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Genesis 8:6-12 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made (7) and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. (8) Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. (9) But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. (10) He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove (a second time) out of the ark. (11) And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. (12) Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove (a third time), and she did not return to him anymore.
Noah's dove that was sent out for a third time after the flood and did not return revealed the time was near when Noah's family could leave the ark since the waters had dried up. However the scriptures are silent about where the dove found a place of rest, except for the one clue of the olive leaf that's symbolic for the nation of Israel, Gen 8:11, Jer 11:16-17, Rom 11:24.
Genesis 8:13-16 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. (14) In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. (15) Then God said to Noah, (16) "Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Noah, a faithful preacher of righteousness in a wicked generation who was told by God to enter the ark in the 600th year of his life, 7 days before the flood of God's judgment destroyed unrighteous mankind (Genesis 7:1-7, 10), represents 6,000 years from Adam when the faithful saints will enter the wedding banquet in heaven, 7 years before God's final judgment of unbelieving mankind takes place at the end of tribulation, Rev 3:10.- Isaiah 26:20-21 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you (as Noah did); hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. (21) See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins (in the tribulation).
A thousand years as a day in Psalms 90 and 2 Peter 3:8
- Psalms 90:4-9 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night (in tribulation's darkness). (5) You sweep them away as with a flood (as in the days of Noah); they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: (6) in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. (7) For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. (8) You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. (9) For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
- 2 Peter 3:3-8 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. (4) They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation." (5) For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, (6) and that by means of these the world that then existed (in the days of Noah) was deluged with water and perished. (7) But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of (tribulation) judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (8) But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The first spiritual aspect that needs to be understood is the dove in several scriptures is symbolic for the Holy Spirit, while the olive tree represents Israel, John 1:32, Romans 11:24.
Therefore the dove who returned to the ark a second time with an olive leaf in its mouth when the waters were receding from earth, could be symbolic for a believing remnant of olive tree Israel who will survive through God's flood of wrath for unrighteous mankind in the tribulation, which is mentioned in Psalms 90:4-5, 7.
Psalms 90:4-5, 7 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night (in tribulation's darkness). (5) You sweep them away as with a flood (as in the days of Noah)....(7) For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed
A believing remnant of Israel survives through
God's flood of wrath for unrighteous mankind in the tribulation
Three millennial days began from Jesus crucifixion
- Psalms 88:16-17 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. (17) They surround me like a flood all day long (on the cross); they close in on me together.
- Psalms 88:3-9 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. (4) I am counted among those who (are unrighteous that) go down to the pit (of hell); I am a man who has no strength, (5) like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. (6) You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. (7) Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves (of judgment for sinful mankind). Selah. (8) You have caused my companions (the disciples) to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; (9) my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I have stretched out my hands to you (on the cross).
- Psalms 88:10-11 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah. (11) Is your steadfast love declared in the grave (through Jesus resurrection), or your faithfulness (to the saints who are) in Abaddon? (Mat 27:50-53)
Your wrath has swept over me; your assaults destroy me, they surround me like a flood,
I have stretched out my hands to you, will the departed rise up to praise you?
I have stretched out my hands to you, will the departed rise up to praise you?
God's flood of wrath for sinful mankind in the days of Noah, which Jesus experienced when he received God's flood of wrath for our sins on the cross, will also be poured out on all who refuse to accept Christ's forgiveness for their sins by faith, when the wicked will be swept away as with a flood of God's wrath at the end of the tribulation in the third millennium from the cross, Psalms 90:4-8.
Therefore, Noah's dove that was sent out the first time and returned since the waters had not receded, could be symbolic for the first millennial day that began after Jesus endured the flood of God's wrath for our sins on the cross when unbelieving Israel was cast into the roaring waves of the nations who serve false gods made of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:27-28 And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. (28) And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Isaiah 17:12 Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! Psalms 65:7
- Deuteronomy 30:1-3 "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, (2) and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, (3) then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.
- Ezekiel 36:24 And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. (24) I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
| The third time Noah's dove was sent out but did not return to the ark since it found a place of rest in the olive tree when the waters of the flood had dried up, | represents the third millennial day from the cross when Jesus pours out a spirit of grace on Israel at the end of the tribulation, | when the Holy Spirit like a dove will rest on redeemed olive tree Israel as Jesus reigns as King of kings in Jerusalem under the authority of his Father in heaven (Zec 12:9-10) |
Noah's dove that was sent out three different times that's symbolic for three millennial days that began from the cross, is also represented in Hosea 6:1-2 and Luke 13:31-32.
| The first time Noah's dove was sent out it returned to the ark since the waters of the flood had not receded from the earth | The second time when the dove flew out it returned near evening with an olive leaf in its mouth | The third time Noah's dove went out it did not return (since it found rest in the olive tree) when the waters of the flood had dried up |
The First Millennial Day | The Second Millennial Day | The Third Millennial Day |
| The self-righteous leaders of Israel crucified Jesus and as a result God cast his unbelieving people into the roaring waves of the nations, Deu 4:27, Isa17:12, Psalms 65:5-7 | In the closing years of the second millennium God's people return to their land when olive tree Israel becomes a nation again in 1948 (Isa 11:11-12) | At the end of the tribulation Jesus will return to save a remnant of olive tree Israel who will receive the Holy Spirit (that's like a dove) by faith in Christ, John 1:32, Rom 11:24-26 |
| Hosea 6:1 "Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us (on the cross for our sins), that he may heal us (by faith); he has struck us down (Israel is cast into the nations), and he will bind us up (when the Lord bring us back to our land) | Hosea 6:2a After two days he will revive us; (after 1800 years Israel is revived as a nation when the scattered Jews begin returning to their land from the nations of the world) | Hosea 6:2b On the third day he (Jesus) will raise us up that we may live before him (in the third millennial day Israel is raised up in righteousness by faith in Christ and will live before him in Jerusalem) |
| Luke 13:32 And he (Jesus) said to them, "Go and tell that fox (Herod), 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today | and tomorrow (for 2,000 years), | and the third day I finish my course (when one third of Israel calls upon the name of the Lord and are saved at the end of the tribulation) |
God pours out a spirit of grace on Israel at the end of the tribulation
Zechariah 12:9-10 And on that (third millennial) day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem (in the tribulation). (10) "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Ezekiel 11:17-20 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.' (18) And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. (19) And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, (20) that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
The Spirit that descended like a dove and rested on Jesus after his baptism, | will rest on Christ and Israel in the third millennium, when he will rule as Lord and King in Jerusalem |
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