7,000 Years of Human History? The "Millennial Week" Theory Refuted By The Septuagint | Henry Smith

There is a popular belief that has been floating around, especially in Bible prophecy circles, that supposes that God's plan is to have a total of 7,000 years for human history, from Adam until the ending of the future Millennium. This basic idea is often used to engage in end-times and rapture date-setting, based on the assumption that it has been nearly 2,000 years since Jesus, and that Jesus came around the 4,000th year. Subtracting 1,000 for the future Millennium means that, according to this theory, we are nearing the 6,000th year, around which the rapture and second coming of Christ are presumed to take place. This also leads to other pretrib "rapture prediction" schemes like the idea of a "rapture window," which postulates that the Rapture must take before 2026, since adding seven years (for the Tribulation) brings you to 2033 (which is 2,000 years since Jesus died).

But are these theories valid? They all take for granted the accuracy of the ages of the patriarchs given in Genesis 5 and 11 of our English Old Testaments today. But our English OT's are translated from the Hebrew source text family called the Masoretic Text, which is derived from the rabbinical tradition post-1st century. But the fact of the matter is that the Masoretic Text's chronology of time, based on these ages, greatly differs from that which is preserved in the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew OT used at the time of Jesus and by the early Church. This ancient translation is called the Septuagint (LXX) shows that we are already around 7,500 years from Adam right now! Thus, if it can be proven to preserve the more accurate numbers compared to the Masoretic, then this entire "7,000 years" theory (and all the end-times prediction hype built upon it) would immediately crumble.

In this video, Henry B. Smith from Associates for Biblical Research joins me to discuss the evidence. Henry is presently ABR's lead researcher for the Genesis 5 and 11 Research Project, and has done incredible research on this topic. After publishing a number of recent scholarly articles on this, it can truly be said that he is the primary authority on this topic. These article links will be in a pinned comment underneath the video. In addition, below are Henry's social links, where you can follow him:

*Henry B. Smith's Links:*
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