Does the Last Day include the whole millennium?

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john832

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greenonions said:
Yes, the seven feasts are definitely rich with prophetic meaning. But I would say that for the Day of Atonement, both goats represent Christ. He died and He also took our sins far away. I don't think Satan is the scapegoat.

As for the feast of Tabernacles, yes, it seems to represent the Millennium, as we see this celebrated in Zechariah 14:16.

But Paul also said this:

Colossians 2:16 (ESV) Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
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OK. if both goats represent Christ, explain how he was led away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man...

Lev 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Lev 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Lev 16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

This goat represents Satan who bears the responsibility for introducing sin in the garden and deceiving mankind leading them in to sin and death.

Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Jesus Christ DIED for our sins to pay the penalty of death for sin.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Azazel goat (scapegoat) was turned out into the wilderness alive. The scriptures plainly show that Christ died for our sins. Yes, the Azazel is the pictures the Devil being cast into the bottomless pit.
 
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tttallison said:
You have to consider the audience and the age. The last day for the age of Adam was the flood.

The last day for the Jews and the law was somewhere around 70 AD.
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OK, so you are saying that Jesus was talking about two different last days in John 6:40 and John 12:48?

The Jews are still alive and the Law of Moses is still in force for the Jews. When Babylon captured Jerusalem in 587 BC, that didn't end the Jews or the Law, and neither did AD 70. The Law only ends when we die to the Law with Christ (Romans 7:4, 6)
 
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There are a lot of last days.

There is the last day of the church age. The last day of the great tribulation. The last day before the thousand year age begins. The last day of the thousand year age. The last day of Satan's little season. The last day before the eternity begins.
 
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ewq1938 said:
There are a lot of last days.

There is the last day of the church age. The last day of the great tribulation. The last day before the thousand year age begins. The last day of the thousand year age. The last day of Satan's little season. The last day before the eternity begins.
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Can you pleae give references for these expressions in the Bible?
 
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PaulThomson said:
Can you pleae give references for these expressions in the Bible?
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I wouldn't see a need for a reference of every expression, "the last day". What does the last day mean? If you are referencing the whole Bible, then the last day would have to be after the millennium, or chapter 22, would it not? There are many ages portrayed in the Bible.
 
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tttallison said:
I wouldn't see a need for a reference of every expression, "the last day". What does the last day mean? If you are referencing the whole Bible, then the last day would have to be after the millennium, or chapter 22, would it not? There are many ages portrayed in the Bible.
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IMHO, the last 1000 years of God's 7000 year long week, as others have suggested in this thread I would see a need for a reference for every expression, if I were to take your post seriously as a biblical notion.
 
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