Welcome to the Sixth Millennium

Start Here! And get ready

If you’ve found this Stack as of January 2023, you somehow stumbled upon my “hobby blog,” since I haven’t advertised it yet. Or maybe someone sent you my way. Either way, welcome! I’m the author of

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and am an evangelical Christian with — don’t faint — strong opinions. All denominations welcome.

It has never escaped my notice that my best-read post ever — the post the got me cancelled off three platforms within a week, and has over a million views and counting — was my essay titled, “What the Church Needs to Know about Covid-19 And What to do About It.” God has pressed me hard to continue, and many brothers and sisters have encouraged me.

This Stack is where I plan to dig into our mutual Faith issues more deeply, in the context of current events, and with an eye toward waking up a lukewarm Church. While I often discuss Faith issues on C&C, that forum doesn’t easily let me delve into ideas about how the steady stream of shocking news interacts with Biblical history, prophecy, and how we as Christians should respond.

What do we need to do about it all?

Although Christians have been erroneously predicting the end of the Church Age ever since the disciples first began telling everyone to lay off and be patient, we’ve never had so many prophetic timelines converging as we do just now. We really need to talk. To set the table for today, let’s begin with two big concepts.

First, Jesus told us that at the end of the Age, we should expect something like what Noah was dealing with in the pre-Flood era:

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:37 (ESV).

The Pre-Flood era was extremely pagan. And now, Paganism is roaring back into the World, with a wild vengeance, appropriately self-identified as Neo-Paganism. Here’s how Wikipedia tries to define it:

Tack atheistic scientism and Satanism onto the list, as I do, and we have a very large and growing group of new pagans. Some unsaved folks find the term “pagan“ offensive; I linked Wikipedia to show I didn’t make the name up. We’ll get into the meaning of “pagan” and “neo-pagan” in more detail in another post.

The second big concept is Millennial Day Theory. The Apostle Peter explained the math, and stressed its importance:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:18 (ESV).

God designed the world around the number of perfection, seven days. Right off the bat, He created the calendar week — six days of work followed by a day of rest: seven days total. In Divine Days, that’s 7,000 years total. Since we know the Millennium is 1,000 years — one Divine Day — we can work backward to compute six previous days of “work” — 6,000 years. This isn’t something I came up with in the shower. Again, from Wikipedia:

Millennial Day Theory is not new. It stretches back to the very beginning of the Early Church. We’ve only forgotten about it recently, since Darwinism and the “Big Bang” theory.

I am keenly aware that I’m a lawyer, not a theologian, and escatalogical (end-times) theology is something lots of people feel super strongly about, and even well-meaning, light-hearted discussions over the various schools of thought often lead to people throwing hot coffee in each other’s faces well before the chocolate mousse arrives at the dinner table to find a scrum instead of a dinner party. If you already have strong views, I am humble enough to admit that I have no access to special revelation. My ideas are the lawyerly distillation of hundreds of hours of amateur study, introspection, and prayer.

We can all benefit from clear intellectual discourse, since most of us will agree just by browsing through the headlines that the time seems nigh. But what do we do about it? What can we do? Again, Jesus told us to watch for the signs, and it must have been for something:

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 (ESV).

So, to kick the blog off, here’s my view of the grand Biblical timeline, start to finish, soup to nuts, Creation to the New Jerusalem. Have a gander and let me know in the comments where on the timeline you think we are, or if you think I’ve messed something up badly. I look forward to discussing each timeline entry in a future post.

I hope to post regularly here, but it won’t be daily like C&C, and I honestly have no idea yet how frequently we’ll visit the issues. But I look forward to trying to move the needle again, with help from my committed brothers and sisters in Christ. I love you all.

It’s going to be off the chain up in here. Strap in.