Understanding Yahuah's 7,000-Year Plan from Creation to New Creation based on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Texts.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Zadok calendar, map out time from Creation in Genesis to the New Heavens and New Earth in Revelation. These ancient texts teach that between these two events spans seven thousand years. Two complementary systems reveal this timeline:
In Enoch chapters 91-93, the prophet recorded a vision of all human history divided into 10 "weeks" of 700 years each. This circular calendar uses three concentric rings and flows clockwise from Creation at the top.
The Essenes preserved an ancient chronology dividing all human history into 14 Onot (appointed times) — each spanning exactly 500 years. These epochs align perfectly with the jubilee and shemittah cycles.
The Zadok priests taught that the seven-day week is the basis of the calendar. The Sabbath ritual teaches that mankind has six days to work and one day of rest. This equates to six thousand years of human history and a one-thousand-year Sabbath rest called the Millennial Reign of Yeshua the Messiah.
"With Yahuah, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
— 2 Peter 3:8 (quoting Psalm 90:4)
From the Book of Enoch, Chapters 91-93
In chapters 91 to 93 of the Ancient Book of Enoch, Enoch recorded a vision where he sees major events throughout all human history. The Enoch calendar uses three concentric circles starting with the section just to the right of the top center line and moves clockwise.
"After this I saw another vision, the dwelling places of the holy... and there appeared another week, and in it seven thousand elected... and after this there shall be many weeks without number forever, and they shall be in goodness and in righteousness."
— 1 Enoch 91:12-17
The Week of Apostasy and Final Judgment
"And after this, in the ninth week, the righteous judgment shall be revealed to the whole world, and all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth, and the world shall be written down for destruction." — Book of Enoch 91:14
We are living at the midpoint of the Ninth Week. The Tenth Week will bring the eternal judgment and the establishment of the New Heavens and New Earth.
From the Dead Sea Scrolls and Elijah's School of the Prophets
The Dead Sea Scrolls teach that the time of man, which started at Genesis Creation and ends with the Revelation Creation of a New Heavens and New Earth, would last seven thousand years. This is divided into fourteen Onot (appointed times), each lasting exactly 500 years.
A chronological alignment of scripture to the Anno Mundi (AM) timeline.
| Event | Biblical Date | AM Year | BC/AD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creation | Spring Equinox, Nisan 1 | 1 AM | 3925 BC |
| The Flood | Iyar 17 | 1656 AM | 2268 BC |
| Abraham Born | Nisan 1 | 1948 AM | 1978 BC |
| Covenant Established | Nisan 15 | 2018 AM | 1908 BC |
| The Exodus | Nisan 15 | 2448 AM | 1478 BC |
| Temple Dedicated | Iyar (Solomon's) | 2935 AM | 990 BC |
| Temple Destroyed | Av 9 | 3338 AM | 587 BC |
| Event | Biblical Date | AM Year | BC/AD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messiah Died | Nisan 14 | 3957 AM | 32 AD |
| Israel's 2nd Birth | Iyar | 5873 AM | 1948 AD |
| Temple Mount Reclaimed | Sivan | 5892 AM | 1967 AD |
| Current Year | Nisan 1 (March 19, 2025) | 5950 AM | 2025 AD |
| Year 6000 | Nisan 1 | 6000 AM | 2075 AD |
| Kingdom Begins | First Kingdom Year | 6001 AM | 2076 AD |
Note on Dating: These key dates form the basis for the timeline charts. The Dead Sea Scrolls state Creation was at the spring equinox. Genesis 7:11 places the Flood 1,656 years, one month, and 17 days after Creation. Galatians 3:16-17 states the Exodus was 430 years after the Abrahamic covenant. 1 Kings 6:1 & 38 connect the Exodus to Solomon's Temple dedication. The Seder Olam records 403 years from dedication to destruction. DSS 11Q13 states Messiah died exactly one Shemittah after the end of the ninth Jubilee of their age (the 8th Onah), which would have been AD 32. All of this places Creation at 3925 BC, give or take one year.