study off with reviewing some basic Jewish rules of interpretation and concepts in Biblical Judaism concerning the calendar and time.
Basic rules of Jewish interpretation:
Acronym PARDES = Peshat, Remez, Drash, Sod
Peshat = plain meaning, face value, literal interpretation
Remez = hint, implied meaning,, symbol, something hid
Drash = teaching, allegorical, typological, homiletical application, explore, ask
Sod = hidden, secret, mystical meaning of text does not change the peshat
Vocabulary
Establish a common vocabulary – all on same page
Be’Acharit hayamim = Last Days
Moshiach = Messiah
Moshiach Ben Yoseph = Messiah Son of Joseph, suffering servant
Moshiach Ben David = Messiah Son of David, conquering King
Torah – (written) Instruction, teaching, 5 books Moses, Bible
Mishna = Oral Torah, commands given to Moshe along with Torah
Talmud = Commentary or teachings of the Mishna
Shabbat = Sabbath or seventh day, rest Friday sunset to Saturday sunset Biblical reckoning of 24 hour day
Rosh Chodesh = New Moon
Pesach = Passover
Shavuot = Feast of Weeks
Goyim = nations, pagans, all people groups not Jewish
Olam Haba = the world to come
Mo’edim = Appointed Times
Zera = Seed, offspring
Aqab = heel, footsteps
Aqab haMoshiach = footsteps of Messiah
Basar = good news, gospel
Geulah = redemption
Yeshua = Jesus
Ruach HaChodesh = Holy Spirit
Abba = Father
Nissan = First month of Year Biblical
Tishre = Rabbinic First Month of the Year Religious
Rosh Hashanah = Jewish New Year, Birth of Creation
Yom Teruah = Day of blowing of Shofar
Shofar = Rams horn blown like a trumpet
Yamim Noraum = 10 “Days of Awe “
Teshuvah = repentance
Basic understanding about the Biblical Calendar!
It was created by God! The days of the week were named according to the Sabbath, i.e., the first day of the Sabbath, the second day of the Sabbath and so on. The Sabbath which we call Saturday was the seventh day or the last day of the week!
The month started with a New Moon or Rosh Chodesh and had to be sighted by two trained witnesses. It would fall on one of two days and could be sighted on either of those two days and at any particular hour in the evening at dusk or towards the morning dawn. The Moe’dim or appointed times God commanded to be observed forever and these special days brought both a remez and sod concerning the Messiah! The Days or Yoma play an integral part in understanding the end times or last days! The Day of the Lord found throughout Scripture speaks of the final day of judgment and not the first day of the week as interpreted by Christians.
Genesis, b’reshit = reishit from root rosh = the head of, first or beginning! Beit which is part of the word means two in Hebrew, literally the first words of he sentence are in the two beginnings God created the heavens and the earth! This is a Sod, it is mystical and important in Judaism. I am not going to try to go into the mystical meanings but instead would like to juxtapose this verse with Rev. 21: 1 ¶ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had passed away, and the sea was no longer there. This verse is found at the end of the book and as we study the last days we are going to see that both of these texts are found in context to the text of the Bible and God’s intent concerning man, redemption, judgment and the Messiah! But beyond this I would like to consider both of these verses in light of another verse found in Isa. 66: 22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence,” says ADONAI, “so will your descendants and your name continue. 23 “Every month on Rosh-Hodesh and every week on Shabbat, everyone living will come to worship in my presence,” says ADONAI. In this text God is speaking to Isaiah and He is telling Him that He is currently at His time creating a new heaven and a new earth!
Let’s take a moment and try to understand time and eternity! First eternity is like a circle! It has no beginning and no end. Whether you are inside or outside the circle you always are! Now if I take and draw 2 lines connected to each other from the center of the circle and lets say 22 1/2 degrees apart we have enclosed a piece of the circle within the circle. I am going to call this time. This is the realm we live in. We have a beginning and an end in the circle. We are limited to only being able to see the now. We can look back to the past. We cannot see the future. Yet we live within this realm in the midst of eternity! God lives in eternity, He can see the beginning and the end.
So in Isaiah God speaks to Isaiah in terms He can understand! God is creating the new heavens and the new earth. I believe God began this creating of the new heavens and the new earth in the beginning! Thus we have b’reshit! Two creations. Now I am not trying to get mystical on you. I am trying to get you to see that God Himself as given us a hint a remez. He reveals the plain meaning of these verses as we study the Word of God!
The Creation week not only gives us detail of what and when God created concerning the heavens and the earth and all that inhabits them, He also gives us a timeline of history that is hidden! A Sod! We find the meaning of this is in our text found on Psalms 90 and II Pet. 2. This has to do with the thousand year day! Evolution believing Christians try to use this concept to blend evolution with creation. But that is not what the scriptures are saying! God is telling us that a day to us is like a thousand years to God! So God from the beginning created His first creation with a time limit! This time limit is found within 7 thousand years! A thousand years for each day of His creation week!
I wanted to start here and talk about some of the thousand year segments and look at them from a Jewish perspective! Had Adam not sinned he would have lived his life beyond a thousand years or you could say it would have continued through eternity! Instead he only lived to a ripe old age of 930 years according to the Midrash Rabbah B’reshit; (a commentary concerning) Gen. 2: 16 ¶ ADONAI, God, gave the person this order: “You may freely eat from every tree in the garden 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You are not to eat from it, because (God said) on the day that you eat from it, it will become certain that you will die.”
Our first thought is the first thousand years of man’s existence marked by sin! We see the results of this following the second year! Sin begets sin! 1657 God destroys the earth except Noach and his family with the flood! In 1948 Abraham is born!
2531 Moshe is born! 2668 The Exodus occurs! But in the year 3,000 we find Eli the priest and King Saul, we conclude the thousand years with 2 things the Abomination of Desolation Antiochus Epiphanes 3822! What we find in the fourth year is the Messiah Yeshua’s bar mitzvah in year 4000! He would have turned age 30 on the year 4018 – 4019 the age for the priests to enter into the priesthood this would have been the time he entered into public ministry and this year was a jubilee Year!
Hopefully I haven’t lost anyone yet because I am trying to show you the timeline we are in according to God’s eschatology based on His definition of His appointed time for mankind during His first Creation week! I want to show you that the Jewish people or more accurately the Israelites who lived during the time of the exile and in the times of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel In the 490 year period were awaiting for the promise of the coming of the Messiah based on this thousand year calendar! There is a verse in Malachi which the Israelite people derived the timing of the coming of the Messiah along with Dani’els prophesy!
Our Rabbis deduced from Malachi 4:2 HaMashiach, the righteous, ruling King of Israel would come to His people in the fourth day of creation week. The arrival of HaMoshiach Ben Yoseph the suffering servant Messiah was expected in the period know as the fourth day after creation. How did the Rabbis arrive at this interpretation? They interpreted Malachis words 4:2 (Heb. 3:20) as the Messianic Age; But for you who fear My name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. The sun translation is correct, rather than son. Our Rabbis deduced from Malachi that he was referring to HaMashiach and hence B’reshit (Ge.
Wings in Jewish figure of speech and represents the four cornered garment called the tallit and the attached tzitzit or tassels, according to Bamidbar Numbers 15:38. We see in Matt. 9:20 Yeshua came with healing in His tzitzit!
The link between the coming of the HaMashiach on the fourth day and the creation of the sun on the fourth day was taught by the Rabbis of ancient
This concept that HaMashiach would come in the fourth day was so understood that when the fourth day arrived (3001 – 400) Messianic anticipation flourished! It was during this time that Yeshayahu Isaiah talked about Immanuel and the Prince of Peace. It was during this time that the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea and Daniel brought forth the Messianic Oracles!
Sanhedrin 98b it was also said by the Rabbis concerning Mashiach and Yeshayahu Isa. 53 ‘His mane is the leper scholar’, as it is written, Surely He hath borne our grief, and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, a leper, smitten of God and afflicted.
In the Jewish year 3500 the nation being chastised both northern and southern tribes of
In the same way God chose Dani’el and told him it would be 483 years from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Yerushalyim that the Moshiach would come.
It was a for sure thing that the Moshiach would come on the fourth day, Moshiach wouldn’t come in the beginning 3001 nor in the middle 3500, but he would come at the end in the Jewish year 4000! When He turned 30 years old the people weer ready for His message!
Man was to have 6 days to live out his life on the earth, on the seventh day God would bring His redemption full circle. Moshe wrote what Peter Kefa wrote in II Pet. 3:8 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night!
What I wanted to teach about today is the Day of the Lord. A;so rendered in the Bible as Last Day, Seventh Day, Shabbat, The Shabbat is a picture of our participation in the Messianic Age to come the Millennium.
We have looked at this concept from a Jewish point of view. I have quoted the Bible which is a Jewish book, written about a Jewish Messiah, written by Jewish disciples or followers living a Jewish lifestyle and practicing a Jewish religion! I would like to conclude with the following from the Talmud; As a disclaimer, I do not quote the Talmud for scripture proof, I quote the Talmud at times because of its Jewishness and its alignment at times with the Word of God!
Babylonian Talmud tractate Sanhedrin 96 – 99 many of their verses predate the birth and ministry of Y’shua!
i.e., Tractate Sanhedrin 97a c200 BCE.
The Tanna Rebe Eliyahu teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand there was desolation; two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years is the Messianic Era…
R. Kattina said; Six thousand years shall the world exist, and one, one [thousand, the seventh], it shall be desolate as it is written, and the Lord shall be exalted in that day. Abaye said; it will be desolate two [thousand], as it is said, after two days will he revive us; in the third day he will raise us up, and we will live in his sight!
One thousand years out of seven shall be fallow, as it is written, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day, and it is further said, A Psalm and a song for the Sabbath day, meaning the Day that is all together Sabbath and it is also said, For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past.”
On that Day the earth shall be desolate and the Lord shall be exalted because every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Yeshua is YHVH to the glory of Elohim! And in that day they shall see Me when they say Baruch haba b’shem YHVH! Blessed is He who comes in the name of YHVH!
This concludes our teaching for today.
1. In a nutshell 1 day is as a 1000 years and 1000 years as 1 day. 2. Adam lived only 930 years because God said in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die!
3, Yeshua came in the 4th day year 4000 which is spoken of in a remez hint in Mal. 4:2 the sun of righteousness which the Rabbis interpreted as the 4th day because the sun was created on the 4th day! They believed this was the Messianic Kingdom and the coming of redemption to man!
4. On the 7th day there would be desolation and the Lord would be exalted!
5. We are living in the 6th day of creation or year 6009 according to God’s calendar!
6. We are living in be’acharit hayamim the last day!
Next week we will look at aqab HaMashiach the Footsteps of the Messiah! Y’shua salvation is God’s purpose to redeem man and to bring redeemed mankind once more re-created in the image of God to dwell with God in His new heaven and new earth!
We must understand the mission of Messiah and man’s acceptance or rejection of God’s gift! By understanding this truth you will know why there will be desolation, judgment and eternal punishment in the Last Day!
This will lead us to the Moe’dim the appointed times and finally we will examine the signs of the times and how we should live before the coming of Messiah on the Day of the Lord!
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