natural, and afterward that which is spiritual: the first man of the earth earthy, the second man the Lord from heaven." "And darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and there was light; and God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness, and God called the light day, and the darkness he called night; and the evening and morning were one day."

In prophetic language, waters are understood to signify people; these people being the posterity of Adam and Eve, who were created first in the one day, or first thousand year of human existence. Spiritual light is represented by the light of day, and Spiritual darkness is represented by the darkness of the night.

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God says of the light it was good, but of the darkness God does not say that it was good. John xii. 35, "Yet a little while is the light with you, walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth while ye have the light believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." 1 Thess. v. 5, "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness." The parallel passage to the one day's creation, as recorded by Moses, is in the gospel by John, from the 4th verse, "In him was life, and the life was the light of men.'

The work of the second day, or second thousand

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year, is from the 6th to the 9th verse," And God said, let there be a firmament, or expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

The people of the old world were divided from the new by the deluge, on account of their wickedness, on the second day, or second thousand year, after their creation." The parallel passage to the 2nd day's creation, is by the apostle John, 5th verse, "The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not."

The work of the third day, or third thousand year, is described by Moses from the 9th to the 14th verse, "And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear and it was so; and God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas and God saw that it was good. And God said, let the Earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind, &c."

In the third day, or third thousand year, Abraham was ordered to separate himself from his kindred; and during the same period, God separated the people of Israel from the people of the Earth, and planted them in the land of Canaan. Grass and trees also represent mankind. Isaiah and Peter, "All

* The original reads, "Then shall God say." I shall take the text as it is in our common English translation; afterward I shall give the literal translation. + It was is in our common translation, but there is no authority for it in the Hebrew text.

flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." Isaiah lxi. 3, "That they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified."

The work of the fourth day, or fourth thousand year, is described from the 14th to the 20th verse, "And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the Earth: and it was so; and God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also, and God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that good."

In the fourth day, or fourth thousand year, were created the majority of the great Prophets of the Old Testament, as stars to give light to the Earth ; and in the 4th thousand year also came the promised Messiah and his Apostles, of whom He said, that they would sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Malachi iv. 2, "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings." Luke i. 78, "Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our

feet into the way of peace. Matt. xvii. 2, "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Hosea xii. 3, "They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmanent; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. Isaiah, Chap. lx. 19, "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." I am aware that the present method of calculating the Chronology of the Bible, goes to establish. that Christ came in the 5th day, or 5th thousand year; for such is stated in the first page in the margin of our larger English Bibles, the year B. C. 4004. This I have shown, in the preceding letter, addressed to William Cuninghame, to be incorrect, and that it ought to be the year 3969; showing that Christ came to this world about 30 to 31 years before the end of the 4th day, or 4th thousand year; or from 30 to 31 years before the beginning of the 5th day, or 5th thousand year. The parallel passage to the 4th day's creation, as given by Moses, is in the gospel by John, from the 9th verse, where the whole language is concerning "The Sun of Righteousness, that then did arise with healing in his wings."

The work of the Fifth day, or Fifth thousand year, is described from verse 20 to 24, "And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving crea

ture that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the Earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the Seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth; and the evening and morning were the fifth day.

By the creation of the fifth day is prefigured the dispositions of the generality of mankind, during the fifth thousand year; which at first were made good, but afterwards became corrupt.

It is allowed by naturalists, that the majority of the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, are more ravenous than the beasts of the Earth. And from the crucifixion of Christ-the destruction of Jerusalem-the persecution of Christians, and the wars that desolated the world during the 5th thousand year, it is plain that the majority of mankind were very cruel to each other, especially to the children of light. It was in the year of the world 4578, or in the Christian era 609, that the great Beasts of the modern Babylon appeared, or at the beginning of the third circle of the number of the Beast 666, as has been already explained in the letter addressed to William Cuninghame.

In the 21st verse it is said, "God created great whales."* It ought to have been rendered great

* Either here or elsewhere I do not wish it to be understood, that I believe God in any way to be the creator of evil.