Last night I went to a creation science seminar which presented actual scientific evidence for the literal six-day creation story of Genesis. I have always been aware of this but it was good to get refreshed. In recent years I have been dismayed at seeing evangelical/creationist believers backing off the six-day, young-earth account given by Moses and accepting the old-earth theory just to satisfy unbelievers and skeptics.
Jesus said if we do not believe Moses, how can we believe His words! (John 5:47). I choose to believe Moses and Jesus! But if one will just look at the accumulated science, Moses is easy to believe.
Anyhow, I was sitting there thinking about the six days of creation as prophetic of the six millennial days of man's earth lease on the earth and the prophetic implication that God's time line has about run out. This is partly based on the Scriptures that say one day is to the Lord as a thousand years, or 1 day = 1,000 years and 1,000 years = 1 day.
Then I remembered that man was created on the sixth day. It suddenly occurred to me that in a parallel and prophetic way, the explosion in the man's population has occurred exactly during the sixth-millennial day -- since AD 1000!
This morning I checked the charts. It is estimated that the world's population was relatively flat until the sixth millennium. For example, in AD 1000, the world's population was only about 300 million. Today it is about 6.5 billion, and increase of some 2,167 times. It is no coincidence that the population curve began shooting upward in the latter part of the sixth millennium. See chart below.
I am not saying that creation days 1-5 have similar millennium parallels, but day 6 surely seems to be one.
This is further evidence that man's earth lease is up and the Creator is about to intervene to purge His creation of evil and restore it to the paradise it once was before the fall.
Jim
(From
http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html.
More
recent numbers show the earth's population now at close to 6.5 billion,
per http://www.census.gov/.)