Page 1: God's Timetable Part 1

Page 1: God’s Timetable Part 1

By Nicholas Jones

Version: 1.46

ISBN: 9781370123735

Copyright 2018 Nicholas Jones.

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Scripture quotations not otherwise specified have been taken from:

The New American Standard Bible®,

Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973

1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

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I wish to express my appreciation to these organisations for making these translations available.

The history and future of the universe on one page

What if God, knowing the end from the beginning, concealed the history of the entire world in the Bible, from beginning to end?

What if God created Adam after He rested, exactly as written, so that He could be there continuously for His children?

What if God wanted to reveal His heart for mankind, and His son, even before time began?

...He did!

Page 1 of your Bible is way more than the

assembly instructions for the universe.

Discover God’s heart and plan revealed before time began.

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Mapping days 1-4 The Old Testament

3. Mapping days 5-6 The New Testament

4. Mapping days 7-8 The Future

5. The day-night cycle

6. It was good

7. The separations

8. Created for heaven

9. Pictograms tell the story

10. What does this mean?

Appendices:

A1. Pictorial timeline

A2. Comparison of alternative timelines

A3. Mapping sea and land

Follow-up:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Version history

Preface

This is not a story. This is a revelation hidden in a story. The story has not changed: God’s creation; Adam and Eve; their rejection of God; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood. However, these revelations will profoundly influence your understanding of those events, and indeed, of all human history. And more importantly, you will see God the Father and God the Son more clearly.

I will be methodical and logical but first let me just say that insights in this book are not that – they are a shock to everything you thought you knew. The book starts by showing how God has concealed a description of all human history, from Adam to the New Heaven and Earth, on the first page of your Bible. It ends by showing you a simple way to view the physical creation that is scientifically and biblically consistent. In between, there are major challenges to existing theology and understandings. When you walk away you will have a new image of God the Father and of Jesus.

OK, returning to my methodical presentation mode – the insights in this book could be derived from these four points:

1. I heard it said that as there were 6 days in creation, so the Messiah will appear (return) after 6 millennia from Adam. I simply wondered if there might be links in the creation days to these 6 millennia. Wow, was there ever! But not just 6 days – 8 days. And that means it speaks to us powerfully of the millennium that is to come.

…This is the focus of Part 1.

2. Everyone assumes the account of Adam in Genesis 2 is more detail of the day 6 events. But what if Adam in the garden is an event after God rested on day 7, nominally on day 8, exactly as the Bible reads. I was astounded to find that the Bible reads much better under this assumption and there was considerable evidence to support it.

…This is the focus of Part 2.

3. The first two verses of Genesis read like an introduction. Well they are! They are not the declaration of the creation of the heavens and the earth – it is an introduction to the creation of the heavens and the earth. Suddenly we see the roles of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in creation, and quirky little issues evaporate!

…This is the focus of Part 3.

4. The same God that was at work during creation is equally at work today. You just have to see His ways and His time-scales and it seems that He really does see a millennium much as we see a day.

The concepts are simple. What you have to see is the amazing level of support for these concepts. It is a paradigm shift in the way you see things and you will certainly need to examine the evidence before allowing yourself to change, that is, if you want to change.

As I prepared this book, I realised I was stepping into a huge battlefield where the Word of God has been valiantly defended by some; abandoned by others in the Church and attacked relentlessly by the secular world. I want to honour those who have defended the account of Genesis. Broadly speaking, these believers are labelled as Young-Earth Creationists or Biblical Creationists. When most of the Church had ignored this battle, these believers held true.

Every revelation or understanding I offer reinforces God the Father and God the Son. But some of these understandings differ from classic understandings based on the plain reading. In some places the Bible has been defended by asserting that there can be no other understanding except the classic understanding. So what you are about to read is a radical change. Keep your wits about you. Put it to the test.

I generally refer to the New American Standard Bible®, (NASB1995), because it seems closest to the original Hebrew. Though I do contrast different translations, most popular translations are sufficient to exemplify the points I make. Only occasionally will you see me refer specifically to the Hebrew text, not because the English translations are wrong, but because the original text seems to hold hidden depths that no translation can fully replicate.

My desire is that the understandings I offer be viewed as a biblically supported extension of the classic view. I don’t insist that you change from the classic view. My hope is that this book will focus the Church on God’s timetable for mankind that started with Adam 6,000 years ago and also speaks powerfully of what is soon to come.

God conceals His purposes in mysteries which are revealed to those He chooses (Proverbs 25:2, Luke 8:9-10, 1 Corinthians 2:7). The question before you is:

Are the insights presented here pure imagination or genuine revelation?

If you consider it genuine then you will understand why we need to be focused.

You too will need boldness to grasp these insights. I don’t think that these insights are teachings that will consciously direct your walk with God, but rather something that will embolden you to trust God and let Him lead you in these times.

...That is my prayer for those who read these words.

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1. Introduction

Buckle your seatbelts – all of human history is about to unfold on page 1 of your Bible.

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How it started

A great adventure is about to unfold – an adventure of discovery. It all started with an idea, and in 2004 I was listening to a gifted preacher declare that, As there were 6 days in creation, so the Messiah would return 6,000 years after Adam. I had never heard that before. It arose out of Jewish understandings of the Old Testament. But this preacher added a beautiful twist by showing that the Gospels also hint at the same timetable. For example, as Jesus rose on the third day, so He will return in the third millennium which is also the seventh millennium since Adam.

About a year later, another preacher ignited my interest in Genesis. I was amazed at its technical accuracy and the many ways that it pointed to Jesus, and exemplified the relationship between man and God. Then one day I recalled the declaration of 6 days and the subsequent 6 millennia and I simply wondered if there might be some connection between the events in the creation days and the 6 millennia that followed ...And so the adventure began.

As things happen in the timing of God, I had recently come across a very clear timeline of the Bible showing the 4 millennia from Adam to Jesus. I immediately saw an amazingly obvious comparison or mapping between the events of each creation day and the subsequent