Sabbath 16/11/29/120
Dear Friends,
We will take last week’s message a step further and look at the example of the Flood. We will recall that Noah released two birds with specific timings at the end of the Flood.
The process seen at the end of the Flood was to point towards the final cleansing of the Earth as well as to demarcate the world under the Nephilim who were destroyed by the Flood (see the paper The Nephilim (No. 154)). The next destruction will be by fire, however. This sequence represents a changeover in rulership of the planet from the god of this world, who is Satan or Lucifer, to the millennial rule of the Messiah and the Church of God.
God commanded Noah and made specific preparation.
Genesis 7: 1-24
1: Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2: Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate; 3: and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth. 4: For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 5: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 6: Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7: And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood. 8: Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9: two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10: And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12: And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13: On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14: they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort. 15: They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16: And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. 17: The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18: The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19: And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; 20: the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. 21: And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man; 22: everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23: He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. 24: And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Noah was six hundred years old and the Flood came upon the Earth at the end of the Second Passover period of thirty-six hours on the day after the First Holy Day of the Second Passover.
It rained for forty days and forty nights and the waters were on the face of the Earth for one hundred and fifty days. God wiped out all flesh and preserved a selected few to continue the Earth. The sea creatures were able to survive.
In this next phase we are told things will be different. This story is usually taken as a fable and dismissed. It is both a record of a past event and a prophecy of future events told by allegory.
Genesis, chapter 8
1: But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided; 2: the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3: and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated; 4: and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat. 5: And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6: At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, 7: and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8: Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; 9: but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10: He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11: and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12: Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more. 13: In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14: In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15: Then God said to Noah, 16: "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
The Bible tells us that the waters abated and after 150 days during the Feast of Tabernacles on the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month the Ark came to rest on Ararat (Gen. 8:1-4). On the New Moon of the Tenth Month the waters abated so that the tops of the mountains were seen. The period that saw the beginning of the abating of waters on the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month was the equivalent in the last Jubilee to the year 2008. From this year the subjugation will begin. All changes often begin on a New Moon and often in the Third Year of a cycle, which that year is.
At the end of forty days in the Eleventh Month, Noah began the first of three tests to determine if the Earth was fit to be inhabited. He released two birds. The first bird released on the Fortieth Day, or the Tenth Day of the Eleventh Month, was a raven. The second bird released was a dove. The raven symbolised the activity of the spirit of war that was still present among the Host. The dove represented the peace of the Holy Spirit and it was only able to find rest on the planet in stages. The raven did not return to the Ark but the dove returned and was taken back into the Ark because there was no place for it to rest in the first instance. After seven days the dove was set forth again and it returned with an olive leaf and Noah knew that the waters had abated from the face of the Earth. Noah waited another seven days and set the dove forth again but it did not return (Gen. 8:6-12). The dove was a symbol of peace through the Holy Spirit that had been restored to the Earth by the cleansing waters of the Flood poured out to remove the corruption and violence of the Nephilim. In the Last Days it will be fully restored to the planet for the millennial system.
Noah thus knew that the waters had cleared from the Earth. On the First Day of the First Month of the New Year of the Six Hundred and First Year (of Noah’s life) the covers were removed from the Ark and the Earth began to be reinhabited. This last or six hundredth year was the same as the final year in the wilderness of the Exodus. They both represent the final Jubilee of the end of this age and the end of the rule of the god of this Earth. The period from the Tenth Month to the end of the year covers the period or final quarter of the Jubilee or 12.5 years from 1 Abib 2015 to Atonement 2027. From this period the Earth is cleansed and gradually made inhabitable through the waters of the Holy Spirit and the actions of Christ and the Church. By 2019 the Law of God will be restated over the entire period in both Israel and the world as a whole until the subjugation of the nations in their entirety by the Jubilee.
Noah’s life can also be viewed as being the equivalent of the tithe of the rule of the god of this Earth. Noah lived under the patriarchs, who were all alive when he was born. They all ruled for that six hundred years in righteousness while Satan governed for 6000 years in sin. The last period of Satan’s rule on this Earth is covered by the 120th Jubilee from 1978 to 2027. This is a similar relationship or analogy as Christ having the Seventh day or Sabbath rest of the Millennium, being the last 1000 years before the judgment of the planet and the coming of the City of God. The Bible is actually quite clear about the sequence of the Plan and the time-frames involved. Scripture is of no private interpretation.
We can view this period of the two birds representing the two spirits of the Earth covering a period of twenty-one days in two ways. The raven symbolises the spirit of conflict and it is released at the same time as the doves of peace. We can take these two periods as the first period covering from the third year of the cycle in 1994 to the third year of the cycle in 2015. The twenty-one years of this period cover the release of God’s message and the release of the spirit of conflict. The twenty-one years build up in the seven-year cycles, each of which contains the reiteration of the Laws of God. In 2012 the Law is reiterated for the third time. At the end of 1263.5 days, the spirit of peace, who is the Prince of Peace, is released and then occupies the Earth and subjugates it to the Laws of God. During this time the spirit of conflict is on the Earth also. The being that is Satan is confined at the end of this time to the bottomless pit until he is to be released again at the end of the Millennium to fulfil the time by which his six thousand years have been cut short; that is, in 3015
This period of twelve and a half years, which is the end-time period of the last quarter of the Jubilee, is the same period that saw the Earth settled and ready for occupation. Noah sent forth the animals from the Ark from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Second Month. Thus the occupation of the planet takes a period after the beginning of the Millennium and the Earth is re-educated and prepared for the implementation of the Laws of God and the second great Exodus prophesied by God through Isaiah (Isa 66:18-24). At this time the altar of the Lord God will be erected in Jerusalem and the Temple system implemented. That timing and process is explained in the paper Rule of the Kings Part III: Solomon and the Key of David (No. 282C).
The second twenty-one year period overlaps with this period and covers the years from 2006 to 2027. This period is the Sanctification of the Nations (No. 77) and deals with the preparation for the Millennium and the Sanctification of the Temple of God (No. 241). This is the same period as that leading up to the First Day of the First Month of the 601st year, which is the commencement of the Millennium on 1 Abib 2028. The period coincides exactly with the occupation of the Promised Land after the Exodus and the end of the Mourning for Moses at the last day of the Twelfth Month (Adar) of the Fortieth Year of the Exodus, which coincides with the Last or Fortieth Jubilee of the Church in the Wilderness (see also The Last Thirty Years: the Final Struggle (No. 219)).
Both these stories relate to the same concept and the restoration of the world under Christ as the Israel of God.
In this period of the End Days the process of Sanctification begins with the cleansing of the Church of God.
There is not long to go now, and the overlapping periods of the end of the
age are now upon us. Satan is bound for the pit in a few short years. His time
is short and he is determined to come upon us with great fury to destroy the
Churches of God.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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