mdo757 said:
When the Two Witnesses are killed we will be down to the last half hour. If a day is like a thousand years, then a hour is equal to about 42 years, and a half hour 21 years.
I thought you might be using that argument.
2Pe 3:3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
2Pe 3:4 They will say, "
Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation."
....
2Pe 3:8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that
with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2Pe 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
This
is not saying that 1000 years are equal to a day. Peter is addressing those that were implying the promise had failed. Perhaps these were false teachers or even early Christians who had calculated and set a time when the promise would be fulfilled. All verse 8 is saying is that a long time to us is a short time to God. Notice that it
does not say "one day is a thousand years" but rather "one day is
as a thousand years." It is a figure of speech known as a simile.
But notice also verse 10: "the day of the Lord will come like a thief" (see also 1Th 5:2). In other words, you
cannot calculate or know when.
Numbers, especially when used in prophecy, are often symbolic and not to be taken literally.