The “church” has failed to understand Biblical prophecy.
The fundamental idea of prophecy is this: the Bible contains literally true stories that represent literally true parallels with corresponding characters and events in the past OR the future.
Three such stories form the basis of most of human history:
- The literal six-day creation nearly 6,000 years ago which parallels and includes the six ages of creation previous to it. God not only rested on the Sabbath Day, but in parallel He is providing REST for His people via this Age, while His loyal creator-agent angels take this Age as rest. The existence of this relationship is proven by coupling the Jubilee calendar with knowing the Millennium is the Lord’s Sabbath – which He swore in His wrath that those who did not look upon the bronze serpent would not enter.
- The arc of Israel out of Egypt to the Establishment of the Kingdom. The crossing of the Jordan corresponds to the 144,000 and mixed multitude walking bodily into conditional everlasting life through the Tribulation. The 7/7/7 motifs of Joshua and the Revelation tie these together.
- The Davidic Kingdom arc from the coronation of David to its end in AD 70. This is parallelled by believers in the Messianic Kingdom – augmented by a remnant from the Davidic Kingdom – which truly unites Gentile and Jew in Messiah. The Tribulation corresponds to the invasion by the King of Babylon, while the AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem is contrasted with the establishment of the everlasting Kingdom after the complete destruction of the Enemy that will then surround it.
Once the structure is used to properly place people and events where they go, the intricacy and completeness of prophecy becomes breathtaking – and pressing, as the “church” today is the addressee of the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah.