ONE DAY = THOUSAND YEARS???

ONE DAY=1000 YEARS???

2 DAYS SINCE HE CAME THE FIRST TIME???

2 Pet. 3:8  “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.”

Notice the apostle didn’t say is a thousand years so be careful how you treat this statement of fact. To say "as a thousand years" is a very different matter from saying "is a thousand years." This point has often been overlooked. If "one day" in this verse really means a long period of time, then we would end up with the following absurdity: "with the Lord a long period of time is as a thousand years." But a thousand years would be a long period of time for human beings too! Psalm 90:4 must be understood in the same way if the proper contrast between God and man is maintained: "For a thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday when it passes by...." Here "yesterday" must refer to a 24-hour period or the contrast is destroyed.

The obvious teaching of Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, then, is that God is above the limitations of time. One valid deduction from this fact is that God can accomplish in one brief, literal day what man could not accomplish in a thousand years, if ever.

The Apostle charges all Christian souls in their thinking of the ways and works of God to cancel the time element. Time is as nothing either way to God. We become hurried and flustered because we have only a day in which to do something. God has no such unrest, for in our small one day He is able to accomplish the things which men could only hope to do in a thousand years or never do as in the days of creation; man is inept to perform those creative acts. On the other hand, we look on down the vista of the coming years, and the long time that must elapse before things can happen which we earnestly desire oppresses us, but not God. God has no such depression, for the thousand years are in His sight but as a day. The application of the truth which is of greatest importance to us is that of its bearings on the activities of God. Men either declare that the promise of the coming of the Lord is false because nearly two thousand years have passed since it was made, or they are tempted to think that He Who made the promise is in some way slack, that He is not acting as speedily as He might. It is only to state these things thus, to see how false the views are. It is best, then, thus to be charged not to forget this great truth. The purposes of God are so vast and so wonderful, that their working out in human experience must take, what for lack of a better term, we call time. On the other hand, His power is such that if and when He will things can be done in a "twinkling of an eye," which will revolutionize all life, and bring in the final order.