MORE: Abib (Nisan) 10-16

Re: yesterday's message about Abib (Nisan) 10-16.

There may be more symbolism in Joshua, the crossing of the Jordan and the coming month of Abib. It may give more strength to the millennial-day (seven days of creation = 7,000-years) interpretation of God's plan for the ages.

First, let me reiterate part of yesterday's message (here):

ABIB 10:
1. The Israelites crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land (Joshua 4:19). This was actually "after three days" (3:2), also very significant. This crossing into the Promised Land is symbolic of our crossing over into heaven.

2. Jesus presented Himself as the Messiah.

ABIB 14.
1. The Israelites' first Passover celebration after crossing (5:10).
2. Jesus, the Passover Lamb, crucified.

ABIB 16.
1. The food from heaven, manna, for the Israelites stopped (5:12).
2. Jesus, our bread from heaven, resurrected.

Some more possibilities:

1. The four days between Abib 10 and Abib 14 (when Jesus was crucified) may symbolize the four millennial days (4,000 years) between Adam and Jesus.

2. The two days between Abib 14 and Abib 16 (Jesus' resurrection) may symbolize the two millennial days (2,000 years) of the church age before the resurrection.

3. Therefore, the six days between Abib 10 and Abib 16 may symbolize the
six millennial days (6,000 years) from Adam to now, and the soon rapture/resurrection.

4. Manna stopped on Abib 16, the same day our bread from heaven was resurrected. When He comes for us, we will not longer need that bread on earth because we will be with Him and see Him as He is.

5. The Jordan river backed up and "piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam" (Joshua 3:16, NIV). The river was cut off and it was dry all the way from Adam to the Dead Sea. Could this speak of the spiritual dryness existing since Adam? But in the midst, God's people crossed over into the Promised Land, as we do, initially when we receive Christ but ultimately probably at about the end of the sixth millennium,.

In addition:

1. As previously mentioned, the 2,000 cubits that had to separate the Ark of the Covenant (the glory of God) from the people as they entered the Promised Land (Joshua 3:4) may represent the 2,000 years from Jesus (the glory of God) and His people crossing into the Promised Land.

2. The six days of marching around Jericho (Joshua 6) with victory on the seventh day may represent the six millennial days (6,000 years) of history prior to the Lord's return and the seventh Millennium.

Remember, the Hebrew word for "tenth" as in "the tenth day of the first month" in Joshua 4:19 has a gematria (added) of 576 (year 5760?), and (multiplied) of 2520 (the times of the Gentiles?).

No doubt we have only scratched the surface in mining some of the golden nuggets from the treasure of God's Word. Symbolic of Jesus Himself, and even with the same Hebrew name, Joshua (Hebrew: Yehoshua, or the shorter Yeshua) must be loaded with symbolism.