Hi rvhill,
I think I see what you are saying. I'm still contemplating this and studying it out when I can. You are probably right, and we are in the 6th age. This may be way out there, but for some reason I was thinking in a spiritual/symbolic sense the 5th day can refer to the "sea of humanity":
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 1:20-23
I think this is speaking literally to be sure, but spiritually I wondered if the symbols could point to a general state of the people in the entire world. The condition most of humanity are in, in not realizing they are "beasts". This is why I was thinking the 6th day (or stage of spiritual development) may belong to the Elect, as they do realize they are "beasts" and then begin the process of having dominon.
And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them..... And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 1:25-31
It is my understanding that it is the Elect that are now being brought through the process of being conformed spiritually in the image of God (while in the flesh)....so I thought it was interesting that the beasts were made first, and then God began forming man in His image. This seems to line up with what Ray teaches in that seeing the beast in you comes before being spiritually conformed in His image...This is why I thought that if you spiritually do not see that you are "the beast" (666), you are still back in stage 5...a part of the great sea of humanity. I've just been seeing the 6 day creation as our spiritual process, symbolically speaking.
But that is not to say that I don't think they have historical literal applications. The physical comes first, then the spiritual.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:46
Anyways, I can't say that I'm right about this, these have just been some of my thoughts on this as to why I thought most of humanity were in "the 5th day". I just throw it out there in case someone has seen something similar, and if not, it's all good, God will make it clear in His time.
God bless us in our studies,
Peace,
Diana