CHAPTER FIVE
PROBATION TIMES
Every unit
of time in God’s Calendar of Salvation which is listed above serves as a time
of probation depending on God’s agenda for us during that particular unit of
time. At the end of every unit of time, God demands accountability from us from
the perspective of the agenda that He has for us during any given unit of time.
Therefore,
the end of every unit of time marks the close of probation for God’s agenda for
that particular unit of time. God would
not create all the units of time for nothing. The different units of time are
not just for mere decorations or for beauty purposes. They communicate deep
spiritual lessons the depth of which we shall never reach or understand until
the coming of Jesus. The secrets of the Plan of Salvation are tightly hidden in
the symbolism of those units of time.
Each unit of
time in God’s language is merely called ‘a time’. God will talk of ‘one time’, ‘two times’ and
that kind of language. You will know what unit of time He is referring to
depending on the subject in question and who is being addressed. The Church was
cursed for ‘a time, times and half a time’ and Nebuchadnezar was punished for
‘seven times’. This is God’s way of
describing His units of time.
All the
larger units of time which are modeled after the template of the week of seven
days are used by God to achieve special far reaching-goals for the Church in as
far as the Plan of Salvation is concerned. Those units which have been modeled
after the week of seven days are also used to provide long-term and end-time
prophetic timelines for the Church.
Therefore,
the week of seven years as well as the week of 49 years features prominently
when God is giving prophetic predictions and timelines. Close observation
reveals that since Israel never lived up to God’s expectation during any given
unit of time or probationary time, He has traditionally been extending His
deadline by delaying His judgment at the end of every unit of time up to the
‘middle of the following week’.
Therefore if
for instance we are dealing with the week of seven years, it means the ‘middle
of the following week’ is the 4th year when God comes down to demand accountability
for the delayed and postponed justice thanks to His marvelous grace. Therefore instead of the decreed 7 years of
probation, God extends man’s probation by three years to become 10 years. This
is how we get number ten which symbolizes the longsuffering and the patience of
God.
In the case
of the week of 49 years which is a full Jubilee calendar or cycle, we find that
God also extends His deadline up to the middle of the following week of 49
years. Since the week of 49 years is made up of seven weeks of seven years
each, the week which falls in the middle is the 4th week which
starts from the 22nd to the 28th year of the next Jubilee
calendar. This is the week dedicated to carrying out postponed and delayed
judgment courtesy of God’s grace after the end of the probationary 49 years
Jubilee Calendar.
This means
the extension is for 21 years or three weeks of seven years each. If you add 21
to 49 you get 70 yrs. That’s how God arrived at 70 years as an official time
for church probation. That’s how we get number 70 symbolizing the fullness of
God’s mercies. That’s how God came up with number 70 to represent His
longsuffering and patience the same way he came up with number 10.
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