John 21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
11 Simon
Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred
and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net
broken.
In this passage, do we
see anywhere that God is showing “time” duration? Instead, God is telling us
the quantity of great fishes caught and that the net was not broken. God does
however give us two big time clues in the context. We first of all see that the
disciples went fishing the night before and caught nothing:
John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a
ship immediately; and that
night they caught nothing.
This alludes
to the 2300 days from May 22, 1988 to September 7, 1994 when God was not saving
in the churches, it was spiritually night when no man can work (John 9:4—“.. the night cometh, when no man can work”) and the
ten virgins all slumbered and slept spiritually (See Study
on the Ten Virgins). Then at midnight the cry (shout) goes out to go and
meet the bridegroom. That occurred in time at the end of September 7, 1994 and
then the morning comes (the start of the day—when Christ can once more work—“ I must work the works of him that sent me, while
it is day…”, John 9:4) on September 8, 1994 and we find that Jesus Christ is
once more at the helm commanding the wise virgins who had now trimmed their
lamps (sharpening up their gospel presentation and doctrine and the
understanding of the new covenant now being written upon their hearts, Heb 8
& 10) and would now send forth the true gospel throughout all the world
(via shortwave, satellite, Internet, radio, television, tract distribution,
etc.) all being done under Christ’s direction and leadership in the next time
clue “morning”:
4 But when the morning was now
come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered
him, No.
6 And he said unto them, Cast
the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore,
and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
Thus the great multitude
represented by the multitude of fishes (153 in number spiritually) will come
out of the great tribulation (GT) which ends on May 21, 2011, the GT being
exactly 8400 days and having itself started at the very beginning of the 2300
days on May 22, 1988. On May 22, 2011, the Day of the Lord (See the Study
on the Length of the Day of the Lord) commences immediately after the GT
and goes on for some days. These days after the GT are days of darkness (spiritual
night, no work of salvation is possible—John 9:4), there is no language
anywhere pertaining to the Day of the Lord where God shows clearly that He is
saving elects during this period. It is always the language of judgment after
judgment as we read for an example:
Matt
24: 29 Immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the
moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mark
13; 24 ¶ But in those
days, after that
tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her
light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and
the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Isa 13:6 ¶ Howl
ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint,
and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their
faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day
of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10
For
the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her
light to shine.
11
And
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Am 5:18 Woe unto you
that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day
of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Am 5:20 Shall
not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The day of the Lord is
DARKNESS and it is spiritual night when no work of salvation is possible
because the LIGHT OF THE WORLD is removed even as the candlesticks were removed
out of the churches making them dark and night during the 2300 days, the
difference this time around will be that the LIGHT OF THE WORLD is removed
permanently from all the world not just the churches:
John
9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it
is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the
ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man
with the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool
of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Now this great miracle
pointing to salvation was done on the Sabbath day:
Joh 9:14
And it was the sabbath day when
Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
And, most of Jesus’
miracles (all pointing to salvation) were done on the Sabbath day to the
annoyance of the church of His day and His miracles were done in conjunction
with the Father who also worked with Him and in Him, illustrating the
harmonious work of the Godhead in salvation:
John 5:16 And therefore
did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these
things on the sabbath day.
17 ¶ But
Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and
I work.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to
kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath,
but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Now, the Sabbath day is
also the seventh day of the week and God, Himself, ended His work of creation
on the seventh day and rested from His work, the work of creation being itself
a picture of salvation:
Ge 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had made.
Ge 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all
his work which God created and made. {created…:
Heb. created to make}
We also find that our
present world is reserved for a fiery judgment after all of God’s elect are
saved:
2Pet
3: 5 For this they
willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and
the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth,
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against
the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 ¶ 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.
9 ¶ The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us–ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.
God has therefore been
working out His salvation from the flood in 4990 B.C. in this present world and
does so for seven days (or seven thousand years, see verse 8 above) being longsuffering
until all the elect are saved and come to repentance. The flood in Noah’s days
started the day that God shut Noah and his family in the ark and no one outside
the ark could go in and this was the 17th day of the second month.
Going from this day, being the time God ended his first work of salvation in
saving the last eight elects of the old world, to exactly seven thousand years
later when God will again end His work of salvation in saving the final elects
out if the GT takes us to May 21, 2011 as that is the 17th day of
the second month in the Hebrew calendar, God having been at work for seven days
will now take His rest having saved all of His elects.