Hosea 6:1-3 (NASB1995): “Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him. So let’s learn, let’s press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, as the spring rain waters the earth.”
These verses refer to Israel’s judgments and their final repentance and reconciliation. The three days we understand to be the days of the larger week, 1,000 years to each day.
In this larger week, the seventh day will be the seventh thousand-year period – the Sabbath of rest from sin and Satan. Recognizing time from this standpoint and applying to each thousand years the parallel day of the week, we find that, as over 4,000 years had passed and the fifth thousand had begun at the time the Jews had experienced the judgments of the Lord in the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, it was therefore at a time corresponding to the fifth day of the lesser week, namely Thursday, the first day of the three mentioned. Friday the second day, and Saturday (the seventh day Sabbath) the third, in which the Israelites will be revived and raised up to divine favor and life. It is to be “early in the morning” of this third day – the thousand years of Messiah’s reign – that “all Israel shall be saved” Romans 11:26. Then will be the seasons of refreshing which shall come from the presence of the Lord as indicated in the “rain” mentioned in the third verse and referred to by the Apostle Peter in Acts 3:19-21.
