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How do we know the thousand years are a thousands years?In the book of revelation?

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Because with God a thousand years to God are like a thousand days.Like in 2 Peter 3:8.
Says, one day is as one thousand years and one thousand years as a day with God.

Very confused. A thousand years are a thousand year. Ok, don't think this was in doubt.
A thousand years are like a thousand days? :confused:
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Where does the thousand days come from?

Seems to me to be saying do not judge God's time, passage of time, by human standards.
 

nPeace

Veteran Member
@Frank Goad Good question.
We can only assume, since when the Bible says one day is as a thousand years, it doesn't particularly mean each time a day of Jehovah is mentioned, it must be 1000 years. It could refer to an indefinite period, of course, as God is not limited to our calculations.

However, if we do take the day as specifically 1000 years, we would work it out this way.
2 Peter 3:8; Acts 17:31; Revelation 20:4-7, 12, 13
In this case, judgment day, or the day of judgment would be literally 1000 years.

In my opinion, it's a human perspective, but I don't think we know for sure, and really, it doesn't matter. Living for a thousand years and beyond... who's counting?
 

robocop (actually)

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Because with God a thousand years to God are like a thousand days.Like in 2 Peter 3:8.
Some ideas. Revelation might be directly measuring the last 7,000 years before Christ's arrival and the 7,000 years of creation might be measured differently.

For instance, if things like the Sun and moon were still getting created a day would be different.
In space morning and evening are together.
Also it's 1000 years to 1 day.
Maybe a day of creation is 2000 years, the time it takes for the Sun to set in a new zodiak sign.
A day could be anything.
Just some suggestions.
 

Wandering Monk

Well-Known Member
MILLENNIUM - JewishEncyclopedia.com

Chiliasm or the idea of the millennium is, nevertheless, older than the Christian Church; for the belief in a period of one thousand years at the end of time as a preliminary to the resurrection of the dead was held in Parseeism. This concept is expressed in Jewish literature in Enoch, xiii., xci. 12-17; in the apocalypse of the ten weeks, in Apoc. Baruch, xl. 3 ("And his dominion shall last forever, until the world doomed to destruction shall perish"); and in II Esdras vii. 28-29. Neither here nor in later Jewish literature is the duration of this Messianic reign fixed. It is clear, however, that the rule of the Messiah was considered as an interregnum, from the fact that in many passages, such as Pes. 68a, Ber. 34b, Sanh. 91b and 99a, Shab. 63a, 113b, and 141b, a distinction is made between
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[Days of the Messiah] and
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[World to Come], although it must be noted that some regarded the Messianic rule as the period of the fulfilment of the prophecies, while others saw in it the time of the subjugation of the nations.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Where does the thousand days come from?

Seems to me to be saying do not judge God's time, passage of time, by human standards.
I wonder if that includes leap years?
 

calm

Active Member
Because with God a thousand years to God are like a thousand days.Like in 2 Peter 3:8.
No, for God a thousand years are not like a thousand days but like only one day. And that is to be understood literally.
As an example, when Adam ate of the fruit of the tree, God said to him before he did: "On that day you eat of it, you will die. "
And adam really died that same day. For when he died he was 930 years old, only 70 years more and Adam would have experienced the second day, but since he ate of the fruit, he died before this could happen.
 
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