From: Eddie Chumney
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Subject: Chapter 5: The 7,000 Year Plan of God (Part 2 of 3)


                                        CHAPTER 5

                          THE 7,000-YEAR PLAN OF G-D


                      from the book by Eddie Chumney

              "RESTORING THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL"

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                                   CHAPTER 5

                    THE 7,000-YEAR PLAN OF G-D

                                  (Part 2 of 3)


                 4,000 YEARS FROM THE CREATION OF
                     ADAM TO THE JEWISH MESSIAH

     Next, we will examine the Biblical chronology of time to
understand that the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus came to
the earth 4,000 years from the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Eden (Gan Eden). This matches exactly the period of time when the
Messiah was expected to come to the earth according to traditional
Jewish expectation. The purpose of this chronology is NOT to
Biblically justify EXACTLY the entire 4,000 year period of time from
the creation of Adam to the coming of the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
Yeshua/Jesus in the first century. However, it is given to establish
a Biblical basis for the credibility of making such a hypothesis.


                         FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM

 Adam to Seth                    130 years (Genesis 5:3)
 Seth to Enos                     105 years (Genesis 5:6)
 Enos to Cainan                  90 years (Genesis 5:9)
 Cainan to Mahalaleel       70 years (Genesis 5:12)
 Mahalaleel to Jared          65 years (Genesis 5:15)
 Jared to Enoch                 162 years (Genesis 5:18)
 Enoch to Methuselah       65 years (Genesis 5:21)
 Methuselah to Lamech 187 years (Genesis 5:25)
 Lamech to Noah           182 years (Genesis 5:28-29)
 Noah to the Flood         600 years (Genesis 7:6)
 Flood to Arphaxad              2 years (Genesis 11:10)
 Arphaxad to Salah           35 years (Genesis 11:12)
 Salah to Eber                    30 years (Genesis 11:14)
 Eber to Peleg                    34 years (Genesis 11:16)
 Peleg to Reu                      30 years (Genesis 11:18)
 Reu to Serug                      32 years (Genesis 11:20)
 Serug to Nahor                  30 years (Genesis 11:22)
 Nahor to Terah                   29 years (Genesis 11:24)
 Terah to Abraham               70 years (Genesis 11:26)
                                              ---------------

 Adam to Abraham ............ 1948 years

     It is interesting to note that from Adam to Abraham (Avraham) was
1948 years. The birth of the  modern day state of Israel happened on
the Gregorian calendar in 1948.


                        FROM ABRAHAM TO EGYPT

 Abraham to Isaac               100 years (Genesis 21:5)
 Isaac to Jacob                      60 years (Genesis 25:26)
 Jacob to Egypt                    130 years (Genesis 47:28)
                                            ---------------

 Abraham to Egypt ............... 290 years



                      FROM EGYPT TO THE EXODUS

 From Egypt to the Exodus .............. X years

 - Jacob and his family went to Egypt

 Jacob went to Egypt (Genesis 46:8,11)

 Levi went to Egypt (Jacob's son) (Genesis 46:8,11)

 Kohath went to Egypt (Levi's son) (Genesis 46:8,11)

 Kohath had a son named Amram (Exodus 6:18)

 Amram had a son named Moses (Exodus 6:20)

 Moses to the Exodus - 80 years (Exodus 7:7)

 From Egypt to the Exodus:

 X = (Kohath to Amram to Moses + 80)


           FROM THE WILDERNESS TO JOSHUA'S DEATH

 In the Wilderness                      40 years (Numbers 32:13)
 Wilderness to death Joshua  30 years (Joshua 14:7, 24:29)
                                                  -----------
 Exodus to death Joshua ...... 70 years



                       THE PERIOD OF THE JUDGES

 Under King Cushanrishathaim 8 years (Judges 3:8)
 Under Othniel                        40 years (Judges 3:10-11)
 Under King Eglon                 18 years (Judges 3:14)
 Under Ehud                           80 years (Judges 3:15,30)
 Under King Jabin                  20 years (Judges 4:1-3)
 Under Deborah                     40 years (Judges 4:4, 5:31)
 Under Midianites                     7 years (Judges 6:1)
 Under Gideon                        40 years (Judges 6:7, 8:28)
 Under Abimelech                    3 years (Judges 8:32, 9:22)
 Under Tola                             23 years (Judges 10:1-2)
 Under Jair                              22 years (Judges 10:3)
 Under Ammonites                18 years (Judges 10:5-8)
 Under Jephthah                      6 years (Judges 12:7)
 Under Ibzan                             7 years (Judges 12:8-9)
 Under Elon                            10 years (Judges 12:11)
 Under Abdon                           8 years (Judges 12:13-14)
 Under Philistines                  40 years (Judges 13:1)
 Under Samson                      20 years (Judges 16:30-31)
 Under Eli/Samuel                  40 years (I Samuel 4:15,18)
                                               ------------
 Judges to Samuel                 450 years (Acts 13:20)


                             THE KINGS OF JUDAH

 Under King Saul                     40 years (Acts 13:21)
 Under King David                   40 years (I Chron 29:26-27)
 Under King Solomon             40 years (I Kings 11:42-43)
 Under King Rehoboam        17 years (I Kings 14:21)
 Under King Abijam                  3 years (I Kings 15:1-2)
 Under King Asa                      41 years (I Kings 15:8-10)
 Under King Jehoshaphat   25 years (I Kings 22:41-42)
 Under King Jehoram              8 years (II Chron 21:5)
 Under King Ahaziah                1 year (II Chron 22:1-2)
 Under Queen Athaliah           6 years (II Chron 22:12)
 Under King Joash                 40 years (II Chron 24:1)
 Under King Amaziah           29 years (II Chron 25:1)
 Under Uzziah                         52 years (II Chron 26:3)
 Under Jotham                       16 years (II Chron 27:1)
 Under Ahaz                           16 years (II Chron 28:1)
 Under Hezekiah                    29 years (II Chron 29:1)
 Under Manasseh                  55 years (II Chron 33:1)
 Under Amon                            2 years (II Chron 33:21)
 Under King Josiah               31 years (II Chron 34:1)
 Under King Jehoahaz           3 months (II Chron 36:2)
 Under King Jehoiakim        11 years (II Chron 36:3-7)
 Under King Jehoiachin         3 months (II Chron 36:9)
 Under King Zedekiah           11 years (II Chron 36:11)
                                               --------------
 KINGS OF JUDAH                 513 years

 History tells us that the Jews (house of Judah) were taken captive to
 Babylon in 586 BCE.


                           SUMMARY OF THE TIME
                      FROM ADAM TO YESHUA/JESUS

 Adam to Abraham 1948 years
 Abraham to Egypt 290 years

 From Egypt to Moses X years

 The Bible does not explicitly give us this time but Kohath went to
 Egypt and Moses (Moshe) is the grandson of Kohath. So, this is an
 arbitrary number.

 Let X = 63 years

 X = (Kohath to Amram to Moses)

 Moses to the Exodus                     80 years
 Exodus to death Joshua               70 years
 Judges to Samuel                       450 years
 Kings of Judah                             513 years
 Babylonian Captivity                   586 years (BCE)
                                                  --------------

 From Adam to Yeshua/Jesus 4000 years

     Therefore, we can conclude that there is credible Biblical
evidence to prove that the Jewish Messiah  (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus
came to the earth around 4,000 years from the creation of Adam in the
Garden of Eden (Gan Eden) exactly according to the traditional Jewish
(house of Judah) expectation from the Talmud Sanhedrin 97 that the
Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) would come to the earth after 4,000 years
of time at the beginning of the last 2,000-year period of time known
as the days of the Messiah (Yemot Mashiach) within the 6,000-year
period of time known as the Olam Hazeh (the present world/age).


                      THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH
                    AFTER 4,000 YEARS IN GENESIS 1:1

     Earlier in this chapter, we studied the allusion to the 6,000
years of time of the Olam Hazeh (the present world/age) from Genesis
(Bereishit) 1:1 by analyzing the six occurrences of the Hebrew
letter, Alef, and relating these occurrences to each of the three
2,000 years of time within the 6,000-year period of the Olam Hazeh
(the present world/age) by looking at this verse in the Hebrew
language. Next, we will examine Genesis (Bereishit) 1:1 in Hebrew,
once again, to see the allusion of the coming of the Jewish Messiah
(Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus after 4,000 years of time following the
creation of Adam in the Garden of Eden (Gan Eden). In Hebrew, Genesis
(Bereishit) 1:1 is written:

      "Bereishit b'rah elohim et hashamayim v'et ha'eretz."

     There are seven Hebrew words in Genesis (Bereishit) 1:1. If each
word represents 1,000 years of time, the fourth word would represent
4,000 years of time. The fourth Hebrew word in Genesis (Bereishit)
1:1 is "et." The Hebrew word "et" is spelled with the first letter of
the Hebrew alphabet, Alef, and the last letter of the Hebrew
alphabet, Tav. In Revelation 1:5, 7-8 it is written:

      "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the
      first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the
      earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
      his own blood . behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye
      shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds
      of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. I am
      Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,
      which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

     Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters in the Greek
alphabet. Being born in the land of Israel and being a Jew, the
Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus would have spoken Hebrew.
Translating Revelation 1:8 from Greek to Hebrew, the Jewish Messiah
(Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus said that He is the Alef and the Tav. In a
literal (Peshat) sense, the Hebrew word "et" in Genesis (Bereishit)
signifies a direct object in the grammar of the Hebrew language.
However, since the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus Himself
told us in Revelation 1:8 that He is the Alef and the Tav, we can
translate Genesis (Bereishit) 1:1 to read as follows:

      "In the beginning [Bereishit] God created [b'ray elohim] et
      [alef, tav . the Jewish Messiah (Yeshua/Jesus)]."

     In traditional Jewish (house of Judah) thought, the Messiah was
one of the seven things created before the foundation of the world
(Talmud, Pesachim 54). In Revelation 13:8, it is written:

      ".the Lamb [Yeshua/Jesus . John 1:29] slain from the foundation
      of the world."

     In Zechariah 12:10, the Hebrew word "et" (alef, tav) appears,
once again, in reference to the Jewish  Messiah (Mashiach)
Yeshua/Jesus as it is written:

      ".and they shall look upon me [et] [alef, tav] whom they have
      pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
      only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in
      bitterness for his firstborn."


                       THE TIMING OF THE COMING
                          OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH

     The Jews (house of Judah) were taken captive to Babylon in three
     stages.

     The first deportation took place in the fourth year of King
 Jehoiakim. This was the first year of the reign of King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (II Chronicles 36:5-7, Jeremiah [Yermiyahu]
25:1). This event happened around 605 BCE.

     The second deportation took place in the seventh year of the
 reign of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Jeremiah [Yermiyahu]
52:28). At this time, 3,023 people were taken to Babylon. In the
eighth year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem
(Yerushalayim) was besieged (II Kings [Melachim] 24:10-12) and 10,000
people were taken captive to Babylon (II Kings [Melachim] 24:14)
along with King Jehoiachin. This event is in II Kings [Melachim]
24:8-14. It happened around 597 BCE. The city of Jerusalem
(Yerushalayim) was besieged until the eleventh year of
King Zedekiah's reign (II Kings [Melachim] 25:1-2).

     The third deportation occurred in the nineteenth year of the
reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. This would have been in the eleventh
year of King Zedekiah's reign. Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) and the
Temple (Beit HaMikdash) were destroyed at this time (II Kings
[Melachim] 25:8-11). This event happened in 586 BCE.

     The G-d of Israel told the prophet Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) that the
captivity in Babylon was for 70  years (Jeremiah [Yermiyahu] 25:1,
11). The 70 years of exile was due to Israel not keeping the seventh
year sabbatical for the land (Leviticus [Vayikra] 25:1-4, II
Chronicles 36:20-21).

     At the end of 70 years of captivity in Babylon, Cyrus, King of
Persia , will defeat Babylon and allow the Jews (house of Judah) to
return to Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) to rebuild the Temple (Beit
HaMikdash) (II Chronicles 36:22-23, Ezra 1:1-3, 5:13-14, Jeremiah
(Yermiyahu) 29:10, Daniel 9:2).

     Cyrus made the decree in 538 BCE. The building of the Temple
began two years later (Ezra 3:8) in 536 BCE.

     The Jews (house of Judah) did not return to the land of Israel as
a corporate people after the 70 year Babylonian captivity. Only a
remnant returned. Those Jews (house of Judah) who did return from the
exile in Babylon did so in three stages.

     The first stage was under Cyrus, King of Persia. This is found in
Ezra chapters 1-6. The leaders of  Israel were Zerubbabel and Jeshua
(Ezra 3:2). But they had difficulties (Ezra 4:3-5, 5:2). The Temple
(Beit HaMikdash) was rebuilt after a period of time (Ezra 6:14-15).
Herod enlarged and beautified this Temple (John [Yochanan] 2:18-20).

     From the first deportation to the beginning of the rebuilding of
the Temple (Beit HaMikdash) was 70  years (605 BCE - 536 BCE). The
Temple (Beit HaMikdash) was destroyed in 586 BCE. The Temple (Beit
HaMikdash) was completed in the sixth year of the reign of Darius,
King of Persia (Ezra 6:14-15). This would make the completion taking
place in 516 BCE. From the time the Temple (Beit HaMikdash) was
destroyed to the time the Temple (Beit HaMikdash) was rebuilt was 70
years.

     The second stage of return from captivity is in Ezra 7. This
happened in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, King of
Persia (Ezra 7:1-7). This would be in 458 BCE. As many as wished
could go back from Babylon based upon the decree of King Artaxerxes
in Ezra 7:11-13. The number who returned were 1,758 (Ezra 8:1-20).

     The third stage of return from captivity is in the book of
Nehemiah. The Jews (house of Judah) began to come back in the
twentieth year of the reign of King Artaxerxes (Nehemiah 2:1). This
would be in 444 BCE. Those people who returned are listed in Nehemiah
7. A decree given by King Artaxerxes to rebuild the Temple in the
twentieth year is found in Nehemiah 2:1-8, 5:14.

     From the commandment to restore and rebuild the Temple (Nehemiah
2:1-8, 5:14) which was 444 BCE until the death of the Jewish Messiah
(Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus was prophesied to be 69 weeks or 483 years.
This prophecy was given to Daniel in Daniel 9:1-4, 20-26 as it is written:

      "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed
      of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the
      Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by
      books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came
      to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years
      in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord
      God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and
      sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and
      made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful
      God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and
      to them that keep his commandments . And while I was speaking,
      and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people
      Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God
      for the holy mountain of my God; Yea, while I was speaking in
      prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at
      the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the
      time of the evening oblation. And he informed me, and talked
      with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee
      skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications
      the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee: for thou
      art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and
      consider the vision. Seventy weeks [490 years] are determined
      upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
      transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make
      reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
      righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
      anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from
      the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build
      Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and
      threescore and two weeks [69 weeks]: the street shall be built
      again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after
      threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
      himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
      destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
      with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are
      determined."

     The Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus was crucified and hung
on a tree 69 weeks from the commandments to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) exactly according to the prophecy that was
given to Daniel. When the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus
entered into the city of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) during the final
week of His life, He wept over the city because they did not know the
"day of their visitation." In Luke 19:37-38, 41-44, it is written:

      "And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount
      of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice
      and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that
      they had seen; Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the
      name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest .
      And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
      Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy
      day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are
      hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that
      thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee
      round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even
      with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall
      not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest
      not the time of your visitation."


                   PICTURES OF 6,000 AND 7,000 YEARS
                                   IN THE BIBLE

     The G-d of Israel has given us many spiritual pictures of His
 7,000-year redemptive plan in the Bible. In this section of the
chapter, we will examine some of these spiritual pictures that the
G-d of Israel gave His people to understand the 6,000 years of the
present age (Olam Hazeh) as well as the entire 7,000 years of His
redemptive plan.


                                    NOAH AND THE FLOOD

     Noah was 600 years old when the flood (judgment) came upon the
earth. In Genesis (Bereishit) 7:11-12, it is written:

      "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
      the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
      fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
      were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and
      forty nights."

     This is a spiritual picture/blueprint given to us by the G-d of
Israel that after 6,000 years (the end of  the Olam Hazeh), judgment (the tribulation/birth pangs of the
Messiah/Chevlai shel Mashiach) will come upon the earth.


                          MOSES AND MOUNT SINAI

     After six days, Moses (Moshe) was called up to mount Sinai to be
in the presence (kivod) of the G-d of Israel in the midst of the
cloud. In Exodus (Shemot) 24:13-18 it is written:

      ".and Moses went up into the mount of God . and Moses went up
      into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of
      the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
      days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst
      of the cloud . And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and
      gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days
      and forty nights."

     This is a spiritual picture/blueprint given to us by the G-d of
Israel that after 6,000 years (the end of  the Olam Hazeh), the glory
(kivod) of the G-d of Israel will be upon the Bride of the Jewish
Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus and she will be caught up in the
clouds to be in the presence of the G-d of Israel (Daniel 7:13,
Matthew 24:30, Hebrews 12:1, Revelation 1:5,7).

       In I Thessalonians 4:16-17 it is written:

      "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
      with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump [shofar] of
      God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are
      alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
      clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with
      the Lord."

     It is traditional Jewish thought (house of Judah) that two themes
associated with the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah) is the
resurrection of the dead and the blowing of the last trump.
Therefore, I Thessalonians 4:16-17 is an allusion to the resurrection
of the dead which will take place after 6,000 years of time on the
Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah). For a more detailed study of the
Biblical Festivals and how the G-d of Israel gave the Biblical
Festivals in Leviticus (Vayikra) 23 to teach about the first and
second coming of the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
Yeshua/Jesus and our personal relationship (halacha) with Him, I
would encourage you to read my book, The Seven Festivals of the
Messiah.

                                  THE DISCIPLES
                       AND THE TRANSFIGURATION

     After six days, the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus took
Peter (Kefa), James (Ya'acov), and John (Yochanan) up into a high
mountain and was transfigured before them. In Matthew (Mattityahu)
17:1-4, it is written:

      "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his
      brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and
      was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun,
      and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there
      appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him. Then
      answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord it is good for us to
      be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one
      for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

     Once again, this is a spiritual picture/blueprint given to us by
 the G-d of Israel that after 6,000 years (the end of the Olam
Hazeh), there will be the resurrection of the dead and the Bride of
the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus will rule and reign with
Him during the Messianic Age (Athid Lavo). The Feast of Tabernacles
(Sukkot) is associated with the Messianic Age. In Revelation 5:10, it
is written:

      "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
      reign on the earth."


                    THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS

     The resurrection of Lazarus in John (Yochanan) 11 took place over
     six days.

           1. Lazarus is sick for two days (John 11:1-6).

           2. Lazarus is dead for four days (John 11:14, 39).

           3. Yeshua/Jesus resurrects Lazarus after these six days
           (John 11:40-44).

     One again, this is a spiritual picture/blueprint given to us by
 the G-d of Israel that after 6,000 years (the end of the Olam
Hazeh), there will be the resurrection of the dead. This last
1,000-year period is the "final day" (Psalm 90:4, II Peter 3:8) of
the 7,000-year plan of the G-d of Israel. Martha, the sister of
Lazarus, spoke to the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus stating
that she knew that the resurrection of the dead would take place in
the "last day." In John (Yochanan) 11:21-27 it is written:

      "Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
      brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou
      wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her,
      Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that
      he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus
      said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
      believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And
      whosoever liveths and believeth in me shall never die. Believest
      thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou
      art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the
      world."


                    SLAVES WORKED FOR SIX YEARS

     The G-d of Israel declared in the Torah that a Hebrew servant was
to work for six years and on the seventh year he was to be freed. In
Exodus (Shemot) 21:2, it is written:

      "If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in
      the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."

     This is a spiritual picture/blueprint given to us by the G-d of
Israel that He ordained that the punishment for Adam's sin in the
Garden of Eden (Gan Eden) was that man would be a slave to the earth
for 6,000 years (until the end of the Olam Hazeh). Afterward, man
would be freed from his bondage to the earth and would enjoy the
peace (shalom) of the Messianic Age (Athid Lavo). Adam's bondage to
the earth as punishment by the G-d of Israel because of his sin in
the Garden of Eden (Gan Eden) is given to us in Genesis (Bereishit)
3:17-19 as it is written:

      "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
      voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
      commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the
      ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
      of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
      thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of
      thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
      for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
      shalt thou return."

     This is also a spiritual picture/blueprint of mankind being under
the bondage of sin (John 8:34, Romans 6:16) and the slavery of
Satan's kingdom for 6,000 years because Adam sinned and yielded to
the temptation of the serpent (Nachash) in the Garden of Eden (Gan
Eden). Afterward, man would be free from the slavery of Satan's
kingdom (but not sin) during the Messianic Age (Athid Lavo) when
Satan would be bound (Revelation 20:2) and the Jewish Messiah
(Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus would rule and reign for 1,000 years
(Revelation 20:4) teaching the Torah to the nations from Jerusalem
(Yerushalayim). (Isaiah [Yeshayahu] 2:2-4).

                                     (End Part 2 of 3)

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