I saw another thread of yours where you touched on this. I agree, the traditional way of interpreting time in the Bible is way off.
I believe the passage you refer to fits well with the end of Noah's Flood. No more delay. The 2300 years of Daniel begins when the rainbow is placed in the cloud. Look who we find:
Why would he have a rainbow on his head? To bring it to earth after the Flood?
We could be looking at a reference to something that happened long ago.
Hmmm. Good question. I am all ears if you wish to share.
Regarding Noah and Daniel, your comments and considerations are insightful. However, the details I am cautious to explore, as that was their part(s), and what is given to me is rather the end. Now I don't know what I may have shared with you or what you have read of what I have stated as being given to me--but that is why I asked you to consider the method by which God has revealed every knew thing in due season. It is by that same method that I have come by what I am now speaking of (as my part), which is from God, not mine, but mine to reveal.
As for the "rainbow on his head", this is because the rainbow is the sign of the promise of God not to again destroy the earth with water--but also a sign of Him alternatively fulfilling that which He has foretold would also come as a flood. Which is the pouring out of His spirit "
upon all flesh", meaning not only upon the saints, but upon "
all"--upon the evil as well as the good. In other words, Noah's flood was not spiritual but natural, "
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual." Which then refers, yes, to long ago--to the prophetic message within "
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so." Those waters referring to spirits above and below--those of heaven and those of this world below.
As for Genesis and Adam, whether their is one referred to in chapter 2-3, and perhaps another "
man" in chapter 6: Many have speculated down through the ages. But what was and is only possible to know for certain (as with much of scripture), was only to come when the restraint of time-based knowledge would come with "
time no longer" just before the sounding of the seventh angel. In other words, we have by our nature and living in this world only known or even considered to look at any of scripture except by the same timeline on which it has all been revealed to us. That (Time) has been our rule, our basis for understanding--and also our restraint placed upon us by God--by "
He who restrains."
As I said before, "
time no longer" does not refer to the end of time or to a time of no more "delay"--as it is not listed chronologically at the end--but before the end. And "delay"
no longer is also not correct, as Christ did not "delay", but very specifically stated that things
"must shortly take place." Which brings me to my part, and what has been given to me to reveal (according to the method that God has historically established, as being
His way):
"Time no longer" is rather the removal of time as the basis by which much of the scriptures are actually based and understood. But instead, as being of the same timeless nature of God. Which, from our perspective sounds impossible. However, it is the way of God who is perfect, and the way we are to "
follow" Christ in becoming "
perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect."
When and if we can even begin to wrap our minds around the idea, then things like "
the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world" and we "
were" crucified with Christ, etc., are just the beginning of all that scripture reveals to the greater understanding and mind of God--which is the promise of "
all truth." Then, rather than explaining away such passages and language as metaphoric or figures of speech, or trying apply a form of cultural logic and practices, these become the pillars of understanding things God's way, from His perspective, which we ought to expire to no matter how difficult. And I must say--not only is it enlightening--but it is like learning a new language. This is "
the renewing of your mind", as it is written. All of which would not be possible without first "
rightly dividing the word of truth"--which came first for this very reason--of what is written pertaining to this world from that which is not.
Which, in practice, means reading and considering everything over again, first considering the worldly context (of course)--but more importantly--asking and considering why it is even written. If there is no eternal Why?, what remains is rather worldly--words to live by, yes--but not to live by unto God.
You might consider it. Alternatively, as it was with Israel and the apex of all that was revealed of the flesh in Christ, many are more likely to reject Him also in spirit, and have already only to die and be awaken to
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I would consider Adam and the "
man" in Genesis 6 as an advanced "
time no longer" topic. If you consider what is written of "
the first Adam, and that Last Adam"...there is very little room for elaborating another in Genesis Chapter 6, except that--yeah, sure, every man in his way is his own Adam--even as one man, as we are also One in Christ.
