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The seven days of re-creation model God’s plan for the seven millennial days of human history. While the first six Genesis days are concerned with separating good from bad and light from dark physically, this foreshadows God’s ultimate plan of the spiritual separation playing out in the first six millennial days, the separation of those who refuse to follow God from those who choose to love Him. Just as God physically filled the earth with good things in the days of re-creation (making it suitable for human life), He is now filling up His family with believing humans over the course of the seven millennial days. Just as the first Adam ruled the paradise of Eden in the seventh day of re-creation, so also the Last Adam, our Lord Jesus Christ, will rule the earth in paradise conditions during the seventh millennial day.
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That the seven day week is a reflection of God’s overall design of human history can be seen most perspicuously from the original week of re-creation, which, occurring at the dawn of that history, foreshadows the seven ages to come. During those original seven days, God conducted a comprehensive refitting of the earth (as we have seen in Part 2 of this series), a restoration of the material world which parallels very closely His Plan for replacing Satan and his followers over the course of the seven thousand years of human history:
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If what we just talked about was how the similarities between the Millennium and the seventh day of rest directly leads us to an interpretation that holds that human history is composed of millennial “days”, then what we are now moving into is how these seven millennial days of human history actually align with the days of re-creation during the initial week of re-creation described in Genesis 1.
During those original seven days, God conducted a comprehensive refitting of the earth. And during the seven millennial days of human history, God is similarly refitting His family, replacing Satan and the fallen angels with believing humans.
This fits into the cycles of Judgment, Restoration, and Replacement that we have been arguing describe God’s overall plans for material creation.
The following sections will be examining the specifics in the alignment between the seven Genesis days of re-creation compared to the seven millennial days of human history. In this, Dr. Luginbill posits some detailed parallels: not just which days align to what, but also how God’s actions in re-creation (for example, in separating things or filling things) symbolically parallel trends within human history.
Since I quite like how Dr. Luginbill put things in his conclusion section about the seven millennial days (which we will get to after we have gone through all the days), I’ve reproduced it below. We’ll talk about this specific text again in a few lessons once we are on the other side of going through all the details, and hopefully at that point it will serve as as an effective review and refresher about the big picture. But for now, it will help outline exactly what this wider section of the study is discussing:
Whether taken in tandem or taken individually, both the first six Genesis days and the first six millennial days demonstrate an essential progression of separation (the good from the bad, physically and spiritually respectively) and of filling (to replenish the material world and the family of God respectively) leading toward an ultimate goal: the habitability of the earth for mankind in the case of the Genesis days, and the filling up of the full number of family of God for the Son of Man at His return in the case of the millennial days. The seventh day in each case is a crowning glory, a memorial time of rest and blessing with paradise conditions under the rule of the First Adam and the Last Adam respectively. Thus the seven re-creative days of Genesis serve as a model for God’s plan for human history, wherein the people of God are progressively separated from the devil’s world and enter God’s lists in progressively mounting numbers through faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ as replacements for Satan and his followers