A lot of people are infatuated with the timeline of the rapture. The Bible says that Jesus will come again like a thief, which means we won’t be able to know the exact time. However, we will still need to be aware of the season. Human calendars keep changing, so it’s not possible to time the rapture.
Which season or period would it be?
Let’s first look at the biblical timeline, which consists of 6,000 years that have already passed, with 4,000 documented events in the Old Testament and 2,000 years in the New Testament. When Jesus comes again, He will reign for another one thousand years, so in total it will be 7,000 years, and eternity will follow after that.
Seven is an interesting number. Why did God sanctify His people on the seventh day?
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
“God blessed the seventh day”
We read “Blessed is he that partakes in the first resurrection” so definitely the millennium is a blessing. The seventh day (millennium) is a blessed millennium.
When we reach 6,000 years, we should be entering number 7 (the millennium). Jesus will come again, to set up His kingdom on earth and reign for 1,000 years. This millennium is considered the seventh thousand, hence during this millennium where Jesus reigns, the world will be in an almost completely sinless condition, and there will be more peace than chaos.
Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
The Sabbath day is there so that the Jews can know the Lord on that day.
Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Hebrews 4:1 highlights why God sanctified the seventh day, as He gave the sabbath to the Hebrews as a time of rest and these Jews can come short of it. This is clearly referring to the tribulation Jews. Remember that the book of Hebrews was written to the Jews (Hebrews 1:1).
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
This passage is a double application which talks about the Jews who fell away during the wilderness and could not enter into the promised land, which is Israel. In fact, Israel is exactly the place where Jesus will be reigning in the millennium, hence this clearly is a future application as well.
Hebrews 4:3-4 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Verses 3 and 4 further convince us that the sabbath or seventh day is tied to the millennial rest. The time period of Jesus’ second coming and reign is the millennial rest. Sabbath day is tied to rest and the millennium.
Hebrews 4: 7-8 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Jesus had to limit a certain day and tie it to a certain day, which was the Sabbath.
2 Peter 3:4-5,8 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
“Where is the promise of his coming?”
The context is His coming.
“be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years”
Do not be ignorant of His coming. To the Lord, one thousand years is equivalent to a day. 6,000 years is 6 days and when we enter the 7th day, we should be resting.
Isaiah 11: 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
“And in that day….. to it shall the Gentiles seek”
Wouldn’t God pick a day where He sanctifies and gives people rest where Gentiles also would seek?
Isaiah 11: 4-11 are all verses about the millennium.
Ezekiel 37: 23-24, 28 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
There is no doubt that the above verses are tied to the millennium. The Lord sanctifies Israel. Again, the Bible ties the millennium to sanctification as well as the Sabbath. You can look up more verses in the Bible.