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...what happens throughout the entire world in every millennium; and the main point is, if one reads the six days of creationThe author follows a common millenarian tradition where the six days of work in Genesis represent 6,000 years of human history, followed by a 1,000-year "Sabbath" or Kingdom of God. in the 1st Book of Moses original: "1 Buch Mose" (the book of Genesis) in the first chapter with reflection, then one will find everything clearly.
Since we have currently already come far into the sixth millennium, or into the sixth day, and have no more than a quarter [of it] remaining, there is hope that the lost image of God will soon be found again. Paul also testifies to this in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 49: just as we have long borne the image of the earthly world-manFrom the German "Weltmenschen," referring to humanity in its fallen, material, or non-spiritual state., so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly God-manFrom the German "Gottmenschen," referring to the restored, spiritual state of humanity modeled after Christ.. And in the very next verses toward the end, he speaks again: we shall not all sleep until Christ comes, but we shall all be changed in a moment—not, however, that we receive immortal bodies, but rather we receive only another heart, mind, and spirit. "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh in the last days," original: "Joel am 3. Cap, v. 1." In many German Bibles of the period, the prophecy of the Spirit found in Joel 2:28–32 in English Bibles is numbered as Joel 3:1–5.; all of this happens with the coming of Christ into His kingdom.
For just as the Lord God was Himself the King of His people Israel for 450 years during the time of the Judges, until they requested a king for themselves through Samuel (1 Samuel 8, verse 6), and Samuel gave them, at God's command, the...