The Positive Prophetic Story of Mankind
1) Childhood: The fall of mankind should be seen as a work-week (6 days) of childhood – Human history is framed as a prophetic week with the intent of bringing mankind to adulthood.
2) Sabbath: There yet remains a Sabbath rest. Six days and Sabbath is still a fundamental principle for life and prophecy. The end-of-the-age is a product of the Sabbath principle (Six + One). The prophetic week, including Sabbath, is the chronological framework for human history.
3) Messiah: Messiah’s work was to call ‘the adoption’ (humans into the divine family). These have enjoyed childhood for ‘two days’ (2000 years), but at the start of the ‘third day’ (Millennium), ‘the adopted’ will be ‘revealed (as adult), performing ‘greater works’ prepared from the foundation of the world (see ‘mandate’ below) and be conformed to the likeness of the Messiah.
4) Restoration: Christianity has a prophetic mandate to restore order to human society and government, literally, which they will do. This is the Elijah ministry of ‘preparing the way’ for the return of Messiah, Yeshua.
5) Identities: In God’s sovereign design for the human race, he has concealed within it three natures. The fruit of man’s ‘one-week’ labor is a harvest of these three eternal identities (rulers, citizens, rebels).
6) Kingdom: Our adult ‘work’ begins with the end-of-the-age assignment given to us directly by Yeshua (Jesus) — the gospel-of-the-kingdom. It is the world’s final testimony of truth and power unlike anything the world has ever seen. However, we cannot fulfill this commission without a transformed Body (see below).
7) Responsibility: Judgement (responsibility) begins at the house of the Lord – physician heal thyself. To fulfill its mandate to preach the gospel-of-the-kingdom, Yeshua’s Body must restore its interdependent authority structure (apostle and prophet), and the corresponding separation of powers. Leaders who oppose or ignore this required transformation are defiantly disobedient (consider the Parable of the Talents).