The Thousand Year Days

[daninthelionsden]

Recently there is a lot of buzz going around about the verse that states "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day". I have seen in the past, on other forums peeps trying to reconcile how there could be several mentions in Revelation of The Day of the Lord and how they could possibly be spread about in that book. Some say there are multiple Days of the Lord, but I think that since the Day of the Lord is a thousand years then this explains the multiple events ocurring as they have a thousand years to take place.
Also....I thought about how Christ said how this Temple will be destroyed yet He will reaise it back up in 3 days. He was speaking of His resurrection, but was He also referring to His return? Christ died in 30AD or a few years earlier or a few years later depending on the source. Most say 30AD so, for the sake of argument let's say 30AD. The first thousand year "day" takes us to 1030AD and the second thousand year "day" takes us to 2030 AD. Which means the third "day" or Day of the Lord happens right after 2030AD. Christ said He would rule for a thousand years......a day.....the third day......The Day of the Lord. What do you guys think?

 

[Free]

Recently there is a lot of buzz going around about the verse that states "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day".
.... What do you guys think?

I think that "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day," are similes and are not equating the two terms.

 

[daninthelionsden]

I think that "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day," are similes and are not equating the two terms.

Beore I heard this viewpoint, I thought the same thing and simply dismissed the thousand year day. But , as an eample, a video pointed out that the Lord told Adam that "in that day" he would die if he ate the forbidden fruit. Adam and all who followed him did indeed die within that thousand year day. None of them lived beyond a thousand earth years.

 

[Free]

Beore I heard this viewpoint, I thought the same thing and simply dismissed the thousand year day. But , as an eample, a video pointed out that the Lord told Adam that "in that day" he would die if he ate the forbidden fruit. Adam and all who followed him did indeed die within that thousand year day. None of them lived beyond a thousand earth years.

Yes, but the moment he ate of the fruit, his physical death began, as did his spiritual alienation (spiritual death) from God.

 

[WordWhisper’r]

Recently there is a lot of buzz going around about the verse that states "A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day". I have seen in the past, on other forums peeps trying to reconcile how there could be several mentions in Revelation of The Day of the Lord and how they could possibly be spread about in that book. Some say there are multiple Days of the Lord, but I think that since the Day of the Lord is a thousand years then this explains the multiple events ocurring as they have a thousand years to take place.
Also....I thought about how Christ said how this Temple will be destroyed yet He will reaise it back up in 3 days. He was speaking of His resurrection, but was He also referring to His return? Christ died in 30AD or a few years earlier or a few years later depending on the source. Most say 30AD so, for the sake of argument let's say 30AD. The first thousand year "day" takes us to 1030AD and the second thousand year "day" takes us to 2030 AD. Which means the third "day" or Day of the Lord happens right after 2030AD. Christ said He would rule for a thousand years......a day.....the third day......The Day of the Lord. What do you guys think?

When we remove what we think is a biblical teaching out of its context, we can make it say anything.

Originally, this statement was made to compare God’s patience in areas that we think God should have responded already.

But that’s boring to armchair theologians who like to move it around to certain parts of scripture to prove the original use of it is to be ignored and that it fits better other places.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Beore I heard this viewpoint, I thought the same thing and simply dismissed the thousand year day. But , as an eample, a video pointed out that the Lord told Adam that "in that day" he would die if he ate the forbidden fruit. Adam and all who followed him did indeed die within that thousand year day. None of them lived beyond a thousand earth years.

This is very solid prophetically, IMO, as even the early church came to understand that the end of God's "work" in the earth would come after six thousand years and then the millennium would come (the "seventh day," as referred to in prophetic language).

Also....I thought about how Christ said how this Temple will be destroyed yet He will reaise it back up in 3 days. He was speaking of His resurrection, but was He also referring to His return? Christ died in 30AD or a few years earlier or a few years later depending on the source. Most say 30AD so, for the sake of argument let's say 30AD. The first thousand year "day" takes us to 1030AD and the second thousand year "day" takes us to 2030 AD. Which means the third "day" or Day of the Lord happens right after 2030AD. Christ said He would rule for a thousand years......a day.....the third day......The Day of the Lord. What do you guys think?

A little iffy, as unless the Greek says something different (I'd have to look), the text reads "after three days," which would place His return around 3,000 AD, and that's too long, IMO.

 

[miamited]

Hi daninthelionsden

Personally, I've always considered these verses:

A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

To merely being God's way of telling us that He stands outside of time, as we understand it here on the earth. I don't believe it's making any sort of reference that some mention of day or days found elsewhere in the Scriptures should be understood as some 1000 year period. Peter was, of course, quoting from the Psalmist.

God bless,
Ted