In examination of Isaiah 60:22 the "contradiction" was noted as follows in the Talmud: [b.San. 98a] R. Alexandri said: R. Joshua b. Levi pointed out a contradiction. It is written, "In its time [will the Messianic Kingdom come], whilst it is also written, "I [the L-RD] will hasten it!"-- If they are worthy, I will hasten it; if not, [it will come] at the due time. The Rabbi's understanding was that The LORD would offer the Messianic Kingdom early, being worthy, if not the Kingdom would come when due. Tractate Sanhedrin tells us the Rabbi's towards the Messianic Kingdom was to be around the Hebrew year 4000 and the act of repentance is required: [b.San. 97b] Rab said: All the predetermined dates [for the Messianic Kingdom] have passed, and the matter [now] depends only on repentance and good deeds. To either hasten the Kingdom or after the requirement is repentance. The offer began in the days of Yochanan the Immerser (John the Baptist): [Mt. 11:12] Only from the days of Yochanan the immerser until now the Kingdom of Heaven is constricted and the forceful despoil it. [Lk.16:16] The Law and the prophets were until Yochanan henceforth the Kingdom of G-d is announced but everyone treats it with violence. Yochanan had been announcing "Repent you of your lives, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near to come" (Mt. 3:2). And as soon as he began Y'shua proclaimed "Turn you, turn you, in repentance for the Kingdom of Heaven is near". (Mt. 4:17) [b.San. 96a-97b]
The school of Elijah teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand years was chaos; two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years are e days of the Messiah, butthrough our many iniquities all these years have been lost. So begins the seventh thousand year period the Millennial Sabbath: Soncino Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, Page 119a Happy are those who will be left alive at the end of the sixth millennium to enter on the Sabbath. For that is the day set apart by the Holy One on which to effect the union of souls and to cull new souls to join those that are still on earth, as it is written, "And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written unto life in Jerusalem" And on to the eighth thousand as outlined in the Book of Enoch on which is the Epoch of this world from an angelic perspective:
2 Enoch 33 |God shows Enoch the epoch of this world, the existence of 7000 years, and the eighth thousand is the end, neither years nor months nor weeks nor days. Word “29.”| “On the eighth day I likewise appointed, so that the 8th day might be the 1st, the first-created of my week, and that it should revolve in the revolution of 7000; 〈|so that the 8000|〉 might be in the beginning of a time not reckoned and unending, neither years, nor months, nor weeks, nor days, nor hours 〈like the first day of the week, so also that the eighth day of the week might return continually〉. And now, Enoch, whatever I have told you, and whatever you have understood, and whatever you have seen in the heavens, and whatever you have seen on the earth, and whatever I have written in the books – by my supreme wisdom all these things I planned to accomplish. And I created them for the highest foundation to the lowest, and to the end. And there is no adviser and no successor to my creation. I am self-eternal and not made by hands. My thought is without change. My wisdom is my adviser and my deed is my word. And my eyes look at all things. 〈If I look at all things〉, then they stand still and shake with terror; but, if I should turn my face away, then all things would perish. Apply your mind, Enoch, and acknowledge the One who is speaking |to you|. And you take the books which you yourself have written. And I give you Samoila and Raguila, who brought you up to me. And you go down onto the earth and tell your sons all that I have told you and everything that you have seen, from the lowest heavens up to my throne. |For| I created all the armies 〈and〉 all their forces. And there is no one who opposes me or who is insubordinate to me; for all submit themselves to my sole rule and work my sole dominion. And give them the books in your handwriting, and they will read them and they will acknowledge me as the Creator of everything. And they will understand that there is no other God except myself. And let them distribute the books in your handwriting, children to children and family to family and kinsfolk to kinsfolk. •And I will give you, Enoch, my mediator, my archistratig, Michael, on account of your handwritings and the handwritings of your fathers – Adam and Sith and Enos and Kainan and Maleleil and Ared your father. •And they will not be destroyed until the final age. So I have commanded my angels, Ariukh and Pariukh, •whom I have appointed on the earth as their guardians, and I have commanded the seasons, so that they might preserve them so that they might no perish in the future flood which I shall create in your generation. The Book of Enoch also makes reference of a tenth thousand year period from the chaos of the beginning in which the starry host be bound, until the time entailed of their sins be consummated. 1 Enoch 21:2-7 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. Then I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.
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