Day 5 – Foretold Earth’s 4,000 – 5,000 Years

Creation story:

“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life” (Genesis 1:16).

Mankind’s history:

This foretold sinless Jesus Christ would die on the cross (paying a spiritual death penalty for sin he didn’t owe!) and thereby become the spiritual “water of life” whereby mankind’s dead souls could find eternal life, all by the start of the 5th millennial day. Jesus said, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14).

Do you understand? Day 5 & 6 are the only two days in which life (moving creatures) existed (or came into being) in the Creation narrative. Likewise, millennial day 5 & 6 of mankind’s existence (years 4,000 to 6,000) were to be the only two days in which Christ’s redemptive work would be finished and available to mankind even as they lived their life in this age on Earth. But please understand Christ’s “work of atonement” was retroactive as well, meaning once he died on the cross, all the righteous dead who had lived during the first 4,000 years of mankind now found life for their souls, too!