Future History References
The history of man from the vantage point of a writer a thousand or so years from now. Find out what happened to mankind.
(The "Future History References" show the Biblical basis for the "Future History")
Early Days
"As God will live for ever in the future, so he has already lived over eons of time."
Heb 1.8
"Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever,
and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.
(from New International Version)
Ps 102:25-27
25 In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded.
27 But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.
(from New International Version)
"We are a tiny part of an immense galaxy -- "
Gen 22.17
I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore
(from New International Version) Jer 33:22
I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.
(from New International Version)
"We learn from the Bible that it is God who works, forms, creates."
Rev 4:11
You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.
(from New International Version)
Ps 102:25
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
(from New International Version)
"And even before all of this ... ? Who can tell what God was doing !"
Ezek 28.14-15 (of a great supernatural being who fell (Satan the destroyer))
Ezek 28:14-15
14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
(from New International Version)
Mankind Created
"Let us now transport ourselves to about the year 3153 AD say,"
From now (2003 AD) + say 50 years until Jesus returns (Mat 24.7,8,32-34)(however, see Mat 25.13) + 1000 (Rev 20.6) + 100 say (Rev 20.3). Needless to say this figure is highly speculative.
Matt 24:7-8, 33-34
7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains. . . . . .
33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
(from New International Version)
Matt 25.13
"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
(from New International Version)
Rev 20.6
Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
(from New International Version)
Rev 20.3 about the Devil
He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
(from New International Version)
" and look back over that tiny slice of time when mankind inhabited the earth."
Ps 103.15
As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field
(from New International Version)
Heb 1.10-11
10 He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
11 They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment
(from New International Version)
"It all began when the earth was in darkness, and the face of the earth was without form, probably under water. God chose that point to create man, and God surrounded him with living creatures and a bountiful earth. Man was different to all living things before him in that God put in him the spirit of man. In many ways man was like God, and man was given dominion over the earth."
(for the spirit in man see Ecc 3.20-21 Zech 12.1 1Cor 2.11)
Gen 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
(from New International Version)
Eccl 2:21
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
(from New International Version)
Zech 12:1-2
This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:
(from New International Version)
1 Cor 2:11
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
(from New International Version)
"Men ignored the instructions they had been given however, and the earth was filled with murder, lawlessness, and gross immorality."
Gen 6.5
The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time
(from New International Version)
"God allotted them another hundred and twenty years, and he sent a man named Noah to them with dire warnings. Noah was mocked and ridiculed. The great flood came and went as Noah had told them, and from among men only Noah and his family were saved alive. For a second time humankind began to multiply and spread over the face of the earth."
Gen 6 onwards.
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
(from New International Version)
God's Plan Gradually Revealed
"Wickedness and deceit had not departed from the hearts of men, and after a time God made an agreement with an elderly man - Abraham. If Abraham were to follow God's ways, then he, Abraham, would father kings and nations, and in addition a country was allotted to him and his descendants for ever - the land of Israel."
Jer 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
(from New International Version)
Gen 17:1-5
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. 2 I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." 3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
(from New International Version)
"To the descendants of Abraham were given commandments and laws, but they were unable to observe them. By their own willfulness and neglect they brought upon themselves humiliation, slavery, starvation and bloodshed."
See the rest of the Old Testament.
Ex 20:1-4
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 "You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol . . . .
(from New International Version)
The Founding of a New Government
"Then God sent a giant of a man......"
See the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Mark 4:41
They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
(from New International Version)
"he came describing the government and kingdom to be set up"
Mat 4.23
Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
(from New International Version)
"in the land of Israel."
Matt 2:6
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.
(from New International Version)
Luke 22:30
so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel
(from New International Version)
Rev 5:10
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
and they will reign on the earth.
(from New International Version)
"The government was to grow very large, and there were thousands of vacancies for kings"
John 14.2 Mat 9.37-38 Rev 14.1 (144,000 plus all those saints before who had died (fifth seal))
John 14:2
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
(from New International Version)
Matt 9:37-38
37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
(from New International Version)
Rev 14:1
Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads
(from New International Version)
"they crossed over from death to life .... They had in fact received the Holy Spirit."
John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life
(from New International Version)
John 7:39
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
(from New International Version)
"tortured him to death"
Matt 27:26-31
26 . . . But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. . . .
27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.
(from New International Version)
Mark 15:32
Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
(from New International Version)
Mark 15:37
With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
(from New International Version)
"After three days though he revived and returned to heaven to his Father."
Matt 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
(from New International Version)
John 20:17
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
(from New International Version)
The Government Grew
"For about the next 2000 years or so ..... Many died violent deaths."
Matt 24:9
Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
(from New International Version)
Rev 6:9-11
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. . . . 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed
(from New International Version)
"Dear reader, if you can understand and believe these things then God is calling you."
John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life
(from New International Version)
John 5:28-29
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out . . . .
(from New International Version)
The End of The Age
"The end of this period of time arrived amidst unheard of wars, famines, and diseases. Just as mankind was on the brink of annihilation Jesus Christ returned. Together with the resurrected elect the new government,"
Matt 24:7-8
7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
(from New International Version)
Matt 24:22
If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive,
(from New International Version)
"God's government began the job of cleaning up, rebuilding and re-educating."
Ezek 39:12-16
12 "'For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD. . . . 14 "'Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. 15 As they go through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16(Also a town called Hamonah will be there.) And so they will cleanse the land.'
(from New International Version)
Zech 14:16
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty,
(from New International Version)
Peace and Plenty
"There followed a thousand years of peace and plenty. The new government emanated from Jerusalem and spread to all the nations of the world."
Isa 11:6-9
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
(from New International Version)
The End of the Thousand Years
"When the thousand years were finished all the dead, billions, were given physical life once more."
Rev 20:5
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)
(from New International Version)
"They had a period of time to choose - God's way which had just brought the earth great wealth and happiness, or the way of the destroyer of old."
Rev 20:3,7-8
3 . . . the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. . . .
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth
(from New International Version)
"Those who chose life were eventually judged, changed and joined the family of God."
Matt 13:37-43
37 He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. 40 "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
(from New International Version)
"It was at that point that the plan for mankind was finished, and it was time for God to begin the next creation with a new heaven and new earth."
Rev 21.1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
(from New International Version)
And after all of this ... ? Who can tell what God will do !
Is 9.6-7
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David's throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the LORD Almighty
will accomplish this.
(from New International Version)
updated 5aug06
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