The human race  and creation itself, was sold into slavery about 6000 years ago by Adam as a result of Adam and Eve’s betrayal.  Thus, Satan became the god of this world and it’s inhabitants.  Jesus, our kinsman redeemer, paid the purchase price for our transgressions by His shed blood. But, redemption is a two step process; it involves both the paying of the purchase price and the physical redemption (taking possession) of what was paid for. Jesus paid the price for our redemption 2000 years ago on the cross:  “ ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION, unto the praise of his glory.   Ephesians 1: 14 

He must now complete the redemption process and take physical possession of His chosen ones by “snatching them away” at the rapture-resurrection.

 

        This will happen at the end of the 6000 years from Adam’s default, according to the “six-seven” pattern God ordained for the releasing of slaves after six years: “ If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and SERVE YOU SIX YEARS, IN THE SEVENTH YEAR YOU MUST LET THEM GO FREE... But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you, then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life.”     Deuteronomy 15: 12, 16-17  

    

            Note that, if the slave is not set free at the end of six years, he remains a slave for life. In the 5th chapter of the Book of Revelation, when, at first no one was found worthy to open the scroll, John wept bitterly because the scroll is the title deed to the earth and it’s inhabitants containing the legal requirements that must be met by the redeemer. John’s vision takes place on “the day of the Lord” which is 6000 years from Adam’s fall. Therefore, being familiar with the laws of redemption given by God in Deuteronomy, He knew both would have remained under Satan’s bondage forever. But then,  one of the elders gave John the good news that “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”  

 

         Although no one knows exactly when the 6000nth year comes, it must be precariously close, judging from the prophetic signs and the various calendar calculations. Thankfully, our spirit has been redeemed when we were born-again as we wait for the redemption of our body:  “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as WE WAIT EAGERLY FOR OUR ADOPTION TO SONSHIP, THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES.”    Romans 8:22-23

                   Kevin John